Squirrel

Tomorrow’s games are Argentina v Egypt and Switzerland v Colombia. I’m guessing Argentina wins. I also pick Colombia over Switzerland.

This is an event, like the Olympics, that happens once every four years. I don’t know why people can’t just enjoy seeing the best of the best on the world stage without making it about nationalism. Yes, every country shows its pride, but I, for one, just enjoy the sport without feeling the need to wave the flag. And I’ve never lived in Belgium, I had a boyfriend from there and visited. Beautiful country. And the best frites ever 🙂

Yeah, not a great game, but they likely weren’t going to beat Belgium anyway.

What I meant by it was to just enjoy all the teams and the level of play. Why cheer for the U.S. team just because they are the U.S. team? That’s sad. And that’s faux patriotism. Just like the Olympics. It’s to put on display the best of the sport. It shouldn’t be a competition of countries. I’m sorry you don’t get that, but go ahead and wave whatever flag you want.

They should uphold the red card then, despite Trump ruining it. It’s cheating and they shouldn’t go along with it. How about all the players on the other teams who haven’t been given an advantage? How is that fair to them? But I do feel bad they were put in this position because of the idiot. Belgium is the higher rated team and will probably win anyway. And I’ll root for who I want to root for. This faux patriotism to cheer on only American teams is not what it’s about. Just like the Olympics. I actually want Norway to win it all, but they are going to have a tough go against the Brits.

I’m hoping that Belgium wins anyway. They are considered to be the better team. And I’m hoping the FIFA president is removed, as there is strong talk of that happening

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England has a very good team, ranked 4th, the better team over Mexico, ranked 14. England was projected to win. But when you are down to 16 teams, yes, they are all good teams despite rankings, playing hard, was a good match. Earlier, Norway (31) beat Brazil (6), which was considered an upset. Personally, I think Norway is way under-ranked given they have one of the best strikers in the game. Argentina and Spain are the highest ranked, 1 and 2.

Great win by Norway. Rooting for Mexico tonight but England has the better team

Wow, this Croatia-Portugal game is incredible

That’s something that has been debated in the sport. What would you do instead? Just have a sudden death round? Let it go until someone scores, however long it takes?

Redeems? I wouldn’t say that exactly.

So disappointed Erling didn’t play today! I get it, sort of, but that’s likely was supposed to be a really good match up … and the coach sits Erling

Anyone?