#RacistPlanet

That's how we had to do it in high school. It was so much harder than a regular PK. The goalie charging out and cutting the angle made it difficult. My strategy was always to take one small touch and then blast a shot before the keeper got out to narrow the angle.

It's a joke from an ancient meme, relax big guy.

Welp

This one seems to be already over

Each one was predictable as well. I was telling my wife the location of each Japanese shot before it was taken and got only one wrong.

Felt the penalty was pretty weak, a shame to see something like that put the Koreans 2 goals down.

oh god, what a beautiful goal

Key is getting the keeper off balance and the skip, hop, feint, is much more effective than the short run-up.

Brazil just has way too much in attack for Korea.

Worst Korea is about to get 7-1'd

Brazil has too much attack for all but a handful of countries.

Damn Brazil is good

Now I know why there's no Brazilian hockey players. Any of these silly gay dances would get them killed the next shift on the ice by the opposing team.

Should have saved these goals for Germany in 2014.

Putin scored 8 goals in a match when he was 66 years old if that tells you anything about the athletic ability needed for white trash figure skating.

So how many rounds are left?

Still in the round of 16.

A guy named Pepe Silva is asking about soccer?

Lol.

With a name like that you should be a starter for Brazil or Portugal

#RacistPlanet

I do like bad video game translation memes….

Yeah, I'm sure the goalie just had a rough night......................

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Seems like the Portuguese fans aren&#39;t happy with Cristiano Ronaldo. 😳<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FIFAWorldCup</a> <a href="https://t.co/fwtTZ0rX2c">pic.twitter.com/fwtTZ0rX2c</a></p>&mdash; NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSportsSoccer/status/1599475008664903682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is the cherry on top of the demise. I really hope he gets benched in his final World Cup. I don’t think a lot of Portugal fans want him beating Eusebio’s WC goal record for Portugal. Will be interesting to see what the coach decides tomorrow.

Has he been playing like garbage?

No, but his attitude is awful. Yelling at teammates, disgruntled at the coach for subbing him off, complaining that a goal was rightly awarded to his teammate instead of him.

Yes. He’s lost a ton of speed obviously in his old age and brings no defensive effort. He’s a goal poacher essentially. It’s why he wasn’t getting any looks from any top teams and is really only linked to the Saudi Arabian league right now. He has a goal from a penalty in this World Cup, but has been pretty much worthless outside of that.

Also allegedly rapey.

Holy Shit, Frankie Boyle brings it.

On the most recent 'New World Order' he quipped about the Qatar construction worker controversy "the last time football took place on top of this many corpses was the Christmas Truce of WWI'

ROFL ROFL

world cup is over let this thread die

It finally got started. . .

Over for us, but still some great matches to come. This is practically the playoffs now. No more ties.

Cool Av.

Those kits are great.

Lots of really good teams on a collision course it is going to be fun to watch. Don't think there will be much in the way of underdogs here.

He’s basically the same complete ahole he’s always been, but now that his game has declined it’s more of an issue.

Super computer now has us as a slight favourite versus le baguettes. I'd still personally put as a slight underdog with a 45% chance.

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france 11% to win the final seems too low.

Spain just needs to pass the ball more

22% of the possession for Morocco

Morocco with a grade A scoring chance at 103', should be ahead.

Great play from their keeper as well.

Maybe what we are seeing is a general flattening of the landscape of international football? So many upsets, and so many little guys playing the big teams tough.

"us"

ROFL

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Tiki taka is soooooo exciting!

Late drama as Morocco tries to weather the added time, Spain pressuring.

YIKES that near own-goal

Spain rattles the post as time expires. Penalties coming.

Historic upset incoming?

lol eat shit you boring mfers

Really pathetic attempts by Japan yesterday and Spain today.

Never go low to the post. That is the easiest to save. At least it always was for me.

Morocco is going to win this.

Spain taking penalty kicks like Japan.

what the hell is with all of the short run ups? same thing from yesterday.

Amazing

Spain played 120' and a shootout, and never put a ball in the net.

lolspain

Idea is to give the keeper less time to read body language on where it is going.

I suspect that not many had Morocco in the round of eight (and I know I didn't)

short run up or long run up, they should still strike it decisively and with pace. That weak crap just doesn't work at this level.

Same shit from yesterday. Stop ****ing around and shoot the ball hard (and high preferably). These penalties by Japan and Spain were begging to be saved.

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**** yes! The World Cup is always better when African countries do well! They obviously have the best fans in the world.

Croatia and Morocco are the only good guys left

Certainly not, but they played Croatia to a draw and they were two goals better than Belgium, who is a very good team. They seem not to be taken lightly.

Morocco is no good guy.

England is the good guy.

What? fack teh england

Sounds like Ronaldo is not in the starting lineup. Coach is pissed at his antics.

nevermind

Coach says "antics". Coach really means "lack of production".


He's probably glad to finally have an excuse.

I'd like to see the game go to penalties and Portugal lose with Ronaldo still on the bench.

There's no way that would happen. He'd get subbed in near the end of extra time for sure. He's still a superb penalty taker.

They should be. He has fallen off a cliff just comparing to 2018 WC.

Neymar seems to do ok with not blasting it .

Placement always trumps power. The problem is all the weak attempts have bad placement as well. You can get a hard, bad place kick through but not a soft, bad placed kick.

because he's good enough to do his studder step thing and read the goalie

I agree. I just think he's a massive gunt and would love to see it end this way for him.

Isn't he like 38? Most soccer players are pretty much done by early 30s. The fact he lasted this long shows how great he was.

If he would keep quiet and accept a lesser role, like a supersub kind of player, he'd have plenty of teams interested. But he still wants to be the talisman of a club and the pay that goes along with it. For example, Real Madrid desperately need a quality backup striker, but Ronaldo would NEVER allow himself to play behind Benzema and spend a lot of time on the bench, so they pass on him, just like every other team.

Penaldo is seething on the inside

Alien Pepe got some hang time on that one




Speaking of Ronaldo being old....how old is Pepe? He has to be close to 40 by now too.

Edit: Yeah, he'll be 40 in February. Impressive longetivity

Reminded me of that hail mary to Hopkins AZ had against the Bills, surrounded by defenders and just skies to find the exact spot to put it home.

Looks like Morocco cockblocked a Spain/Portugal matchup. Not a fan of seeing Penaldo and Pepe in the semis and doubt Morocco can pull more rabbits out of their asses.

Cockblocked? Morocco is not some pushover squad. They’ve held their own against Spain, Belgium, Croatia and Canada. They aren’t pulling rabbits out of their hats. They’re a good team. They should be able to go toe to toe with Portugal too. Nothing shows that they can’t. Spain dominates possession against everyone.