2022 FIFA World Cup

[Pies4shaw]

Australian soccer guides, number 14: "How to defeat Argentina at the World Cup".

https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/watch/7CdzLbiTi9CNHfG1gmpGGJ?cid=(p_go-box)(c_FIFAPlus)(sc_archive)(ssc_)(da_)(co_)(cc_)&s_cid=(co_)(cc_)&c=(c_FIFAPlus)(sc_archive)(ssc_)(cc_)&pid=(p_go-box)(ch_)(t_)

We've got a number 14, too, right? I mean, that's just a number for a substitute?

[K]

sb World Cup 2022 Outrights [all countries have played 3 matches -- on to KOs now!]

Brazil 3.30
Argentina 5.00
France 6.00
Spain 7.00
England 9.00
Portugal 12.00
Netherlands 19.00
Croatia 31.00
Japan 56.00
Switzerland 81.00
Morocco, USA 91.00
Senegal 126.00
Australia 201.00
Poland South Korea 251.00

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[Jezza]

Final round of the group stage results:

Tuesday, November 29 2022:
Ecuador 🇪🇨 1-2 Senegal 🇸🇳
Netherlands 🇳🇱 2-0 Qatar 🇶🇦
Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 0-3 England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Iran 🇮🇷 0-1 USA 🇺🇸

Wednesday, November 30 2022:
Poland 🇵🇱 0-2 Argentina 🇦🇷
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 1-2 Mexico 🇲🇽
Australia 🇦🇺 1-0 Denmark 🇩🇰
Tunisia 🇹🇳 1-0 France 🇫🇷

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

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

[Jezza]

Final group stage ladder

Group A:
1). Netherlands 🇳🇱 = 7
2). Senegal 🇸🇳 = 6
3). Ecuador 🇪🇨 = 4
4). Qatar 🇶🇦 = 0

Group B:
1). England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 7
2). USA 🇺🇸 = 5
3). Iran 🇮🇷 = 3
4). Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 = 1

Group C:
1). Argentina 🇦🇷 = 6
2). Poland 🇵🇱 = 4
3). Mexico 🇲🇽 = 4
4). Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 = 3

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

Group E:
1). Japan 🇯🇵 = 6
2). Spain 🇪🇸 = 4
3). Germany 🇩🇪 = 4
4). Costa Rica 🇨🇷 = 3

Group F:
1). Morocco 🇲🇦 = 7
2). Croatia 🇭🇷 = 5
3). Belgium 🇧🇪 = 4
4). Canada 🇨🇦 = 0

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

Group H:
1). Portugal 🇵🇹 = 6
2). South Korea 🇰🇷 = 4
3). Uruguay 🇺🇾 = 4
4). Ghana 🇬🇭 = 3

[Jezza]

Round of 16 matches:

Saturday, December 3 2022:
Netherlands 🇳🇱 vs USA 🇺🇸
Argentina 🇦🇷 vs Australia 🇦🇺

Sunday, December 4 2022:
France 🇫🇷 vs Poland 🇵🇱
England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 vs Senegal 🇸🇳

Monday, December 5 2022:
Japan 🇯🇵 vs Croatia 🇭🇷
Brazil 🇧🇷 vs South Korea 🇰🇷

Tuesday, December 6 2022:
Morocco 🇲🇦 vs Spain 🇪🇸
Portugal 🇵🇹 vs Switzerland 🇨🇭

[Jezza]

[pietillidie]

^Nice. I think that Iran game was also in the 90,000s. Incredible atmosphere.

I can tell you, you won't regret planning now for 2026 in North America. Soccer is obviously not huge there, but it's an easy destination and a good tourism spot, so millions will head there. The party atmosphere is incredible. It's a bonus if the Socceroos make it, but you'll still love it even if not.

Qatar is obviously the wrong kind of destination for a month-long party, but the two I've been to, Korea and Germany, were mad.

But for 2026, you'll have the pick of Canada, the US and Mexico, or all three, in a single trip.

[Pies4shaw]

I'm very sad. That second goal, now, was just embarrassing. The sort of garbage you see from defenders in the EPL.

[pietillidie]

No shame in that. Happy to make them nervous at the end and for Messi to score against them.

[Pies4shaw]

Lucky for us we didn't get through. Argentina has Messi surrounded by a lot of average players. The Dutch have about 15 guns in their squad. The USA were probably relieved not to have had 5 or 6 put past them - but Depay isn't quite match-fit, yet.

[think positive]

Woohooooo England!

[K]

Media heat on Cahill:

Why Tim Cahill has cast an awkward shadow over Socceroos’ Qatar success

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/why-tim-cahill-has-cast-an-awkward-shadow-over-socceroos-qatar-success-20221206-p5c3x8.html

"Now 42, Cahill is the chief sports officer at the Aspire Academy, the glistening $1.3 billion facility where the Socceroos spent almost every second of their visit to Doha... The reality is they wouldn’t have got in there without Cahill.

Other teams stayed in hotels and bussed to training grounds, while Graham Arnold and his players got to do everything in the same location: eat, sleep, train, repeat. ...

It was also adjacent to the high-tech Aspetar sports medicine hospital, one of the most advanced of its kind in the world, where Australia took their increasingly important recovery sessions. It almost certainly handed the Socceroos an edge in high-performance, which you could see in their 2-1 defeat to Argentina - it was basically the same starting XI that Arnold had rolled out in every match, and having played only 76 hours earlier, they should have been gassed. But they weren’t, and took Lionel Messi’s men to the wire.
...

t’s a topic they truly care about so it must have been raised at some point, although it’s easy to understand why Cahill could have been avoiding the conversation: he is a paid-up ambassador of the Qatar’s Supreme Committee of Delivery & Legacy, the government arm tasked with organising the World Cup and named like some sort of villainous organisation seeking to assassinate James Bond."

[K]