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  • NTAN Online
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    Krauts gorrrrrrrrrrrrn

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  • BovidaeB Offline
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    I was watching Germany-Costa Rica. Did Spain try to get an equaliser or were they happier to finish 2nd and avoid Croatia?

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  • Billy TellB Offline
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    @Bovidae said in FIFA World Cup 2022:

    I was watching Germany-Costa Rica. Did Spain try to get an equaliser or were they happier to finish 2nd and avoid Croatia?

    They kept trying.

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  • Billy TellB Offline
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    One thing soccer has over rugby is short turn around times. Whereas rugby has a week between each knockout stage here it just keeps on going relentlessly.

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    Germans should have scored a quick three own goals in the last 2 minutes, to make Costa Rica go through instead of Spain - just out of spite

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    @Billy-Tell said in FIFA World Cup 2022:

    @Bovidae said in FIFA World Cup 2022:

    I was watching Germany-Costa Rica. Did Spain try to get an equaliser or were they happier to finish 2nd and avoid Croatia?

    They kept trying.

    But like England rugby bereft of a Plan B

    Teams now know how to beat Spain

    1. Get in their face
    2. Pace
    3. Have a dip from outside the box
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    @Billy-Tell said in FIFA World Cup 2022:

    That’s a poor decision. Surely that was out.

    I thought the ball had completely cleared the line, but like tennis it only had to be a blade of white grass and it’s in…

    Happy for Japan, but geez that would be massive talking point if it was Spain that was being knocked out!

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    I have so many student emails explaining that ‘they might have Covid and need the morning to go see a doctor’ that I may as well cancel my classes today.

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    @gt12 said in FIFA World Cup 2022:

    I have so many student emails explaining that ‘they might have Covid and need the morning to go see a doctor’ that I may as well cancel my classes today.

    anyone who doesn't give their students the day off is a bum

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    And Belgium's "golden generation" crashes to an end with only 1 goal all tournament.

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  • NTAN Online
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    @Windows97 said in FIFA World Cup 2022:

    And Belgium's "golden generation" crashes to an end with only 1 goal all tournament.

    That's what they get for not being French or German or Dutch.

    Except today, they are more German than either of the other 2.

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  • NTAN Online
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    It's sort of funny how all this stuff now comes out. I know SFA about the game but I wouldn't have expected us to beat either Euro nation and no idea about Tunisia. According to the maths we were going to finish bottom of our pool...

    I take no particular joy in it beyond qualifying. We're $14 to beat Argentina so we're essentially fucked.

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    @NTA And the Dutch will hope to be more French this tournament and finally win the dammed thing 🙂

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  • HoorooH Offline
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    Ze Germans are crying foul over Japans goal as the ball appeared out but the ball must be 100% over the line and I think there is a smidge on the line

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    #289

    i would have said that was a mile out, apparently the whole sphere of the ball needs to cross the line, not just at ground level though....

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    Another view:

    Ball.jpeg

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  • B Offline
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    and just like that after failing to deter USA from joining the party of 16, the last remaining European Axis power was scuppered and Japan goes it alone..

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    A fun fact from ESPN: Japan scored 4 goals in the group stage (by 3 different players). They all play in Germany.

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    Look how happy Kai Havertz was to win MoM in Japan game

    CE03277B-1641-49B1-BF4D-5D1F13FFB6C8.jpeg

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  • canefanC Online
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    @Bovidae said in FIFA World Cup 2022:

    A fun fact from ESPN: Japan scored 4 goals in the group stage (by 3 different players). They all play in Germany.

    They should get a warm reception when they get back to the Fatherland

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