Group F: Netherlands, Japan, Tunisia, Sweden

[PhillippaT]

I find my self rooting for Japan here, even if they aren't the underdog...

 

EDIT: That didn't take too long  1-0 Japan  Make that 2-0 Japan - good goal  

Edited 21 June by PhillippaT

[spacemunky]

Make that 2-0.

[Aus Fox]

This Japanese side look excellent, watched them a few times in qualifying and they’ve really gone up a notch or two here. Would not like to play them in a knock out game, they are going to go along way in this tournament I think.

[spacemunky]

So far, no new manager bounce for the Tunisians 

[PhillippaT]

36 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

So far, no new manager bounce for the Tunisians 

New manager bounce? What's one of those?  

 

EDIT: 3-0 Japan...

Edited 21 June by PhillippaT

[MC Prussian]

Tunisia are a disgrace to this tournament.

 

And Japan a steamroller.

[MC Prussian]

And it's 4-0.

 

Samurai walk in the Samurai park.

[PhillippaT]

13 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

Tunisia are a disgrace to this tournament.

 

And Japan a steamroller.

It turns out that there are probably only 16 or so good sides, and everything else is an addition?   In which case, adding more teams isn't going to affect quality much at all, because it's actually pretty bad anyway  

[MC Prussian]

3 minutes ago, PhillippaT said:

It turns out that there are probably only 16 or so good sides, and everything else is an addition?   In which case, adding more teams isn't going to affect quality much at all, because it's actually pretty bad anyway  

I want my plethora of 1-0 and 0-0 results back – and Roger Milla.

[Super_horns]

Tunisia didn’t strike me as the sort of team to lose 5-1 and 4-0 but they have.

Well played Japan though.

What will the Netherlands do to them ?!

[RowlattsFox]

Plenty of goals in this group 

[Corky]

Were Tunisia expected to be this awful?

[Raj]

Japan are beautiful  to watch.

 

[Aus Fox]

24 minutes ago, Corky said:

Were Tunisia expected to be this awful?

I wasn’t expecting Tunisia to get out of this group, but based on qualifying I did expect them to be tight at the back, and try and grind out results, they’ve been truely awful… perhaps the worst team at the World Cup so far..

[Lionator]

3 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

This Japanese side look excellent, watched them a few times in qualifying and they’ve really gone up a notch or two here. Would not like to play them in a knock out game, they are going to go along way in this tournament I think.

Completely outplayed us at Wembley too which is a very rare thing over the past decade or so 

[OntarioFox]

I honestly thought Japan might struggle a bit with Tunisia's physicality but they've blown them away there. Stick a tenner on them to win the lot while you have the chance - they're class.

[shen]

I hope Sweden don't get a lucky won against Japan. Not difficult to see who will be the more interesting watch in a potentially deep run.

[MC Prussian]

2 hours ago, shen said:

I hope Sweden don't get a lucky won against Japan. Not difficult to see who will be the more interesting watch in a potentially deep run.

The world-famous Danish-Swedish friendship:

[RowlattsFox]

Surely there's there is chance Sweden and Japan play out a draw which should be enough for both to go through? 

[StanSP]

2 hours ago, RowlattsFox said:

Surely there's there is chance Sweden and Japan play out a draw which should be enough for both to go through? 

Japan pretty much through, but I doubt Sweden would want to take that chance on only 3 points. 

 

What's the tiebreakers for the 3rd best teams? Discipline, goals scored or goal difference? 

[JonnyZeroFox]

2 hours ago, RowlattsFox said:

Surely there's there is chance Sweden and Japan play out a draw which should be enough for both to go through? 

This format does throw up such scenarios 

[MC Prussian]

Tunisia, one of the laughing stocks of this tournament. What a mess of a team.

[Super_horns]

Blimey.

Weren’t Tunisia meant to be quite competitive too ?

[PhillippaT]

Go Japan... 1-0

[Jordan]

Great team goal by Japan