incredible Morocco managed to pass by beating Spain, I was skeptical from the beginning of the World Cup that it was strange but I certainly did not expect this surprise hit. Now will I have to change my mind even on the outcome of a victorious France of the title? We'll see what other surprises await us
I believe everyone is surprised on this outcome because Spain has a way higher rank compared to Morocco. But the fans support especially that they are already very close on the finals makes them very motivated to pursue higher place on this special tournament. I thought Spain can finally beat Morocco on the Penalty kick since they can’t penetrate Morocco defense on the actual game but the result is even more surprising when Morocco manage to get 3 points vs 0 points for Spain. I’m actually itching to bet for Spain but watching the Japan vs Croatia makes me think twice because Croatia is almost loss to Japan if they didn’t make the tie breaker points. Now game is all about who plays best and who gives his 💯 on field, Spain is no doubt strong and above in rank as compared to Morocco but they are out of this world cup because of just 1 bad game day. It's all about now and never ,if you want to win give it all or you'll be out we have seen two games in 2 days first Japan and Croatia , Spain and Morocco both we decided in a moment. |
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I can't wait for Brazil to play Croatia because I know my players will make me proud of them. Brazil is very good, and I don't believe Croatia has the courage to defeat Brazil. The games are getting more exciting.
I have no doubts about Brazil's victory against Croatia in the next match, but let's learn from what happened to Spain, which many people predict will be one of the candidates for the grand final in the Qatar world cup this time, that's because they slaughtered Costa Rica with 7- 0 without reply at the start of the group qualifying match, but what happened, they were sent home by Morocco, which basically, many doubted that Morocco would beat Spain. I think so with Croatia, Zlatko Dalić will not stay silent and ponder his doubts, I think he will prepare the best strategy he can to beat Brazil. Now All the teams that are left on world cup are strong and deserving ones and they can beat each9ther with hardworking and dedication. One should never underestimate the other on the basis of experiences. We have seen some surprising performances and games in this fifa ,yesterday was one other example how spain lost against morocco. So all the teams should give their best for the final trophy. |
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Portugal and Brazil in the round of 16 really showed their superiority.
Brazil managed to beat South Korea with a score of 4-1. and Portugal also managed to beat Switzerland with a score of 6-1.
Brazil will next play Croatia. and I think Brazil will win in that match.
and Portugal in the next match will be against Morocco. and of course Portugal too I think will be able to win the match. I imagine Brazil and Portugal will meet in the final.
No one ever thought that without Ronaldo Portugal can perform so much better. They have dominated in almost all the games they have played in this world cup. No doubt they are the favourite and so is Brazil. England is also a better team and the next game that they will play is against France. Either of them will stay in this World Cup and since Portugal has not won a world cup the chance of them getting the cup is high. Portugal showed some mind-blowing performance 6-1 what a win and without Ronaldo. This shows Portugal is strong without Cristiano Ronaldo and can win any match easily. Brilliant performance by . Ramos he did a hatrick . With this type of game we are looking forward to see Portugal in finals. |
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There's no lots of goals being made by both. Both have equal power but morocco was winning the match caused by it has a great goal keeper. I didn't even expect morocco will able to force the match become draw. Morocc is good enough preventing any attack from spain. Spain itself was also feeling so hard to prevent morocco to attack it. I could not believe about how spain was not even able making a single goals during penalty against morocco. The world cup becomes very interesting caused by more big team gone as it was lose against underrated team.
