07 is my chosen number, thanks!

Good luck to everyone!

I'm gad to have made it pass the group stages , but it only gets harder now and the questions this time around are even more tough technical, honestly.

The second question in the form seemed to be slightly wrongly worded (or intertwined between the question and the answer options) and could be misinterpreted, I think I have the correct interpretation from the question itself, but the options in the answers could also all happen except the last one, I think the answers should be stated as the first goal to be conceded rather than if they'll concede within a specific interval or not, as they could concede goals in all the intervals of the first 3 options.

What could be worse than paying 3 points deficit to ship in de Arrascaeta who has been nothing but a bench warmer for Kudus of Ghana, only for the former who has zero point until today to end up 18 whooping points  , What a waste 

So many tweaks and turns in this MD, hopefully it will get better in the coming MDs

If Sergio Busquets should leave Barcelona now, it will be the perfect time to do so after the season end, as I expect this should also be his last outing for the Spain national team, I don't think he'll play for Spain again after the world cup, as the next major tournament is two years away and he'll be 36 years by then.

The major reason I'd happy he's leaving is because the Barcelona would obviously be in good hands with both Gavi and Pedri playing fantastic and next to world class football, and De Jong would just need to be retained at the club and along side Franck Kessie. I'd also expect Jordi Alba to be approaching a similar decision, but he might have to stay for another year though, because he's current contract is valid until the summer of 2024

I really don't understand how VAR came to the conclusion that the ball in this picture wasn't out of play already, ffs! if the same scenario had happened within the goal post, I'm trying to imagine showing this to a team and say it's not a goal, but I guess we'll never now know right ?


It would have been pretty funny If Germany had not manage to turn the tie around in Spain's favour, so Japan and Costa Rica would have eliminated both Germany and Spain, that'd have been some nightmare and probably increases the chances of their opponents in knockout stages.

I'm not trying to drive a narrative here, but I do think Spain didn't concede those two goals intentional, but I've got a slight conviction that they didn't try as much to get back on level terms, Imagine losing a game and still sure of qualification and also they get to avoid Croatia and Brazil in the next K/O rounds, but underestimating Morocco might be very costly for them.

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He probably read it wrongly, I didn't settle for MD2 wildcard, I don't think it would have made difference though, I still have all my chips active and used, but I'm still quite clueless as to how to navigate using properly, but my MD3 is still quite a mess, I took about 9 point hit but that paid of a bit except for the fact that I chose to bank Denmark players against Australia, I literally anticipated a clean for them in that game, I went with Gakpo as my captain since he scored I didn't find the need to change it. I think I might just my round of 16 free wildcard to suite just that match day, the use my wildcard for the next matchday.

A Question: has anyone been able to use more than one chip for a single MD ?
I wouldn't like any to go to waste especially the 12th man, I'm thinking of using in the next MD because there are some fixture/players I have in mind for it.

The number of chances that all feel for Lukaku during those minutes of coming shows how much they needed a centre striker, but Martinez opted for the worse choice and the shortest of them all, why play Mertens as a centre when there's Batshuayi on the bench, I'm not Batshuayi apologetic but it's a no brainer to have Mertens in the role of a centre striker ahead, Belgium scored only one goal this tournament, despite their attacking varieties and it was no other person than Batshuayi who scored that goal. I think it's pretty much time that both Roberto Martinez and Henry step down from their positions as the coaches of the team, then end of an Era, The Wooden Generation..

I think all the players mentioned are still pretty dangerous in their own specific ways, but they are being deployed in the wrong setup, Martinez is the only one looking very clueless, why Mertens as a 9, I'd rather have Hazard or De Bruyne and play Tielemans in Centre of the midfield, but he just keeps trying every setup in each game like a coach that doesn't have an idea about his players strengths and weaknesses.

Morocco being ahead of Canada have already made things really complicated for both Croatia and even worse for Belgium, their only chance of qualifying for round of 16 is to win the game.

