In a pair of way less exciting matches than the quarterfinals, Argentina defeated Croatia 3-0 (even if Modric didn’t agree with the PK) and France defeated the gutsy Morocco 2-0. So now only two matches remain and we kinda only … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Final, Messi v Mbappé

Messi continues his path to glory, Brazil crashes out even after a Neymar golazo, Football is not coming home and the Moroccan dream continues. Only four matches remain, and one is the third place game, lets see the bracket (via … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Semifinals, As Time Goes By

After a wild group stage, the R16 had chances for surprises and we only got one. Japan took Croatia to the extreme but forgot how to take PKs, something that Morocco didn’t forget. Spain did forget that 1000+ passes are … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Quarterfinals, The Future (almost) Refused to Change

After some grueling group stages, with some wild results and surprising eliminations (Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Uruguay being the biggest ones), here we are at the round of 16. This time we’ll have a single thread for the full round, … Continue reading World Cup 2022: R16, The New Blood

Last two groups are decided today, well Portugal and Brazil are already through but the rest have some fight left. We have four games today, lets take a look: Group H: Ghana v Uruguay Surprisingly, specially counting with proven strikers … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 13, A 12 Year Old Grudge

Group E and F are defined today. In Group E after Japan lost against Costa Rica and Germany tied with Spain everyone somehow has a change, yes even Los Ticos that lost 7-0. In Group F, Canada fought valiantly but … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 12, The Mannschaft Hangs on

Yay, Math! If you want to look at the combinations I suggest this site. Anyway, Group C and D are decided today. Group D play first, then Group C. Lets take a look: Group D: Australia v Denmark Somehow Australia … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 11, Worst. Mexican Team. Ever

Take your calculators y’all, time for some math. Matches from the same group will be played at the same time, blame the Disgrace of Gijón for this for this. Lets take a look at today’s games: Group A: Netherlands v … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 10, The Iran-USA Affair

We have four games today, lets take a look: Group G: Cameroon v Serbia Cameroon played too early so I didn’t see their game against the Swiss, the only thing I know is that the Swiss goal scorer was born … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 9, Neymar-less Brazil

After Japan’s surprising victory against Germany, the mannschaft are about to exit on the group stage in two straight World Cups, unconceivable. Group F is still up for grabs for everyone, let’s hope Canada can score this time, they have … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 8, History Maker

Do or die day for Group C, a bit more normal for Group D. Lets take a look: Group D: Tunisia v Australia Tunisia weren’t as bad as expected and Australia were even worse than expected. If Tunisia gets a … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 7, Old Acquaintances

Now that all teams have played once we are getting a clearer picture of the groups. Lets take a look at today’s games: Group B: Wales v Iran After drawing with the US, Wales needs to win this match. Iran … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 6, Independence Day 2: Football Boogaloo

Spain crushed, Germany disappointed again and Canada suffered heartbreak. We have four games today, lets take a look: Group G: Switzerland v Cameroon Should be a fairly leveled match, with Switzerland most likely prevailing. This is one of the weakest … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 5, Super Heung-min Son

Well, that Argentina game sure was surprising, will we have another surprise today (looking at you, Canada)? Again we have four games, lets take a look: Group F: Morocco v Croatia While Modric still draws breath, there’s a chance. As … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 4, In Alphonso we trust

Things are heating up and from now on we have 4 games each day, we also start super early (depending on where you are). Lets take a look: Group C: Argentina v Saudi Arabia This is Messi’s last chance for … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 3, Tata’s test

Well that was certainly an opening game, the host was worse than expected and Ecuador cruised to an easy victory. Anyway today looks great, day 2 has three matches. Lets take a look: Group B: England v Iran It’s coming … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 2, Southgate has this

Here we are, after arduous qualifiers, the first match is upon us… in November. This is causing chaos for most Football Leagues, in particular European ones. We’re also getting a lot of players missing due to injury, as the leagues … Continue reading World Cup 2022: Matchday 1, it begins

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 2022: Day 0

The World Cup starts in a month, in winter, because FIFA would organize the world cup in Mars if the bribe was big enough. Anyway, after some grueling qualifying rounds the participants are ready and now it’s time to go … Continue reading World Cup 2022: A Month Away Update and Wild Speculation