Morocco can beat spain easily in the penalty which makes so many people surprised with the result Spain had more than 75% possession during the regular time + extra time. They completely dominated the match. Also, they were quite unfortunate that some of their shots narrowly missed the goal post. But in the end, Moroccan defense performed exceptionally well and luck was also on their side. What surprised me is the fact that Spanish players missed so many of their spot kicks. Historically they have performed well in shootouts, but I don't know what happened yesterday. All credit to the Moroccan keeper (Yassine Bounou). He was just unbelievable. Spain were totally dominant in game and field in terms of ball possession and even strike they tried many times failed in all of them ,Morocco on other hand they were defensive and alert and they stopped all Spains attempts to goals. The penalty shootout worked for them because at that time Spain was already nervous and under alot of pressure. This is a big thing for morocco now we have to see how they will play against Portugal. |
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During the match Morocco seems very discipline to guard Spain players and almost no mistakes from them which make Spain was hard to created the opportunities to scoring goals besides that Morocco players has showed they have strong mentally than Spain and apparently Spain players looks weren't ready to ended the match with penalty kick even their captain Busquets was failed as penalty taker unfortunately poor records from world cup 2018 was repeated again yesterday and for Morocco finally they can break their records from this tournament and so far quarterfinal were their highest achievement but they had strong opponent on quarterfinal that Portugal seems could be serious contender in this tournament after humiliated Switzerland with huge scores
Morocco implemented a defensive strategy well, the Spanish players had a very difficult time finding gaps into the Moroccan defense area. Spain is superior in terms of ball possession, but very few opportunities are obtained. Morocco coach Walid Reragui had expected that Spain would play a game with short passes by relying on ball possession, the strategy he implemented went perfectly without a single goal scored against Morocco. A draw at normal time was Morocco target from the start, if Walid Reragui implemented an attacking strategy then Morocco would lose. I don't know if Morocco has trained hard for the penalty shootout, as far as I can see, Morocco seems very experienced in the last round to determine the winner in a match. After successfully eliminating Spain on penalties, Morocco managed to make a big surprise at the 2022 World Cup and qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time. Morocco was definitely more confident and strong than Spain on feild ,they were all over the field in terms of defense, attack and strike . Ball possesions not work always in real you should know how to strike on your target . Spain looked like alot of confused, nervous and stressed I think they didn't expect Morocco this strong and tough as an opponent. Penalty shootout totally worked in favour of Morocco. |
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We enjoyed the Japan vs Croatia match with great enthusiasm. The next match is Brazil vs South Korea and it will start only few minutes left. In the last match, South Korea defeated a strong team like Portugal and got a chance to play in the round of 16. According to your prediction, what is happening in today's match? I know most people already seeing advance Brazil winning this match. But South Korea can not get a chance to win? What do you think?
What a thriller game between Croatia and Japan, both team were no doubt unbeatable,strong and deserving one's but obviously one has to win so that is Croatia for now who scored their penalties on target. Both teams today played brilliantly . Now looking forward to next match between Brazil and South Korea. |
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Bangladesh cricket team is starting batting in the second innings with the target of 187 runs given by the Indian team. At the beginning of the batting, Nazmul Hasan Shanto had to leave the field empty-handed. Bangladesh team has many responsible batsmen. Shakib Al Hasa, Liton Das of Bangladesh team have good experience in batting. Especially Liton Das of Bangladesh team is a great batsman. Liton Das has earned a good reputation as a skilled batsman in cricket. It is expected that Liton Das will perform well in today's match as well
Another wicket fall down. Bangladesh lost two wickets for 26 runs. I think India return to the match now and hopefully India will win today's match. Najmul Hossain Shanto and Anamul Haque are gone but now some important wickets remain. Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Liton Das and Mahmudullah Riyad. If these four wickets fall then India's victory will be assured. India have been successful to apply pressure early on Bangladesh team which will be able to make the match more exciting. I am also agreeing with your words Because Bangladesh has such a record in the past too. And now one more big wicket has gone liton das was out by catch out I thought today liton das will be able to make half century but he can't. And now only Shakib and mushfiqur Rahim are remain for the batting side of Bangladesh. If india can take wicket of Shakib and Mushfiqur Rahim before passing 30over it's confirmed that India will win today's match. Bangladesh 4 wickets gone on 95 runs 23 overs . Although India gave a small target of 186 runs it seems like India is going to win this match. Bangladesh batters are struggling to collect runs on this pitch. |
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Now it's not an easy task for rivals Netherlands and Argentina. The favorite may be Argentina, but the stronger team. I think it's from the Netherlands. The Netherlands is one step ahead.
