France V Peru
Pregame bets:
As much as it would be nice to see Peru do well, I dont think it will happen. France will surely be keen to lay down a marker for the tournament after disappointing in the first game. And if they do get going, Griezmann will be the man to score the goals.
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Ah bollix to that, the French are such a lazy fucking team that they would never bother their hole for a second why would they do that. lol
Beers: Group C of Beer World Cup:
Cusqueña was a little disappointing in their first tryout, a bit flat, so lets see if they can improve against French kingpins Kronenbourg 1664, who have also to get off the mark, having lost their opening too.
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Kronenbourg looked pretty nice on the pour, lovely colour and nice head, very appetizing, wasn’t too bad to drink too, so I thought this might be a forlorn conclusion since Cusquena performed so terribly in the first tryout. But you know, I actually started to slowly enjoy the Cusquena, it was nice to sip at and by the end of the drink I was beginning to think I might have been too hasty to write it down after the first game. So with that in mind I will give the result as a score draw, 1-1!
PreGame:
France were pathetic against Australia, and if it wasn’t for a rubbish ref and a dodgy penalty they might not have got the three points. They scarcely deserved them anyway. France had a whole team of passengers. Pavard, as right back, looked way out of his depth, was embarrassing to see, while the big names of Mbappé, Dembélé and Pogba, and Matuidi when he came on, were awful, truly awful. And Pogba doing flicks in the 67th minute when his team needs a leader on the pitch, then kissing his badge when he scored a fluky goal, what a cunt!
Deschamps messed up a bit with his team selection, but to be fair to the man, who can he bring on to change things, its a general malaise in French football I think. I know I would be tearing my hair out if I was the manager. I hope I am wrong and that today the French team will up their game and show the world that yes they can play some good football, but I feel it probably wont happen as Peru are a handy team and will cause their wingbacks all sorts of problems (Surely to God Deschamps wont play Pavard again, if he does that is criminal!)
Peru they did pretty much everything against Denmark but score. How many chances did they need, and a penalty yet they still lost this game, unlucky. They were lively throughout and had a rake of chances yet didn’t hit the back of the net. It does make you wonder that perhaps maybe they should have had Guerrero on earlier?
They were a joy to watch and everyone was willing them on to score. But now that they got that one game under their belt and got that out of their system, If they play as well as they did in that first game today then they might have an outside chance of a result.
A more detailed review on France here and on Peru here
In a few years time the World Cup will be expanded to 48 teams. Imagine that 48, how much more fucking dross will we have to sit through before the competitive side of the tournament begins? It will end up like the CL, with a lot of dead rubber games, and people will lose interest. Sure the cunts in Fifa will make their money, but at the price of devaluing the product.
I say all this as I am after sitting through another fucking piece of shit game. Two bad teams, if we are trying to be honest. France are fucking muck and wont win anything, that’s for sure. Their supporters know as much that is why about 12 have actually bothered to go to Russia. As for Peru, I have a lot of love for the way they tried but in the end, after two games, it was all fruitless. If they can’t score a goal against such muck then you are not good enough to be under the top table, dont mind sitting at the table. Harsh but true.
Anyway see Deschamps had Pavard still on the starting 11, which tells you a lot about their squad strength. and he was still shit today, albeit less so as Mbappé had to track back and do the forwards runs Pavard should have done. You could argue that was a good solution to an obvious problem, perhaps, but it means there is a gap in midfield.
Peru again had their chances and a bit unlucky, Guerrero with a cracking volley unfortunately straight at Lloris, and their amazing fans did spur them on, particularly in the first half, but I think they were spent by the end, they must have no energy left by this stage. Wonder can they muster any strength to beat Australia?
France win again, and again by a poxy goal. This time from Mbappé who had a simple tap in after an unlucky ricochet. Griezmann was good again, usually the only French player who has a footballing brain, and maintains it throughout the whole game. Pogba did one good pass, and that was about it for him, and the rest not much better. They did play well at the end of the first half for sure, but that was about it, a 20 minute cameo and then back to their dull boring dross for the rest of the game.
Anyway pity Peru didn’t manage to get that goal, they did hit the post too, ah well lets hope they find it in themselves to beat Australia. As for France they go head to head V Denmark to see who comes top of the group to possibly play/avoid Argentina. Doesn’t really matter both are shit, and so are the Argentinians as well. Denmark V France, I might possibly go have a long walk, or wank, it would be more fun!
