World Cup 2026 After Hours Thread

Impressive how the Argentina team play to Messi's abilities at his age while still doing their own thing. He really is the best ever.

That said, I felt the referee let them get away with a lot of fouls.

Even though i don't watch the punditry RTE are doing a brilliant job as they seem to be constantly trending on twitter

People criticising Joanne Cantwell for being surprised that Duff thinks Messi is miles ahead of Mbappe without realising that they are indirectly showing how good she's doing her job as she's managed to get Irish tv civetage trending on twitter and is almost certainly just playing devil's advocate to kick-start a discussion

You won't see a worse goal conceded in this World Cup than that. There was another goal conceded from a kick out, but that beats it easily. F*** sake, Iraq, more specifically their keeper have handed Mbappe 2 handy goals.

He's not getting anywhere near those 2 the way he is currently, tbh he's lucky to even be starting as if Portugal hadn't such a wimpy manager he'd be on the bench. He's be so much more useful as an impact sub these days but he has too much of an ego to do it and Martinez is too cowardly to tell him that's what his job is now, 25 minutes at the end of games when everyone else is tiring would be perfect for Ronaldo now and he's be really good in that role aswell. Goncalo Ramos would make their team function far better if he was the striker who started games and it was Ronaldo who finished them.

Interesting.. since it's a mainly off hours contest for viewers Ireland generally.

I guess if it were Ireland playing they'd make provisions.
Anyway - switched to Brazilian TV as they were a bit more energetic.

Uzbekistan may have no chance in this match or tournament, but that was a hell of a strike. VAR, unfortunately are going to rob them of a wonder goal.

Ya, it's been ruled out. It's a pity.

I didn't know Cannavaro was the coach of Uzbekistan bejasus.