This will be a tight match, Netherland played brilliantly against USA their goals came from good teamwork, I have only watched Argentina play once and one defeat gave enough valuable lessons for them to always play with focus, this time I still favor the Netherlands and if I want to bet, I will choose both teams to score, or Messi to scores. Netherlands played such brilliantly and confidently like a winner they have shown excellent performance and USA in other side their strike and attack was very weak and one goal that they did was due to mistake of Netherland player. Netherlands deserved that win. |
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The team that beat Portugal and Brazil in the last match was quite dramatic. South Korea made a strong candidate to qualify for the last 16, namely Uruguay had to cry even though they won with a score of 0-2.
Group H has very strange point table. South Korea and Uruguay both have 4 points while south Korea GF and GA are 4 and Uruguay GF and GA are 2. I don't understand on what basis South korea is through to next round? I think south Korea and japan are the only asian teams that have qualified for the next round rest all are going home. |
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After Rameez Raja took over as the president of the PCB, their financial situation has improved. But even now the ICC funds ($16 million per year) represent more than half of their budget. For countries such as England and Australia, the ICC funds (roughly the same amount as PCB receives), represent a tiny fraction of the overall revenue. The main reason for this lower revenue is the complex TV broadcasting rules in Pakistan, which mandates the content to be shared with national television (PTV). Lack of tours from India is another reason.
PCB could pull out of 2023 Asia Cup if tournament is moved out of Pakistan. This India Pakistan tension is far from being over at-least not under PM Modi government. There are news that India is pulling out from Asia cup and in reply Pakistan not taking part in ODI world cup in India. The only reason is that since India has got good position in ICC and getting huge benefit from IPL thats why its easy for them to skip Pakistan tour. |
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Despite what happened yesterday, it is almost certain that Namibia will finish within the top-3 in the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2. They need just two more points to overtake the United States. Regarding Nepal, I am not that sure. So far they have only 18 points from 21 matches and the United Arab Emirates is ahead of them. The absence of Sandeep Lamichhane is hitting Nepal quite hard. He is the only Nepali player with franchise T20 experience. I am not sure when he will be able to play for them again.
Teams like Nepal and PNG are sitting at very bottom of points table. Dont know how much more time Nepal will take to improve there ranking. At the moment Oman is leading the points table (thanks to players from India, Pak and Srilanka). Oman and Scotland are very close in competition with just difference of two points. |
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Thailand women have lost some quick wickets, and they are at 98/6 after 15.3 overs. So far this has been a very disastrous tour for the Dutch women. They lost the ODI series 0-4, and so far they are trailing the T20 series by 1-2. Only one win for Netherlands in 7 matches so far, with the 8th match being played right now. Remember that Netherlands is a country with almost 200 years of cricketing history. On the other hand, Thailand is a relatively new team, which started playing international cricket very recently.
At the moment Netherlands W need 45 more runs on 18 balls with 5 wickets remaining. It seems like Thailand will take away the T20 series 3-1. Naruemol chaiwai the thai captain was top scorer with 47 runs while all bowlers have contributed there part in taking wickets. Thailand Women team will soon be part of ICC main events not sure whether there men team can do so or not. |
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Today's session in Pakistan has begun. Pakistan players are walking on the same street against England. They have not lost any wickets so far. However, when the situation of the two teams are the same, it naturally comes to the attention on the Pitch. In that case, the pitch is not favor on the billowing side. As a result, we are also going to see a good innings from Pakistan. Since the target is so long in the test match, In that case there may be a game like ODI cricket.
