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Reminiscent of England's failure in penalties against Italy last year.

Deschamps panicking? Two substitutions in the first half.o_O

A few years ago I read the book The British in Argentina. Brits, but especially Scots, played a significant role in creating Argentina, bringing it its sports, building its railways, and a founding role in the beef industry which is now famous round the world and very high prestige in London...

Moroccan attacker knocked down whilst attacking a local person in a car. Some reports say he has died. Note they tore the French flag from his car.

In case you can't see what it is - it's RT (Russian state TV) France scores after 4 minutes. Despite only having to beat the goalie it was quite a well taken goal by Hernandez as it was above shoulder height.

3-0 now. I thought the penalty was unfair but all in all Argentina are far deserving of being in the final than Croatia.

Unlike in most American sports almost all statistics in football are a poor indicator of what happened in a match. Steve Sailer was baffled for years trying to figure out how the same few countries kept winning the World Cup decade after decade because he spent too much time studying stats that...

France very fortunate to get through that. They were impressive for the first 20 minutes only. Some really stupid fouls giving England an unnecessary penalty and then free kick right at the end. The Brazilian referee was terrible.

Why doesn't Argentina have more black players We are beyond parody at this point.

Histrionic British commentator probably just wet himself because an African country will be in the semi-finals. He claimed Morocco were playing for all of Africa. Typical white liberal view of the world. As if sub-saharan Africans are all cheering for Arabs/Berbers.

Things not looking good for Portugal. Morocco have lost a bunch of players due to injury. If they go through to the semi-finals they should be easy pickings for France/England.

His widow looks Indian

Apparently this guy, Grant Wahl, just died in Qatar. He was in his 40s. Hmm...

The absolute audacity of the Dutch with that last second free kick. I dislike this Dutch team but I'm pretty impressed with that. Trying to imagine the recriminations if that trick free kick hadn't come off, so it was brave. I didn't see the other match but Croatia have played five matches now...

Portugal without Ronaldo leading Switzerland 4-1. One of the best performances of the tournament thus far. They'll play Morocco on the weekend. I expect Morocco to play for penalties right from the start.

Good riddance to yet another tedious Spanish team. Nearly one thousand passes leading nowhere. Even when they are in the box they rarely shoot. They are so averse to shooting they can't even score a penalty. It looked to me like they were trying to 'place' even their penalties when we know from...

From what I've seen the knockout stage matches have been boring except the first half of Croatia v Japan and maybe Argentina v Australia. There have been no classic matches at this WC and there are no great teams.

Yes. It's also a very boring match. I didn't know about Mbappe being a Christian. I wonder if his father was one or if his Kabyle mother converted. A lot of Kabyles are quite anti-Islam.

Interesting. Maybe the announcer will be sent to diversity sensitivity training for mentioning that.

Shaqiri, the Albanian, just scored again against Serbia. No political celebration this time though.

Spain did not lose on purpose. They very nearly scored several times in the last 10 minutes.

I'm starting to worry now about England maybe winning the tournament. I think that would be me pretty much finished with the sport. The white pill - so to speak - is that they looked poor against the US.

Die Mannschaft is eliminated two World Cups in a row at the group stage. I don't remember all ethnically German teams failing so miserably at previous international tournaments. Of course, the all-white Italians have now failed to make two WCs in a row but at least they won the Euro last year.

As the commenter said he probably meant Veretout. Unless he was making the joke that the French team is so black they make Guendouzi look white!

Japan leading Spain 2-1 - they just took off their only black player. Costa Rica tied with Germany. lol Meanwhile some footage of the French team training for their match against Tunisia here