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The only indirect free kicks in the box I have ever seen is for keepers grabing with the hands intentional passes from a teammate. Those are pretty funny :p

We'll note that a majority of the fine people in the VAR room thought a penalty should have been given for the semi-missed header that bounced on the defender's arm... luckily the ref' on the pitch said nope.

In a soccer match, if both teams are happy with a 0-0, the end result is pretty likely to be 0-0....

I'll keep an eye out for this, because it's not the feeling I had.

The problem with the dubious VAR calls is that, before it, the ref' always had plausible deniability / benefit of the doubt. You could always wonder if maybe from his view point / at normal speed / with sound / with natural stereoscopic vision the potential foul looked worse / better than how it...

The problem with the VAR is that while it corrects some things that would have been unfair, it also creates additional judgement calls that also can be unfair. This Iran vs Portugal match will be a point of reference as to why that stuff will be gone or severely changed. You had everything in...

Just hope the swedes and mexicans have the brilliant idea to remove their jersey in their goal celebrations!

So... Group A: Russia vs Uruguay for the 1 and 2 spots. Egypt and Saudi Arabia out. Group B: Spain, Portugal and Iran fighting for 2 spots, Morocco out. Group C: France is through (#1 if they win or draw), Denmark and Australia indirectly fighting for the other spot, Peru is out. Group D...

It will be interesting to see Belgium and England when they will face teams that are able to somewhat defend. Obviously that will not happen when they will face each other... on top of that, it will be a match with limited stakes (group H being homogeneous), unless the big teams in the previous...

To add a little pressure on the german team: there is not a single 0-0 in this World Cup so far!

I was just teasing you :p And to be fair I was about to write that SK is a good team that just can't score... and they scored!

Q the anti prophet strikes again!

To add to my above post, I checked the 23 players of Senegal: 8 are born in France, 1 in Spain, not a single one plays in Senegal (and only one of the keepers plays in Africa).

To paraphrase an analyst that talked about that recently, there are three eras in african football. There is an era when the players played in their national championship with some great players going to european clubs after being noticed in international competitions. This gave us teams that...

When two teams that can't defend face each other, it's entertaining. How unlucky can Tunisa get with their injuries though? They lost their keeper against England and now two defenders in a half!

A dumb thing to do, but for these guys whose life has been heavily influenced by the balkanic clusterfuck (both Xhaka and Shaqiri are from the albanian minority in Kosovo and their family fled the war to Switzerland in the '90s), it's probably a bit difficult to forget about it when they play...

My understanding is that the referee cannot call for the video, it goes the other way around. There are several refs behind monitors looking at the match (how many exactly I am not sure as I have heard conflicting reports). When there is a call that seems kinda fishy to them or might have been...

Pretty cruel ending for the serbian team, but amazing counter attack by the swiss team.

To be fair, the Costa Rican who stayed unconscious on the ground because Marcello touched his forehead was also pretty scummy. Karmic justice though: if they tried to play instead of trying to run the clock down, they might have been able to defend the 0-0 and certainly would not have faced 6...

I only saw the Portugal match today and had not seen their epic 3-3 against Spain. I was shocked at the number of bad passes they produced when attempting to attack. They seemingly always passed in the feet of people expecting the ball in the space which, obviously, resulted time and time again...

I don't know if it exactly applies to Lewandowski, but there is a type of player that are called in french "renards des surfaces" so roughly... boxes foxes? Basically they are players that are good at exactly one thing: through a mix of eagle eye, insight, ruse and explosive first steps, they...

Good luck trying to predict what will happen in this group! As for Columbia being as good as Japan while one man down, let's not be silly, it's just that all plans made by both teams got out the window 3 minutes in. Japan suddenly was unsure if it needed to play or preserve the win, chose to...

For reference, Switzerland played Panama in a friendly match back in march and they won 6-0. I dont want to rain on Belgium's parade, but I suspect both England and Tunisia will look good when playing Panama.

Will we use the "It's an RPG so it's the game of the month for two months" pseudo-rule? Because I have yet to start :( (Yakuza 5 takes time!)

There are shared responsibilities in that 1-1. Brazil is to blame, because after they scored the goal, they stopped to press high and allowed Switzerland to stay afloat. Also, once a wrench was thrown into their well oiled machine, they suddenly got nervous during 30 mins, only finding some...

There is enough talent on the pitch for it to be possible, but I doubt it.

Just one match got played in group F so it's a bit early to say, but if it gets likely that Germany ends up N°2 in its group (as, with this win, Mexico could very well ends up first), that might have some impact on group E. I am not sure Brazil would be super happy to win in its group for the...

Seeing how Germany was absolutely unable to deal with the speed of the mexican team, they might also have a tough time against South Korea (as, usually, they play at break neck speed).

Honestly, France is extremely lucky to have won today and extremely lucky to be in such a 'weak' group. They might very well go through even if they play another two matches as poor as this one and, possibly maybe, that will give them enough time to find how they are supposed to play. Because...

With Iran winning and Spain vs Portugal ending in a draw, there is potential for some serious drama/comedy in that group. Slim potential, but still potential.

@Biggby I think you missed a negative in the thread's title. To contribute: french romanticism masterpiece (also: a short read!) Sylvie by Nerval.

I suspect handheld consoles are over. The main market was kids and now kids have smartphones. Microsoft never touched this market and will not start now, Nintendo released several revisions of the 3DS, but the latest models (New 3DS standard and XL) have been discontinued almost a year ago...

There is a bit of revisionist history going on in that video about Bulgaria beating Germany. Bulgaria was a no joke team at the time. They had an offensive line with Emil Kostadinov (very successful at Porto) and Hristo Stoichkov (runner up for FIFA player of the year in 1992 and a pillar of the...

It should be mentioned that for decades and until not so long ago, Spain was a shitty team of great players. The Barca players could not be arsed to pass the ball to Real players who themselves would rather die on the spot than deliver a cross to an Atletico player... fun times. And even in this...

I saw Etat de siège (State of Siege) the other day. A french political thriller made in 1972 by Costa-Gavras. Apparently this film was for the longest time pretty difficult to see in the US (now available at least in the Criterion collection), possibly because it is not so loosely based on the...

South Korea got pretty unlucky in the draw and Japan was not a lot luckier... that being said, I would be surprised if Serbia or Costa Rica go out of the group instead of Switzerland.

Also, no Super Mario Maker 2.

PS4 can crossplay with PC. I see it all the time. The PS4 player needs to be invited with a PC playing friend or something though.

A drastic change from what? It's a new IP. These guys don't have to do Souls like game for all eternity.

Saying it does not make it true though. She could be lying or she simply could be wrong.