Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany, Japan (Japan and Spain qualify)

[Teasy]

Is it stupid that they aren't providing the clear footage yet?, Yeah.  But even on the shots we have you can see it's not over the line.  The worst image they have you just have to line up the edge of the touchline with the edge of the ball above and you can see the ball is overhanging the line.  Souness sounds like he's about to launch a probe into russian interference or something FFS.

 

 

Edited December 1, 2022 by Teasy

[BGRM]

Like that ref said, corners look like they aren't in the proper place all the time! This is just the same.....move on

[geordie_b]

The way ITV are going on has reminded me about Jonathan Pearce and VAR in 2014

 

 

[Hanshithispantz]

2 minutes ago, geordie_b said:

The way ITV are going on has reminded me about Jonathan Pearce and VAR in 2014

 

 

Fucking hell that’s incredible 

[LiquidAK]

Souness has been a bit of a cunt tonight but that was a great line like. "....Germany won't.... AHAAAAA"

[joeyt]

12 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

Ironically this is the first time I’ve seen VAR work like I want it to work. The call on the field stands unless there is clear and irrefutable evidence to overturn it (which there wasn’t in this instance). It ended up being perfect execution, other than how long it took. 

 

Wasn;t the on field call it had gone out

[TheBrownBottle]

Remember folks, sometimes the ball actually crossing the line before being crossed for a goal is also a good thing ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EIE3Q8RuJs

[Kid Icarus]

Keown explaining without trying to sound patronising is class. Was amazing watching it live.

[gbandit]

Did Jonathan Pearce have some sort of absence seizure during that game? How could he not compute that the ball had two questionable moments where they needed to review it with goal line technology 

[oldtype]

17 minutes ago, DMC said:

This is very true, but a lot of pundits don’t seem to realise the rise of football in non-European/South American countries 

 

As of the last five years or so for Korea and probably a bit longer for Japan, I feel like both countries have put in place a steady production line of decent-ish players coming out of the youth levels. A lot of them stay in Asia because it's not worth it to leave the comforts of home to sit on the bench, but most of the NT-level players could do a job for lower-tier squads in Europe. Not relying on one-off outliers like Park and Son to carry a bunch of dross anymore.

 

Son is basically a shell of himself this WC and we look about as good as we have in the last decade or so. Results just aren't going our way.

 

 

Edited December 1, 2022 by oldtype

[geordie_b]

 

Would only look more in with a camera on the line

[Pata]

Germany insanely unlucky although their defense looked shaky against both Japan and Costa Rica.

[Jaqen]

 

2 minutes ago, geordie_b said:

 

Would only look more in with a camera on the line

 

Where are all the other angles though? 

[GEFAFWISP]

It's not unlucky if they underperform their xG, it means their strikers are shit; which they are.

[Pata]

2 minutes ago, GEFAFWISP said:

It's not unlucky if they underperform their xG, it means their strikers are shit; which they are.

 

Nah, they are not shit. You play that group again with the same chances and they go through 9 times out of 10.

[mouldy_uk]

 

Souness waiting for VAR after the game

 

[Big Geordie]

Japan were superb in the 2nd half and well worth their win.

[Bizza]

What goes around comes around.

[GEFAFWISP]

6 minutes ago, Pata said:

 

Nah, they are not shit. You play that group again with the same chances and they go through 9 times out of 10.

 

Fortunately we exist in the universe where they didn't win and are in fact shit as they underperformed against expectations.

[ponsaelius]

Was convinced these two games were going to be total non events as well. Shows what I know. What a lovely bit of sportswashing this tourney has become.

[joeyt]

Been ages since I've seen that Jonathan Pearce clip, great stuff

 

Forgot Cabaye and Debuchy were such regulars for the French team

[mikejaxer]

New Japan flag looks good 

 

[Interpolic]

5 minutes ago, mikejaxer said:

New Japan flag looks good 

 

 

class

[Interpolic]

What a half. Must be one of the most dramatic in World Cup history? Would have been even better if Costa Rica had somehow held on and sent Spain out. At HT it felt like the most routine boring outcome was inevitable. 

 

Japan are such mad fuckers like, beating Germany and Spain in the manner they did, yet losing to Costa Rica. 

[Wullie]

My brain couldn't handle the 5 minutes where they were both going out, I felt like knocking on next door just to say "have you seen what the fuck's going on?!"