The Official FIFA World Cup 2022 Megathread

[Jinky]

Yeah, I miss Romain too. Fucking Lage.

Two good teams on show here so far - both very technically gifted and I could see both of them causing England issues. Not sure how many years a large % of this Croatian side has left at the top, though.

 

[WsWolf]

Group of death this is. Both of these capable of finishing top, plus Belgium.

 

[Johnny75]

Group of death this is. Both of these capable of finishing top, plus Belgium.

Neither team look particularly good so far.

 

[Jinky]

Neither team look particularly good so far.

Think they both look pretty good but are cancelling each other out.

 

[Langers]

Personally I think there's very little quality on show here.

 

[YoungWolf]

Two teams with lots of good players I think but not quite cohesive enough.

 

[WsWolf]

Neither team look particularly good so far.

No one has other than England or France and both played against poor sides.

 

[sycophantia]

Group of death this is. Both of these capable of finishing top, plus Belgium.

I'm happy to blame Lage for most things, but Saiss leaving was more on the club wasn't it?
Offered him peanuts on a new contract I thought?

 

[Johnny75]

Two teams with lots of good players I think but not quite cohesive enough.

Agree with this and @Langers

A bit like Wolves, decent up until the final third then, rubbish.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Haven't watched it all but dipped in and out and what I've seen wasn't great, especially in the final 3rd but quite a hectic pace and a bit frantic at times.

 

[Johnny75]

No one has other than England or France and both played against poor sides.

Or both played very well. Depending on how you look at it.

 

[Johnny75]

I'm happy to blame Lage for most things, but Saiss leaving was more on the club wasn't it?
Offered him peanuts on a new contract I thought?

The marvelous Jeff Shi...

 

[sycophantia]

Most amazing thing about this game is getting to half tome with no U2 jokes.

 

[WsWolf]

Or both played very well. Depending on how you look at it.

Both things can be true. The manner in which they won was impressive but both games were expected to be complete mismatches.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Or both played very well. Depending on how you look at it.

They did both play well, but I'd put money on Iran and Australia being 2 of the poorest teams in the competition, so that has to be taken into consideration. If Wolves play really well and beat Gillingham convincingly you wouldn't automatically think it was because Wolves were superb, you'd consider the opposition a factor.

 

[Langers]

Most amazing thing about this game is getting to half tome with no U2 jokes.

We've got more cutting Edge humour than that on TWF

 

[Dire Wolf]

We've got more cutting Edge humour than that on TWF

That was a Bono-fide terrible gag...

 

[sycophantia]

That was a Bono-fide terrible gag...

Thought it was pretty good for TWF.....yours too, but that's probably enough now.

 

[jd1981]

Rhetoric from some who are desperate for England to fail really has me in stitches.
Prior to the Iran game “England will struggle to score against Iran as they’re so well organised, they might not even win”
Final score England 6-2 Iran
Those same people “Iran are terrible so it’s meaningless”

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

You should recognise it for what it was. A clinical despatch of inferior opposition, which is what you would expect the tournament favourites to do.