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The armband warriors Germany, Denmark, Wales being evicted one by one is very delightful. Too bad we couldn't get England to join them, but Senegal are coming soon.

At least Germany are making progress. Last time they were last in the group, now they are 3rd and in 2026 there will be only 3 teams in a group, so they can't do worse.

Germany still wishing for Spain to pull a draw.

So Germany has 3 cross-bars hit and now having Lukaku-like 1 metre misses

Spain winning the bluff for now, but will it last, given Neuer's performance

That was even more lame goal, then the Spain ones

Lollolollool

And Croatia mind you. France and Brazil are equal for me, with Argentina bellow them, but the problem is whoever wins has first Croatia, then Brazil and if they survive eventually Argentina in the 1/2. While in the other section you could face the strongest team France at the 1/2.

Croatia loving this right now.

Costa Rica needs one more goal and Spain are out, if they lose to Japan.

Brazil / Italy / Poland have won dozen of major volleyball championships this way, doesn't pain them one bit

Germany are going to be last again Now Spain are in trouble lol

Spain following my instructions. Good news for Spain and Croatia.

That was a weak goalkeeper attempt from Simon

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Spain to lose now, so they play Morocco and ditch the Brazil / Argentina bracket

Has Lukaku been offered part of the Croatian GDP Even a blind Stevie Wonder could have scored his opportunities

Disappointed, i wanted France - Argentina.

And Mexico's streak of 1/8 continues. I should have known they will manage to get through eventually

F THIS, seriously...

VAR is the factor here. Anytime now, there is some kind of contact, they are pressured to give the penalty. If they don't they will be damned for not looking at VAR, if they do, they will be damned for looking at VAR and giving an easy penalty. At least before VAR they had the benefit of "not being in the right position to see clearly the situation" and they had more balls in their decisions.

Everyone and the referee clinching for an Argentina win, but Poland refuse to concede a goal. Amazing stuff.

The actual data announced in a very specific way... Why do you think i'm expecting Superbowl numbers and to be impressed? The stat was only covering Portugal. A country with 10 million population. If their highest match viewership is 4 million from 2006, and this match isn't beating that 4 million, then it is not the "Highest audience WC match ever" plain and simple, even if it has 95% share, when only 2 million people were watching...

Hmmmm, they had the most points in the UEFA Qualification for the WC and almost made the Nations League Final 4 a few months ago? Truth is, they were preparing for a political conference, instead of a football tournament. 30th place would be fitting.

No it's not. When you go out with the stat "Highest TV audience for a WC match ever" you can't just use tv share... Because there could have been, for example, 1 million people watching TV this time and 70% share is 700 k, while 8 years ago the highest share for a match could have been 50%, but 2 million people were watching TV. So which one is the higher audience, the 1 million 8 years ago, or the 700 k the other day.. The TV share is a nice modern marketing/advertising trick, which is used to masquerade the declining TV audience. But, when you go out with a grand claim, just give the actual number of viewers.