Day 7: Tunisia vs Australia | Poland vs Saudi Arabia | France vs Denmark | Argentina vs Mexico

antk

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How in the world hasn't this pen been retaken? Scezny was (seemed?) not on the line
 

DJ_21

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The stoppage time in these World Cup games are mad. Imagine if we had this many in every prem game.
 

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How many penalties this tournament were badly taken? Good job by Szczesny, but few of those penalty saves last few games were quite easy, I miss the strong fecking unsaveable penalties instead of these soft kicks that are not even effective as keepers might have learned something.
 

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10 minute ET for first half. Yesterday I thought things were getting back to normal. Maybe some refs didn't get the memo.
 

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How in the world hasn't this pen been retaken? Scezny was not on the line
That's what I can't work out.
He very clearly was marginally off his line when it was struck.

The pundits and the ref are totally wrong claiming the opposite.
 

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There's an obvious justification for the crazy stoppage time but people just want to scream corruption at anything with this World Cup.
 

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This ref has been terrible for both sides.
Him and the Portugal-Ghana ref appear to have not got the memo the rest of the refs have.

SA have played well but the theatrics are off-putting. Clearly think they can con this ref now.
 

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There's an obvious justification for the crazy stoppage time but people just want to scream corruption at anything with this World Cup.
What is it ? How long did the VAR take? There was one other incident that took 2 mins tops
 

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I mean the effective playing time stats in football totally justify this. This is the one sensible thing FIFA have done.
My only complaint would be to implement that on the very specific season where players are already playing more than ever
 

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There's an obvious justification for the crazy stoppage time but people just want to scream corruption at anything with this World Cup.
100% I actually like the change. There's too much time wasting in football. Plenty of people have asked for the clock to be stopped once the ball goes out of play, yet now there are complaints about a change that accomplishes the same thing :rolleyes:
 

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I'm fine with the crazy amount of ET. It will get rid of time wasting that we see every game in the PL. I want to see the same thing there.
 

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Who is the worst European nation at the tournament? Wales, Poland or Serbia? The latter amazingly even topped their group which included Portugal.
how do you throw Serbia in that mix considering we played arguably the best team in the world and only played one game. No one really thought we could really win especially considering our injuries.

I mean, our performance was probably better than Englands vs the USA.