And another goal from set piece
Day 6: Colombia vs Japan, Poland vs Senegal and Russia vs Egypt
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Was the keeper really much to blame there? Probably some, sure...
The replay is hilarious. The keeper seemed to take ages to reach the left post.
Davinson Sanchez is so overrated.
Players will turn round and say 'well there's contact, he's entitled to go down'
Not every team, just yours. And Columbia.
Anybody else think the keeper reacted REALLY slow to that FK? it almost dribbled over the line.
Is Eder Balanta in the Colombian squad? Fm legend but have no idea how good he actually is meant to be
Japan need to wake the feck up
You wouldn't think that it is 10 v 11
Every striker in the world does that every game
Japan are crap.
So VAR still can't stop diver unless they do it inside the box
The ball seemed to take an eternity to go in and back out by the keeper lol.
That true every player now with slight contact will go down
Japan is bang average.
Japan has no clue. Pekerman sealed the midfield with the sub of Barrios. Kagawa nowhere to be seen and all his team mates look cack.
VAR should have intervened and told the ref that was never a free kick. It really shouldn't have had to in the first place obviously.
Asian football ain't something great.
He's not. Colombia just have too many center backs.
If Japan had been down to 10 men, Columbia would be winning by now
Var should have overturned that fk decision. The soft fouls that are so rampant in the game are incredibly annoying and at other times blatant fouls don't get punished coz they don't look bad.
Great free kick and everything, but honestly - how the feck can you give a free kick for that?! Absolutely ridiculous decision.
Var is not used for freekicks
And in 2026 there will be eight of them in the tournament.
Not used outside of penalties or red cards.
Certainly has regressed a little in the last couple years. Japan aren't playing to their capabilities.
It's a contact sport. Football really is in danger of changing for the worse because of this relentless cheating.
Also asian teams having a mare again. Iran are the only ones that won, and let's get real, they are not knocking out Spain or Portugal.
Makes sense I suppose.
Not that ridiculous he’s just using his experience to get a free kick. There was contact and he may have manufactured it but it’s more clever than anything.
True that
Asian teams African teams have regress in a way
BBC bigging up Falcao? It was a dreadful decision by the ref and I have Colombia in a bet.
The last World Cup teams with 10 players managed to get 2 draws and a win
I don't think he did it well only a dumb ref gives that as a foul.
Japan should be playing better, they have Okazaki and Honda on the bench which means the attack must be pretty decent.
We’ve seen in dozens of times slowed down, from multiple angles. In real time it looked a free kick and from the angle the referee was at its very undstandable to see why he gave a free kick.
Okazaki has a calf injury the commentator said and IIRC Honda is not so good anymore.
Africans have definitely taken a step back (not sure about Asia. Europe and the Americas just got better). I remember those 90’s early 00’s African teams brimming with big time players (Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana). The Ivory Coast of the last 10 years too. I don’t know what happened there to the talent conveyor belt.