2022 FIFA World Cup

[pietillidie]

Slimy disgraceful event ruined by FIFA, but that was an awesome gutsy Aussie win. What a class header from Duke. All G&D after that. Brilliant!

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sb World Cup 2022 Outrights [all countries have played 2 matches]

Brazil 3.60
France 6.50
Spain 7.50
Argentina 9.00
England 10.00
Portugal 11.00
Germany 12.00
Netherlands 14.00
Croatia 51.00
Belgium, Denmark 61.00
Ecuador 81.00
Morocco, Switzerland, USA 91.00

[Jezza]

Second round of the group stage results:

Friday, November 25 2022:
Qatar 🇶🇦 1-3 Senegal 🇸🇳
Netherlands 🇳🇱 1-1 Ecuador 🇪🇨
Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 0-2 Iran 🇮🇷
England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 0-0 USA 🇺🇸

Saturday, November 26 2022:
Poland 🇵🇱 2-0 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Argentina 🇦🇷 2-0 Mexico 🇲🇽
Tunisia 🇹🇳 0-1 Australia 🇦🇺
France 🇫🇷 2-1 Denmark 🇩🇰

Sunday, November 27 2022:
Japan 🇯🇵 0-1 Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Spain 🇪🇸 1-1 Germany 🇩🇪
Belgium 🇧🇪 0-2 Morocco 🇲🇦
Croatia 🇭🇷 4-1 Canada 🇨🇦

Monday, November 28 2022:
Cameroon 🇨🇲 3-3 Serbia 🇷🇸
Brazil 🇧🇷 1-0 Switzerland 🇨🇭
South Korea 🇰🇷 2-3 Ghana 🇬🇭
Portugal 🇵🇹 2-0 Uruguay 🇺🇾

[Jezza]

Group stage ladder

Group A:
1). Netherlands 🇳🇱 = 4
2). Ecuador 🇪🇨 = 4
3). Senegal 🇸🇳 = 3
4). Qatar 🇶🇦 = 0

Group B:
1). England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 4
2). Iran 🇮🇷 = 3
3). USA 🇺🇸 = 2
4). Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 = 1

Group C:
1). Poland 🇵🇱 = 4
2). Argentina 🇦🇷 = 3
3). Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 = 3
3). Mexico 🇲🇽 = 1

Group D:
1). France 🇫🇷 = 6
2). Australia 🇦🇺 = 3
3). Denmark 🇩🇰 = 1
4). Tunisia 🇹🇳 = 1

Group E:
1). Spain 🇪🇸 = 4
2). Japan 🇯🇵 = 3
3). Costa Rica 🇨🇷 = 3
4). Germany 🇩🇪 = 1

Group F:
1). Croatia 🇭🇷 = 4
2). Morocco 🇲🇦 = 4
3). Belgium 🇧🇪 = 3
4). Canada 🇨🇦 = 0

Group G:
1). Brazil 🇧🇷 = 6
2). Switzerland 🇨🇭 = 3
3). Cameroon 🇨🇲 = 1
4). Serbia 🇷🇸 = 1

[Jezza]

Final round of the group stage:

Tuesday, November 29 2022:
Ecuador 🇪🇨 vs Senegal 🇸🇳
Netherlands 🇳🇱 vs Qatar 🇶🇦
Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 vs England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Iran 🇮🇷 vs USA 🇺🇸

Wednesday, November 30 2022:
Poland 🇵🇱 vs Argentina 🇦🇷
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 vs Mexico 🇲🇽
Australia 🇦🇺 vs Denmark 🇩🇰
Tunisia 🇹🇳 vs France 🇫🇷

Thursday, December 1 2022:
Japan 🇯🇵 vs Spain 🇪🇸
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 vs Germany 🇩🇪
Canada 🇨🇦 vs Morocco 🇲🇦
Croatia 🇭🇷 vs Belgium 🇧🇪

Friday, December 2 2022:
Serbia 🇷🇸 vs Switzerland 🇨🇭
Cameroon 🇨🇲 vs Brazil 🇧🇷
South Korea 🇰🇷 vs Portugal 🇵🇹
Ghana 🇬🇭 vs Uruguay 🇺🇾

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Baum on Eriksen:

"In the past nine months, Christian Eriksen has played more than 40 matches of high-level football, scoring for Brentford, Manchester United and Denmark. It would be a proud page in any footballer’s CV. But Eriksen has done all this since he died.
...

Eriksen had suffered a cardiac arrest due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator inserted. One impact was that he was unable to return to Inter Milan, his club at the time, because the device contravened Italian soccer regulations. It would have been academic to him at the time.

But after eight months of rehabilitation, Eriksen did come back. He signed a six-month contract with Brentford before being lured to Manchester United in the English Premier League. He returned to Parken to play an international for Denmark, and within two minutes of coming on, scored. Hans Christian Andersen couldn’t have written a better script, although his weren’t bad."

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/the-day-christian-eriksen-came-back-from-the-dead-20221129-p5c1zn.html

[pietillidie]

What a sensational goal by Leckie! With Tunisia leading France's B team the Aussies have to win. Currently up 1-0.

[pietillidie]

Yes! Aussies through to the round of 16! What a gem of a goal from Leckie to get through. Well worth a look even if you're not a soccer fan.

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-01/mat-leckie-goal-australia-socceroos-denmark-world-cup/101719740

[Jezza]

Great night for Australian football.

Looking forward to the Argentina match.

[pietillidie]

^I saw Maradonna play in the flesh at the Sydney Football Stadium in a WC qualifying game back in something like 1992, and it's one of my great sporting memories. Whatever happens against Argentina, the Socceroos get to play against Messi in his last World Cup, which is a memory they've all earned.

Graeme Arnold is rightly getting plaudits over here for the team spirit and attitude he has fostered, and for doing things like bringing the lad with the knee injury on crutches into the huddle, providing a positive sporting note to an otherwise grim FIFA debacle.

[Pies4shaw]

^ https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/the-best-circus-to-ever-hit-this-country-maradona-s-two-weeks-in-sydney-20201126-p56ich.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTP8v5O2PQE - Every touch Diego had in that game.

Australia is presently ranked 38th in the World. To get to play Argentina (ranked 3rd in the World), they beat the 30th team (Tunisia), knocked out the 10th team (Denmark) and lost to the 4th (France). Meanwhile, the 2nd (Belgium), 11th (Germany), 13th (Mexico), 18th (Wales) and 19th (Iran) have already tumbled out at the Group stage.

[pietillidie]

^That's it, 93.

I was also at the infamous Iran qualifier in I think 97 at the MCG when Australia were cruising something like 3-0 and a serial streaker disrupted the game by swinging on the cross bar, after which the Socceroos collapsed and were beaten on the away goals rule!

Have I mentioned the one where I watched a game near a castle in the south of Germany at the 2006 WC? We watched Australia vs. Japan at a pub near a famous castle, the name of which I forget, and an entire bus load of Japanese tourists arrived to do the same. Timmy Cahill scored a brace and boy did I let them know it. I was lucky to get out alive!

The only actual WC game I've seen live was Germany vs. Paraguay on Jeju Island at the Korea/Japan WC in 2002.

2026 might be a good chance to visit Canada, I reckon, avoiding the dangerous third-world hosts to the south!