Asian Cup of Nations 2019

This thing is already underway???

Congrats Nishy

BTW, Thais must be real shitty

Nishankly wrote:Gonna absolutely ruin Thailand can't wait

Called in December tbf

I knew we've improved by miles but didn't expect play Thailand off the park lmao.

Need Mourinho against UAE and Bahrain now get in Mou

Woke up at 6 am today in dead of the dark to watch China play Kyrgyzstan.

Really nice first half by the Kyrgyz, they could have been 3 up. Then, second half starts and their keeper pulls his best Karius/Pickford impression. very amateur, no wonder the keeper doesn't have a club.
Gifted the victory to China and Lippi. Gutted for the Kyrgyz as this was their first ever match in an international tournament and they shot themselves in the foot in the most ridiculous way.

Pavel Matiash has just done a Pickford and became the first ever goalkeeper to score an own goal in the Asian Cup history.pic.twitter.com/Y4KGSroAx0

— Artur Petrosyan (@arturpetrosyan) January 7, 2019

Philippines managed by Sven Gordan Eriksson holding Korea to a 0-0 draw so far. No Son, no Party !

Easy win vs Yemen
not really satisfied with our midfield though
lets wait to see how we set up vs better teams

^ Thought we played well, especially seeing how almost all heavy hitters have struggled so far.

Vietnam beating Iraq at HT so far. Didn't see that coming!

UAE-India is less than an hour away!

Won't be surprised if there are more Indians in the stadium than Emaratis.

Btw, I'm very surprised at lack of enthusiasm among Indian posters here. Only Nishank seems engaged.

How can good and smart posters like Adit, Surag care so passionately about foreign clubs, and not as much for the national team?

National team >>> club any day of the week, twice on sundays

FFS WHAT A CHANCE

Thailand beat Bahrain 1-0

@Sepp I don't know about them but its pretty normal for Indians Football fans to know 60 years of history of foreign clubs but can't name 5 Indian players. It mostly because the sport doesn't get the backing from the government even after popular loud support so the fans really don't care about the domestic until we do something big. Its sad but understandable. Cricket needs to be eradicated.

CHETTTRIII DSFFSFSFSFFS

WTF is this defender Anas, unreal error.

Chettri FFS INCHES AWAY

How the hell are India losing this match

HT India 0-1 UAE. Host nation leading due to a brain fart.

Looks like we will only win hearts tonight not the game. FFS

We've kinda lost the plot now.

Lost 2-0, still second in the group with a positive GD.

Do or die against Bahrain now, will miss the match since ill be in a 10 hour flight. ffs

Credit to Vietnam,they were decent
but first real test is vs Iraq
we will see how we approach that
even though there can be some rotations since draw is enough to top the Group

Missed the match and we bottled it. Losing in the 90th minute to a penalty. Ffs oil money IMO

No idea when the matches are played or on which channels they are shown.

Fox Sports i think

3rd place teams advancing makes group stage pointless really

^ But it's interesting still. Kyrgyzstan have impressed me for example and well earned a spot in KO rounds playing the hosts. It also makes the usual deadrubber games (Vietnam vs. Yemen, Oman vs. Turkmen, Lebanon vs. N.Korea) interesting.

@Iftikhar...I watch all games on BeinSports (Arabic commentary) and sometimes IRIB (for throwback days to Mazdak Mirzaei and Ferdosipoor).

God, if Uzbekistan hold on to this draw (or don't lose to Japan) our bracket of the draw will be AMAZING. Perfectly set up to make it to semis and final! providing no upsets.

Saudi vs. Qatar later today as well....oooooooffffff

Zagadka wrote:^ But it's interesting still. Kyrgyzstan have impressed me for example and well earned a spot in KO rounds playing the hosts. It also makes the usual deadrubber games (Vietnam vs. Yemen, Oman vs. Turkmen, Lebanon vs. N.Korea) interesting.

@Iftikhar...I watch all games on BeinSports (Arabic commentary) and sometimes IRIB (for throwback days to Mazdak Mirzaei and Ferdosipoor).

God, if Uzbekistan hold on to this draw (or don't lose to Japan) our bracket of the draw will be AMAZING. Perfectly set up to make it to semis and final! providing no upsets.

Saudi vs. Qatar later today as well....oooooooffffff

In my country it got to be either STAR or Sony/TEN channels. Anyway, I'm barely arsed to find out. I just watch the highlights in YouTube.

24-team Asia Cup is worse than 24-team Euro. You can see the gulf between two sets of teams. Also, a bit surprised (and sad) about Syria, they did well in WC Qualifiers.

what a lineup

Myesyats wrote:what a lineup

It's not their whole name, you know. Besides, it's not like every woman in Poland isn't named Agnieszka

Don't we all have names like that? Poland have their -ski and -zka names, Norway, Sweden and Denmark have their -sen/son/ssen names, Germany have their -ler names etc

Thimmy wrote:Germany have their -ler names etc  

Was thinking of Müller and Adler when I wrote that, not Hitler or Himmler

Yeah but that's part of names that have a very basic and common meaning.
That a name contains the suffix -son or -daughter, or the -er or -ler in Germany that means a profession, 'he who does'. Müller/miller, Schuster/cobbler etc

Kim is a whole family name