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Actually I wouldn’t count Iran out yet, IMO they’re not such a bad team, after all they had some great results before the tournament, drawing with Senegal and beating Uruguay. England just played the best I’ve seen from them in years, maybe since the win over Germany in the Euros. I think Iran will have a much easier time against the pretty one-dimensional attack of Wales and the US. And Taremi is probably better than any of those team’s attackers.

I can see Wales getting in second place behind England. Iran might repeat themselves by defeating USA like it happened in 1998.

Insane defensive performance by Saudi Arabia, Renard showing his class on the international stage again. And not just parking the bus, they played so aggressively in the first half with the offside trap and the high line, got their reward early in the second half and then an absolute masterclass in bunkering down and absorbing pressure. Altambakti in particular was fantastic. A tactically perfect performance…

Ochoa strikes again.

It looks like France might be able to break the "curse" of the defending champions.

Sané out for today's game, Hernandez out for at least 6 months, Mazraoui was taken off injured as well. Pretty good WC for Bayern so far - brilliant to have such a tournament in the middle of the season
Edit: I'm not even surprised about our result. Schlotterbeck is the worst CB to ever represent our country and let's face it: We could have easily won 4:1 but when you don't convert the chances and make such substitutions, you dont deserve to win.

Omedetō Japan! I can't believe some results in this World Cup so far.

Man, Germany are just so poor apart from Musiala. The defence was shocking (Rüdiger was decent I guess), forwards were invisible, I don't know why both Chelsea and Germany insist on using Havertz as a 9 when he is so obviously not suited for that role, he doesn't have the mentality or physicality to lead the line, it's just so easy to mark him out the game because he takes far too much time to do anything. Kimmich was so sloppy, Gundogan was at least causing some danger but if he's the only player getting into scoring positions or taking shots then there is obviously a problem...

And they have to play a young and hungry Spain team next? Worrying for Germany, they could be eliminated after 2 games. All credit to Japan of course, just like the Saudis yesterday they never gave up and played aggressively, punishing their opponent's complacency.

That's the player who left Partizan because of idiots (criminals) in our club who owed him 10 salaries.

"The Jaguar" - Takuma Asano

Yeah, Germany are fucked lol.

Fantastic stuff from Spain. Costa Rica didn't even shoot.

Not managing to pull a shot off at a World Cup is pretty embarassing. Thing is they have done it again, back in 1990 WC against Brazil. Considering Germans, I totally agree about the defenders, Rudiger was ridiculous with all that moves. Believe it or not, I was expecting for a second Japan goal. If it wasn't about Flick, I wouldn't care if they progress or not. Now let's see if Maple Leafs have another surprise in their store.

Seriously? Rüdiger was the only defender today that showed some interest in defending - unlike those other three clowns. Raum has been horrible since he joined RB (his last assist or succesful cross might also be from that time), Schlotterbeck was a total joke and about Süle: After playing almost the entire last year with either Kehrer or Hofmann as RB, Flick decides to use Süle (who played on that position for BVB but rarely for NT) there. It was so obvious that it would fail, after all it's nothing else than Badstuber in 2010 who was solid on LB position for Bayern but got teached a lesson from Krasic at the WC. But the most important thing: There are only two German CBs who are good enough on international top level: One is Rüdiger, the other one was ignored for younger and more average players like Schlotterbeck and Bella Kotchap.
But most important: You can't sub off Musiala in such a match, he's our best player right now (and yeah, no matter if he missed the goal today both him and Jude Bellingham are still better players than Gavi)..

Belgium vs Canada resembles me a 90's match

Belgium incredibly lucky that Canada couldn't finish, or it would've been even more embarassing than it already was.

Once again Belgiums "Golden Generation" are being completely ruined by an incredibly average manager in charge.