Topic: World Cup 2018 | OT | Jules Rimet Still Gleaming

Official thread for the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. Use this topic to discuss matches, make predictions, and talk about your favourite (and least favourite) players.

We're hours away from the first England game. Score predictions?

I thought all this got crammed into the football thread!

2-0 England

3-1 to England.
Tunisia to lead by half time.

England to score 2 late goals.

After a shaky first half Belgium won confidently. They have a great team with a lot of experience. I’m really looking forward to the match against England. Here’s to a great game!

England are gonna win the world cup! 😂

Haha, well England started well. Then it went to pieces. But Tunisia didn’t deserve anything IMO.

Ive done a score / result predictor and Croatia are my champions.

Modric, Rakatic and Perisic. Thats a hell of a trio. All 3 would walk into our team.

@get2sammyb pieces is a bit strong lol. Yeah we ain't all that, but it was actually entertaining watching England play for once which is.. nice.

Thought the ref and the officials were pretty awful in the England game. But so was some of our finishing. Never be keen on playing a right at centre back, especially such an attack minded one such as Walker. And I thought Ahsley Young was a bit predictable cutting in onto his right foot all the time. But we showed a bit of character to never give up and get a late goal.

@JohnnyShoulder finishing was bad. If they can do a bit better in that department, we got some decent game I think.

It's coming home lads!

@kyleforrester87 I think if they can replicate the first 30 minutes for a full game than no one will want to play us. I did feel like there was a bit of mental fragility after the penalty; felt like they forgot what they were doing after that.

HOWEVER, the late goal should breed confidence, so hopefully we can stick a few past Panama and really give Belgium a go.

@JohnnyShoulder Hahaha...no. But Ugly Kane is a great striker.

Guess the Swiss really disliked Neymar's new hairdo.

He got fouled 10 times, jeez. The last time a player got fouled that many times was Alan Shearer (11 times to be exact) back in 1998.

I'm watching all the matches (not joking), the best match was Portugal x Spain. Talking about the champions of the World Cup, only Uruguay, France and England won. Looks like that Salah will play tomorrow, let's see.

@WanderingBullet They're not alone. Neymar got schooled by Behrami.

I think Spain, Mexico, Peru, England and Ronaldo have been entertaining to watch with some fast, positive football. The rest have been largely a bore.

@WanderingBullet Neymar is a big time charlie who dives around all the time. Great player of course but hes a professional scam artist. With the slightest attempt to win the ball hes down with agony on his face.

My Saudi sweepstake boys are back in action tomorrow. I'm enjoying their tactic of pretending to be rubbish in their first game, so as to lure everyone into a false sense of security.

Tricky test against Uruguay next. Quietly confident.

@themcnoisy You have just described the Barcelona and Real Madrid sides.