2022 FIFA World Cup

[Big Turk]

I think it would be way more fun to decide games with actual soccer playing than shootouts.

 

Maybe alternate 1.5 minute 6 on 5s in the offensive half. Kinda like college football. Play is dead if the defense clears it over midfield or the offense takes a shot that results in a goal kick. Keeps going back and forth until one team scores and the other doesn't.

 

Would be far more fun to watch and a more fitting display of soccer deciding the outcome versus penalty shots.

32 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Argentina🇦🇷 looks to be choking?

 

Had a flurry of chances to win it at the end...if they lose on kicks, it will be embarrassing. First give up 2 goals late to tie, including a last minute one. Then can't close it out with multiple chances at the end.

Edited December 9, 2022 by Big Turk

[Big Turk]

What is with all the neck tattoos?? They look like unemployable thugs.

Disaster averted...but they tried to sieze defeat from the jaws of victory even in the kicks

Edited December 9, 2022 by Big Turk

[LewPort71]

Saturday

Morocco and Portugal  at 10:00 AM

England and France at 2:00 PM

 

Morocco wins 

England wins

 

are my predictions

Edited December 10, 2022 by LewPort71

[Bray Wyatt]

Argentina is lucky the dude that kicked the ball at the bench didn’t get his second yellow and ejected, would have changed the whole lot of extra time 

[LeGOATski]

11 hours ago, Big Turk said:

What is with all the neck tattoos?? They look like unemployable thugs.

Disaster averted...but they tried to sieze defeat from the jaws of victory even in the kicks

Huh? Tattoos are very common these days

7 hours ago, LewPort71 said:

Saturday

Morocco and Portugal  at 10:00 AM

England and France at 2:00 PM

 

Morocco wins 

England wins

 

are my predictions

Portugal ends Morocco's run for sure.

[LeGOATski]

England vs France is a toss up, but I'm going with France who have the edge in talent up front.

[Big Turk]

5 hours ago, LeGOATski said:

Huh? Tattoos are very common these days

Portugal ends Morocco's run for sure.

 

Yeah I know they are...I have a full sleeve myself. I am specifically talking about neck tattoos

[GoBills808]

Congratulations to Morocco

 

First African nation to make semifinals

[ExiledInIllinois]

9 hours ago, LeGOATski said:

Portugal ends Morocco's run for sure.

 

Edited December 10, 2022 by ExiledInIllinois

[Cygnus99]

Morocco is a very well disciplined well coached team. They have only allowed only one goal in 5 games. I think this team has the best defense and they say defenses win championships 

[Dr. Who]

One of the best quarterfinals I can recall for the World Cup. I was hoping for England, but France is a worthy team. Everyone left has a good story attached. You have to favor Argentina and France, but this is not a chalk tournament, so who really knows? So sad about Grant Wahl . . . 

[LeGOATski]

13 hours ago, LeGOATski said:

Huh? Tattoos are very common these days

Portugal ends Morocco's run for sure.

So much for that

 

Rooting for Croatia to go all the way

[Dr. Who]

Just now, LeGOATski said:

So much for that

 

Rooting for Croatia to go all the way

I like the checkerboards. I also have a Euro bias, so that works for me, but I can't say I dislike anyone who is left.

There's nothing wrong with Brazil, but the single name beautiful game thing annoys me. Irrational, but I can't help it.

[DrW]

This could be the first time that a final has the same teams as the previous World Cup, France vs. Croatia. However, while it saddens me, I think the underdog fairy tale is over, and the final will be Argentina vs France.

[4merper4mer]

Soccer fans be honest.  If FRANCE can get this far in what is supposed to be a top level event TWICE in a row, can it really be all that much of a sport?  I mean…….France?  Shirley 

[LeGOATski]

14 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

Soccer fans be honest.  If FRANCE can get this far in what is supposed to be a top level event TWICE in a row, can it really be all that much of a sport?  I mean…….France?  Shirley 

You can't be serious

 

 

[Repulsif]

15 hours ago, DrW said:

This could be the first time that a final has the same teams as the previous World Cup, France vs. Croatia. However, while it saddens me, I think the underdog fairy tale is over, and the final will be Argentina vs France.

 

It already happened before (if I remember it correctly) for World Cup final

Argentina - Germany '86

Germany - Argentina '90

Edited December 11, 2022 by Repulsif

[DrW]

39 minutes ago, Repulsif said:

 

It already happened before (if I remember it correctly) for World Cup final

Argentina - Germany '86

Germany - Argentina '90

 

Of course, you are right. I stand corrected.

[Royale with Cheese]

Riots in Qatar between French and Moroccan fans.  One 14 year old boy killed.

 

**Correction** Riots in France and other European cities.  The Moroccan's are looting, rioting, destroying and fighting anything French.  The Moroccans apparently have been trouble in every World Cup game.**

 

I just wonder if this country will be banned from competing in a World Cup going forward?

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by Royale with Cheese

[LeGOATski]

15 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said:

Riots in Qatar between French and Moroccan fans.  One 14 year old boy killed.

 

People are so dumb.