Russia lost points from not playing qualifiers.
Day 1: Opening Ceremony and Russia vs Saudi Arabia (Kick-off: 16h00 BST)
- Thread starter K2K
- Start date
-
In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Golovin looked one hell of a player. Two assists and a great free kick
Surely that keeper has to be on Klopp's shortlist now.
How did they qualify? I mean, Asia's not the toughest region but still.
Yeah really liked the look of him. Be interesting to see him against Uruguay
I watched them against Germany the other night and they weren’t that bad. But feck me Russia destroyed them tonight.
Yep. A draw v Egypt and Russia will be through unless Egypt draw with Uruguay.
Think Egypt are being massively overrated here because of Salah. We've seen great strikers in the past stuggle to get into tournaments when they play with weaker players than they do for their clubs.
You wouldn't really say Egypt have that superior players in other areas of the pitch to Russia.
Exactly. It's a crazy system.
not bad, not bad
I don't think anyone saw this result coming. Congrats to Russia! So happy for them. To all those moaning, 5 goals in a World Cup opening match, shut up.
They finished ahead of Australia and just behind Japan in their group. UAE were in there aswell so for Asia it was a very tough qualifying group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_–_AFC_Third_Round
Thanks. I stole it from Twitter.
Saudi Arabia were appalling.
Suarez will be like.. Bring on the Saudi team
Saudi Keepers are actually trained by Oliver Kahn
I would like to acknowledge this post as a smelly, dark yellow and dehydrated, cheap lager induced, small drip of piss that stained my nice shoes
Far be it for me to blow my own trumpet, but I called it this morning!
Lol it was like this at the Euros in 2016 too!@Loublaze , another one
So the Russian are on a completely other level?
A really bad one. Latter Roger Moore.
Saudi Arabia won't hang around for long in this WC.
Saudi in their own environment (Asia) are a very decent team, very much a regional powerhouse.
Their style of play however gets exposed though once they play good european teams though. And Russia.
It's a little similar to Russian clubs in champions league, always strong at home but struggle so much in away games. Turkish and greek teams are also similar.
He may be the official GK coach, but Kahn also signed with the Saudis to make Saudi keepers great again.
They remind me of a woeful Tennis player who turns up at Wimbledon first round, loses 6-1, 6-2, 6-1 and takes home their paycheck.
They are already out after that catastrophe.
Ah don't know Kahn's role but didn't see him sitting on the bench so Hoek is very much the one training them on a daily basis at the tournament.
Nice start to the world cup but both teams would be thrashed against a better side. Saudi have just shamed themselves. First game of the WC, all eyes on them and they do this. Surely not the right publicity.
Anyone got a link to a decent stream of the opening ceremony?
Can't be arsed sitting through ITV Hub adverts
Can't be arsed sitting through ITV Hub adverts
How are ITV showing the main square in Moscow out the window one second, then inside the stadium the next? Can’t be teles because that’s clearly a window out into the square behind them. Weird.
That's what makes me think Russia will do well in this tournament.
Saudi Arabia are still on fast though.
So will Egypt tomorrow.
So will Egypt tomorrow.
Pizzi might not want to fly to Saudi Arabia when this is over
Russia decent with players of quality not filling the pitch, but sprinkling the pitch, if you could put it that way. Saudi just awful and probably put out the worst performance I have ever seen at a World Cup from keeper to their supposed talismanic striker al sahlawi, and i saw north korea games in 2010, including the 7-0 to portugal.
Crowd got behind Russia very well and spurred them on in the early stages and was worth at least two goals. One person who was just straight up brilliant in the match though was Golovin, absolutely outstanding and showed his undoubted quality along with work rate and fighting spirit.
Jose, snap him up. I think he’s still about 21 as well. Still so much potential to realise for Golovin.
Crowd got behind Russia very well and spurred them on in the early stages and was worth at least two goals. One person who was just straight up brilliant in the match though was Golovin, absolutely outstanding and showed his undoubted quality along with work rate and fighting spirit.
Jose, snap him up. I think he’s still about 21 as well. Still so much potential to realise for Golovin.
That went well.
Ramadan ends today.
Today is the last day
Don’t they get an exemption for something as important as this?