I was coming down from acid when I read this and it felt like the most wholesome thing I'd ever read.

OK, Samedov off after 64 mins. He'll keep his clean sheet whatever happens and he was a hopeful buy at best for any more than that. I'll take 3, especially if Aljassam can nick something.

Really enjoyable game this.

Wouldn't go THAT far!

but it was! except for all that wine drinkin. but hey-- reseveratrol!



funny, im having a hard time getting into it. im looking at it like "both of these teams suck" ha ha. using it more for a tech test than anything. the app works okay but there's a bit of blur and even stutter on occasion.

goes to show how attitude makes all the difference. but glad someone is having fun!

That last goal was a great one though

Edit:wait the last two goal were great!

which number are you talking? :D

It probably helps I had two players involved, but given how boring most opening games are, this one at least had goals, and some excellent ones, too.

But not fooled by Russia's quality. Saudi were just awful.

yeah the saudis to me were like a high school team that happened to show up at the stadium. “oh look boys, we’re at the world cup”

the asian confederation needs to have one slot docked ha ha ha.

curious about egypt-uruguay tomorrow. gonna be 4am my time zone. holy shit.


wait no. that’s gonna be at 6am. spain portugal at 4? lol. NO! that’s at noon!

im still asleep...

Here's the line-up for TEAM CRABCAKES!:



FW: A. JAHANBAKHSH (IRN); H. LOZANO (MEX); L. SUAREZ (URU)
MID: A. GUARDADO (MEX); H. ZIYACH (MAR) (Captain); K. DE BRUYNE (BEL); L. SCHONE (DEN)
DEF: H. MORENO (MEX); J. VERTONGHEN (BEL; T. ALDERWEIRELD (BEL)
GK: B. JONES (AUS)


Subs:

CASSIO (BRA)
N. TAGLIAFICO (ARG)
D. SANCHEZ (COL)
K. HONDA (JPN)


Like I said before: selection criteria was that they had to ever play in Dutch competition. Was contemplating to change it after that, but totally forgot about it. So there you go.
Probably a very lousy team, since I've got three Mexicans that will definitely loose from Germony


and sorry for the CAPS, it's a direct copy/paste

I know it's a bore but it does raise the old - does football really benefit from Saudi Arabia being there over say Italy? I know, I know, but I can't pretend it isn't frustrating.


I really REALLY want Uruguay to go as far as possible. After England they're probably my '2nd team'.

#ShamelessGodinAndSuarezWorship

it’s frustrating as hell. if they had a decent team at least, inferior to italy but still good, you could say, in the name of fairness, okay, whatever.

but these poor people were lost on that pitch.

now everyone will try to make up the goal difference so more spankings forthcoming

uruguay is the little engine that could, yeah. would love to see them win. tabárez thinks they can. and cavani apparently has had a good year also? MARACANAZO IN MOSCOW XD

on a totally different subject, let’s count the number of argentinian coaches in this tournament.

this group alone has 2! (pizzi + hector cuper). wat.

Salah will play according to the coach, so let's hope he's fully recovered. He did add something like "unless there are any last-minute changes"



Dutch TV is really promoting the Moroccan team, because there's about six of them born here. Especially Ziyech/Ziyach is raved upon.


BIG TIME EDIT:
this video has just been released. It's a clip of Dutch singer Ali B (the curly one) in promotion of Moroccan team. But featuring Dutch TV football icons like Van Gaal & Van Nistelrooij:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkYIO6Iqcw


(edit: this clip only has Van Gaal at the start and Sneijder at the end. On TV they showed also Van Nistelrooij)

Van Gaal

van Nistelrooy

translations?

btw, you might get some lols out of this, guus hiddink is doing football commentary on fox sports for the tournament

http://www.foxsports.com/presspass/l...studio-analyst

What a world we're living when Bielsa is made manager of Leeds.

sounds itchy as fuck

pass

so demonyo looks poised to bolt ahead today and leave us in the dust after yesterday’s 7 points (nice)

and right now uruguay

here we go...

nice first half, pleasantly surprised by egypt who looks well organized and with enough skill to match.

problem is they’re more organized in defense than in offense so game looks stuck at midfield. should they bring in mo it could destabilize things in their favor.

uruguay a little better on the offense but not quite there. a couple of good tries and a nice run by godin but egyptians well placed and pretty solid so far to deny all. sorry on suarez’s miss which was the best chance but a tight angle.

wow dat keeper

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and now “dat goalpost” lmao

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o well it was a good chance and they took it

I BLAME RAMOS. lol

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stupid fuckinng foul on suarez plays into his hands

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AAAAND it’s a game. and fair result. egypt should not be too desolate, they’re in a good position for 2nd place and only 1 goal down.

Shit, I fell asleep 10 mins before the Uruguay game and just now woke up. Fuck it!

I know the result but how did Uruguay look?

uruguay looked a little constipated

i mean they did not look bad but needed 2 substitutions to bring life into them.

egypt was the impressive one here. well organized, decent individual talent.

i think if mo had been in there... the game would have been theirs, because that’s all they lacked.

but yeah uruguay was better, just not THaT much better. 1-0 fair result.

OK,

From a FF pov, a bit disappointed Nandez was subbed out before 60mins, so lost his clean sheet bonus, and Cavani's base score wasn't great, Godin helped my out with 6 points, though.

im skipping the iran business

need fresh eyes for portulandia

yeah godin scored you tons

lol @ “jim” ha ha ha. too early for me but i’ll soon catch up

i dont think suarez was “awful.” he missed some chances but they weren’t superclear or nothing. that first shot he put on the outside net he had an egyptian closing him down. on paper we’re all champion goalscorers.

the problem w/ uruguay was that chances were not that many and some were legitimately awesome saves. egypt keeper a hero. i think this is his 4th cap lol and did a fine job. felt bad for him with the late goal.

anyway should make for interesting replay if you can find it.

Costa starts for Spain. Lots of talk on TV about whether he really suits their style. He doesn't.

I caught the 2nd half of Ir v Mo. Looked pretty drab until the goal, but I imagine they're both just there for Ur and Eg's goal difference.

No, Scotch and ginger ales at 9am.

well he WaS fouled and for no good reason and yellow as deserved. but he just made it “visible” haa haaa haa. grabbing his head wtf lol. he’s too funny man.


oh transmission on the iberians began already

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ill be on the g&t highway soon

Now for the lovely prospect of watching Ramos kick the shit out of Ronaldo for 90 mins.

... and Pepe v Costa!! :eek:

And hopefully a chance for symbols to see just what a brilliant player David Silva is.

yeah i keep waiting for godot lol

“g&t railroad” is moar bettarr. like a monopoly square.

salud!

ooooh early penal

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fuckin a right this is shaping up great

Ronaldo won the first medal of Best Dive Of The Tournement!

video review disagrees

here comes the next one...

recent example of my cosmic silva curse: apparently he did something good, and just at that moment my stream froze and got out of sync w/ audio for a moment. so i could herar the screams but not see the

FUCKING COSTA. ok that was fantastic.

what talent

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wait whats up w/ pepe got face-elbowed or theatre?

he got fucking hit!

anyway this ups the odds

GOOD.

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O WATTA GAME. we’re so lucky to be alive today.

How can anyone not love Costa? Thank God it didn't take long for a real decent game to happen.

ISCO!! So close!

Oh fuck. Nightmare for DeGea

Someone call Karius

Goooooooooolllllllllll!!!!!

Boy am I double glad I took De Gea out

this game rules. CONFESS!!