Defiantly it will be a draw, as on third day Pakistan are 221/0. Both Imam and Abdullah have scored centuries they are not as quick as English openers were. PCB should take some responsibility and start preparing pitches that can do justice with Test format, we saw similar type of pitches in Australia tour. Seems like PCB has not learned anything. |
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As expected this pitch is still good for Pakistan batters. I am certain the opening pair would easily chase almost half of the target set by the English batters tomorrow. Pakistan knows it is not easy to win this test match therefore they will try to draw it and the probability of draw has increased gradually after today. England bowlers need to break this partnership but it seems again the bowlers are not getting any assistance from the pitch for now.
That's true if imam ul haq and Abdulllah Shafiq maintained their partnership tomorrow they can bring this match to a draw because the target given by England is still huge . Tomorrow England ballers will definitely come prepared to take wickets and put pressure on Pakistani batsman. |
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Pak vs Eng 30 runs in just 4 overs  Bazball is in play i suppose. Looks like Rambo strikes again with another flat deck in this historical England tour. PCB is being such a nice host for every important tour, may be because Shaheen is not there. ------------- Edit Bloody hell. 100 in just 13.5 overs @JSRAW they started slowly but are 160 runs in 24 overs and that’s not bad score for a test match, and I believe that you underestimated them very early in the game. Furthermore given the news about that stomach bug I’m surprised that the match is yet on, but the key question is will England player’s be able to last all 5 day’s because from the news report it felt that they may not be at full strength heading into this match. The way England are collecting runs, it seems that they will win the match even if they cannot survive for 5 days. England lost the first wicket for 233 runs. England collected 233 runs in 35.4 overs. They scored more than 6.5 runs per over. Looking at the batting of England's two openers, I don't think this is a Test format match. Batting like this, it is not a difficult task for England to collect more than 500 on the first day. Pakistan bowlers today look helpless on their own pitch. England is playing test like T20 and ODI match either its because of Pakistan balling or their batsman but this is clear they ll give a target of 500+ . On their first day they have made 376 runs in 60 overs their run rate is 6+ and only 3 wickets gone and take by zahid mahmood and haris Rauf. Zak Crawley made 122 runs and Ben Duckett made 107 runs. |
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Afghanistan should have won the match, but they wasted a good opportunity to get a series win against Sri Lanka. From the last two overs, Sri Lanka needed 29 runs. Sri Lanka was in a poor position, but tail-end batsman Dunith Wellalage smashed Gulbadin Naib and Fazalhaq Farooqi for continuous boundaries to give them an unlikely win. Also, it was poor captaincy from Hashmatullah Shahidi, which allowed Naib to bowl the 49th over. Until then, Afghanistan had the upper hand. Naib conceded 15 runs from his over and it tuned out to be the match changer.
Fazalhaq Farooqi did same in Asia cup against Pakistan when Pakistan needed 12 runs in 20th over and last batsmen was on the crease. He bowled two full toss rather then a slow or Yorker which were smashed for six by Nasim Shah. I think Afghanistan is a bit new in cricket and they don't have much experience on how to handle such critical situations. With time they will learn and this issue will be settled. We have to give them credit that they in very short duration manage to beat top teams and have acquired test status. They have potential but their big weakness is how to handle the match in the last minute. Although I am quite happy with their performance. The progress they have made in cricket in a short span of time is truly appreciable. However, in a few matches such as one against Sri Lanka yesterday and one against Pakistan in the Asia Cup, in these two matches, they have fallen behind even close to victory just because of experience. If Afghanistan get another good bowler then their team can be all in all. Afghanistan cricket team is growing and developing rapidly nand they are showing some wonderful performances in recent series with Sirlanka and in previous matches against Teams in Asia Cup. Their batting lineup is very strong and trained ,they are capable of making big scores in upcoming matches just they need few ballers to fill the gaps that are present in thier team and that will help them to win big tournaments and series. |
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I was concerned about Saudi Arabia after their hype of defeating Argentina in the first group stage match, and they end up at the bottom of the group table with only three points from the first match.
Mexico, on the other hand, tried their hardest to get three points from Saudi Arabia, but the goal difference gave Poland an advantage even after losing to Argentina in the last group-stage stage match. This is particularly painful because Mexico could have qualified if they had scored more goals against Saudi Arabia yesterday.
