World Cup 2022 - Team and Match Discussion

Think Hennessy is only one, not that it'll impact tonight

Saudis score!

Mexico out 2-1

That's that anyway, Poland through.

Mexico a better team than Poland. I feel sorry for them.

The Saudi's are used to killing.

Holy **** - just realised, if Mexico score, they go back level on GD, but ahead on Goals Scored!

<edit> Nevermind, all over.

Always makes me chuckle how commentators make out as if this stuff is rocket science

Poland so blessed. They were awful tonight. Did they have an attempt on goal ?

Was anyone else secretly hoping it'd end up with a drawing of lots?

Gutted for Mexico. Stopping the play while Mexico were surging into the box for a ball to the chest was a joke.

France will destroy Poland and would've done the same to Mexico so it was much of a muchness really.

Stranger things have happened

This is the WC, if it was predictable it would be boring

There’s going to be at least one upset in those four fixtures, you can be sure of that.

Most likely would be the USA. Very hard to make a case for Australia but I never would’ve expected them to even get out of their group, so who knows?

Normally I’d give Poland a chance against nearly any team, but their right flank was targeted heavily by Argentina with good success so on paper you’d imagine Mbappé should obliterate them. Still, if they do manage to defend well, Lewandowski can always nick a goal at the other end.

Hard to see past England, and the longer that match stays goalless, the more I’d fancy them. They haven’t gone behind in a match yet, but the first time they do, I expect them to lose. Don’t think that’ll be against Senegal, but I’ll eat my hat if they manage to overturn a defective against any decent team, really don’t think they have it in them.

Portugals Nuno Mendes out of the World Cup with an injury

No fvckin way should 3/4 teams progress.

There needs to be plenty of jeopardy involved in these groups, and 2/4 is probably OK. It'll get messy and convoluted soon enough, with 40 teams in the American world cup. Messy reducing that down to the last 16.

The expansion will barely even help us qualify too, 16 extra spots but only 3 going to Europe.

I found a tongue in cheek article (a long read) written by football365. Basically saying we should enjoy these group stages because we won’t have it so good again.

The writer details the history of ‘ off the wall’ World Cup formats.And basically says FIFA are reverting to type finding a way to make a mess of the WC format, as they have done historically. But this time they are doing it to look for more money, under the guise of growing the game globally.