World Cup Qatar 2022 - Desert Strike

[feltmonkey]

Dumfries deserves that goal. What a performance from him.

 

This guy Simons is class.

[Corrogate]

14 minutes ago, dug said:

That was jammy as fuck!

Second best goal of the tourney.

[Nick R]

That clip the BBC played, counting the number of passes in the build up to the Netherlands goal, reminded me of the Argentina one from 2006.

[feltmonkey]

The more you see that goal by Wright, the funnier it gets. It's a terrible touch as he falls over, and by all the laws of physics it should go away from the goal. How has it landed there?

 

It reminds me of Javier Hernandez's first goal for Man Utd. For those who understandably don't remember that, the ball was played across to Hernandez for a tap-in at the back post, but the Little Pea somehow miskicked it so badly that he tripped himself up and went flying. Fortunately for him, the ball spun off his boot, hit him right in the face, and deflected into the goal.

[Nick R]

5 minutes ago, feltmonkey said:

It reminds me of Javier Hernandez's first goal for Man Utd. For those who understandably don't remember that, the ball was played across to Hernandez for a tap-in at the back post, but the Little Pea somehow miskicked it so badly that he tripped himself up and went flying. Fortunately for him, the ball spun off his boot, hit him right in the face, and deflected into the goal.

 

I found a clip!

 

https://gfycat.com/deepwellinformedkomododragon-hernandez-javier

 

[Fierce Poodle]

Come on Australia, send these bozos home.

[Stoppy2000]

7 minutes ago, Fierce Poodle said:

Come on Australia, send these bozos home.

It's already annoying me how much the BBC are banging on about Messi. Give it a bloody rest. Also Danny Murphy - a man who made the BBC's announcement of the Queen's death look upbeat. 

[Thor]

First 15 mins are a bit duff. Aussies happy to sit back, Argies too fucking cautious. 

[Fierce Poodle]

How the hell does Murphy continue to get work? All the charisma of Michael Gove and the insight of a lobotomised chimp.

[Naysonymous]

4 minutes ago, Fierce Poodle said:

How the hell does Murphy continue to get work? All the charisma of Michael Gove and the insight of a lobotomised chimp.

 

[Fierce Poodle]

Argies looking distinctly average so far.

[dug]

Is Acuña Carlos Tevez's cousin or something? I swear he occasionally looks just like him.

[Fierce Poodle]

Cheating twats

[Naysonymous]

He’s still got it then. 

[ryodi]

23 minutes ago, Stoppy2000 said:

It's already annoying me how much the BBC are banging on about Messi. Give it a bloody rest. Also Danny Murphy - a man who made the BBC's announcement of the Queen's death look upbeat. 

Argentina are going to get wrecked when the face a good side. Messi benefiting from a soft decision was inevitable.

[Fierce Poodle]

Good finish but that came from pure Argie shithousery 

[Plissken]

Just now, Fierce Poodle said:

Good finish but that came from pure Argie shithousery 

Nah. It was a foul in the first place.

 

Argentina look like they are playing with the handbrake on and expecting Messi to sort it all out.

[Stoppy2000]

Danny Murphy has nothing to say but insists on saying an awful lot. Mainly just telling you what you've literally just seen. The man is stealing a living. 

[Fierce Poodle]

He sounds like a man whose wife has just left him, he’s been declared bankrupt and been told he has an awful progressive neurological disease and has months to live.

[englishbob]

If Australia could make it through and play England in the next phase we may well be looking at the cure for insomnia

[Stoppy2000]

Just now, englishbob said:

If Australia could make it through and play England in the next phase we may well be looking at the cure for insomnia

They already found the cure - it was the England v USA match.

[ryodi]

That’s the end of this as a contest. 

[Fierce Poodle]

Oh dear 

[Naysonymous]

When playing it out from the back goes wrong. 

[El Pibe]

Oh dear. Always felt like it was only a matter of time before that happened with all the knocking it back and forth at the back.

[Fierce Poodle]

Weirdest thing I’ve seen since Bouncer’s dream.

[feltmonkey]

Considering they are one of the favourites to win the whole tournament, Argentina are kind of rubbish.  They're also unwatchably dull.

[deerokus]

What's the goalie doing, Bruce?!

[Fierce Poodle]

Yaaaaaaaaaaassssssssss

[feltmonkey]

Hello!