Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands

[Jimothy]

I swear people only talk up the Dutch because they have decent history of doing OK at tournaments. This is poor, and the team, bar the odd player is average and unbalanced.

[Finnegan]

Christ this is shite 

[ithuriel]

De Jong was so wrong there ouch

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

Christ this is shite 

A pre-cursor for what's to come this evening

[Jimothy]

Potential blow for Forest that if Kouyate is badly injured.

[Samilktray]

This is the worst Holland kit I’ve ever seen and it takes a lot to make a Holland kit look bad 

 

the football is also not very enjoyable

[StanSP]

Crowd announced as 1700 above what the capacity is

 

[Super_horns]

Looks like being 0-0 with both teams beating Qatar and it coming down to the games v Ecuador.

[Finnegan]

11 minutes ago, StanSP said:

A pre-cursor for what's to come this evening

 

I doubt we'll be this exciting. 

[Vacamion]

 

So... the game I missed because of work had 8 goals and was full of incident.

 

This game.  Turds.

 

 

[Lambert09]

7 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Looks like being 0-0 with both teams beating Qatar and it coming down to the games v Ecuador.

Ecuador probably shouldn’t have taken their foot off of the gas.  a good chance it comes down to goal difference  

Edited 21 November 2022 by Lambert09

[Pliskin]

For all of the young talent that the Netherlands have access to, this is the tripe they’ve put together? 
 

England wouldn’t have any issues getting past either of these two teams. Both look well short. 

[ithuriel]

Well, it could always be worse,....somehow..

[ithuriel]

and a goal

[Sly]

1-0 Gakpo

[Super_horns]

Official attendance given as higher than the capacity of the stadium!

From the Guardian:

The stadium attendance is announced as 41,721, which is 1,721 over capacity. Meanwhile back in reality, it is nothing like full and hasn’t been at any point during the game.
 

EDIT: Dutch win the game ?

[StanSP]

Finally! Gakpo goal. 

Now just need it to be offside to send it back to a thrilling 0-0...

[Pliskin]

More chance of Mendy catching a cold. What a dreadful attempt to keep goal. 

[Vacamion]

 

Mendy 

[whoareyaaa]

Feed the Gak

[Lionator]

That’s actually a sensational header

[Pliskin]

Papy to thunder **** one in from 30 to get a point. 

[ithuriel]

That is one of the worst corners I've seen and at Leicester we specialised in poor set pieces at times

[Nalis]

How has our Mendy been so far?

[Sly]

1 minute ago, Pliskin said:

Papy to thunder **** one in from 30 to get a point. 

Can he kick a ball that far?