The Syndicate

Congrats France. Croatia went down like warriors.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:32 pm I’ll probably try to just follow along with some of the leagues and see who I naturally end up rooting for, like I’ve done with Croatia here. I hope I can actually follow through with school and all.

There's loads of different leagues, some of them with radically different styles. Some are faster, some more physical, some completely crap tbf. It's not really linear, depends on what draws you in. That said, La Liga and the English Premiership tend to have the best games, with the Bundesliga and the Italian league following behind, after that there's like 10 different leagues with positive and negative things about them. I'll echo Liverpool as a fun club to follow, just because their manager has a really positive approach to the game and they're usually very entertaining.

Croatia 1 France 1 (Croatia on pens)
England 2 Belgium 4

Absolutely, but I can't help it!

Belgium 2 France 1
England 1 Croatia 2

I've kept making predictions of what I want to happen and screwing up every time.

France 1-2 Uruguay
Brazil 2-3 Belgium
Sweden 1-0 England
Croatia 1-0 Russia

Subasic the hero

Whoa, last minute penalty miss.

Crushed Portugal is out, too bad about Argentina, but goddam it I totally nailed the prediction for Spain 1 Russia 1 (Russia wins on pens).

Definitely not sure about some of those tbh.

Portugal 1 Uruguay 0
France 1 Argentina 2
Brazil 3 Mexico 1
Belgium 2 Japan 0
Spain 1 Russia 1 (Russia wins on pens)
Croatia 1 Denmark 0
Sweden 0 Switzerland 0 (Sweden wins on pens)
Colombia 3 England 2

What a madhouse of a day yesterday. I don't think Germany has ever gone out in the group stages.

Peru now getting all the decisiveness in front of goal they missed in the last two games, too bad they didn't find their mojo earlier.

Pepe vs Suarez

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 5:54 pm

BuckarooBanzai wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 5:44 pm Spain's game sounds like a riot as well, wish I could have watched both.

You should definitely watch it if you're into watching games after they air. I can't seem to enjoy games after knowing the score unfortunately.

I don't usually do it, all the tension evaporates if I know the result.

Spain's game sounds like a riot as well, wish I could have watched both.

It's gonna be a massacre. Totally hyped for it.

Good lord what a mess of a group, pretty rough on Portugal to go from facing Russia to Uruguay because of a 93rd minute VAR penalty.

Imagine a 3-way deal between Russia, KSA and Egypt, Russia wins both games because they are hosts while KSA beats Egypt to preserve their dignity. Egypt gets paid.

What the hell, the last time Saudi Arabia won a game Pulp Fiction was still in theaters.

Uruguay 0 Russia 0
Egypt 1 Saudi Arabia 0
Portugal 1 Iran 1
Spain 3 Morocco 1
Australia 1 Peru 2
Denmark 0 France 0
Argentina 1 Nigeria 2
Croatia 0 Iceland 0
Sweden 0 Mexico 1
Germany 3 South Korea 0
Switzerland 1 Costa Rica 0
Brazil 0 Serbia 1
Colombia 2 Senegal 0
Poland 0 Japan 0
Belgium 3 England 2
Tunisia 1 Panama 1

Colombia v Senegal is gonna be super intense.

Have a feeling Japan will sneak through somehow.

Tbf to Colombia, their game plan was totally screwed with the sending off against Japan.

Poland have a few excellent players, but daaaaaammmm they've been completely outplayed by everyone.

The fun thing about group H is that every single team truly believes they're favorites to go through and have acted accordingly.

Lukaku's on fire.

You may have a point there.

I'm gonna try to suggest an outdoors beer garden and use the oldest trick in mankind's book to seal the deal - cheap beer.

These results are totally wiping me out.

Today's mission: figuring out a way to trick my friends into hanging out at places where I can catch some of the games.

Shaqiri was a live wire all game, so glad to see him snatch the victory in the dying seconds.

Found both afternoon games very entertaining.

Really fun game.

Iceland are pretty likeable.

Didn't watch the game but saw several people coming back from lunch chanting Coutinho's name.

Nigeria v Iceland is yet another unpredictable game, it can be a boring draw or either of the temas completely routing the other by exploiting their weaknesses.

I thought they would be eliminated by France in the round of 16, not that they would fail to beat newcomers Iceland or struggle to even make it out of the group.

That Argentina game was like watching an accident that you knew would happen for the last 6 months. Argentina were like this all through the qualifying, only their individual talents lifted them over Chile. Going into the WC, the team continues to be a disjointed mess, even if they can still qualify. But tbf Croatia is not just some random team, their backbone is made of guys who play for Real Madrid, Atlético, Inter Milan, Barcelona or Juventus.

And this WC is impossible to predict.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:46 pm Mexico is not going to win it all, they've already reached their pinnacle.

Not sure why people didn't enjoy Portugal, Morocco - is it a sort of 'non-neutral observer' phenomenon? I thought Morocco played well and enjoyed watching them, never mind that Portugal wasn't great. That guy on the wing (Amrabat), he was good watching.

It was horrible because I'm rooting for Portugal, and it was 90 minutes of them refusing to play football while Morocco pounded them relentlessly. Just excruciating.

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:10 pm but i guess having a lack of good internet is made up with good wine and good variety of cheese...



took forever to get that pic to load. holy hell. south of france, fix your internet

OMG, a cheese aisle so large they need individual sections divided by cheese types.

I want the time I spent watching Portugal's game back.

48 teams is complete overkill.

Just an absolutely dreadful, horrible, uninspiring, boring, excruciating, annoying, pathetic, dullllllllllll game. Kinda regret taking a couple of hours off work to watch it.

This game is painful to watch.

Are Russia suddenly very good or have their opponents been completely awful?

I liked how Senegal just went for it full throttle, no mercy.

Tbh Piqué would be relieved to face this underachieving Colombia

Colombia facing a really uphill battle now, this was supposed to be the easiest of their games.

Russia 1 Egypt 2
Portugal 3 Morocco 1
Uruguay 4 Saudi Arabia 0
Iran 0 Spain 2
Denmark 1 Australia 0
France 1 Peru 1
Argentina 2 Croatia 1
Brazil 3 Costa Rica 0
Nigeria 1 Iceland 1
Serbia 2 Switzerland 0
Belgium 2 Tunisia 0
Korea 1 Mexico 3
Germany 2 Sweden 0
England 3 Panama 1
Japan 0 Senegal 1
Poland 1 Colombia 2