Group G: Belgium, Egypt, Iran, New Zealand

[davieG]

Date	Match	Kick-off Time (BST)	Venue
Monday 15 June	Belgium vs Egypt	8:00 PM	Lumen Field
Tuesday 16 June	Iran vs New Zealand	2:00 AM	Los Angeles Stadium
Sunday 21 June	Belgium vs Iran	8:00 PM	Los Angeles Stadium
Monday 22 June	New Zealand vs Egypt	2:00 AM	BC Place
Saturday 27 June	Egypt vs Iran	4:00 AM	Lumen Field
Saturday 27 June	New Zealand vs Belgium	4:00 AM	BC Place

[suffolk fox]

That group is a joke.  Belgium could easily play their kids and stroll through that group.  New Zealand got tanked 7 0 by Haiti in a friendly the other day.

[filbertway]

1 hour ago, suffolk fox said:

That group is a joke.  Belgium could easily play their kids and stroll through that group.  New Zealand got tanked 7 0 by Haiti in a friendly the other day.

I expect Iran and Egypt will probably pose more of a challenge than you think. New Zealand are grim though I'll give you that

 

[Detroit Blues]

I am really curious to see how the whole Iran situation will play out at the world cup. Will they use everything going on politically as a source of unity in their team, to drive them to go on a run and give their country something positive, or will everything going on be a distraction that takes away from their ability to get out of the group.  

[Jaspa]

Youri Tielemans appears to be Captain of Belgium these days 

[Raj]

@davieG got Belgium v Egypt down for 2am but looks like it's on bbc at 8?

Edited 12 hours ago by Raj

[davieG]

26 minutes ago, Raj said:

@davieG got Belgium v Egypt down for 2am but looks like it's on bbc at 8?

[davieG]

Just now, davieG said:

27 minutes ago, Raj said:

@davieG got Belgium v Egypt down for 2am but looks like it's on bbc at 8?

@Mark got it from an Everton site 

 

anyway updated thanks

[Raj]

16 minutes ago, davieG said:

@Mark got it from an Everton site 

 

anyway updated thanks

🤮🤮🤮

 

Cheers DavieG top man

[21st Century Fox]

Ah! Another depressing reminder of how far we’ve fallen. We were very strongly linked with current Belgium striker Charles De Ketelaere before he went to Milan.

[fox_up_north]

Doku proving to be absolutely useless. Step over, step over, cut inside, weak pass that's intercepted.

 

Repeat.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

I see no Wout Faes. After checking hes not even in the WC squad. Maybe he's not as good as he thinks he is.

[Tommy Fresh]

Good finish

[OntarioFox]

[fox_up_north]

Christ that's a great goal

[21st Century Fox]

Oh another hydration break absolutely wrecking the momentum of the match!

[Ian Nacho]

Belgium always make weird managerial appointments. Very Leicester. 

[Ian Nacho]

9 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

Foot like a traction engine. 

[fox_up_north]

7 minutes ago, 21st Century Fox said:

Oh another hydration break absolutely wrecking the momentum of the match!

This is the first proper game I've watched live and they're so blatantly just there for more adverts. Absolute joke.

 

Even BBC ran an article trashing them.

 

Keep the yanks out of football 

[21st Century Fox]

8 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Belgium always make weird managerial appointments. Very Leicester. 

I was thinking the same thing. How much potential from their golden generation was wasted on Roberto Martinez and Rudi Garcia.

[purpleronnie]

14 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

This is the first proper game I've watched live and they're so blatantly just there for more adverts. Absolute joke.

 

Even BBC ran an article trashing them.

 

Keep the yanks out of football 

another decade and they'll be running it.

[Cropwellfox]

The only thing that would have made that goal better would be Faes flapping his arms around shouting at the rest of the defenders. Belgium missed a trick not picking him 

[OntarioFox]

16 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Foot like a traction engine. 

TWAT!!!

... oh wait, this isn't the Russell Martin thread

[ramboacdc]

Here was me thinking I was some sort of genius because I found if you turn iplayer on live but turn on audio description you get the match but with 5Live commentary and it switches back to the TV audio at half time, only to find out it's already an option without the faff.....

 

EDIT: I take this back. If you want the best of both worlds, put the normal feed on and turn on Audio Description. All normal and the studio stuff, switches to 5Live commentary when the matches on then back to the studio when needed instead of going to 5Live sport etc. 

 

Gamechanger for me. 

Edited 9 hours ago by ramboacdc

[bovril]

20 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

This is the first proper game I've watched live and they're so blatantly just there for more adverts. Absolute joke.

 

Even BBC ran an article trashing them.

 

Keep the yanks out of football 

Too late