Vini’s dives are so reflexive at this point.
Might be the best match so far, and my 2nd-favorite behind the US win.
Apparently the VAR was incorrectly used in that instance.
It’s exciting to see my home stadium hosting a WC match. I have no idea who I’m pulling for, though.
I quickly discovered that I’m rooting for Haiti.
Scotland has the record for most appearances to not make the knockout round.
I’m pulling for them.
In what instance? If you mean overturning the yellow card for Ream, no, that was the new VAR rule being correctly used. It just hasn’t been communicated very well and even most of the referees on a referee forum I read were surprised by it. Some (sparse) communications from IFAB show it was intentionally meant for just this situation, though.
It’s also probably a step toward having all cards reviewed.
Currently almost 1.5 million Haitians are displaced from their homes, and the only other time they’ve been in the WC was 1974.
Scotland scores!
I approved but the BBC is questioning it - though they just cite “sources”.
Aw man, 1-0 is the worst score, I was thrilled to see the goal but now we’ve got something to lose I can barely stand to watch.
Not helped by Haiti being annoyingly quick n coming forward, but so far theyre breaking down before getting a shot away.
We should be worth another goal here, but we’re not quite on the money when it counts. Bad feeling we’ll.pay for it.
Haiti are getting better and we’re getting worse
Scots win 1-0.
I really had thought Brazil would run away with this group, that was a surprisingly bad outcome vs Morocco.
Brazil is seeded 6th internationally, but Morocco is seeded 7th. Maybe less surprising than one thinks.
Seeds (FIFA June rankings):
- Argentina
- Spain
- France
- England
- Portugal
- Brazil
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Germany
- Croatia
- Italy
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Senegal
- Uruguay
- United States
- Japan
- Switzerland
- Iran
- Chile
- Türkiye
- Serbia
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Nigeria
- Peru
- Czechia
- Egypt
- Canada
Brazil is 7 and Morocco is 22 in the ELO ratings, which are generally considered a better system. But even with that gap, it’s not shocking for Morocco to take points off Brazil.
Australia beating Turkey is a pretty nice result for the US. The US winning next week would likely win them the group, although it wouldn’t be a lock.
Today’s schedule, all times CT:
Germany vs Curacao, 12:00 pm, NRG Stadium, Houston
Netherlands vs Japan, 3:00 pm, AT&T Stadium, Arlington
Ivory Coast vs Ecuador, 6:00 pm, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia
Sweden vs Tunisia, 9:00 pm, Estadio BBVA, Guadalupe, Mexico
Netherlands/Japan is probably the best matchup today, IMO.
Did I miss an Austrian match? When was it if I missed it?
Austria has not played yet. Australia played last night. I think that kicked off at 5am BST.
No, you didn’t. Austria’s first match is on Wednesday, against Jordan.
ETA: to be precise, on Thursday, 9 PM local time in San Francisco. I looked it up on kicker.de, and it will be on Wednesday morning 6 AM, Central European time.
Not to interrupt the game discussions themselves, but is anyone else running into problems with sites like VividSeats? I bought 4 World Cup tickets and now I’m worried I won’t actually receive any of them and that the money will be gone and irrecoverable.
I bought single tickets to Match-76 and Match-90 each, and two tickets to Match-57. This was way back in February.
I was told, via email, to go into FIFA, create an account, and collect my Match-76 and Match-90 tickets (which already said “delivered” on VividSeats). I seem to remember doing so at the time, and seeing nothing appear in my FIFA account. The deadline was “receive your tickets by Feb-22.” The Match-57 tickets, also, have still not been given to me.
Well, now it’s way past Feb-22. Do I get the sellers to re-send? (there’s no contact info for them I could find.) Get FIFA website to re-do it? Anyone else with this issue?
This is a third-party reseller, yes? The issue you face is that notification for buying tickets came from FIFA quickly, but the actual live tickets don’t appear until a couple of days before the match (like, I can see that I have tickets for 6/29 in the FIFA app, but not the tickets themselves).
FIFA explicitly doesn’t support third-party transactions, and they won’t help you with this AFAIK…but one thing you might do is search the worldcuptickets subreddit, I have no doubt there are posts about it
Actually, I did the work, the answers in the thread are unclear…