Nothing can be expected from Saudi Arabia. After picking up three points from Argentina they were unable to maintain their form, two defeats forcing them to the bottom of the table. Elimination of Mexico was more tragic than Saudi Arabia, only because of goal difference they could not spread their wings to the next round. Poland has the advantage in Group C, even though they lost to Argentina they have the right to go to the knockout round because their goal difference is better than Mexico. Argentina proved that they are among the strongest teams in this fifa by winning yesterday and no one can question their credibility from just one match in which the lost against Saudia Arabia. I was expecting more performances from Saudia Arabia but unfortunately they didn't perform after the first match and are out of the world cup. Mexico didn't perform good in this world cup and that's why they didn't make it to next round. |
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Australia vs West Indies, 1st Test match did not start well by David Warner. He scored only 5 and go back. Usman Khawaja performed slightly better. But Marnus Labuschagne has done an amazing batting and managed to score 204 runs from 350 balls. On the other hand, Steven Smith also got a century. In addition to Australia in this session they performed brilliantly in Test Cricket besides ODI. At the moment Travis Head is on the field, let's see how far he can take his journey for Australia.
Australia is batting outstanding 568 for 3 wickets, 148 overs Australian batsman Marnus Labuschagne made 204 runs on 350 balls and usman khawaja made 65 runs . Now they have Steven Smith 189 uns and Travis Head 80 runs on field no doubt all batsman are playing outclass . West Indies ballers definitely having hard time on this pitch as far as wickets is concerned. |
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I thought that Sri Lanka won't be able to win the match between Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan. But later I saw that Sri Lanka won this match very easily. Sri Lanka won this match because of the good batting. Afghanistan's words are good first. But later they did not bowl well due to which Afghanistan lost this match. Congratulations to Sri Lanka team for winning the match.
I think,no one can expected it, Sri Lanka could win this match.It was a big fight match and i Think it was great match this series. Afghanistan batting and bowling department both was great today match aslo Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka good finished the last and they won then match 4 wickets with 4 balls reaming. When Sri lanka lost 5 wicket then they were back footed but their finisher batsman done their job properly. Yes I also think Sri Lanka will win the match it was beyond my imagination. I thought Afghanistan will win this match 100% I bet but I lost the bet. Sri Lanka played bad at first but then they batted really well and in the match Victory is done. Sirlanka batting saved them today , they started their innings with a good partnership but 3 wickets fell and than they regain their strength and eventually Asalanka batting brought them to this Victory. Both of teams were good today and played with maturity , one team has to win so today that was Sirlanka. |
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Even with the plenty miss, it looks like that Argentina will be going to the round of 16 as they are now 2-0 in the match against Poland.
However, in the other match, Mexico has also scored 2-0 but still, if this score line remains the same, Poland will be proceeding in the tournament.
At the beginning I wasn't expecting Argentina to have won Poland the group leaders with this Margin, Now Argentina will be toping their group table that is a good come back for the Argentines after loosing their very first world cup game this tournament against the Saudis sides, This Is an Incredible job done by the entire team. With this win and energy they got now they're now sure of qualifying for the round of 16 games. Poland played like people who do not deserve to qualify from the group stage. When the match started, I was supporting them to win against Argentina. The support was more when Messi missed pk. But when I discovered that Poland were playing rubbish, I made a you turn to support Argentina to finish them. They were lucky that Saudi Arabia didn't win against Mexico. They lost but managed to get into the next stage, but I need no one to tell me that they will not survive the next round. Argentina played aggressively today they left no chances to win this game obviously except Messi missing the penalty shot but these things happens in football Argentina won by 2 goals that what matters at the end . Argentina on the whole played outstanding today and Messi was sensible enough he tried to produce many goals . A. Mac Allister 46' and J. Álvarez 67' scored goals for Argentina. Poland game was not on point today either there possession the ball and strike was very low. |
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