Day 2: Portugal v Spain, Morocco v Iran and Egypt v Uruguay

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Right when you actually want the Russians to be heavy handed with the crowd (those fecking vuvuzelas!).
 

James Peril

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Some good attempts, touches and opportunities, but the final touch/decision lacking every time. Bad form by the people using whatever instrument is in the stands, lack of respect for everyone else watching around th world. Some drums are cool, this just sound like a swarm of insects.
 

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It’s easier for an English team to build a squad than it is for a Welsh team. Does that mean it should be made easier for Welsh clubs to qualify for the Champions League?
It just means that it's not necessarily easier (relatively speaking) for Iran or Morocco to qualify.
 

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Problem is, I'm expecting Spain vs Portugal to be a terrible game also.
 

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What are those horns? They’re somehow even worse than vuvuzelas. Come and go in bouts of respiratory rage.
 

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The standard of today's matches make you worry about the entertainment value of an even bigger World Cup in 2026. Talk about watering down the quality.
 

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I feel like I’ve seen you post shit on a regular basis. They can’t just boot out teams from other confederations and have the absolute best teams in the world, otherwise that’d be the European and South American cup. I’m glad there’s games like this in the World Cup.
Pompous stuff, who are you to dictate? I’m saying it’s a pity crap teams like Iran and Morocco are in ahead of teams like Italy, I’m not saying they don’t deserve to be there. You can understand the difference right? Some teams have ridiculously easy paths to the WC, other not so much. In the last 20 minutes, about ten players have been on the ground trying to make the clock run out... saying that, Italy would do the same if needed.
 

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By the end of this game Renard will have a 10km line of russian women waiting outside his hotel room, thus fixing all the russians worries about russian women having sex with african men :lol:
 

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By the end of this game Renard will have a 10km line of russian women waiting outside his hotel room, thus fixing all the russians worries about russian women having sex with african men :lol:
:D
 

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Pompous stuff, who are you to dictate? I’m saying it’s a pity crap teams like Iran and Morocco are in ahead of teams like Italy, I’m not saying they don’t deserve to be there. You can understand the difference right? Some teams have ridiculously easy paths to the WC, other not so much. In the last 20 minutes, about ten players have been on the ground trying to make the clock run out... saying that, Italy would do the same if needed.
Italy don't have an obligatory right to play in World Cup. If they want to play in it, they should qualify. Otherwise we should cancel qualification matches and handle known teams their seats ? and European qualifications are far easier than Asian or African ones.
 

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By the end of this game Renard will have a 10km line of russian women waiting outside his hotel room, thus fixing all the russians worries about russian women having sex with african men :lol:
Where did you pick that up?

Edit: just googled it :houllier:
 

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He tried recently to coach a ligue 1 team and it ended up badly. Some coaches are indeed meant for national teams
I got the feeling a few times last season that the current jose would be a better NT coach than a club manager for this reason. Defensively oriented managers in particular.
 

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Bunch of millennials here. Football is not just attack and attack.

It's very interesting for me seeing a much technically inferior team using their weapons to win the game. Russia's 5-0 beating was far more uninteresting.
 

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The standard of today's matches make you worry about the entertainment value of an even bigger World Cup in 2026. Talk about watering down the quality.
It's a shocking decision. Going to be overly bloated and just drag on. Each group is only going to contain 3 teams as well which opens up another can of worms. A clusterfeck of a decision.
 

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Another Iranian on the floor, this is getting as tedious as the horns in the stands