FIFA 2026 World Cup/Ticket Discussion Thread.

[Tmoonz]

Congratulations on winning your bet. I gave you a merit because it’s not so common to see people on this board post they bet slips but they always claim to be the winning. Norway was my favorite to win even though many didn’t believe they could beat Brazil. When you consider the individual brilliance of Haaland, his physical dominance and skill, it’s hard not to pick Norway as your winners.

I’ve seen a few of them too, they don’t actually have the ticket, they’re just making claims so they can join the discussion. As for Norway, I view them as a team that is vastly underrated. Giving them +1 handicap feels like an insult to me, so I’m challenging myself to place that bet. Finally, they proved that what the majority thought was wrong.
 
By the way, thanks for the merit bros!

Betting on Norway to win against Brazil is quite a bold step there, I highly recommend his sense of betting, a very big congratulations to him, because even within myself I was so convinced that there's no way they could won that game against Brazil but it appears I was all wrong, congratulations to Norway also they really amused me like it was actually unexpected by me, with such performance it's crystal clear that those guys are not in this tournament for childs play they're all in for serious business and I like it that way.

[Black Mbaye]

Congratulations on winning your bet. I gave you a merit because it’s not so common to see people on this board post they bet slips but they always claim to be the winning. Norway was my favorite to win even though many didn’t believe they could beat Brazil. When you consider the individual brilliance of Haaland, his physical dominance and skill, it’s hard not to pick Norway as your winners.

I’ve seen a few of them too, they don’t actually have the ticket, they’re just making claims so they can join the discussion. As for Norway, I view them as a team that is vastly underrated. Giving them +1 handicap feels like an insult to me, so I’m challenging myself to place that bet. Finally, they proved that what the majority thought was wrong.
 
By the way, thanks for the merit bros!

Betting on Norway to win against Brazil is quite a bold step there, I highly recommend his sense of betting, a very big congratulations to him, because even within myself I was so convinced that there's no way they could won that game against Brazil but it appears I was all wrong, congratulations to Norway also they really amused me like it was actually unexpected by me, with such performance it's crystal clear that those guys are not in this tournament for childs play they're all in for serious business and I like it that way.

Judging by the quality of their 11 players, Brazil seemed to have the advantage. Therefore, Norway didn't appear to have a clear lead at the start of the match. However, Brazil failed to score and continued to fight until the final minutes. The missed penalty gave Norway a huge morale boost, while Brazil suffered a setback. Of course, considering that Norway has some of the best strikers in the world, their victory wasn't simply a matter of luck.

[savetheFORUM]

Neymar shouldn't even have bene here, and we all know it. They only got him because Brazilians would be mad if they didn't get him, but that was a bad move from the start. When he plays, you do see that he should not have played, and even if they did call him up, at least they should not have just played him on latest minutes because he wasn't providing anything.

It's sad to see him retire from Brazil at 34 years old, but with the way he lived his life, and the way he got injured, it ended up being quite bad for him and his body is much older than he is.

[W Jr.]

Neymar shouldn't even have bene here, and we all know it. They only got him because Brazilians would be mad if they didn't get him, but that was a bad move from the start. When he plays, you do see that he should not have played, and even if they did call him up, at least they should not have just played him on latest minutes because he wasn't providing anything.

It's sad to see him retire from Brazil at 34 years old, but with the way he lived his life, and the way he got injured, it ended up being quite bad for him and his body is much older than he is.

I think Neymar Junior is finished with football. I saw people in Brazil happy that they included him in the squad. Yes, he might be an important player for Brazil, and one of the most important players in Brazilian history. However, it was clear they wouldn't be able to utilize him in this World Cup. I think it would have been better if they hadn't made that decision. During his time playing, he made no contribution to Brazil. Apart from the penalty he scored, he didn't contribute anything to the team.

[Varnquister]

Portugal was eliminated from the tournament after conceding a last-minute goal against Spain. To be honest, Portugal didn’t play very well, and it’s fair to say that Spain deserved to win. Spain, which won thanks to a last-minute goal by Mikel Merino, advanced to the next round, while Ronaldo’s Portugal was forced to say goodbye to the World Cup here. Frankly, I would have liked to see Ronaldo play in the World Cup final against Argentina, and I hoped the better team would win, but of course, that was a long shot.

