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World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:47:57 GMT

World cup 2018 kicks off tonight.

32 finalists - 8 groups of 4 and each team plays the others once.

Top 2 teams go through to the round of 16.

Then Quarter finals, semi finals and final.

Aussie, aussie, aussie.................................... and Denmark.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

go-tazz — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:33:18 GMT

Best chance ever for the Aussies and England as there are some great countries missing and most countries

don't seem to be playing to their normal high standards,

Russia,France,Argentina,Brazil,Germany and Japan should all be favourites in their groups but anything can

happen in the world cup,(hopefully no games will be decided by stupid mistakes by players or referees),

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:01:25 GMT

Yes, and Belgium, Iceland, Senegal all performing better than usually.

Aussies have Denmark to contend with though.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

imastawka — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:11:01 GMT

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

go-tazz — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 01:39:05 GMT

@kopenhagen5 wrote:
Yes, and Belgium, Iceland, Senegal all performing better than usually.

Aussies have Denmark to contend with though.

That could be the deciding match for second in that group for at least one of them to hopefully advance

to the play offs,(but anything can happen),

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 01:50:50 GMT

I think you are right, unless Peru pull off something spectacular.

Ronaldo, what a superstar. 3 goals, I think he might now equal Klose as the most goals in world cup.

Looking forward to watching Aus v France tonight 8pm.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

imastawka — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 02:30:42 GMT

Seems he can afford a $A29 million fine.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/football/real-madrids-ronaldo-reaches-deal-with-spanish-tax-authorities-source/ar-AAyGQcp?ocid=spartanntp

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 05:24:41 GMT

He was actually lucky as he received a suspended jail sentence but could have received jail time missing the world cup.

Imagine what people would be saying if Spain had pulled him out to jail just before playing Spain.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:14:30 GMT

Well Aus did well to defend and keep it to 2-1 even after making many mistakes.

Gotta say, France are dirty.

Diving twice and blatantly impeding 5 times knowing they would get a yellow and it wouldn't hurt them.

Including hitting the ball with a hand when Aus were dangerously close to scoring.

Very disappointing considering they are the highest paid team.

I have lost respect for the French team and the Aus team can hold their heads up high.

Don't worry, Denmark will bring karma to France.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:42:57 GMT

SPOILER ALERT.

Some big upsets overnight.

The champs go down to a strong Mexico and Brazil need to be content with a draw against the Swiss.

The Brazil goal is probably the goal of the competition so far.

Looks like strong defending is the key to this world cup.

A fabulous free kick taken by the Serb to score and win.

5 more matches to complete stage 1 and I will post the group standings.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

davidc4430 — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 04:30:16 GMT

like many sports (rugby, USA football, basketball) soccer has no intrest to me.

but i heard a former soceroo captain complaining this morning on the fact one must pay to see the world cup (like a lot of other carp)

well its because idiots are willing to pay to watch it they charge ya to see it fool.

if you all (and i do mean everyone) refused to buy the telecast then they would stop selling it and eventually it would be free again.

i will never pay to watch sport on tv, any sport! in fact i'll never pay to watch anything on tv.

allready my tv is off most of the time.

i dont feel like i'm missing anything.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:03:40 GMT

Agree david, people should realise more that they vote with their wallets.

Just like if we stopped buying Chinese made items, we would solved another problem.

Compelling segment on 60 minutes last night. But that's another story.

And your not missing much at all............................except Denmark doing well in The World Cup.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

davidc4430 — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:34:35 GMT

i saw a little of the story on where all our cheap goodies are made, we in the educated part of the world are quite happy to exploit the uneducated in the world.

i feel it'll all catch up to us eventually.

the wheels of progress move slowly.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:20:13 GMT

A couple of upsets overnight.

Poland losing to Senegal and Colombia going down to Japan.

Points so far after the first round -

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:17:55 GMT

Tonight 10pm - Australia v Denmark.

Aussies need to win and a win to Denmark will mean they are safe.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:43:54 GMT

2 stages are now complete and points are as follows.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

go-tazz — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:57:19 GMT

Still a few chances there although some are slim,(for the Aussies to get through they they need France to

beat Denmark and the Aussies have to score 3 goals more then Denmark).

The way they've been scoring they'll be lucky to beat Peru,

Only 7 teams are safe.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

tcmsecretuseid — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 03:19:24 GMT

Good luck to Australia tomorrow.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

tcmsecretuseid — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 03:20:44 GMT

My husband and I have watched several games. Two great games earlier today.

Re: World Cup 2018 - Russia.

kopenhagen5 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 03:36:05 GMT

Yes the two draw games were close and exciting.

A close call for both Spain and Portugal.

Now Spain meets Russia and Portugal meets Uruguay in the final 16.

For me, either Australia or Denmark will go through so I'm happy.