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3 hours ago, dcro said:

 

It's hard to find exact number, but it's probably right up there.

4 free kick goals have been scored so far:

1. Golovin vs KSA, 2. CR vs SPA, 3. Kolarov vs CRC and 4. Quintero vs JPN.

24 minutes ago, Rafoo said:

No smolov in first 11...injury or?

Dzyuba is like 1.95m tall or something. I guess he's the better option vs the Egyptian CBs.

Yeah, Piszczek's age is catching up with him for a while now. Injuries too. He's expected to retire from national team after this WC.

Well great, we picked Cionek as Glik's replacement here. Cionek/Pazdan is the main weakness here, hopefully Mane doesn't explore that too often...

Perkeman will be grilled for taking Cuadrado off in the first half. They had like zero quality in midfield since that happened.

Colombia's defeat isn't the best of news for Poland unless this team is truly that bad here.

11 minutes ago, Quasit said:

This is where I'm asking myself how did Ghana, Chile and the USA not qualify?

What do Serbia and Costa Rica have in common with Ghana and Chile DNQ? 

1 minute ago, thepharoah said:

Nigeria has to defeat Argentina now to qualify , not impossible btw 

Don't see it coming, Nigeria on paper looked only better than Saudi Arabia so far. I expect 0 pts for them. Getting all the action through Moses is predictable and easy to stop. The keeper can't put the ball into play at all and is a huge liability.

Peru giving Eriksen acres of space.... and they get punished for it.

Cueva buckled under pressure. He's supposedly the big star of the team but he couldn't handle the pressure.

Another let down from Argentina (allthough I'm happy for Iceland here). Their issue remains that if Messi has a day off, the entire team has a day off. They're too reliant on him.

1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

Why was Qatar forced to buy foreign athletes? Their own athletes can't compete during ramadan, so they had to buy athletes who were able to compete during ramada.

Bahrain also does it, they buy East African runners all the time because it all comes down to money. Kenya & Ethiopia are poor, Qatar has the oil fields. Nobody's gonna tell the rich what they should do, Kenya & Ethiopia least of all. Of course in football they're gonna buy Brazilians and Argentinians most likely.

4 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

That's exactly what a person brainwashed by western media would say. Try to discredit me as much as you want, but there is a clear agenda by having the world cup at this exact date. Think about it: The first time a world cup is played in a muslim country, it will be played at a completely different date, why is that? Why did so many nations try to take the world cup away from Qatar? Let me help you, it's because they are afraid that muslim countries will beat them if the world cup doesn't take place during ramadan.

Qatar has bought everything now, World Cup, World Athletics Champs, World Handball champs, their handball team had like two natives and rest just foreigners bought for cash. I wonder how many natives will play football in four years time?

Qatar is one huge desert, you might as well play in on Sahara but Qatar has the money to bankroll their wishes.

Besides, I'm from Poland that has never been described as a Western country

Epic howler from de Gea....

Just now, bestmen said:

for what reason the referees dont review the camera  , they didnt apply this new rule ? 

Ref has to get the call from VAR referees first. If there's no call then he made no mistakes.

Pepe's years of bullshit play deserved that schooling from Costa!!!

The game was pretty entertaining, both teams knew they had to win with Spain/Portugal ahead.

Silly defeat for Morrocco but that's the old sin for any African team. They just don't have tactical prowess to keep the game under full control. That was a needless foul that lead to the OG.

6 hours ago, hckosice said:

 

Láska is in CZ/SK love

btw there a lot of similar words between our nations, I remember quickly that in Ice Hockey for the penalty you use the word "Kára" which in our language mean Funeral Carriage lol. and in other sports, for example Ball is in PL - Pilka (Football - Pilka nožna) right ? Pilka is in our language a Hand saw

 

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but still the most funny and literally explicit word is your word for searching szukac, szukaj in CZ/SK as you probably know it means - Fu.king.

 

https://spanie.pl/a/89/Slowackie_pulapki_jezykowe.html

 

And you are right. Body Check came from N. American hockey here, peoples started to use it as it sounds really similar to our language and was thus easier to remember, so we just adapted it to our writing - Bodyček.

 

Kara in Polish means penalty or punishment so you're right about that However pilka also means hand saw in Polish It's generally a term for any kind of a ball in first place.

Hand saw:

Football magazine:

Dostoyevski's "Crime & Punishment"

1 hour ago, Gianlu33 said:

Ah, URSS... They will never change

 

It's USRR

Instead of Robbie Williams, they should have brought this guy for the opening ceremony:

The weather in Morocco resembles the Brazilian weather more

I'm Russia didn't want to go to Africa though   Even though they have one of the warmest if not the warmest summers in Europe.

4 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

This is imo the only reason why an african nation never won the world cup. Think about this: Why has Turkey never won the world cup?

Western nations conspired to have the world cup at this time of the year so that african nations are too weak to beat them, in 4 years it will be very different.

I've never read so much bullshit in one post before...

Uzbekistan pretty much blew the second straight qualies. They seem genuinely stronger than KSA.

3 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

and guess what ? the mighty Australia let KSA qualify directly. and they needed extra time to score the winner against the 10-man Syria (who didn't have the chance to play 1st leg at home) to advance to the intercontinental playoff where they easily beat Honduras (from a very strong CONCACAF federation)

 

btw of course KSA is the only AFC team that I don't support, they can buy and cheat their way in Asia but that doesn't work here.

Qatar bought themselves the World Cup so it's not like KSA is the worst evil. I wonder how many foreign born players will represent Qatar in four years time   They had like two or three natives playing during the Handball WC.

Yeah, that second goal pretty much sums up how bad the SA defense is. That would look bad in the youth division let alone a World Cup.

I had better hopes for SA but they're trash so far.

It's funny, Haratyk as the short, bulky Adam Nelson-kind of a guy might well be the better prospect than Bukowiecki who followed the old school Polish pattern. I guess it's all in the technique