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Please name those mistakes. Brych is one of the best referees in the world and Urs Meier (i know he is swiss, so he clearly doesn't know what he is talking about ...) said that Brych did a very good job.

It's better to have such fans or what? Shaqiri and Xhaka celebrated the way they did, because they were booed by serbian fans for having an albanian background. I am not surprised you didn't mention that, it perfectly fits the way you have commented in the past about things like that. Many serbian users on here have given some very "weird" comments about things like that in the past, but only if it concerns Albania/Kosovo. If it concerns Russia or Serbia, then everything is fine. I don't know if the serbian people on here represent the view of the majority of serbian people, but that certainly would be very sad.

There are different degrees of good and bad, let's say that if teams like Argentina would play at their best, then there would be nothing teams like Iceland could do to get a draw/win (except for getting extremely lucky/bribing the referee). The fact that those small teams still get good results shows me that the big teams are not at their best. If we assume that big teams have about the same individual strength as they used to and are about as prepared for those small teams as they always were, then i have to conclude that most players of the big teams (who play in big leagues) are just not fully fit/very exhausted from a long season. Some people find joy in small teams getting surprising results, but for me my joy when watching football depends on the quality of football i see (e.g. spectacular goals, great dribbling, great passes). So far i haven't seen a lot of those things, so for me the quality of football so far has been poor. Edit: I don't think there is a non-simplistic way of trying to discuss this topic on here (unless we want to write pages of in depth analysis), if you want to be able to discuss a topic like this on a platform as this one, you are probably bound to make simplifying assumptions.

Please illuminate us ...

Possible, but don't you think that e.g. people from Ghana could behave the same way? We have a certain person on here who is patriotic concerning africa as a whole, maybe more people in africa are like him and just cheer for every african country?

More important question: How did he know that they were from Senegal?

How can you expect african teams to win, if even a hardcore fan like you doesn't have any trust? You need to be more positive!

What? The only time they played at the world cup before is 2002, how can you talk about "always" ... ?

The fact that many big teams are missing clearly hurts the quality. I guess there are two ways of looking at it: 1) Teams like Iceland get such good results, because they play great 2) Teams like Argentina get such bad results, becaue they play bad For me it's 2) and in my opinion the reason is that players from big leagues are just overplayed, they clearly don't look fully fit. For some people it's most important to have close games, but for me the quality of the match is more important and i don't see how anyone could believe that the overall quality has been great so far, looking at the amounts of goals scored by penalty/freekick/corners.

I hope that Poland qualifies for many more major tournaments in the future, so far their fans are the best/loudest in my opinion, of course behind the russian fans.

France, England, France ... ? I think you meant France, Brazil, Spain or Germany?

Now it should be obvious to everyone that having this tournament during ramadan is completely unfair, african players clearly don't have enough stamina. They are punished for being religious.

So far i only watched Germany vs. Mexico and Portugal vs. Spain, based on the results so far i don't think that i missed much. Tomorrow i will have more time to watch some games, but all matches look boring, so my next match will probably be Argentina vs. Croatia, which should be a great game.

I expected Poland and Colombia to win. Colombia played with only 10 almost the entire game, so they are excused. Poland should have done much better based on their qualification results, but then again their individual players don't really look better than those of Senegal, so i guess this isn't a huge shock. Nice that Germany isn't the only european nation that lost a match anymore and even nicer too see an african nation finally winning. I think those results make the group even more unpredictable. I think no matter which teams advance, none of them has a great chance to make it to the quarterfinal, same is true for all the teams in group A. Maybe Uruguay might do something against Portugal ...

In 1982 Germany still reached the final, i would take that here too.

Argentinian fans won't like to hear that ... Congrats, i know how bad the situation for many people in Mexico is and i know how passionate mexican fans are, you deserved this. Now you just need to secure the first place, because against Switzerland/Serbia you would have a realistic chance to finally reach the quarterfinal, while i don't see you beating Brazil.

And again ... you don't seem to know what kind of player sane is. Sane needs a lot of space (which Germany didn't have today) and loses a lot of balls (which broke germany's neck today), he wouldn't have helped this team at all today. The real problems are: - Players clearly didnt have the right attitude - If you cant produce decent full-backs, you should play with a back three (Rüdiger, Boateng, Hummels) Germany beat this mexican team 4:1 last year with its B team, the difference is that those guys were really motivated. I thought that Germany would reach the semifinal and then lose to Spain, but now i am not sure whether Germany will even get out of the group. I think Germany needs to rebuild for 2020 with young players, something like this: Ter Stegen, Tah, Süle, Rüdiger, Kimmich, Goretzka, Weigel, Sane, Gnabry, Havertz, Werner and then in 2022 Moukoko will be old enough to play, so everything will be good, german fans just need a bit of patience.

He only scored one goal against them in 2014 and none in 2010 ... ?

#firstworldproblems ... So what exactly is the problem? Too old, too poor or both?

Argentina proves me right, they are not among the favorites. Apart from their attack, their team is weak and Sampaoli somehow found a way to even make their attack look weak. Why doesn't Dybala play?

Didn't look too convincing, just sad that Kimpembe and Coman don't play for them.

I feel sorry for Portugal, the spanish goal was clearly irregular and never should have counted. I guess not only Real has a deal with the referees.

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.

I think you have to decide for one nation. I support all african nations, europe and south america has won enough, it's time for an african nation to win it. I support Nigeria as they have a german coach.

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.