World Cup 2018 - THE COMBINED AFRICA TEAM WINS

[CWCissey]

That day when I got home from work and saw Germany were winning 5-0 I honestly thought it was a typo for a minute or two.

Didn't they then go on to whip the Saudis 8-0 the match after, including 3 goals in a minute?

 

[cypocryphy]

8-0 vs Saudi Arabia was 2002. So Brazil were one goal away from conceding as much as Saudi Arabia did lol

 

[Lipitor]

NewFeg questions..

So it's 3 points for a win, 1 for a tie?
How do these groups work? Is it whoever wins their group progresses to a new one, where points are reset? or do points carry over?

 

[CWCissey]

NewFeg questions..

So it's 3 points for a win, 1 for a tie?
How do these groups work? Is it whoever wins their group progresses to a new one, where points are reset? or do points carry over?

Yep, 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw. The top two teams in each group go through to the knockout stages (Winners of groups will play the runners up of another group)

Once the group stages are done, it's win or get the fuck out.

 

[Guardian G.I.]

NewFeg questions..

So it's 3 points for a win, 1 for a tie?
How do these groups work? Is it whoever wins their group progresses to a new one, where points are reset? or do points carry over?

Adding to what CWCissey said, Europe's yearly international club competitions like UEFA Champions League are similar to this, except everyone in group and knockout stages plays two games instead of one.
National club leagues are basically a giant group stage with a shitload of teams that play against each other during the whole season.

EDIT: UEFA Champions League is the European highest-tier club championship, UEFA Europa League is the lowest one (there are only two of those). Winners of each one play a single special match called the UEFA Supercup.
Clubs get to participate in each based on their results in national top-level leagues. There's a quota for each nation based on their league's ranking in UEFA. Some teams need to play additional qualification matches to get into group stages but I don't know much about those.
Other parts of the world have their own club championships like South America's Copa Libertadores but I don't know much about them either.
National teams play a set of matches to qualify for group stages of international competitions.

 

[Lipitor]

Yep, 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw. The top two teams in each group go through to the knockout stages (Winners of groups will play the runners up of another group)

Once the group stages are done, it's win or get the fuck out.

Adding to what CWCissey said, Europe's yearly international club competitions like UEFA Champions League are similar to this, except everyone in group and knockout stages plays two games instead of one.
National club leagues are basically a giant group stage with a shitload of teams that play against each other during the whole season.

EDIT: UEFA Champions League is the European highest-tier club championship, UEFA Europa League is the lowest one (there are only two of those). Winners of each one play a single special match called the UEFA Supercup.
Clubs get to participate in each based on their results in national top-level leagues. There's a quota for each nation based on their league's ranking in UEFA. Some teams need to play additional qualification matches to get into group stages but I don't know much about those.
Other parts of the world have their own club championships like South America's Copa Libertadores but I don't know much about them either.
National teams play a set of matches to qualify for group stages of international competitions.

Thx guys

One more question.. How do they decide which winners go up with which runners up? I assume its the winners with the best records vs runners up with worst records, and so on until they meet near the middle. Probably initially determined by group win record and then by more ancillary stats like total goals scored, goal differential? Or is it randomized?

 

[CWCissey]

Thx guys

One more question.. How do they decide which winners go up with which runners up? I assume its the winners with the best records vs runners up with worst records, and so on until they meet near the middle. Probably initially determined by group win record and then by more ancillary stats like total goals scored, goal differential? Or is it randomized?

Nah it's A vs B, C vs D, E vs F and G vs H.

It does the funnel thing from there.

 

[Lipitor]

is Olympic soccer only for amateur players or is it the same guys as in the WC?

 

[ure_mum]

is Olympic soccer only for amateur players or is it the same guys as in the WC?

It has to be Under-23 players but they can have a maximum of three players who are older. So last Olympic Games, Brazil still had Neymar in the team even though he was older. The age is the main factor, but you can still have some WC people in the squad.

 

[Lipitor]

It has to be Under-23 players but they can have a maximum of three players who are older. So last Olympic Games, Brazil still had Neymar in the team even though he was older. The age is the main factor, but you can still have some WC people in the squad.

That's a weird rule.... It's like they intentionally nerf their competition level so that World Cup will be more popular.

