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Don't actually see Japan having any chance there. It's all going to be close games, but think the other three are much stronger sides. Expect Colombia to win it, and then one of Senegal and Poland to qualify.

Probably one for the football pet hates, but I hate it when people moan about people trying to get an opponent booked or now the above. If that person's clearly cheating then fair enough, but 7 out of 10 times I'd say the player who's protesting is normally spot on. A better way would be if a player is asking for a VAR review, it gets reviewed. If it's blatantly a wrong appeal, he gets a yellow or some.sort of suspension for being a tit and a cheat. If he's right then the ref has come to the correct decision. or as in the NFL, they have a certain amount of times to ask for a review.

Keita and Fabinho are huge upgrades on what they have.

Alright. 30 players

There he is. They've won three straight CLs since he came into the team. I'm not saying he's great, but he does his job so well in terms of winning the ball and letting Kroos and Modric do what they do best.

That's not true man, it definitely wasn't harder to execute. I appreciate that it was aestethically more pleasing, but this is far more difficult. The pace at which Marcelos cross comes doesn't give Bale much time, but he still manages to hit it perfectly.

Casemiro has won four straight CL with Real. The one time they didn't win it in the last 5 years he was out on loan at Porto. Where's the resident Casemiro hater nemtizz now?

Never. This was insane. The pace the ball comes in at, you could give him 1000 chances to redo it and he wouldn't make it more than once.

High expectations now.

Rwanda is up and coming as a tourist destination due to their Gorilla trekking and few luxury hotels being built. Not same as Chechnya. thanks cap buzzkill Man I posted that with such enjoyment.

Rwanda is up and coming as a tourist destination due to their Gorilla trekking and few luxury hotels being built. Not same as Chechnya.

Yes and he's better than Romero as well.

West Ham getting a better manager than Arsenal is ridiculous. Pellegrini also suits the Arsenal way far better.

Spain's national team is ridiculous. On depth it's by far the best squad in the World Cup. Brazil, Germany and France have good squads and maybe the first two have better starting XI. But Spain can field like three competitive sides ffs.

Honestly, Michael Oliver sends Buffon off for screaming a bit at him, but here he bottles it to send Phil Jones off.

Should be a red no? Or have the rules changed?

It's been obvious for a while now that's the case tbh, i know friendlies and qualifying doesn't mean much when it comes to the actual tournament but still it was pretty obvious they dropped off. Trouble is i struggle to think of a team other than Brazil who i believe in to stop them. Spain surely has to be able to beat them. Spain, Germany and Brazil are the three strongest teams and favourites, but on a good day Belgium, France and Argentina could all beat any of those three. Despite the great thing about overachieving teams, I'd love if the best teams made it to the quarter-finals. Could be such amazing matchups in the quarterfinal.

9. Didn't get 3,4,5,7,8 Missed 3 and 4. Never heard of #3. #4 I probably should've guessed right.

Germany are obviously one of the favourites, but I don't find that team as good as the one in 2014. Loads excellent players, but not really one player apart from Kroos that can be considered a top 3 in their position at the moment.

He clearly moves off the line to early, but never seen a yellow be given for that before. Right decision to make the dutch kick it again.

One of the worst diving decisions I've seen by Kamara that. Could've probably scored if he'd just gone on with it.

No good rightbacks and Taison. Otherwise it's a good team, the same team that dominated the qualifiers. Happy for Filipe Luis who has made a special recovery after breaking his leg just couple of weeks ago.

Same

In my money league. 1st placed and 2nd placed have ended with a point between them. Winner gets £500, 2nd place £60. This is the bps stands. 2nd placed had Shaqiri as well and 1st place hade Fabianski.