Football (Soccer) Thread

[Gups]

Come on you plucky little Canadians!

[HVC]

Guess they subbed in two guys to rough Canada up. Time to bring out the hockey sticks.

[Gups]

Canada are very good on the press, superb in midfield and on the counter but awful in the final third.

Belgium have squandered their golden generation and look like England were at a similar stage one the early 2000s

[Grey Fox]

Well, that is the worse result possible. A loss without any goals scored. ☹️

[Barrister]

Bah - by all accounts a really strong game by Canada, but still left with the team never scoring any World Cup goals in history.

[Maladict]

Well done Canada, very attractive football. I just hope they didn't burn themselves out in this first match.

[Zoupa]

They ran out of steam a little at the end, but overall what a strong game. They really were all over Belgium.

Real shame.

[FunkMonk]

Canada bodied Belgium for 45 minutes, wasted so many chances and Belgians scored on their only chance of the 1st half.

Football sucks sometimes.

Belgium sound like Conte's Tottenham 

[FunkMonk]

Anyway, I think Canada have a decent chance of making it out of the group. Play with that energy versus Croatia and I think you can get 3 points.

[Admiral Yi]

Are all the refs for a WC chosen from the league (conference? continent? pool? division?) of the host country?

[Admiral Yi]

Not a lot of Frenchy names on the Canucklehead side.

[Grey Fox]

Not a lot of Frenchy names on the Canucklehead side.

3 are from Québec.

James Pantemis
Samuel Piette
Ismaël Koné

Which is probably a record.

[The Larch]

The Moroccan keeper was born in Montreal, now that it's mentioned. No idea if he was ever approached to play for Canada.

[mongers]

That 2nd goal for Japan looks like a contender for goal of the tournament?

[Zanza]

This seems a tad expensive.