This has been a surprisingly good game between Brighton vs. Burnley.
Day 7: Tunisia vs Australia | Poland vs Saudi Arabia | France vs Denmark | Argentina vs Mexico
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Shite from the Saudis.
Lewa scores, a huge mistake from the defender.
Lewandowski's dry spell ends. He'll go crazy now.
Football lost today
Yikes.. though this tends to happen
Hat track vs Argentina incoming.
Well deserved. 4 best chances have been for Poland
Game over. Lewa
Too causal, where’s your wing mirrors?
That's actually a perfect description of the game.
35 mins ET incoming
Insane that Saudi haven't scored
FFS .
This is the kind of final hurdle that is hard for minnow teams to overcome. They can be drilled great and have some good patterns of play but ultimately struggle to convert at the right end and eventually feck things up at the back. Shame.
.This is the kind of final hurdle that is hard for minnow teams to overcome. They can be drilled great and have some good patterns of play but ultimately struggle to convert at the right end and eventually feck things up at the back. Shame.
one of the good teams will bury this Poland side
Swap strikers between the 2 teams and it's a saudi stomp, so undeserved.
FFS
This is the kind of final hurdle that is hard for minnow teams to overcome. They can be drilled great and have some good patterns of play but ultimately struggle to convert at the right end and eventually feck things up at the back. Shame.
This is why individual brilliance > patterns of play
tbf KSA scored two freak goals last game. They used all their luck
The world is not fair, that includes football.
Saudi defender channelling his inner Stevie G.
Why try such a daft studs over ball control there. Utterly mad.
Why try such a daft studs over ball control there. Utterly mad.
At least now we know how they qualify in the first place . Take your chances and a great GK
Gutted for Saudis. Lack of experience hurt them.
Ole approves of this.
Could easily be 4-3 Poland or even 4-4.
Poland have been more clinical although they haven't been very clinical themselves either. Saudis have somehow been more fun to watch though.
Worst possible result for Argentina this. They have to win their two remaining games now. Really interested to see how they deal with this pressure against Mexico later.
you can enjoy (some of) the games and still say Qatar should never have been awarded the tournament. Some people are able to think more than one thing at a time
Good finish by Lewa also, text book low and into the corner..
What are the three way tie braking rules it seems this group is headed that way
How so? Poland drew their first match
So if Argentina lose they're officially out. They'll be cagey about committing forward and so will talentless Mexico. Brewing up to be a shit game already.
Taking a thread off topic
Of course. Like usa shouldn't have been awarded the next, im sure you'll agree.
Don’t even need to be good. Just score first and force them to chase the game
Doesn't seem to be Saudi's day, played well but bad mistakes at the back and unable to finish chances has been costly.
https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2022/1...stage-tiebreaker-rules-at-the-2022-world-cup/
Goal differential first followed by goals scored second. Then it gets really interesting.
If two or more teams are still “tied” after applying these tiebreakers, FIFA moves on to a second round of tiebreakers:
- Greatest number of points obtained in group matches between the teams concerned
- Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches between the team concerned
- Greatest number of goals scored in all matches between the teams concerned
- Highest team conduct score – team conduct score is based on the number of yellow and red cards a team has obtained. The team with the highest team conduct score will receive the higher ranking.
- Yellow Card: Minus one point
- Indirect Red Card (acquired via two yellow cards): Minus three points
- Direct Red Card: Minus four points
- Yellow Card and Direct Red Card: Minus five points
Lightning doesn't strike twice it seems.
Had that nailed on for another Lewa goal.