[virasog]

Portugal was eliminated from the tournament after conceding a last-minute goal against Spain. To be honest, Portugal didn’t play very well, and it’s fair to say that Spain deserved to win. Spain, which won thanks to a last-minute goal by Mikel Merino, advanced to the next round, while Ronaldo’s Portugal was forced to say goodbye to the World Cup here. Frankly, I would have liked to see Ronaldo play in the World Cup final against Argentina, and I hoped the better team would win, but of course, that was a long shot.

By the way I think there was no unity following in the Portugal team, what formation you play as a team, you needs to play with a bunch of players in specific area, but the potential this team had, the qualities and the abilities this team have, the problem might come in mindset that it seems that they have been already decided to go for the penalties game, instead of approaching the game in attacking manner and also it was kind of frusted that the players were just doing too much passing, when they had chances something and whatever the thing that is left is only regret for the team and nothing else.

[Rashlyowl]

Portugal was eliminated from the tournament after conceding a last-minute goal against Spain. To be honest, Portugal didn’t play very well, and it’s fair to say that Spain deserved to win. Spain, which won thanks to a last-minute goal by Mikel Merino, advanced to the next round, while Ronaldo’s Portugal was forced to say goodbye to the World Cup here. Frankly, I would have liked to see Ronaldo play in the World Cup final against Argentina, and I hoped the better team would win, but of course, that was a long shot.

Spain deserved that result, they played better than Portugal, though they were just a bit late in scoring. I had actually expected Spain to score at least one goal in the first half. As for Cristiano Ronaldo, it is not in this life, but in another life, that he will win his first world cup trophy. The match against Spain should have taken place in the semifinals, if it were to happen at all, in my opinion, the match between Portugal & Spain came too early.

[Slow death]

Neymar shouldn't even have bene here, and we all know it. They only got him because Brazilians would be mad if they didn't get him, but that was a bad move from the start. When he plays, you do see that he should not have played, and even if they did call him up, at least they should not have just played him on latest minutes because he wasn't providing anything.

It's true that he doesn't have good physical conditioning, but we also need to look at all the players who were called up and see if they actually played well or not. At Real Madrid, fans sometimes complained about Vicinius Jr., and in the Brazilian national team, he rarely scored consistently in qualifying matches. So I ask:

In the Brazilian national team, is there any player like Mbappé, Haaland, Messi, or Hare Kane who consistently score goals and greatly contribute to the national team? My answer is that there isn't. By this I mean that the problem wasn't Neymar's call-up; that's not what caused Brazil's elimination. The problem was the entire squad, which was weak.

[Adiljutt156]

Brazil failed to beat Norway and was eliminated from the tournament. We can’t say Brazil played very well. Bruno Guimaraes’ missed penalty in the 14th minute was perhaps the turning point of the match. If he had converted that penalty and put Brazil up 1-0, we might be talking about a very different outcome right now. The goals in the match all came in the final 10 minutes. Haaland was the architect of the victory, while Schjelderup provided the assists for the goals. Although Neymar scored on a penalty kick in the final minute, it wasn’t enough.

Haaland performance is improving in every match and he is top class player at that time but he looks like funny person but he has speciality to do goals. Haaland did first goal at 79 minutes of the match and that was first goal of the match and there was no goal in the first half of the match and Haaland was aggressive in the second half of the match and he did back to back 2 goals in this match. He did second goal at 90 minutes when it was need of the team to make match one sided. After that Neymar did goal in this match but his team lose this match and that team is out of the World cup. Neymar was crying after the match because he has dream to win the World cup and he was not successful in his Mission.

[Agbe]

Portugal was eliminated from the tournament after conceding a last-minute goal against Spain. To be honest, Portugal didn’t play very well, and it’s fair to say that Spain deserved to win. Spain, which won thanks to a last-minute goal by Mikel Merino, advanced to the next round, while Ronaldo’s Portugal was forced to say goodbye to the World Cup here. Frankly, I would have liked to see Ronaldo play in the World Cup final against Argentina, and I hoped the better team would win, but of course, that was a long shot.

This is not the first time this two teams have played. In 2018 World Cup, they played 3-3 in the 90 minutes with 4 extra time. Though in the group stage and Portugal should know that Spain has been a threat to them. Congratulations to Spain for the advancing the tournament. Egypt and Argentina match has started and Egypt has the lead of 1 zero now. 1-0 against Argentina. I am supporting Egypt to win this match.