Music to get you in the mood
AIR – Sexy Boy (France) V ORGULLO DEL PERU – BELLAVISTA – DIABLADA PUNEÑA 2018 – SON DEL TITICACA
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Truth be told Argentina didn’t deserve a win against Iceland. They started off great and full of heart, but in the end they found the Icelandic defenders just too strong to get past, and with Messi double marked, a draw was all they could muster.
I kind of feel a bit sick knowing that this could be Messi’s final world cup. Its such a crying fucking shame, that his compatriots are such selfish fucking clowns. It’s not rocket science, when your name is Acuña, Dybala, or Pérez for example, and your team is fighting to stay in the Wold Cup, and you 
That’s not taking away from Croatia, who knew exactly how to exploit the narrow shape of Argentina, by pining it along the wings. It also helped that Caballero’s brain went away without leave, gifting Rebic a free strike, which he took superbly. After that Argentina were always playing catch up. Croatia had so many more chances, and sure enough another goal came for Croatia, and what a goal it was. Modric creating space for himself to curl a lovely ball into the corner of the net, top class stuff. Rakitic, who had a good game overall, apart from his playacting, then hit the post, but got another chance to get on the score sheet, minutes later, when he had an easy conversion from a square ball to simply place it into the net. Argentina were dead and buried, from Croatia with love, thank you very much, 3-0.
Both teams were pish poor in the first games, and the fact that Uruguay know that a win will see them through should be enough for them to put on the foot on the gas until job is completed.
Saudi Arabia need to show signs of improvement today as they will be slaughtered by Uruguay if not. But I dont see how they can as there was no spark in the first game, just nothing there. I fear for another hammering today.
I fancy Iniesta to score, to be honest the only real value I could get as most of the Spanish players are short odds for this game!
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Spain took part in one of the best games of the World Cup last week, against Portugal, it was a game that was wall to wall action and pure class. Today they move down the gears a little to play Iran. An Iranian team that did just enough to pox a win against an equally rubbish Morocco. I imagine they might even play some new players today, as I cant see them not totally dismantling the Iranian team, without breaking too much of a sweat. Diego Costa might even be worth a hat trick today,
Diego Costa got the lucky goal, scoring off a rebound that hit his knee, don’t think he even knew too much about it. Not much the goalkeeper could do about it. 
For some reason I also fancy Pepe to score here. Yes i know he rarely scores, but I have visions of hims scoring with a blasting header from a corner.
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Morocco, on the other hand, lost to a pretty useless Iran team, and their midfield got overrun in that game too, so I cant see how they will stop Ronaldo unless they put two men on him at all times. 
Shame really as they played well enough in the game, and in particular N Amrabat who had Guerreiro in his back pocket all day. Amrabat has played well in the two games, albeit he does tire badly, but he at least can hold his head up high with his performances so far. 
Today’s game will all depend on if Mo Salah is playing. If yes then we have a real game on our hands, if not then forget it Egypt will be out. If he is playing I think he will dramatically change Egypt’s fortunes, and is sure to give the Russian defenders something to think about. Egypt, knowing they need a result, could easily beat a Russian team that were lucky that SA made them look so good, because they aren’t really. 
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For the first game of the World Cup it was a decent enough opener, 5 good goals, a lot of action and some nice play. For me Y Zhirkov and R Zobnin down the left flank were a constant thorn all game to the Saudi’s and it was nice to see Zobnin round off an excellent performance with a goal of his own in the dying seconds of the game. Also to note, fuck me For egyptDzyuba is an animal, the size of him, lol!
Warda was fairly lively for Egypt, but should have been substituted much earlier in the second as he had gone off the boil big time, not even bothering to join the attack at times. While Kahraba was lively when he came on, and the goalkeeper had an excellent game, particularly the save near the end from Cavani. Ahmed El-Shenawy looks like he might have done enough to get a move to Europe with that great display of goalkeeping (He plays with Zamalek in Egypt).
Didn’t have to wait too long in the second half for a goal as it came after a very sloppy display of goal keeping by El-Shenawy who choose not to catch a simple ball and the resulting clearance made its way back into the box and off the defender Fathy for a pathetic own goal. Two more goals came, Cheryshev, scored a well deserved second from a great assist by Fernandes, and Dzyuba, the man mountain scored a typical centre forward effort bringing the ball brilliantly down on his chest and then rifling it home bottom corner, class stuff. 
Poland are a very cynical team and like to take a tumble or three, and in Robert Lewandowski they have a bit of a cunt up forward who goes down with the slightest touch, and I would figure that Senegal will be like most African teams, tough tackling and a bit all over the place defensively, so with all this in mind I feel Senegal might get a red card in the game.
