It did not come home, it was a great effort and in retrospective the English kids overachieved, but then the worst thing happened: they gave their country hope. Goodbye “It’s Coming Home” memes, we’ll see you in the next Euro. … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Final, the Illyrian Provinces Strike Back

A 4 years wait and now it’s almost over. We have only 4 matches left (including the 3rd place one), it went too fast, right? Uruguay missed Cavani and Muslera killed them, Brazil played their best match and it wasn’t … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Semifinals, It’s Almost There

Oh boy, seems like the surprises just don’t end, right. Well, kinda, only Spain failing was unexpected. The rest happened as they should but with some hiccups (right, Belgium?). Again México failed in the R16 (7th cup in a row, … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Quarterfinals, It’s Taking the Long Route Home

So here we are, after a long group stage the Round of 16 starts with really great matches with some that, in my opinion, belong more in a quarterfinal but c’est la vie. We have no games until tomorrow but … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: R16, It’s Coming Home

Korea did their part but México were crushed and couldn’t return the favor. While in the afternoon Brazil did enough and will face México and Switzerland tied against the feisty tickets and will face Sweden. Day 15, group H is … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 15, Wake Up and Smell The Coffee

France and Denmark played the most boring game yet, Perú recovered some of their honor, Iceland fought till the end while Argentina survived (even if Diego didn’t) Day 14, in group E only Costa Rica is out while in group … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 14, Imagine “Cosas Chingonas”

Well that was an exciting first day for our last round of the group stage. Morocco and Iran gave a fight to two of the favorites, but VAR was there to do, um, things. In the other group Russia finally … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 13, Argentina’s Last Stand

Japan and Senegal had an exciting and error filled match, Panamá got crushed because football is coming home and Colombia showed what they can do and confirmed FIFA rankings are nonsense Day 12, last round for the group stage starts, … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 12, The Eye of the Tiger

Tunisia went out swinging and were knocked out, Korea tried with Son and a lot of fouls and Sweden left a point slip thru their fingers and now make things super complicated in group F And with this we reach … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 11, Dragon Screamer

Costa Rica said goodbye, Nigeria gives hope to Argentina while the Swiss makes everything complicated And that’s how we arrive to Day 10, Germany will try to recover from an unexpected result, México will need to get down from cloud … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 10, The Mannschaft Had a Glitch

Australia remains alive, while the lively Perú is dead, but the surprise was again Argentina. Not only they lost, they lost 3-0, with a howler from the keeper, a nonexistent midfield and a Messi that seems to have given up. … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 9, Will Iceland Smite?

Three games, three 1-0. At least the Spain v Iran game was good. Anyway, Morocco is out, Group B is still interesting, though Now we get to Day 8, Group C could be decided today depending on the results, while … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 8, Pass It to Messi

So the surprises just keep coming, huh? Colombia shot themselves in the foot and lost to Japan, Poland didn’t show anything remotely close to their FIFA ranking (I know, they’re meaningless) and Egypt got crushed and they’re out. And that … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 7, The Moroccan Reconquest

Sweden won and that’s all you can say about that game, Panamá held for a half and then were crushed and England almost tied with Tunisia but were saved by Kane and therefore the Cup is in their grasp! And … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 6, In Mo Salah We Trust

I’m still in shock from yesterday, México won, I’m astonished. The German team didn’t look that well and México even wasted some really good chances. In the other matches, Costa Rica didn’t play well either and fell to an incredible … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 5, Los Canaleros Are Just Happy to Be Here

France did what they had to do and won (they also had some help from modern tech), Argentina showed an incredible lack of ideas against a strong Icelandic wall, Perú dominated their game but Denmark had one and made it … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 4, Sí Se Puede

What an exciting 2nd day we had, with both Egypt and Morocco losing in heartbreakers, while Spain and Portugal played one of the best matches in World Cup history. Egypt made the baffling decision of benching Salah (ok, not baffling … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 3, By Gunnarsson’s Beard

Well that was certainly an opening game, God Saudi Arabia was way way worse than predicted. Their defense was slow and out of position and seemed like had only heard about football but never played it. Russia, as is tradition … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 2, the Spanish-Portuguese War Resumes

Here we are, the moment we have waited four years has come, day 1 and we only get one game, sigh: Group A: Russia v Saudi Arabia The hosts start their, most likely, arduous journey to try to get out … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 1, The Host Debuts

So here we are just one day before kick off and so our daily World Cup thread begins. The plan is for this thread to go up before the first game each day so it will serve to live blog … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 0