FIFA World Cup 2022

[Adam]

What a shame, Japan have been my favourite team to watch at the tournament.

Not a good set of penalties at all sadly.

[Cymbols]

Oof, rough shootout that. Some real stinkers in there. Fair play to the Croatia keeper though.

[JasonM]

6 minutes ago, Baddar said:

They were some very poor Japanese penalties. 

That, but also Livakovic clearly doing his homework and knowing what corner players are likely to pick.

For goalies it's all mindgames and homework, and during a clutch shootout most players will go to what they know will work, figure that out and you basically tip the scales in your favor because either you get a chance at it or it forces the player to adjust which increases the chance of them fucking up the kick.

[gunnar hendershow]

Croatia are such mentality monsters in these matches. Just no breaking after they drew level, almost as if they knew they'd be able to dictate the match and get it to penalties where they'd win.

Of course it made it a little less watchable but doubt Croatian fans mind one bit.

[Baddar]

That finish by Vinicius. Holy shit. Cool as you like.

[Cymbols]

This one might be over.

[Chris2K]

I missed the first 20 minutes, and now I'm not sure I want to watch the next 70.

[The Buscher]

This one is going about how I expected.

[Baddar]

Goal of the tournament for me.

[Chris2K]

Sensational. Although that celebration on the bench felt a little bit like they don't consider this a worthy contest.

[Bobfoc]

Brazil are too good.

[Chris2K]

Jesus Christ, it's the Brazil Globetrotters.

[entiel]

Too bad, no surprises in this one.

[Baddar]

I'd usually turn off/stop paying attention after such a walkover but this is really good to watch.

[gunnar hendershow]

One step closer to the Brazil vs Argentina semifinal.

[Szumi]

Alisson has made two great saves today, with that being a really great reaction save there on Son

[Colly]

GAME ON!

[Chris2K]

I'm glad South Korea got a goal, and hey, they're winning the second half.

[Szumi]

Alisson replaced for the 3rd string keeper.

That's a pretty cool move. Idc if people may think that's insulting to South Korea. Weverton gets to play in a World Cup match. I'm sure it means the world to him.

[Chris2K]

OK, taking off your goalkeeper may be nice for themselves, but it feels like it's disrespectful.

  

6 minutes ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

Alisson replaced for the 3rd string keeper.

That's a pretty cool move. Idc if people may think that's insulting to South Korea. Weverton gets to play in a World Cup match. I'm sure it means the world to him.

That's fine, but they had a meaningless group game to do stuff like this, this is a knockout round fixture.