Lionator

Emma Hayes is evidently a great coach and I’m sure would be a success in the right environment (not ours). As for Whelan, she was part of the success and infrastructure Pearson built, maybe she’ll regret no quitting earlier but ultimately she was never the issue. I guess captain driving the titanic comes to mind.

This will age like milk but the refereeing at this tournament has been mainly excellent so far. It’s consistent, VAR use has mainly been good, I can only recall one bad decision (Ecuador not getting a penalty for being kicked in the head).

People (including myself) are going very all or nothing with the Mexico thing. It’s either: they’re unbeatable at the Azteca we might as well give up now, or they’ve got no world class players and their record is only good because they play St. Lucia there. Truth is probably in the middle though gotta say they look like a motivated country. Wish the whole tournament was there.

All it needs is one team to successfully park the bus. Obviously Paraguay won’t be good enough to do that, but Morocco easily could. Then a Spain/Portugal in the semi definitely could take them all the way, then it’s a true lottery. They look by far the most convincing team but it’s such a long tournament that you really can’t call it yet.

Such is this tournament, I didn’t realise DR Congo held Portugal, should’ve beaten Colombia then obviously hammered Uzbekistan. Got some tricky players on paper. Can’t wait to get knocked out by Wan-Bissaka

8 goals scored. Zero conceded for Mexico now after 4 games. They obviously have some limitations but they’ve seen off 4 competent teams without much bother, big test if we get past DR Congo today.

When it comes to games like that, they’re trying to keep it level, steal a lucky goal or take it to penalties, but obviously France are too good for Sweden.

This has been superb, Mbappe is an animal at world cups, he’s gonna end his career as the leading World Cup goal scorer by quite some distance.

They could as they have a much easier route to the final so could be in better shape. If they played today France would win

Pissing it here, 3rd gear and steam rolling a semi decent European side.

If they tighten up defensively then nobody is getting near France realistically. Unless you can luck it out to penalties.

Magdalena Bay are AMAZING, possibly making the best pop music in the world right now. Their last album is genuinely incredible.

The mars melt

The anxiety in Haaland’s eyes then when he mis kicked it 😂😂

What a goal