SportLightning Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 If Morocco beats Spain. they would make it further than Round of 16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportLightning Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 Same with Japan they hope to to do so if they beat Croatia. These could be a surprising nations to advance further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 Gets more interesting: South Korea beats Portugal 2-1 with two unanswered goals to advance to the Round of 16 over Uruguay. Despite Uruguay beating Ghana 2-0 at the same time at the revenge match from July 2, 2010 in Johannesburg's Soccer City. If you remember from that game, Luis Suarez committed a handball deep in front of the goal in the dying moments of regulation that earned him a red card...and Ghana's Asamoah Gyan missed his penalty kick that Suarez celebrated in the back. That led to penalty kicks that Uruguay ultimately won and advanced over Ghana, then the last remaining African team in the entire tournament with many Africans, South Africans included, cheering them on and later dejected. Suarez remains unrepentant about this and even says he will never return to Africa alone because of this (Ghana's Black Stars players themselves even warned him NOT to return to the continent) Anyway, I guess there is some karma involved because with that game as Uruguay got eliminated from knockout round contention and its Pyhrric victory--and Suarez left today's game in tears when he knew the Celeste won't advance. Surely Ghananians and the players themselves are enjoying a field day with that image right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 PS: What are the odds of again not seeing Italy's Azzurri in the World Cup and Germany not advancing out of group stage--and losing again to an East Asian nation in the latter's part to boot--for the second consecutive World Cup campaign? Germany surely can't be rapidly losing its playing quality right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 Controversies aside with the host nation etc I must say that the games in the group stages have been superb, lots of drama and suspense and some really great football. This is why the WC is truly one of the greatest sporting events. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 Finalists for 2026: Wakanda vs. Lemuria!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportLightning Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 The Round of 16 are set: Throughout the knockout stage, the final 16 will look to earn the eight spots to the quarter-finals, then the semi-finals for four spots and the final for two spots. For the knockout stage here they are: Netherlands vs USA Argentina vs Australia Japan vs Croatia Brazil South Korea England vs Senegal France vs Poland Morocco vs Spain Portugal vs Switzerland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportLightning Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 Who do you think which one of the 16 teams will win this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) Not Belgium It’d always be nice to see a non-traditional team make it, but that’s also always a hard ask against the powerhouses. If pushed, I’d like to se the Netherlands finally finish better than runner-up. But probably Brazil in my crystal ball. Edited December 2, 2022 by Sir Rols Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted December 2, 2022 Report Share Posted December 2, 2022 1 hour ago, SportLightning said: Who do you think which one of the 16 teams will win this year? I'll know on the final day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportLightning Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 4 hours ago, Sir Rols said: Not Belgium It’d always be nice to see a non-traditional team make it, but that’s also always a hard ask against the powerhouses. If pushed, I’d like to se the Netherlands finally finish better than runner-up. But probably Brazil in my crystal ball. Belgium's is out of the group stage. Maybe Morocco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportLightning Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 We have 18 days remaining after that, Qatar will handover the FIFA World Cup to the next co-hosts Canada, Mexico and United States in 2026. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palette86 Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 6 hours ago, SportLightning said: Who do you think which one of the 16 teams will win this year? Argentina France Brazil(if only Neymar could come back from his injury.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusilli Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 Hope Japan and Switzerland to get through 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 Bummer! oh well, it was always going to get Messi messy once we were in the knockout stages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportLightning Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 10 hours ago, fusilli said: Hope Japan and Switzerland to get through It's possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceman530 Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 Man, USA and Australia both out now. Who do I go for now? Feeling Japan or Morocco. Can England overcome the inevitable French mountain? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, iceman530 said: Man, USA and Australia both out now. Who do I go for now? Feeling Japan or Morocco. Can England overcome the inevitable French mountain? Pity we didn’t get the SOCCER World Cup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted December 3, 2022 Report Share Posted December 3, 2022 You will give them a goal! ...that poor keeper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 18 minutes ago, yoshi said: You will give them a goal! ...that poor keeper Yeah, sorta thing that would haunt you. Oh well, we’ve had our 48 hours of WC fever now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 On 12/2/2022 at 2:48 PM, SportLightning said: Who do you think which one of the 16 teams will win this year? I'm still rooting for Spain. But I think Final 4 will be Argentina, Brazil, England and France. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexjc Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 1 hour ago, baron-pierreIV said: I'm still rooting for Spain. But I think Final 4 will be Argentina, Brazil, England and France. Yeah...This looks like what it could become...But England is known to completely fk things up about now at a World Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SportLightning Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 I think Netherlands could finally win a FIFA World Cup after three attempts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 It's NOT called "football"; it's called SAKA!! Saka from Lusaka!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted December 4, 2022 Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 So, so far all the group runners up have been put back in their places. Sigh! It would be nice to see some upsets? Any takers on who could be the most likely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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