I wouldn't say it was undeserved for Poland to qualify for the next round simply because they didn't do well enough to posed just one goal threat against Argentina and it seemed they literally all out to only secure a draw, Mexico were not a different when they played Argentina as well, they literally just sat back too and tried to secure a draw which would have left Argentina in dire situation, I'd rather commend the Saudi Arabian team even though they lost the last two matches of the game, I'd say they were the only team of the other 3 besides Argentina to have a approached every game with the hope of getting something positive from it.

If the cases were reversed and it was Mexico playing Argentina last night, I strongly doubt they'd have done any better than Poland actually did, so If the game was unfair to any of the four teams, I'd say it was Saudi Arabia that got unlucky.

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Yeah, the team adjusted pretty well too playing without their 3 best players Maxey, Harden and Embiid and they looked to be doing pretty okay, dividing the duties almost even amongst the young lads, Tobias Harris and Shake Milton, then Melton all stepped up well enough, but I think they shouldn't have made it pretty obvious that Embiid was supposed to be their go to man, I guess that was their undoing.

Congratulations on your winnings! I had to to take the day off, I guess I prefer the weekend matchups .

If Morocco can do it, why not Croatia ? sentiments aside Croatia are miles better as a team compared to Belgium. Roberto Martinez is just trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, He's just having a bunch of guys playing together with zero team chemistry, I don't understand why Trossard and Tielemans can start together or the essence of playing 3 at the back and having a bunch wing players all playing in the midfield and there is no centre forward you can trust with crosses and cut backs, what's wrong with playing four at the back and have Witsel, Tielemans and KDB as playmakers in the midfilder then settle for whatever 3 players he wants at the front, having Onana playing ahead of Tielemans in the second game or stuffing Carrasco into the lineup in midfield and Thorgan Hazard in the second game as well, just to have Trossard on the bench seems like shooting one's self in the foot.

I believe this game will won or lost right from the lineup and formation Martinez decides to go with today, and I'll gladly have my money on Croatia if he keeps up with those absurd antics.

The Philadelphia are getting schooled by the J.B. Bickerstaff's men, it's almost a 30 points lead quarter way into the final quarter already, I didn't think the Philadelphia would struggle this much with Joel Embiid back, but I think him getting back was more of a curse today, rather than a blessing because the whole team was rather trying to have him dictate to entire and it's almost like a telegraphed game play for the Cavs to read and counter.

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I believe Saudi Arabia's kings promises can only be nothing but a source of motivation, that really doesn't connotes that it will determine the outcome of the said fixtures, I really do commend Saudi Arabia for their performance against Poland, they played really well but at the end of the day, they lost the game, while the heroics with the victory vs Argentina was a source motivation for their next game, but in the game vs Argentina they weren't competitive in the first half of the game and just keep their high defensive line, If Argentina had won that game, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been as courageous and attack minded like they were in the 2nd game vs Poland.

I'll back Mexico not lose the game (more likely a win), but a draw would also not be enough for Saudi Arabia to make it to the next round, except if Argentina fails to emerge victorious against Poland.

From the picture you posted above, it looks pretty clearly like it's the correct call, the player in question's knee is above the last defender if you take his arm out of the picture and that's always the case when ruling for an offside.

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England have broken the deadlock with 2 goals in quick succession, thanks to new introduced starters, Rashford and Foden, both players have been heavily involved in almost every attacking threat that England have so far, I guess that's the end of any atom of hope the Welsh team could have had coming into this game.

I also didn't see such convincingly dominant performance coming from USA beforehand, IRAN have done actually better against the other 2 opponents than USA fared against them, so I felt IRAN should be able to absolved all form of pressure from USA.  However, I just stumbled upon a tweet from @TrollFootball that compared the fixture to WW3 so, I supposed that's why USA had to put all their firepower out there, there wouldn't have been a worse team to lose against than IRAN for the USA.

I'm not gonna lie this by far one of the best competition I've witnessed and I'd love to see something for every other competition with this kind of format, tournaments likes the AFCON, Euro and even the forum infamous Uefa Champions League, it would make perfect, I'd don't even mind it having an entry like every other tournament, just something different from usual SuperBRU oriented pools.

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I might have overplayed myself by going for IRAN to have more attempts than USA, while being clearly sure that they'll be under the most pressure, and it's not even close one USA already with 8 attempts to IRAN's 0...

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