World Cup 2022 - Team and Match Discussion

Your'e right I think,

Tie-breaking criteria for group playThe ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:

1. Points obtained in all group matches:

• Win: 3 points;
• Draw: 1 point;
• Loss: 0 points;

1. Goal difference in all group matches;
2. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
3. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
4. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
5. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
6. Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction can be applied to a player in a single match):

• Yellow card: −1 point;
• Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
• Direct red card: −4 points;
• Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;

1. Drawing of lots.

Kenny is old school he would have taken the belt in the head, and shrugged it off.

Never seen so many empty seats for a host nation. Terrible.

Hope to see a Senegal win, a Senegal clean sheet, and an Ismaila Sarr screamer.

Just about the size of Qatari crowds, Doyle does not seem to realise only 313,000 of the population are Qatari citizens. He seems to think the Qatari have a population the size of Ireland to support them! Most of them are foreigners though about 90%. He seems very clueless on the basics.

Their real support for Qatar is a pick from about the same population of Kildare. And it would be like people wondering why Kildare don't support their hurlers in large numbers. Not much of culture of hurling in Kildare.

I think if Kildare were in a World Cup for 3 games, they'd have no problem coming out in force in fairness!

And why are you ignoring all the non-citizens? Many of whom were born in Qatar and raised and live in Qatar. The population is close to 3 million. Even if you ignore all the migrant workers, you've still got a million 'locals'.

This policy of having a playing teams pundit on is stupid. Especially if it's one young enough to know the players.

#stadium974ornowhere

There is obviously enough of a population there to expect proper support for the 3 games. Even beyond the 300,000+ citizens, there are loads more who are Qatari in all but name, but simply are not granted citizenship. Sure of their current team, 16 of their players were born in Qatar - but only 7 are citizens.

Also seems a bit mad that you'd reckon that of those 2 million people living and working there there would be such little affinity for the place they live that they literally wouldn't go down the road to watch a World Cup match, particularly given in most cases their 'own countries' aren't in the WC anyway.

That wasn't me.

That looked a very clumsy challenge by Sarr. Senegal lucky to get away with that.

Looked a clear penalty to me

The Qatari player should have just tried to score rather than trying to get the penalty

That was a gift of a goal for Dia.

I still don't get it soccer is only new to Qatar and the pool of Potential Qatari support is small.

If it was a premiership or English or Irish player people incl pundits would be blathering on about how clever the attacker was. At least we can put to bed the conspiracy theory that the Quatas's have bought the ref / VAR

Well Qatar have a goal. Muntari with a good header. It's been coming.

That'll possibly be the 2030 WC.

Funnily, Messi has signed a massive deal to be an ambasador for the Saudi 'Vision 2030' tourism venture - which is centred on the WC bid. While Argentina are leading a WC bid with uruguay, Chile and Paraguay.

So Messi may/will be bigging up a WC bid AGAINST argentina.

The bit I found funny on RTE when they were on about it, old school Kenny Cunningham gave the impression that he would have taken the belt and shrugged it off - no real harm in it according to Kenny.

Also up in arms a clip of England giving away a pen is being used as to what is not acceptable

Sounds terrible from Klinsmann alright, and definitely mean-spirited - though I would say he perhaps deserves the benefit of the doubt that he's specifically referring to their footballing culture rather than their societal culture... we all know exactly what everyone says about Irish footballing culture in the same way for instance (old "british" style, hard running, all heart but no intelligence or technical ability), but I don't think any of us ever takes it to be indicative of what they think of us societally.

Someone wrote into Guardian Football Weekly yesterday too to complain about the constant lumping of Iran in with "Arab" teams. They a re not an arab country or Arab culture.

Let's see what VAR say.

Nothing.

Probably the right decision really, offside player standing right in front of the keeper. It's not really relevant what the keeper does, the player is still in an active position.