Of course Layun knew what he was doing. I'm pretty sure that's the foot Neymar missed the second half of the season for. It may have actually hurt, but Neymar is still a baby.
That Casimero yellow may really come back to bite Brazil. DeBruyne running full steam ahead without him there to break things up can't make Tite happy.
The question isn't if Mexico will lose, but how funny will it be when it happens.
We all know No Era Penal and 7-0 were hilarious, but what this post presupposes is that this match will be funnier.
Everyone who is carrying a nick or on a yellow should sit.
Otherwise, you play to win the game. You don't play just to play it. Turning off in the middle of a short tournament right before the knockout rounds seems like a dangerous thing - especially a team as mentally fragile as England.
That being said all defenders will have it beaten into their heads to avoid professional fouls.
No shit. The Guardian play by play for the Colombia Senegal game mentioned it 5 minutes before Colombia scored.
69 mins: Japan have had a player booked! So if (bear with me here) Colombia score once and Japan have two more players booked, we could still have a drawing of lots!
According to the Guardian play by play, if Japan gets two more bookings and the scorelines remains the same - we will get lots for Japan/Senegal.
And two of the Senegalese bookings occurred during stoppage against Japan.
Live and through the first replay, I thought it was clean. With VAR, I don't see how it wasn't upheld.
Fuck, Muriel's ankle got caught there. That hurts.
I know I watched the US games on TV, but I think they were on tape delay or we taped them.
The Czech game was putrid, but the Italy game gave a glimmer of hope (although I hope to never see the US play that negatively again).
To be honest, the whole tournament was pretty terrible to watch from a neutral.