GENERAL World Cup Thread

? lol! 😂 It’s a national football team, representing their country.
Of course the national anthem has to be played at the start of every game.
Imagine only hearing the French national anthem at the first group stage game and not for the rest of the tournament!
Crazy suggestion!

France vs Germany in the last 16 is a big game happening relatively early

Never understood people complaining about commentators, like change the channel, turn off the audio if its really that bad and now we are talking about national anthems . That user must have a jam packed life if he cant sit through 2 notational anthems.

1986, 1990, and 1994 all had third place finishers getting into the next round, when they were reducing 24 to 16.

Recent Euros have been the same.

Yet people act like it's a completely new concept, thought up by FIFA and the yanks for this world cup.

I like the anthems at the start of the games, especially as we get into the knockouts. And it's an great feeling being at a tournament or away game and hearing your anthem being played.

Can definitely add another layer to the game, think back to how the Argentinian anthem was booed before they played Italy in 1990 and Maradona's reaction

Ecuador have one point on the board and play Germany next so how any model predicts them as qualifying is beyond me. I’m not saying people are misreading or misleading us on the bbc model, I’m just saying it’s not a good model.

Its not a model just a live table. Its handy visual tbh.

Looks to me like Scotland will go through even if Brazil spank them.

I never really got the idea that 3pts was the minimum. That was never said so was off course possible that 2 could be enough.

Considering there's already 3 groups where the third place has 3 points, I'd say it's unlikely 2 points will be enough.

Only 6/12 groups have played their second match.

3 points will be the minimum required imo. Goal difference will be key. I'm assuming it goes to GD after points and not H2H.

Theres only 4 teams eliminated. Group A and B could easily end up with their 3rd place team having 2 points if South Africa/Czechia draw their game while the other one looses (Group A), for group B if Bosnia/Qatar draw both of them have 2 pts so 3rd AND 4th will have 2 pts. In Group E if Ecuador draw with the already qualified Germany they'd have 2 points. Everyone in G and H only has a point so a second draw in those groups would have 3rd place finishing on 2pts. In Group K if Congo loose to Colombia and draw with Uzbekistan they'd be in 3rd with 2 points.

So its possible 6 3rd place teams could finish on 2 points. With only 4 to be eliminated that'd mean at least 2 teams with 2 points would make it.

I say at least because if Algeria vs. Jordan, Panama vs Croatia and Senegal vs Iraq all ended with draws while loosing their other matche you would then end up with 3 3rd (and 4th) place teams on a single point meaning 5 of the 6 2pt finishers would end up qualifying but since its likely that Algeria, Croatia and Senegal would win they'd have at least 3 points so go through on at least 3 pts if not as a second place team depending on other results.

That poster keeps trying to bate in regards to people's dislike of the US and they are not the only ones. Every day seems to be a post about how great this World Cup is and we even had another well known "America is the best at everything poster" claim 1000 dollar tickets are a good thing to keep out the "riff raff"

that Uruguay ‘wall’ let themselves down, they let their teammates down, they let their school down.,,

Is it not completely impossible? USA have won the group and will play a 3rd place team from a set of groups which doesn't include the Iran group?

L16 remains possible though if Iran win their group.