You mean the British Bulldog?

Not so much that. It just felt like they pretty much give up after the 1st goal.

the 1st goal?

i thought the 2nd one was the real kick in the huevos

they did keep trying, just lacked options & resources. very shallow bench on the attacking side.

consider for example that stuani wasn’t a young up-and-coming forward getting a chance to shine for the first time—he’s 31 already.

very hard to make it work that way.

Predictions?

I'm going 3-1 Brazil

this is such a complex matchup i don’t dare say

brazil i think has a better defense... but now they’re facing debruyne hazard and lukaku plus fellaini in the air

the commericals here are advertising a “neymar vs lukaku” picture for the simples ha ha ha

im more interested in what happens now with marcelo back and jesus y u no score?

plus potential for cards and cards

what would putin do? (pulling the strings from the kremlin). lol

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i wouldn’t put money on this result. but when i read your predicted score it looks like a good call. but i’m lost on this one.

I'm gonna say extra time Brazil winner.

Bearing in mind my history of betting it's gonna be 5-0 Belgium or something/ God I fucking hope not.

brazil + audience on extra national anthem look massively pumped up

kompany looked stoned during the anthem

cant understand why jesus keeps starting over firminho

have exact same question

omfg kompany!!

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and 3rd time brazil fumbles in front of the goal

DeBruyne's through ball for Fellaini! <3

... oh and a goal

man those belgian counters INSANE

IT WAS A JOKE! Fuck this better not happen.

Wow! 2-0!!!
Best chances have been for Brazil though

all of them wasted though

you don’t score against them—they score against you

back to the firmino question

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and again jesus misses

Is there a better player than DeBruyne left in this wc?

Whenever there's a goal scored, my neighbors start cheering three seconds earlier because I'm watching it on Belgian instead of Dutch TV. It sort of ruins the surprise effect

Every time Jesus misses something I guarantee millions of people around the world are saying "Firmino would have had that"

C'mon he's hardly been great this WC. And the answer is clearly Kane.

This thing on? Testing, testing

brazil is being choked to death by belgium now

they gotta come up with a different idea for the second half cuz this is clearly not working for them

Massively impressed with Belgium. Lukaku's contribution is immense, and seriously impressed with Fellaini, which I never thought I'd ever say. And DeBruyne was different class for me, that half regardless of how he was prior.

Surely Firminho has to come on for Jesus. If nothing else.

The speed of Belgium's breaks is just insane.

south american football today

belgium france is gonna be every possible fireworks

Fuck sake captain Neymar. Can't wait to see your exit tears but gimme at least a goal, ya twat

i can see this going to extra time

oh douglas costa in!!

Fuck me. That was a pen. Don't see how VAR couldn't have given that.

i don’t see why he didn’t look

he never looked

How the fuck does Chadli suddenly get to be this good?

Now then...

strange lack of response from martinez

Hold the front page

i did! afternoon edition!


does not seem like it will happen

but a much better second time for brazil

that’s what they get for believing in jesus :D

great second half though. a pity they wasted so many chances early on. but i am not sad to see this belgium going forward.

that was a good one.



"pretty soon a tee-pee had arisen out of Johnny's left earlobe / It spoke French, and half-Dutch / Perhaps the tee-pee was from Belgium / we don;t know."

holy shit slavo gambled on brazil and uruguay and lost hard this matchday

suddenly top of league all close

It does feel like a bit of a watershed WC for south american football.