Gigs

Marcel Hirscher just announced that he will continue his career

Seriously? You play well again and then you fuck it up like this. How stupid was this by Mascherano. It wasn't a clear penalty but don't even give the referee the chance to interpret something as a foul

Which is stupid as Australia is losing so Denmark will make it to the round of 16 anyway

I don't think Ronaldo's foul was a red card. On the camera perspective they showed most it looked worse than on the others. Still if the referee had immediately shown him a red card I would have said it's a reasonable decision. A hard one but reasonable. What shocked me is that the VAR said it was red as by no means this was a 100% clear decision and that's what VAR is for. To stick with Portugal, Pepe gets Diego Costas elbow in his face and VAR says it wasn't even a clear foul and then this foul which was worse but not by a lot is a clear red card? I know the on field referee didn't agree as well but the fact that he even got the call by the VAR means the VAR would have given Ronaldo red.

What a horrible game by Portugal. As I'm rooting for them I'm super angry about the fact that iran scored the equalizer as that doesn't only mean they play Uruguay next but that they will be in the generally probably much harder half of the bracket. Ronaldo was pretty disappointing but I also have to say that the people who say he lost Portugal the three points with the missed penalty are talking rubbish. If he doesn't make his great dribbling Portugal doesn't get a penalty in the first place

First top seeded team to be eliminated but also a team that never should have been top seeded.

I didn't watch Colombia's first game but they play beautifully today. Really hope they'll make it to the round of 16

I wonder, has Kane even touched the ball a fifth time in this tournament

That really shouldn't have been a penalty imo

Gotta say, looking at what happened in Sochi this is actually highly suspicious. I mean the gap to the teams behind them isn't even small

VAR should give Otamendi red

Modric

I'd really like to see Dybala now

This is funny on so many levels

Does the referee know what a yellow card is?

If Argentina, a team offensively stacked with superstars, only has two superstars in their starting formation you just gotta wonder what on earth that manager is doing. I get that many think you should play the players who fit into your system and not the ones with the bigger market value but that maybe counts if you play a 30M$ instead of a 50M$ Player, not a 10M$ instead of a 100M$ player. If this is the case you are playing the wrong system

Would be really cool if that plan becomes reality. Many of the countries which would be crossed in such a race don't get much attention in the cycling world. Anyway todays first stage once again showed that TTT's have no place in small stage races such as this. Ciccone basically lost all chances to win because of this stupidity. If you want to give to give climbers a disadvantage so badly make an ITT not a TTT

I really hope Saudi Arabia somehow gets a lucky goal just to punish that completely uninspired, boring and unambitious playing style by Uruguay

Did nobody tell Ronaldo there is a VAR?

I'm really starting to think Portugal won't win

Yes yes yes. First win for Africa

Still, this is "only" Senegal. Poland could still score two goals. Anyway, I have my doubts that either of the two will progress to the round of 16

What a goal

On another note, that goal from Ronaldo was super important. They can now probably afford a tie against Iran or Morocco which means they don't have the pressure to play super offensively right from the beginning and we've seen in the euro 2016 that they often struggle against very defensive teams. Moreover they now have the chance to win the group which would mean they can could play against, probably Russia and then Argentina. That's way easier than Uruguay and France which is the likely path for the team getting 2nd