[Tmoonz]

Congratulations on winning your bet. I gave you a merit because it’s not so common to see people on this board post they bet slips but they always claim to be the winning. Norway was my favorite to win even though many didn’t believe they could beat Brazil. When you consider the individual brilliance of Haaland, his physical dominance and skill, it’s hard not to pick Norway as your winners.

I’ve seen a few of them too, they don’t actually have the ticket, they’re just making claims so they can join the discussion. As for Norway, I view them as a team that is vastly underrated. Giving them +1 handicap feels like an insult to me, so I’m challenging myself to place that bet. Finally, they proved that what the majority thought was wrong.
 
By the way, thanks for the merit bros!

Betting on Norway to win against Brazil is quite a bold step there, I highly recommend his sense of betting, a very big congratulations to him, because even within myself I was so convinced that there's no way they could won that game against Brazil but it appears I was all wrong, congratulations to Norway also they really amused me like it was actually unexpected by me, with such performance it's crystal clear that those guys are not in this tournament for childs play they're all in for serious business and I like it that way.

Judging by the quality of their 11 players, Brazil seemed to have the advantage. Therefore, Norway didn't appear to have a clear lead at the start of the match. However, Brazil failed to score and continued to fight until the final minutes. The missed penalty gave Norway a huge morale boost, while Brazil suffered a setback. Of course, considering that Norway has some of the best strikers in the world, their victory wasn't simply a matter of luck.

I can never in any day consider that won a luck, they actually worked so hard for it and it certainly pays off, though it was a surprise winning to me but I will never consider it luck, but what exactly is the color of Bruno Guimarães problem? The time Vinicius junior wanted to take that penalty what was he thinking that made him ask for it? Like he actually think himself Christiano Ronaldo? To me he masterminded that Brazil lost, because I'm very much certain Vinicius junior could have scored that goal, now the lack of team work has cost them the world cup trophy now he should go and deal with that.

[Zanab247]

Portugal was eliminated from the tournament after conceding a last-minute goal against Spain. To be honest, Portugal didn’t play very well, and it’s fair to say that Spain deserved to win. Spain, which won thanks to a last-minute goal by Mikel Merino, advanced to the next round, while Ronaldo’s Portugal was forced to say goodbye to the World Cup here. Frankly, I would have liked to see Ronaldo play in the World Cup final against Argentina, and I hoped the better team would win, but of course, that was a long shot.

Despite they did not cross this stage to next stage, they did well before they where eliminated by Spain. I guess this FIFA world cup tournament is getting interesting and see Barcelona striker keep going is a big improvement to Barcelona, because many top clubs players have been eliminated from the tournament and some will still going to be drop before it will be clear for club that will meet for final stage.

Ronaldo tried his best to lead Portugal to reach this stage they gotten to before they where eliminated, and some of their potential players where in tears because they know, this is the last world cup they will participate before they will resign from football games.

[HelliumZ]

Today,the round-16 match between Egypt and Argentina ended in a fiercely competitive match,where Argentina defeated Egypt 3-2in the last twenty minutes of drama to secure a quarter-final spot.Initially, it seemed that Argentina would be eliminated from the World Cup in the round-16 after losing to Egypt, but in the end, Argentina performed extremely well and qualified.However Egypt also played very well and lost to Argentina in a tough match. Best wishes to Argentina and hope for Egypt to do even better in the next World Cup.

[virasog]

Spain deserved that result, they played better than Portugal, though they were just a bit late in scoring. I had actually expected Spain to score at least one goal in the first half. As for Cristiano Ronaldo, it is not in this life, but in another life, that he will win his first world cup trophy. The match against Spain should have taken place in the semifinals, if it were to happen at all, in my opinion, the match between Portugal & Spain came too early.

No goal in the first half, it looked 0- 0, and even in the second half, no goal was scored. But when the referee announced 6 minutes plus, suddenly, within the next 5 or less than 10 seconds Spain scored an easy goal, and the defenders of the Portugal team were not able to protect it. At the same time, I think Spain deserves more because overall, they have more momentum in the game than Portugal.

[Jaycoinz]

Spain deserved that result, they played better than Portugal, though they were just a bit late in scoring. I had actually expected Spain to score at least one goal in the first half. As for Cristiano Ronaldo, it is not in this life, but in another life, that he will win his first world cup trophy. The match against Spain should have taken place in the semifinals, if it were to happen at all, in my opinion, the match between Portugal & Spain came too early.

