The Official FIFA World Cup 2022 Megathread

[Paddingtonwolf]

No we wouldnt

 

[Banjo]

Some decent hold up play by Raul so far. Does anyone know which groin has the alleged injury?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

His

 

[Banjo]

Lol. OK. Well, he's moving pretty freely from what I can tell.

 

[sycophantia]

Where the fucks Argentinia Martyn?

 

[Dinowolf]

A good defensive header from a corner, and then a few minutes later, tries to outrun Cash and three other defenders, unsuccessfully.

 

[sycophantia]

Couldn't get into the game loads but thought Raul linked the play well 2 or 3 times.

 

[Dinowolf]

Raul got into some good positions but didn't get the ball.
Sounds familiar.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

He looked absolutely nowhere near fitness. Not even in the same postcode.

 

[Tony Towner]

Looked like he was pulling a caravan to me, but equally there weren't many obvious sprinting situations

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Two strikers in January for me. I think he looks like he is still not going to be a viable option for some time and our need is too dire to wait.

 

[Kenny]

He looked more mobile than he did v Sweden. At this rate he will be fully fit for the Gillingham game

 

[PuntsWolf]

If they are going to be able to be that exact as to whether a player is offside or not then I’d rather they changed to offside rule to favour the attacker. Make it so their entire body has to be in front of the defender or something. It’s shit having loads of goals disallowed.

Late to the party and haven’t read rest of thread but this simply cannot happen.

As a defender you let forwards go if they are goalside of you, that would be good defending as you know they are offside. You can’t just change the rule so that being 3ft offside is fine as your trailing leg is level with some part of the last defender. Would change how the game is played completely.

Like always VAR isn’t the problem it’s the implementation. If we can get instant decision then great, it can work. But the current way where we wait 5 minutes for a decision or teams getting corners from offsides that deliberately weren’t flagged plus fouls/injuries is causing more problems than it is solving.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Late to the party and haven’t read rest of thread but this simply cannot happen.

As a defender you let forwards go if they are goalside of you, that would be good defending as you know they are offside. You can’t just change the rule so that being 3ft offside is fine as your trailing leg is level with some part of the last defender. Would change how the game is played completely.

Like always VAR isn’t the problem it’s the implementation. If we can get instant decision then great, it can work. But the current way where we wait 5 minutes for a decision or teams getting corners from offsides that deliberately weren’t flagged plus fouls/injuries is causing more problems than it is solving.

Make it the players heads? Would give attackers a slight advantage over current laws and quick and simple for linesmen and VAR to spot.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Make it the players heads? Would give attackers a slight advantage over current laws and quick and simple for linesmen and VAR to spot.

Well no because are you giving it offside if the players are leaning opposite directions but the defenders trailing leg is further back than the strikers head? Then the opposite of a striker is sliding in feet first

Trying to change the offside law to help VAR just causes a different issue.

VAR needs to he better at judging the current offside law and if it can’t then used in a way that it only judges the obvious ones which can be reviewed with one look at a still.

 

[WsWolf]

Australia looking like a peak Nuno's Wolves there.

 

[Tony Towner]

This is an underdog story I can get behind

 

[Kenny]

Suddenly got very easy for France

 

[sycophantia]

Suddenly got very easy for France

Everything is so precise from France compared to all the other teams we've seen today.

 

[WsWolf]

Great game this has been. Nice when teams actually have a go.