World Cup 2026

[HVC]

cabo verde all the way

[Duque de Bragança]

I thought penalty shooters could not stop their run before shooting?
Croatian goalkeeper got tricked and penalty retaken.

Hard day so far for veterans: CR7 non existant, and Modric giving a penalty to England.

P-S: goal keepers are getting screwed with this « new » rule.

[Sheilbh]

I thought penalty shooters could not stop their run before shooting?
Croatian goalkeeper got tricked and penalty retaken.

I hate stuttering penalties but they seem very cool now (drive me crazy watching because I'm an old man ).

Bit weird on that as the ref commentary (Christina Unkel - apparently an American VAR expert in today's cursed sentences) here said it should be retaken because of encroachment by Gvardiol but when it was given it said because of the keeper.

[Duque de Bragança]

cabo verde all the way

[HVC]

Hasn't the stutter step been a thing for a while now? As an old i too hate it.

If kickers can stutter then goalies should be allowed off the line after the first stutter.

[HVC]

Woooo

[Sheilbh]

Very nice goal.

[Duque de Bragança]

Very nice goal.

The one before half-time was even nicer.

[Sheilbh]

No - the first one was better for me.

Surprisingly fun half. Tuchel will be furious

Edit: Also - not to praise FIFA - but why is VAR so much better and less intrusive here? Do they just have a different set of criteria? Seems really weirdly different.

[crazy canuck]

More cameras and all the players were scannned?

[Duque de Bragança]

England 4 Croatia 2
Seems over now for the valiant Croats now, with less than 5 minutes to play.

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, the English side looks pretty solid

[Sheilbh]

Yeah, the English side looks pretty solid

I think Tuchel's very good.

Southgate was really important from a cultural perspective but I think a bit more conservative and limited as a coach/manager. No way he'd make those subs/England would get the fourth - and then the rest of the game would be a similar pattern of it getting increasingly nervy, falling further and further back (and then, sometimes, conceding).

[HVC]

Just realized there's 104 games in the years World Cup.

[Grey Fox]

Just realized there's 104 games in the years World Cup.

In French, we only got 2 teams of descriptors. They are already dieing.