54

Not the worst half that.

Hammering this. Complete doubt cleanser.

What a fucking finish.

More then deserved that. Played really well.

Ridiculous he got allowed to stay on there, medical team needs to be way stronger, he could have long term damage.

Started well here.

Alex Scott with the armband.

It's less then an hour before England play there opening game of a World Cup, and I just feel flat I'm slightly nervous, but beyond that I don't have the same buzz I normally would, I don't even care if England are poor or not, the whole thing just seems fake, and inconsequential. Weird.

I'd have played Foden in place of Mount and White for Maguire, but probably how I'd have lined up for the most part.

Not sure if anyone saw this story, but this is good news:

Wonder if Rafa could be tempted to go there.

Jinx.

https://www.live-footballontv.com/live-world-cup-football-on-tv.html

A joint statement from the Football Associations of England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland about the One Love armband: "Fifa has been very clear that it will impose sporting sanctions if our captains wear the armbands on the field of play. As national federations, we can’t put our players in a position where they could face sporting sanctions including bookings, so we have asked the captains not to attempt to wear the armbands in Fifa World Cup games. "We were prepared to pay fines that would normally apply to breaches of kit regulations and had a strong commitment to wearing the armband. However, we cannot put our players in the situation where they might be booked or even forced to leave the field of play. "We are very frustrated by the Fifa decision which we believe is unprecedented – we wrote to Fifa in September informing them of our wish to wear the One Love armband to actively support inclusion in football, and had no response. Our players and coaches are disappointed – they are strong supporters of inclusion and will show support in other ways."

There is a whole World Cup sub forum my dude: https://newcastle-online.org/forum/37-world-cup-2022/

Apparently there was only 11 shots in that game, the lowest in a World Cup match since 1966.

Its actually hard to call the outcome of the USA vs Wales game, they seem like they'd be evenly matched, its probably on of the more intriguing games of the opening round, that along with Mexico vs Poland.

Never seen possession stats with three different criteria before with the third being "in contest". Weird, kind of like it.

Ah man Valencia

There fireworks going off?

I'm actually really surprised at how poor Qatar are here, Ecuador haven't had to do anything special here and its been a breeze.

Enner Valencia is on fire, class header.

Whoops, was just Googling who England played in the last 16 of the last World Cup, and my wires got crossed

Qatar are fucking terrible here, if I didn't know any better, i'd think Colombia where the team that had been together since June and Qatar the one for 6 days.