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Get the idea to a degree of going to a back 3 with Widmer out as they don't really have another right back. But this has backfired atrociously, and they just look chaotic at the back. All credit to Portugal though - look superb without Ronaldo.

Game owa

They look so much better without Ronaldo

Fernandes is a huge fan weakness here.

Damn it

Most lesser teams at the World Cup have one or two glaring weaknesses in their side (e.g. a ropey goalkeeper). Don't see that with Morocco. CF probably their biggest weakness for me as En-Nesyri never convinced - but even then he has decent pedigree.

Hopefully. Far more quality than Greece had, fwiw.

Panenka to win it from a Spanish born player

Last minute Spain winners gonna be a sickna

Ffs man

Maroc in French. MAR is their official FIFA code.

I'm back to hating Spain again. There's no worse kind of football than death by a thousands cuts.

Their whole squad is gonna be on loan at Olympiacos next year.

Yeah I'm all for open games but Paulo Bento should have played 8 at the back here.

Hate these shitty pens. You shouldn't be allowed to stutter a run up imo. It's one thing I would change, especially since they started enforcing keepers staying on their lines so vigourously

That was absolutely dreadful. Felt like a waste of a match to see such pathetic penalties.

Extra time and pens always a useful bridge between fixtures.

Out of nothing that mind.

Get in, well deserved I think too.

Spain went out in group stages 2014 and then last 16 of both Euro 2016 and Russia. But I don't think they had a bad side for any of those tournaments. Just the sense that things has gone stale and teams had figured out how to beat a side that couldn't quite play how they wanted to anymore. This Germany definitely feels similar.

Genuinely don't think Germany played that bad in this tournament FWIW nor is the team that terrible. Early 2000s side was definitely worse despite that jammy run in 2002. Just seems to be something mentally not there and tactically stale about them at the moment. And the lack of a proper CF both in terms of available players and system is completely un-German like.

Four favourites comfortably through so far. Some upsets next couple of days wouldn't go amiss.

Nice little bonus for the tournament GPG rate.

Different class

Got to hope now they're out of the group they'll change tact a bit.