I've just put £20 on Suarez for top goalscorer. He'll score 5 against these clowns.
I've just put £20 on Suarez for top goalscorer. He'll score 5 against these clowns.
I tell you what man the first game usually will always find a way to surprise in one way or the other.
What was the surprise?
Are you referring to the FIFA rankings? Biggest joke around.
Putin and the Crown Prince the definite highlight of that.
Fucking hell the Saudi 'keeper is bad, as is that monumentally slow centre-half. I suppose it shouldn't come as a great surprise, the Saudis have good form for World Cup roastings.
Light the Sami Al-Jaber distress beacon.
All I mean is that a lot of what I read had SA winning the match, not Russia winning it five to fuckin' zero. Saw quite a few articles bemoaning how bad the Russian team was this go around etc. etc.
Sorry for not being more clear.
I was reading something from Kanchelskis where he was saying it was the worst Russian team he's ever seen in his entire life so I bet my buddy $5 thinking I'd don the situation but alas.... Russian bastards played me like a fiddle. I must be related to my boy The Don.
The Russians must have had a better captain.
I predicted 3-0 Russia on the online predictor thing, got closer to the actual result than anyone I know so that's a plus
I got 3-0 too, thought I'd nailed it.
I got drawn in by the talk of how bad this Russia team is and predicted a draw.
Uruguay to hit 8 against the Saudis if they play like that again.
You forget how corrupt Russia (and the World Cup in general) is. If the Saudi's thrown that, I'll grin myself dead.
I went for 1-0 as I thought the Saudis would do the keeping it tight thing, but in fact they are some zombie horror team from the 90s.
Wanker. I hope Jimmy Page has that planning committee in his pocket.
They're definitely absolute tosh, but they're also capable of performing better than that. Their manager had success with Chile a few years ago and is trying to make them do the same play out from the back, mate stuff, which is clearly ludicrous. All of their back seven looked absurdly terrified whenever they had possession in their own half.
My manager (who I actually really like) insisted on getting the tv set up for the fucking ROYAL WEDDING but refused to put it on for the game because of some bullshit about how we can't have adverts on or some shit. I'll take her word for it, but if she refuses to let us put on the BBC games I'm handing in my notice. At least when I stacked shelves at Asda on the nightshift in 2014 I could listen on my headphones.
I would also say I watched a fair bit of Asian qualifying and it is TERRIBLE. I'm not sure any of their teams would qualify even from Africa. Maybe Iran.
UAE are probably better than Saudi, but less good at gaming qualifying.
Australia played out even games with Saudi Arabia home and away. France should really curb stomp them.
Our work doesn't have the games on in the office so I'm confined to 3 minutes of BBC website highlights. I mean, it's a timesaver but I'd rather get deep into this.
Just watch the full match replays when u get home and avoid any news before then
How did New Zealand manage to not qualify this time? Don't they just have to shit out a few 6-0 wins versus American Samoa every few years?
The time NZ got in, they lucked out and got Bahrain in the playoff.
Quite tempting to change all predictions for Saudi games to 6-0 etc now, but usually in World Cups that sort of logical reasoning never works out. So I wouldn't be surprised to see these fuckers somehow play a close game against Egypt or Uruguay.
Also, I do wonder how much Ramadan being still on played into this. Not that Saudis are any good anyway, but it seems a team like that is completely reliant on everybody running and fighting like shit to just try to keep it tight.
Egypt v Saudi (if Egypt need a result) will be the scrappiest ever 2-1 with two of the goals coming within a minute of each other, and three red cards in the last ten minutes.
For all this talk of Salah being fully fit, I can't see him having an impact so soon after this injury. Uruguay will grind out a win today.
I doubt he'll play. 0-0 Cuper special.
Yeah, just been announced he isn't starting.
Suarez to bite a man
I have three Egyptians in my fantasy squad, so 'mon Egypt.
Were all the Saudis actually fasting?
You can do it at another time to make up for it if you're travelling or I'm pretty sure you can just donate money to charity or something instead. Seems a bit mad to still do it when you're at the world cup given there are loopholes.
Any decent bets in this Egypt - Uruguay game?
I'm not seeing much value.
I didn't realise Salah was only 25. I thought he was more like 28/29. Liverpool really have got a serious player on their hands.
The stadium looks barely 50% full.
There's a lot of empty seats here.