The Syndicate

dunya wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 6:48 pm @BuckarooBanzai

What's your username on the fifa league again? Are you doing the match predictor?

The team is called Moscow Marauders, but I can't seem to get Fifa's site to work properly, always malfunctioning and timing out. FFS FIFA.

Hehe, Denmark are pretty good this time

Croatia are definitely better. But I'm tired of spending years and years hyping Croatia as the dark horses for every competition and having them always let me down. And Nigeria are good enough to surprise them.

France 4 Australia 0
Argentina 1 Iceland 1
Peru 1 Denmark 2
Croatia 0 Nigeria 1
Costa Rica 0 Serbia 2
Germany 3 Mexico 1
Brazil 2 Switzerland 0
Sweden 0 Korea 0
Belgium 2 Panama 0
Tunisia 1 England 1
Colombia 1 Japan 0
Poland 1 Senegal 1

dunya wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:47 pm Breakfast??? It's at 12pm you lazy ass. It's going to be goal infested so a fun wakeup call.

We have no places nearby with offensively large screens so I'm not moving my ass out of the house for 2 days tbh

In my defence it's 11 here, perfect time for some leftovers brunch

Definitely, hoping to find some offensively massive screens in town to watch the games outdoors. Except for the one playing during breakfast, that is.

The draw is not a bad result for either in any case.

When Costa scored my dad just blurted out "Now that's a man's goal".

Cronaldo was insane, almost scored a 4th near the end. Too bad the rest of our frontline looked nervous and wasn't nearly as inspired.

This game was just outrageously tense and unpredictable.

The Return of the Vuvuzela

Uruguay will reach the Russia game already qualified with 6 points, they might even rest players and be happy with a draw

Egypt need to beat up Russia to even stand a chance now

Fuck Sergio Ramos

C'mon, gives us some Salah

Salah getting impatient in the bench

Definitely, but Uruguay seems to be waiting to bite them on the counter.

Uruguay are cunning, they're letting Egypt attack while controlling the game. Of course, it can backfire.

Well, just because I support them doesn't mean I'm gonna pretend Cronaldo and Pepe are likeable lol. I'm not out of my mind. But imo this new generation coming through with guys like Bernardo or Guedes is a bit more likeable.

I'd prefer Egypt to go through, but this game gave Russia a great goal-average boost and completely restored the team's confidence, which may be enough to help them draw/win against Egypt and reach the next stage.

Saudi Arabia on their way to be the team to ship more goals in the history of the WC.

Egypt 0 - 2 Uruguay
Morocco 1 - 1 Iran
Portugal 2 - 1 Spain

I'd bet on a shock victory if it were Iran, but Saudi Arabia is pretty damm bad.

I just want to party like it's 2016

Above all I want a new champion, even if it's rather unlikely to happen. Seeing a country like Colombia win in Russia would be kind of amazing.

Sampaoli's predicted starting XI scared my pants off tbh, Salvio at right back and Mascherano expected to singlehandedly dominate midfield as if he's 20 years old? What the hell is he thinking about.

I'm going for Russia 2- Saudis 0 tomorrow

Here come my totally madcap predictions:

Group A: Uruguay, Russia
Group B: Portugal, Spain
Group C: France, Denmark
Group D: Nigeria, Croatia
Group E: Brazil, Serbia
Group F: Germany, Mexico
Group G: Belgium, England
Group H: Colombia, Poland

quarter finalists:
From Groups A and B: Uruguay, Portugal
From Groups C and D: France, Denmark
From Groups E and F: Brazil, Serbia
From Groups G and H: Belgium and Colombia

semi finalists:
France, Portugal, Brazil, Serbia

finalists:
4th place: Serbia
3rd place: Brazil
2nd place: Germany
1st place: Portugal

Golden Ball winner: Sergej Milinković-Savić
Golden Boot winner: Mbappé
Golden Glove winner: Neuer