For sure Robert Lewandowski is the one to watch, but I have never been convinced about him. Yes he bangs in the goals in the Bundesliga but in my mind he has never performed at the big stage, be that an international tourno or the latter stages of the CL. He was simply atrocious in the last Euros, bad form and an ever worse attitude. As captain that seeps into the rest of the team and what I see any time Poland plays is a cynical team and doesn’t offer much in the way of excitement or free flowing football. If a team can get Poland’s back up then they can definitely beat them, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Senegal, in the opening game, cause them all sorts of problems. 
What are they like this time round? Well they have Sadio Mané who has had an excellent season with Liverpool, and Everton powerhouse Idrissa Gueye in defence. They are also quite lucky in that their group is one of the easiest. Poland, Japan and Colombia are all beatable on the day, and if they play as a cohesive team I’d expect them to come out of the group.
Senegal did drop the tempo a bit in the second half, but Poland didn’t react at all. And after Senegal poxed another goal from a comedy goal they kind of gave up. The goal was a mix up between midfielder Krychowiak who booted an aimless back pass towards his goalkeeper Szczesny, who wasn’t expecting it and came off his line to intercept, but he missed it and Niang got the bounce and scored into an empty net to make it two nil.
Japan, on the other hand, are not a great team but what they lack in ability they make up in determination and heart and I am sure they will not stop for the 90 minutes. With this in mind I can see them scoring a goal. And if that is the case then it has to be K Honda, their start player to score (who else?). And I have a strong vision of a penalty too, as they did get a penalty in the last world cup (as far as I can remember!) 
To be fair its not only about Rodríguez, they also have a good squad too. David Ospina is decent enough in goals, Juan Cuadrado is a real work horse in midfield, and Radamel Falcao up front is the type of striker that defenders hate to play against, in your face, strong, and has the ability to smash them in from all angles, albeit he can be lazy enough in games too. But he missed the last World Cup through injury so I am sure he will want to get going this time round. 
With the bad form in mind the Japanese FA in their perceived wisdom decided to sack their manager Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzic, just two months before the games. Akira Nishino is the guy now in charge and I wish him luck but that’s a crazy decision by the Japanese football association. 
This time Sweden will be at a major tournament without Zlatan Ibrahimovic, their iconic centre forward. Will it harm their chances? I don’t think so, if anything it might give them more of a chance to progress. They were far too reliant on him, playing virtually everything through him, and that hindered the development of the rest of them and stopped the team from playing with a natural style. Truth be told it never really worked for them as with the big Zlatan, and his even bigger ego, they never played particularly well and did nothing at the international level with him, not even qualifying for the last two World Cups. It could be a blessing in disguise. They were good enough without him too knock out an Italian team that just expected to walk into the World Cup.
At the moment their squad dont have any star players that stand out, and they are struggling badly for form. But they weren’t expected to get out of their qualifying group ahead of the Dutch, they definitely weren’t expected to knock Italy out, and they are not expected to get up to much this time round either. Team spirit can get you far in world football. The Swedes, I wonder would it be wise to disregard them again!!
They won just four games out of ten in the qualifiers, and their form in the friendlies is intermittent. But its not all bad, they do have one player of outstanding quality, Son Heung-min of Spurs, is really the type of player that could drag the team to a victory in a tight game. He always gives 100% and his passion might rub off on the team. It certainly needs to otherwise I see the The Taeguk Warriors returning home early. 
The Korean goalkeeper, Cho Hyun-Woo, has to be commended for keeping his team in it, as he made about 3 or 4 top class saves, one a point blank save from Berg. Conversely Berg had about 3 seriously good chances to put the ball in the net and fluffed them all, poor stuff from him.
With the relativity inexperience of the Panamanian team, up against some serious heavy hitters in a strong Belgian team, a team used to playing on the big occasion, I feel that we might actually get a goal fest today. We could do with some goals, as the last few days have only seen games with a goal or two. So come on Belgium please put on a show for us.
Not long after Hazard someone manages to pass a ball (was difficult for him today) and sets up Lukaku with a chance to score, which he does with a lovely deft little chip over the goalie. A well worked goal.
Three nil is all good and well for Belgium but I saw a lot of flaws in this game today that would make me very concerned if I was a Belgian fan. One thing that can’t be excused was that Eden Hazard couldn’t give a simple pass all game, well apart from setting up the one goal, he must have lost the ball a million times in the game. He can afford to do that against Panama but will be severely punished if he does that shit v Spain or Portugal for example. And you wonder on why the manager didn’t take him off. I would begin to wonder about Martinez there.