Korea is a bit shit, to be fair.
Day 5: Sweden vs South Korea, Belgium vs Panama and Tunisia vs England (19H00)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Same. There doesn't seem to be any cohesion in their play at all. Just hope Son and/or Hee-Chan do something basically.
England would have still won feck all.
Haha
Get in! Great use of var as it was 100% a pen as well.
Yea I agree and I don’t really get why it’s a problem, every other “normal” slo-mo replay is perfect.
Stop stopping plays!
Good call.
Oh my lord, his poor lip!
Because it wouldn't have come to that if the correct decision was made in real time. I'd imagine the ideal situation is to stop play when it's in a neutral area but the ref probably got told to check as the Korean's were on the break so had to pull it back there and then so they didn't go on and score. It's happened in the Dutch cup, Feyenoord scored but it got chalked off after the ref eventually checked VAR and gave a penalty the opposite way.
Just put Mexico and Germany through in this group already.
Ah wait I knew that..The HQ is in Holland because of all the silly taxes in Sweden... So no luck there either
Got ill yesterday.
Ah ok. Thanks
Good shit if the result stands. Sweden would need to play for a draw vs Germany, which of course, is easier said than done. But they should be motivated after watching Germany play yesterday.
Expected more from Korea.
They’re missing Champ Man legend Lee Chun-Soo
Jesus the Koreans are really, really bad. Misplacing basic passes every time they go forward.
Not really looking forward to the expanded 48 team world cup as a lot of the allocation goes to America and Asia.
Not really looking forward to the expanded 48 team world cup as a lot of the allocation goes to America and Asia.
For all the secrecy the Korean make during training... this is all they got
Is it confirmed? The expended allocation?
Hope not too many bad games
Who's the Scottish chap doing the co-commentary for ITV?
Thought for a minute it was Andy Gray.
Thought for a minute it was Andy Gray.
Ally McCoist.
I fecking hate this time wasting, pretending to be injured right before being subbed
Haha cheers.Ally McCoist
FIFA 2004
Should be about 12 minutes of injury time here.
I believe CONCACAF is going from 3.5 to 6.33, AFC 4.5 to 8.33, CAF from 5 to 9.33, UEFA 13 to 16, CONMEBOL 4.5 to 6.33, OFC from 0.5 to 1.33.
There's going to be 2 playoff spots for 6 teams, 1 from each confederation except UEFA + 1 extra from the host confederation, so for 2026 CONCACAF would have 6 + 2 playoff spots. Looking forward to seeing Guatemala try to beat whoever finishes 7th in CONMEBOL.
Thanks for the information
Look like nz will be a feature for most of future World Cup?
Korean haven’t lost an opening for 20 years
Not a bad record
Not a bad record
Got to say this ref and his linesman have been blowing for way too many fouls, kills the game when a fouls given every 2 minutes. Half of them are barely fouls as well.
Becoming a bit stop start
South Korea are hopeless.
I'm not necessarily against the idea of a bigger World Cup. The best teams will win it anyway. But I've heard that there will be groups of three instead? Bad idea. Only two games for the once-in-a-lifetime fans, plus you'll no longer have the final group games being played simultaneously.
Makes South American qualification very unexciting. For Europe it basically doesn't change a thing.
So many teams in this World Cup who look toothless going forward with a useless lump up front. Both Sweden and Korea are no exception.
Another 1-0 group stage tie. Awful.
South Korea are really bad.
I think it’s confirmed that it will be groups of three. Utterly bonkers IMO.
I don't like the idea of a group of three either but on the plus side, the group stages are largely redundant as they are anyway and this way there'll be more KO matches.
No composure and cohesion in koreas attack
Huge problem in modern football. And people falling to the ground for no apparent reason, just because they can and because it's clever. Example yesterday; Lichsteiner gets a little slap - goes to the ground in agony. Would he do the same if it happened outside of a football field or if they were losing? Of course not. Players are on the ground for 45 seconds - 2 minutes all the time. Every game. The referee, who's supposed to stop the game only because of head injuries, stops because the players ask him to.