Chris2K

I have to admire the French having pinstripes on their shorts as well as the shirts.

I'm not liking Austria's chances of getting through this match with 11 men.

This surely has to be offside.

Doku may have switched flanks, but he still isn't producing an end product after running one half of a pitch with the ball. And de Bruyne has been invisible.

Oh Belgium, never change.

I was about to say how both teams seemed very good at getting the ball downfield, and terrible at creating chances.

So I guess Ukraine helping Romania with that, followed by an unstoppable shot, was the only option.

Oof. That's not going to be something he forgets in a hurry.

And allowing DeChambeau of all people to win it is most annoying. 

Why has it only just dawned on me how much Jordan Pickford looks like Ilya Dragunov.

I have to think Serbia are working so hard they will tire soon, and I think their best chances to score have been and gone.

Pfft, scoring first is so passé.

"Does it come off the defender?" Come on Ally, as fun as you are, did you think it changed direction by 90 degrees by itself?

Hell of a hit though, as was Sesko's moments earlier. Slovenia definitely deserve to be level.

It's fair to say if there's one person I wanted to score, it would be Christian Eriksen.

Superb flick to him to set it up.

That game was relentlessly entertaining, and Weghorst doing Weghorst things feels like the best way for it to end.

The FIA have amended the regulations regarding age limits, to state that 17 year olds can race if they "consistently demonstrated outstanding ability and maturity in single-seater formula car competition.". This means two things:

1. Logan Sargent is going to walk into the Williams garage very soon and find Kimi Antonelli sitting in his car.

2. The wording of "formula car" makes it very obvious that they still don't want to give Indycar drivers a path into the sport. The superlicence points for racing in Indycar are already less than for driving in F3.

Never in doubt. 

Time to aim for that best third place finish!

It sure would have been nice to have a third by now.

Having a striker in this Italian side seems to be purely because we need to field 11 players as part of the competition regulations.

Boom. Thank you Nicky B.

It would be easy to say that wouldn't happen with Bonucci, Chiellini or Acerbi in defence.

So I will.

Yay! We're back on even terms against the team ranked 66th in the world.

I'll enjoy this last moment of us being the reigning champions, and say Forza Italia like I did before every game in 2021, but I fear that this tournament is going to be a disaster, and that tonight may be a very painful start to it.

11 minutes ago, Chris2K said:

I'll enjoy this last moment of us being the reigning champions, and say Forza Italia like I did before every game in 2021, but I fear that this tournament is going to be a disaster, and that tonight may be a very painful start to it.

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I can't help but point out that the tournament has ended up being scheduled for the rainy season in the Caribbean, but only because it was pushed back by a month so that this ICC World Cup tournament didn't disrupt the IPL.

Meanwhile it looks like England are facing an early exit, as it's hosing it down in Antigua and anything that isn't a win means that Scotland go through ahead of them.

That second goal was very lovely.

Really happy for Embolo, I had no idea how much his career had been crushed by injury in recent years.

I walked in the door to see Hungary score. Sorry everyone.

I see Sane still hasn't found out how to put an end product to his running.

In the absence of a competitive game I'd be happy to hear Ally McCoist go back to answering trivia questions about goal scorers from previous international matches.

Souness is such a turd. In the space of thirty seconds he went from saying he had no idea what Steve Clarke should do, to loudly critcising the substitution he made. 

The footage directing is pretty atrocious, how do you miss a red card being given? Not as atrocious as Scotland's current situation though.

Let's remember this moment of the tournament where VAR was 100% helpful to getting the correct decision.