fifa world cup 2026

[TBallz]

This France match feels like watching a cat bat a mouse around. Not much suspense there.
At least Potter is miserable

 

[Backdrop]

The scenes in Mexico last night were amazing. They celebrated hard. Great to see. There were fireworks going on in my neighborhood after the game.

Makes me even more nervous for tonight's game.

 

[buldog5151bass]

You did hear there were three deaths from the celebration (so says the Athletic).

 

[steamthief]

This France match feels like watching a cat bat a mouse around.

Their dribbling and passing in traffic is really fun to watch!

 

[Backdrop]

Great performance by the team. LFG!

 

[gln1955]

That red card after VAR was unfortunate and (in my totally unbiased view) uncalled for.

Belgium is going to be a tough game.

 

[2groggy]

It's all fun and games until a goalie chips a tooth on an opponent's athletic protector

Congrats to the US for advancing to the Round of 16.

 

[Krisfield]

Mexico vs England is going to be a good matchup. Mexico are on a winning streak, gonna be tuff for England.

 

[Lobster11]

It's all fun and games until a goalie chips a tooth on an opponent's athletic protector.

And then it's just fun.

 

[Polfuste]

Too bad for Senegal.. They really deserved to win.

 

[Backdrop]

If anything, I feel a bit more confident playing Belgium than I did before.

 

[TBallz]

The Belgium of the first 80 minutes, most definitely. If Belgium play like they did to close out the rest of that match, then it will be tough for the US. Belgium’s keeper and wings are considerably better than Bosnia’s.

 

[joeLowB]

The Belgium of the first 80 minutes, most definitely. If Belgium play like they did to close out the rest of that match, then it will be tough for the US. Belgium’s keeper and wings are considerably better than Bosnia’s.

And Lukaku is a wild card for Belgium. .

 

[dwm74]

Croatia had a couple of bad breaks in their loss to Portugal. I thought they heavily outplayed Ronaldo & Co but they had two goals nullified after being deemed offside, including one near the end of stoppage time. Tough loss.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Croatia had a couple of bad breaks in their loss to Portugal. I thought they heavily outplayed Ronaldo & Co but they had two goals nullified after being deemed offside, including one near the end of stoppage time. Tough loss.

It didn't need to be that tough for them, or their fans.

There were supposed to be 10 minutes of stoppage time, which by itself is pretty exceptional.

If the ref had stopped the match on time, or even stretched it out to 11 minutes, this would have all been avoided. But for some reason he let it overrun by an additional 4 minutes (17 in total), and the fact that the sequence of events, and the VAR angles were so inconclusive - the match was settled by a blip on a sensor inside the ball.

Sure, loosing 2-1 was going to be a disappointment, but this was an unnecessary torture that made a loss feel like a robbery, and left a bad taste in the mouth.

 

[Lobster11]

It didn't need to be that tough for them, or their fans.

There were supposed to be 10 minutes of stoppage time, which by itself is pretty exceptional.

If the ref had stopped the match on time, or even stretched it out to 11 minutes, this would have all been avoided. But for some reason he let it overrun by an additional 4 minutes (17 in total), and the fact that the sequence of events, and the VAR angles were so inconclusive - the match was settled by a blip on a sensor inside the ball.

Sure, loosing 2-1 was going to be a disappointment, but this was an unnecessary torture that made a loss feel like a robbery, and left a bad taste in the mouth.

I don't know whether the ref let the clock run too long or not, since I didn't see this match, but keep in mind that in this WC there is a minimum of 3 minutes of stoppage time added to every half because of the so-called "hydration breaks." (Grrrrrrr.... don't get me started on that.) Ordinarily 10 minutes of stoppage time would be considered "pretty exceptional," but not under this (ridiculous) rule.

 

[TBallz]

As a fan who already hates VAR, to see it now overruled to another level of detail by microchips is unsettling and not where I’d like the game to be going.

 

[skycruiser]

I don't know whether the ref let the clock run too long or not, since I didn't see this match, but keep in mind that in this WC there is a minimum of 3 minutes of stoppage time added to every half because of the so-called "hydration breaks." (Grrrrrrr.... don't get me started on that.) Ordinarily 10 minutes of stoppage time would be considered "pretty exceptional," but not under this (ridiculous) rule.

10 minutes showed as added time. That's fine, I'm sure that was based on actual stoppage. But the late score was in the 13th minute of stoppage time. My guess is a couple minutes we're added due to Portugal score celebration during stoppage time. But it probably could have stopped at the 12 minute mark.

 

[gln1955]

As a fan who already hates VAR, to see it now overruled to another level of detail by microchips is unsettling and not where I’d like the game to be going.

VAR review of scoring is a good idea to correct any obvious reffing mistakes, but it should only be done at full speed as a ref would normally see the play. Also the toenail offside calls pssible through the video tech runs counter to the spirit of the rule, IMO.

 

[Lobster11]

VAR review of scoring is a good idea to correct any obvious reffing mistakes, but it should only be done at full speed as a ref would normally see the play. Also the toenail offside calls pssible through the video tech runs counter to the spirit of the rule, IMO.

I'm not sure if I agree that the VAR officials should be required to only watch replays at full speed, but I certainly agree that if they only reverse a call after watching the replay five times in super-slow motion they are not merely correcting "obvious errors" as per the spirit of the rules.