 

[ure_mum]

That's a weird rule.... It's like they intentionally nerf their competition level so that World Cup will be more popular.

With the Euros (among others) taking place in the same year as the Summer Olympics, the countries that make it into the latter probably don't care enough to send their best players, who will still be tired from coming off a bigger competition (as far as football goes). Plus, it's a good way to gauge how the youth are doing on a bigger stage that people might actually watch (ofc the U-21s etc etc have their cups, but no one really gives a shit). There are a lot of factors to consider, a nerf can certainly be one of them (I'm not sure how the IOC and FIFA get along) as can lack of publicity since you're competing for viewers with 41 other events.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

The only TRUE AND HONEST England team song. Three Lions can go choke on a bag of cheese-encrusted dicks.

"Piss your bags it were a bastard corner
Chuck this pastie at the referee.
Fuck off home it were a crap performance
And we should have had a penalty!"

 

[CWCissey]

The only TRUE AND HONEST England team song. Three Lions can go choke on a bag of cheese-encrusted dicks.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hjpohttEPdk
"Piss your bags it were a bastard corner
Chuck this pastie at the referee.
Fuck off home it were a crap performance
And we should have had a penalty!"

BUY US TEN PINTS AND WE DON'T CARE!

 

[ure_mum]

Well, those were predictable results. Tomorrow:
Denmark-Australia
France-Peru
Argentina-Croatia

Probably a win for Denmark in the first game. But I still hope the Aussies can give a good performance and/or upset. Second game should be easy enough for France, don't see Peru really suprising them. Last game can go either way really, Argentina has been fairly woeful and Croatia seems to have their shit together a lot more. We'll have to see if Messi can get out of his funk, but it's looking pretty doubtful.

 

[Shokew]

Spain 1 - 0 Iran
Portugal 1 - 0 Morocco
Uruguay 1 - 0 Saudi Arabia

Truly a day of the Spaniard - and one Portugese guy who carried everyone on his team named Ronaldo.

None of these matches we're anything spectacular and it would have been better if all these Kebabs got beaten harder than just 1 goal.

Either way, good riddance to all these fucking Kebabs - I'm just sorry I can't add a certain song here to celebrate the occasion. Other than that, now the real World Cup 2018 begins in earnest.

 

[soy_king]

Well, those were predictable results. Tomorrow:
Denmark-Australia
France-Peru
Argentina-Croatia

Probably a win for Denmark in the first game. But I still hope the Aussies can give a good performance and/or upset. Second game should be easy enough for France, don't see Peru really suprising them. Last game can go either way really, Argentina has been fairly woeful and Croatia seems to have their shit together a lot more. We'll have to see if Messi can get out of his funk, but it's looking pretty doubtful.

Messi thrives when there's plenty of space for him to maneuver, and from what I saw of Croatia they left a lot of open spaces when playing Nigeria.

 

[MidUSA]

Is it just me or does curent year Maradona look like a bulldyke lesbian or a female-to-male transvestite?

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Is it just me or does curent year Maradona look like a bulldyke lesbian or a female-to-male transvestite?

He always was a chubby manlet.

Seriously, Maradona should have a thread on this place. He was capable of scoring the best goal of the tournament in his playing days, but cheated anyhow. Why? Because we had gone and grabbed their Malvinas four years previous.

(Incidentally, Argies are still salty over the Falkland Islands. They are so salty over it, even, that they assumed that during the filming of a Top Gear special in 2014 that the registration number of Jeremy Clarkson's car, H982 FKL, was a deliberate reference to it and attempted to lynch him.)

 

[MidUSA]

He always was a chubby manlet.

He was indeed. And was a lot fatter too a while ago (when he went to Cuba to chum around with Castro). But I haven't seen him look like a troon before.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Croatia are beating Argentina 1-0 after the Argie goalie completely fucked up. The Argies seem to have no real teamwork behind them are are relying on Messi to carry them. This is not how football is played effectively.

EDIT: 3-0 to Croatia at full time. What a rout. Argentina are now relying upon a screaming victory over Nigeria and then Iceland to lose to both Croatia and Nigeria. I think it's pretty safe to say with a 70% confidence that it is over for them.