Footsy World Championships 2018

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the Swedes finally get fouled in the right place and score on a penalty kick. A goal's a goal, but this doesn't bestow any more confidence in this Swedish team.

These guys need something to get all pumped up for the game... gosh, if only there were some Swedish bands that made energetic, catchy pop tunes?

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And then a Swedish guy manages to fall over all on his own, while everyone else is standing around. Wow. The Gods of Football should punish that team.

[Jack the Stripper]

The diving/flopping and feigning of injury/time wasting has always held me back from truly loving the sport. The refs should be dishing out yellow cards but they mostly always choose to ignore it which only exacerbates the problem. Deadset sissy sport.

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And it's official: Sweden wins a 1-0 draw with South Korea.

And, yes, I do mean it was a 1-0 draw. If it wasn't for that penalty kick, all we'd have in this game is tripping, stomping, and the occasional falling-over completely without context.

[Charger]

Korea was quite unarmed against Sweden like I expected...

My bet was 2-0 for Sweden though so no money...

But yes this was probably the most foul ridden match so far....lots of little fouls and trips and whatnots.

[Zzzptm]

So far, Belgium-Panama is a lively match. Belgium keeps trying to get Panama to crack, but the lads from the isthmus are holding on pretty well. I don't think Belgium walks away with this, but I do expect them to eventually break through.

[Charger]

Damn...what has happened to Belgium?? This isn't the team we saw 2 years ago at the Euro Championships. Very bland playing and slow even at times...Naturally Panama had that bus parked there pretty tightly but still...I expected so much more.

Again though a lot of foul whistles which slowed things down and that was obviously bad for Belgium.

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Wow, that last Belgian goal just came out of nowhere! Now that's what I call a convincing move. Looks like they woke up. Well played, Belgium!

[Charger]

Good rebound from Belgium...now during the second half we saw the team we should have seen from the start.


And now if just England could do it's job and not mess up that'd be nice.

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It's 1-0, England favour, and the Tunisian goalie went down...

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^ I think the goalie was nursing an injury before the game and has strained it again.

England looking good at the moment.

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... until that guy elbowed the Tunisian in the goal box... penalty kick makes it 1-1.

[Charger]

Very nice and peppy first half from England...

And the first really wrong Penalty kick verdict that I've seen so far...I do not understand why VAR did not step in...definitely a wrong call. The Tunisian guy ran straight into Walker's arm..there was nothing there....

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England gets one in extra minutes, they kept wearing down on Tunisia, looks like they've got it.

[Charger]

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