Group B - England, Iran, USA, Wales

[silentstriker]

I’m stupid I just was wondering “where’s Italy” so I looked it up and holy ****

 

[Athlai]

I’m stupid I just was wondering “where’s Italy” so I looked it up and holy ****

What

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I’m stupid I just was wondering “where’s Italy” so I looked it up and holy ****

Same place it has always been. In the Mediterranean, looks like a boot, contains the Vatican within Rome, borders a few countries to the north. What's the big deal?

 

[honestbharani]

so who's coming home?

 

[Howe_zat]

Odds suggest that USA make the quarters about one in every three attempts.


I think that's a bit generous to them tbh, I was expecting more like one in five, but they're certainly in it

 

[silentstriker]

Nice. That’s not bad.

 

[Burgey]

 

[BoyBrumby]

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Feel like this sort of thing honestly holds Wales (and Scotland) back a bit.

Ironically it was a double bluff; all tactics (albeit turgid, unambitious and ultimately self-defeating) and very little emotion.

As close as we saw to some Welsh fire was Ramsey attempting to take Walker off at the ankles.

 

[GIMH]

I genuinely didn’t understand the Wales gameplan. And all this ‘it was a great achievement to be here’ stuff is loser speak. I think they need a more positive mindset going forwards.

 

[Uppercut]

I genuinely didn’t understand the Wales gameplan. And all this ‘it was a great achievement to be here’ stuff is loser speak. I think they need a more positive mindset going forwards.

By picking all three of Bale, Ramsey, and Allen they kind of chose having better players on the pitch over having a coherent underdog gameplan.

 

[BoyBrumby]

What offends my admittedly rather antidiluvian football sensibilities the most is the fact that yer Leekists singularly failed to have a proper crack and they had nothing to lose by doing so.

If the scoreline was reversed Wales would still have been on the plane home, but they could've climbed up the stairs with their heads held high.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Wales played similarly to how we'll play if we reach a QF against France or Argentina.

 

[Xuhaib]

Wales played similarly to how we'll play if we reach a QF against France or Argentina.

You will smoke Argentina this time providing argies can get there.

 

[ripper868]

England and Senegal will be great fun, you know Senegal aren't going to just sit back, can see it being a 3-2 humdinger tbh

 

[Tom Flint]

Ben White returning home