World Cup 2018 General Discussion

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This is one of the ugliest Russian girls I've ever seen in my life ffs
Super short hair + neck tattoo


I took many videos of girls dancing during my trip, but GL platform doesn't allow vimeo upload. Much hotter hooligans tbh

wtf she's so beautiful, i don't like short hair either but she pulls it off

^ She's look so much prettier with normal long hair and no tattoos like her friend. That would elevate her look so much, her natural features are actually quite nice after having a second look.

I'm not gonna lie though, I'm a huge tattoophobe for both genders, especially for women, because it ruins their beautiful skin and makes them look gangastry. I hate it how almost every football player now has tattoos too.

I was watching all goals of 1998 WC last night when I was 8 years old and almost no one had tattoo , now like half the players are inked.

That's why I respect El Kommander...No tattoo policy.

Matter of preference, I actually like tattoos and I don't even mind one on the neck. Only face tattoos push me off

Most represented leagues in the World Cup final:

10 = La Liga
10 = Ligue-1
8 = Serie-A
6 = EPL
5 = BundesLiga
2 = HNL #WorldCup #WorldCupFinal

— Arjun Pradeep (@IndianRegista) July 11, 2018

Zagadka wrote:^ She's look so much prettier with normal long hair and no tattoos like her friend. That would elevate her look so much, her natural features are actually quite nice after having a second look.

I'm not gonna lie though, I'm a huge tattoophobe for both genders, especially for women, because it ruins their beautiful skin and makes them look gangastry. I hate it how almost every football player now has tattoos too.

I was watching all goals of 1998 WC last night when I was 8 years old and almost no one had tattoo , now like half the players are inked.

That's why I respect El Kommander...No tattoo policy.

This is her with longer hair and no neck tat  

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I was skeptical at first as well but then I realized she's insanely beautiful

Them lips, ufffffffffffff

Paul Pogba has the best numbers of fast forward passing and dribbling among all World Cup players. N'Golo Kante, meanwhile, is on top of the tournament considering tackles & interceptions numbers.

Powerhouse pic.twitter.com/L70EVP43Jc

— FergieTime (@SSIIIIUUUU) July 13, 2018

It's almost as if Pogba excels playing next to a midfielder like Kante and not a tree like Fellaini, who would've thought?

Luca wrote:It's almost as if Pogba excels playing next to a midfielder like Kante and not a tree like Fellaini, who would've thought?

That's supposedly what Matic is for, it worked until Mourinho showed his true negative colours.

This has to be the worst world cup by a golden boot winner ever?

Mbappe and Griezmann both have 3 goals... there's a small chance that France runs away with it and one of them gets a hat trick.  Griezmann is more likely since he takes PKs.  

But to answer your question...  Yes.  Clearly.  It has to do with the goalscoring responsibilities shared among several in the truly elite teams today.  So being the top scorer is becoming less relevant.

If France didn't have Mbappe, as in 2016 Euro with Payet instead, Griezmann would have carried the load in terms of scoring and he would have been there imo.  But today, he's both playmaker and scorer.

Most goals scored at the World Cup per club’s players:

Spurs: 12
PSG: 12
Barcelona: 9
Manchester United: 9
Juventus: 8
Atlético Madrid: 8
Real Madrid: 6
Liverpool: 6
Chelsea: 5
Manchester City: 5
Villarreal: 4
Zenit: 3
Besiktas: 3
Sunderland: 2
Bayern Munich: 0 pic.twitter.com/vFT8EP5Q9H

— Breaking The Lines (@BTLvid) July 15, 2018

the world cup has finished now and the thing i am most happy about is the england fans did not get into any trouble. i was expecting the worst after the euros tbh but not only did our team do us proud but so did our fans.

S wrote:

Most goals scored at the World Cup per club’s players:

Spurs: 12
PSG: 12
Barcelona: 9
Manchester United: 9
Juventus: 8
Atlético Madrid: 8
Real Madrid: 6
Liverpool: 6
Chelsea: 5
Manchester City: 5
Villarreal: 4
Zenit: 3
Besiktas: 3
Sunderland: 2
Bayern Munich: 0 pic.twitter.com/vFT8EP5Q9H

— Breaking The Lines (@BTLvid) July 15, 2018

psg and spurs are the teams that had most players in semis and final/3rd place, no surprise they therefore have the most goals if they had the most minutes played

Inter have 3 ( Perisic scored against Iceland,  England and France )

I feel we are going to regret this World Cup for a long time
Qatar WC in winter makes me depressed , the expanded WC for 48 teams is even worse probably
And then we'll be really adults (:

Just a red card in this WC though, VAR effect ?

I have a tough time believing Qatar will actually host the WC next time, something will happen.

So France wins, overall, probably the best team throughout, though I can understand Croatians who would be pissed off at the hand ball call yesterday. Yes France were resorting to time wasting from around the 60 min , which would also piss off Croatians, kind of did the final an injustice in my mind, but I get it. Look at it two ways Croatia were great to keep winning these 120 minute games on penalties or Croatia were terrible for having to take each game to 120 minutes.
Yes, I will sound like Sour Grapes, but I will repeat what a lot of people said (and I dont mean this as a shot at France, I picked them to win this thing before it started), the football was not of a high standard, it just seemed kind of amateurish at times, including the likes, no especially the likes of Germany. Lots of own goals, lots of cheap goals from set pieces, lots of Kariusesque goal tending (really have to change that every time a keeper flucfs up it is called a Karius, poor guy).

Anyhow, congrats to France and Croatia and to Russia, I dont think I heard anything about Russian Hools beating the crap out of anyone. It was a fun WC and now it is over, but, I just got an email reminding me to pick me EPL fantasy team, so it must be getting close to that time again.

Did we have an EPL fantasy league last year?

France took the age old formula... if it's working, don't change until the opponent makes you. The only team that forced France to open up was Argentina interestingly.

Deschamps said as much today in an interview... they had plan B and C set up and ready. But they never had to deviate from plan A.

I do expect France to open up now though. The weight of winning a trophy is off the shoulders of this generation... they're golden no matter what. You don't realize how liberating it is. After 1998, that generation changed completely. Believe it or not, the 1998 team was even more negative than this one.

i was just going to say that (i don't like the word 'negative', as i'm a proponent of intelligent football over beauty and getting hammered), but france in 98 and even euro 00 had a very pragmatic style. in 98 sometimes it seemed as though they didn't even play with a cf. the confederations cup in 03 was when they really attacked, but the stakes weren't as high like world cup or euros.....and france in this tournament werenot as 'negative' as people make them out to be