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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
It’s almost here, y’all. It’s almost here! We’re about 30 days from the World Cup so let’s look at some of the biggest absences or any interesting stuff happening around the world cup teams: Perú: Paolo Guerrero’s doping issues Paolo Guerrero’s ban has been extended for 14 months, which means he’ll miss the World Cup. He’s trying a hail Mary appeal on Switzerland but he’s pretty much done. To make matters worse, Flamengo just fired him. His ban is for cocaine that he claims came from contaminated tea https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/sports/soccer/peru-world-cup-paolo-guerrero.html México: Rafa Márquez trains without sponsorships First of all it’s … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: A Month Away Update
The World Cup doesn’t start until June next year, but the group draw just happened so it’s time to wildly speculate about each group, how the teams could fare and who are the real contenders. Let’s begin: Group A: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay Oh man, how “lucky” were the host team. It’s almost unbelievable, innit? In what is probably one of the weakest groups it appears to be tailor made for Russia to go to the round of 16, except that they might be second and face Spain afterwards… welp. And even that is not a given, Saudi Arabia will … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Group Draw and Wild Speculation
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