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Croatia against all odds.
Amazing from them

Croatia pushing Brazil to the limit.
You love to see it.

If only Croatia had a talented striker.
Their forwards are a mishmash of makeshift something.

Petkovic has been generally awful.

Oh my goodness Neymar did everything in that play.

Remind me, is Alisson the one who is bad at penalties?

If it comes to it, don't they have better options.
I've lost track of remaining subs

While I think Brazil should go through they lost that aura of invincibility.

Whoever they get between Argentina or Holland I'd favour them but not massively.

We've now entered Croatia time.

These guys are such mentality monsters.
Always surprised Serbia cannot replicate any of that.

Is there a reason Brazil has so many forwards going Romania 98 tribute mode?

Thought that was a penalty for Brazil but glad not given.

As a defender, Gvardiol's so elegant at it, for his age I can see why every team's offering so much to try and get him.
I could see City landing him and pairing him with Laporte which would feel so unfair.

Can't see how Croatia aren't the good guys.
Some fantastic tackles and less theatrics.

Keighley must be furious since that's going to be a big online talking point that overshadows many of his event's moments.

We all have our SteamIDs memorised

I forgot Vicky 3 had come out.

How is it Paradox grand strategy guys?

All of the Deck winners are now just a string of numbers.

Best Adaptation when?
I just wanna see who wins between Edgerunners and Arcane.

This is going long.

Are all acceptance speeches going to be this long?

Best Performance just reminds me that Japan's voice actors aren't good enough, shame.

At least Worlds won best esports event, Evo was disappointing.

Geoff keeping the good stuff for the actual show.

Oh crap I forgot I ordered the whole set of myth plushies.

Didn't realise the Nousagi would be so big.

More merch has started shipping!

Has GMUN been able to cope with the lack of Ina?

Juninho was secretly the guy that Brazil team should have relied on more.

Normally you bring the older washed up vet as a cheerleader of some sorts.

But this cup has seen so many legends still contribute valuable minutes.
Modric's run of greatest has absolutely gone under the radar in this tournament.

Sure why not.

This whole tournament has secretly been Dani Alves and Pepe's last dance.
They keep doing shit they shouldn't be capable of anymore.

We heading to an all Portuguese speaking final featuring a bunch of people from the El Classico wars.

Tbh I dislike Figo more than Ronaldo.

But Portugal for a country of only 10m, can argue they punch above their weight in football.
There's a few villains left in the tournament, makes things more exciting when you raise the stakes.

So many matches will feel like a final.
It's a stacked tournament.

Argentina vs Brazil if it happens will be a blockbuster. But so would England vs Portugal or Holland vs Brazil.

Guess Spain has to move on from Enrique.

Incredible from Morocco!!

But can they beat England or France?

Oh I'd take Ziyech over Walcott.
He's not been great for Chelsea, but there have been flashes of what he did with Ajax.

Great will get on a future sale.
Already buying too many Square games as is.

Hakimi and Mazraoui.

Wonder if those 2 fullbacks are better than what England is rolling out this tournament.

Young players are gonna bring a lot of volatility to their performances.
We saw the same thing with Bellingham for England who had soem great showings, but then also the USA game made people questioned the price tag.
Spain in 2026 if injuries don't destroy them could be looking like favourites, Pedri/Rodri/Gavi should be their midfield with Fati hopefully kicking on as well.

If Spain and Portugal do complete the QFs.

Then any team that wins the WC cannot claim much of a lucky draw as you'd have to beat 3 quality opponents to lift the trophy.
I guess you can say Holland and Croatia have the weakest starting XIs remaining bu they both still have tremendous amounts of talent in those lineups.

If Southgate managed the Serie A sides Capello had he wins more champions league titles.

The 05-06 team should have beaten Arsenal and Southgate would have setup better vs Rikjaard.

They had Ronaldinho and Eto'o, but no Busquet, Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Pique.

Juventus was match fixing in Serie A, but with those players he still wins that final.

It's possible that the semi-finals break down into

Neymar vs Messi
Mbappe vs Ronaldo

Arguably the 4 most marketable players on the planet and if France lose to England, then you still have Kane who is p much the face of the Premier League.

If Spain and Portugal win, then it really is just the modern high level performers.

Added bonus that one of the major nations knocked out was the one Qatar would have most wanted to see out of the tournament.

Neymar has by all accounts been PSG's best player this year, which is why there was so much Mbappe drama before the World Cup.
That club's a circus, but the trio has at least performed when on the pitch at this World Cup.

Which I guess is kinda good for Qatar given that they're all part of PSG.

Everything's broken right for Qatar this World Cup so far, seems like the sportswashing is gonna work because for most we're just going to remember this being a fantastic World Cup with loads of memorable upsets, but the big teams in the quarters.

At the Euros I wanted Chelsea to spend 80m for Rice and turns out it wasn't enough even though he'd be worth it.

At his age 140m for Bellingham seems like a reasonable deal.
Just hope he doesn't leave for City.

The lad has impressed me more than Gavi or Pedri, just like how Foden looks better than Fati so far.

Oh dear now we know why Sterling was out.
Never wish for that on anyone.

The Southgate era has really been incredible.

This is just too easy.

England haven't had a game where they needed to kick into high gear

There you go!

I think England are more talented than Spain even.

At some point you gotta trust Bellingham and Rice both valued over 100m and Foden/Kane/Saka is a trio none of their clubs fans would want to see leave.

The main problem is him not being available further reduces available options to Southgate.

It seems ok as England have depth but we've seen in this World Cup how fresh high energy runners can have an impact coming off the bench.

Mbappe having 9 world cup goals at his age it kinda mind boggling.

England so far this tournament have looked better than France I reckon.

Oh my goodness.
Mbappe is incredible.