World Cup 2026

[Cereal Killer]

Jordan keeper got out of jail there

[Goaljira]

That Algerian keeper looked terrible. Also, the lacl of.closing down was ridiculous. You give Dwight McNeill the space they gave Messi and he probably scores the first snd third too.

Not the second though. It was his right foot.

[Cods]

Jordan keeper got out of jail there

Current administration/ICE even locking up allies in error?

[Cereal Killer]

England v Croatia the only match between two European countries in all the opening set of fixtures

[cassius]

Is it me or has the standard of goalkeeping (Cape Verde guy aside) been really poor?

I thought both the Maignan and Mendy weren't great yesterday and then watching the highlights of some other games they've not been great.

[AjaxAndy]

Is it me or has the standard of goalkeeping (Cape Verde guy aside) been really poor?

I thought both the Maignan and Mendy weren't great yesterday and then watching the highlights of some other games they've not been great.

Yeah even Courtois made a really weird save the other day where he just palmed it to an attacker.

I think it's probably the ball, as my kid got one and they're not perfectly round. I'd imagine it's making it move in unexpected ways which is why keepers are struggling.

[TheRam]

Incredible by Messi.

Even without the goals, he ran that game, at 39.

Best of all time and I don’t think there’s even a debate now.

[Goaljira]

Yeah even Courtois made a really weird save the other day where he just palmed it to an attacker.

I think it's probably the ball, as my kid got one and they're not perfectly round. I'd imagine it's making it move in unexpected ways which is why keepers are struggling.

Watched a video about the ball the other week, and it was interesting.

Like you say, the panels give it a weird feel. In the tests they concluded it'd be great for whipping balls in, but the flight wasnt consistent so we'd be seeing some wild shots and misjudged timings.

[Cods]

Yeah even Courtois made a really weird save the other day where he just palmed it to an attacker.

I think it's probably the ball, as my kid got one and they're not perfectly round. I'd imagine it's making it move in unexpected ways which is why keepers are struggling.

Designed on the same base shape as the Jabulani apparently. Not your traditional ball.

I think the keeping has certainly been average.

[Sir Stealth]

Yesterday was definitely a day for the big difference makers. Was thinking to myself during that France Senegal first half that Mbappe might actually hinder France, with his seeming lack of hard yards he puts in and the blatant need for him to be the star - then he spectacularly silenced me in that second half

But Mbappe, Haaland and Messi all showed what they can do yesterday, all 3 of their countries look to them for inspiration and they deliver

Hope for the same from Harry Kane for us tonight

But you know when you just have that nagging feeling that Luka Modric is gonna run the show, our man is gonna make a mistake which leads to their winner and spark a national hate campaign to get him out of the team and the ‘Scouse not English’ Red Men are all of a sudden gonna be really invested in the England team and how the goalkeeper is holding them back…well yeah that

[weimaranerblues]

I havent paid much attention to team news for the other countries, but why the fuck is ours always leaked early...


Anyway get ready for the scapegoat and Fume...

[StirlingBlue]

Is it just me or is it not weird for Martinez to be loudly singing the Portuguese national anthem?

[TheRam]

Looking forward to tonight.

Had my St George’s flag up for the last year in preparation for it.

[Risky]

I reckon either 1-1 or it turns out that this is a tournament too far for Croatia and England have a convincing 3-0 win, followed by massive overreaction to how good England are.

Congo aren't out of this game v Portugal. Getting in to good spaces and just need a bit more conviction, and you've always got a chance of a goal against a Bobby Martinez coached side

[Risky]

And there you go