No goal in the first half, it looked 0- 0, and even in the second half, no goal was scored. But when the referee announced 6 minutes plus, suddenly, within the next 5 or less than 10 seconds Spain scored an easy goal, and the defenders of the Portugal team were not able to protect it. At the same time, I think Spain deserves more because overall, they have more momentum in the game than Portugal.

Portugal played one of their worse game yesterday so far because they were very poor in their performance and I mean from every aspect of the game and it showed through out the game. One of my greatest surprises in this world cup and in this Portuguese side is how poor and badly the much expected midfielders of Portugal have played together. From the likes of vintinha and Bruno Fernandez and even jao neves, they have all been so terrible at the creation of chances for their team mates.

[Abdulzuruku01]

Neymar shouldn't even have bene here, and we all know it. They only got him because Brazilians would be mad if they didn't get him, but that was a bad move from the start. When he plays, you do see that he should not have played, and even if they did call him up, at least they should not have just played him on latest minutes because he wasn't providing anything.

It's sad to see him retire from Brazil at 34 years old, but with the way he lived his life, and the way he got injured, it ended up being quite bad for him and his body is much older than he is.

You're right, they included Neymer in the squad because of the Brazilians that would be unhappy. If not for that, we all know that Neymer has nothing to offer in the biggest tournament like the world cup. Injury has ended Neymer football career, he's just managing now, we saw how he struggled in the Saudi Professional league and his injurirs keep getting worst even in the Brazilian league. Honestly if I were him I would just give up in the football because right now he's not doing anything special anymore.

[DiMarxist]

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You're right, they included Neymer in the squad because of the Brazilians that would be unhappy. If not for that, we all know that Neymer has nothing to offer in the biggest tournament like the world cup. Injury has ended Neymer football career, he's just managing now, we saw how he struggled in the Saudi Professional league and his injurirs keep getting worst even in the Brazilian league. Honestly if I were him I would just give up in the football because right now he's not doing anything special anymore.

Why will a coach include a player that is not too fit and is not even in form in his world cup squad, just to satisfy the aspirations of fans against his own self. Now his job is at stake and he is now facing backlash from this same set of people. The coach actually got it wrong here he would have left Neymar out of the world cup list because, I don't know what exactly the impact of Neymar in this world cup.

[Obim34]

Today,the round-16 match between Egypt and Argentina ended in a fiercely competitive match,where Argentina defeated Egypt 3-2in the last twenty minutes of drama to secure a quarter-final spot.Initially, it seemed that Argentina would be eliminated from the World Cup in the round-16 after losing to Egypt, but in the end, Argentina performed extremely well and qualified.However Egypt also played very well and lost to Argentina in a tough match. Best wishes to Argentina and hope for Egypt to do even better in the next World Cup.

Hope was lost, everyone thought Argentina were out of the World Cup, but what happened in the last few minutes was something extraordinary, Argentina showed and proved why they are truly the World Champion.

Argentina will play Switzerland or Columbia in the quarter final, looks like another qualification for them.

[BitBakerr1]

Egypt just did same thing that Senegal did, you are winning with two goals and you ended up losing the match, this African teams are just something else, they always love to disappoint those that are supporting them, I’m not happy with how Egypt lost the match, Argentina are just so lucky but I really don’t see them lifting the World Cup again, Messi actually did his best, he missed a penalty and then scored the goal that made it 2:2, he is a great player.
Congratulations to Argentina even though I wanted Egypt to win.

[Halifat]

Egypt just did same thing that Senegal did, you are winning with two goals and you ended up losing the match, this African teams are just something else, they always love to disappoint those that are supporting them, I’m not happy with how Egypt lost the match, Argentina are just so lucky but I really don’t see them lifting the World Cup again, Messi actually did his best, he missed a penalty and then scored the goal that made it 2:2, he is a great player.
Congratulations to Argentina even though I wanted Egypt to win.

Yes Egypt did the same thing as Senegal and also some African Nations but I want you to look at the game of Egypt and Argentina you will realize that they try their all means to make Argentina win this match which they succeeded, from the first minute to the 70 minute Egypt we are doing great and also playing a very beautiful football but the referee change everything by giving more priority to Argentina alone and that is why the match ended this way. I applause Egypt they did very well but the game is already been planned which they want Argentina to win.