Chris2K

Great save, even if it was right down the middle.

I'm going to make a hot take that Mbappe might be taking home the golden boot.

Well there we go.

So close to me posting a picture of Harry Kane laughing.

Otamendi getting out-paced and making a clumsy mistake. Always a chance of it happening.

Damn, double change before half time. Deschamps ain't messing around.

Oh my what a move. This is only going one way.

Who else but Quagmire Messi?

Di Maria showing his right foot is as useful as ever.

It's the most pointless game in football. The teams don't care. The fans of the teams don't care. The winner doesn't win anything. Both sets of players put 90 extra minutes on their legs after already playing 5 games in the tournament. Hopefully the extra games in 2026 will see it done away with.

Rui Costa once scored an audacious chip which I saw on Football Italia, I tried it at school the next day and it went poorly. I got under the ball, but to the extent it went almost vertical and nowhere near the goal. I did score a similar one to this Kevin Gallacher volley once, but when I told people it was "better than Kevin Gallacher" they had no idea who I meant.

Infantino has given a press conference saying this is "the best World Cup ever" (lol, no), that the group stage format of the 2026 World Cup will be "reconsidered" (good) and that he wants friendly tournaments between different confederation teams every March (yay, more unnecessary travel).

Kinda shows the difference there, Morocco had an almost identical chance but didn't take the shot because it wasn't on, it wasn't on for Mbappe either but he still had a go and it broke perfectly.

This has been a far closer game than expected, but by this stage under-estimating Morocco is a silly thing to do.

I think we all knew at the time this wouldn't age well.

Lionel Messi is a very good footballer.

Good grief, that ball could have gone anywhere at any point and yet somehow it's now in the net.

Obvious penalty. Perhaps lucky to only get a yellow.

I feel like it has to be. It's like Dixon is contracted to cover the semi final and final, but the contract doesn't say how many people he commentates with. It also allows us to directly compare them, and unsurprisingly it's like comparing a gold bar with a turd.

Stella is the McLaren replacement, a rare example of an internal move in this off-season. Sauber in 2024 and 2025 is going to be so strange, literally a team there as a place-holder for two whole seasons.

It looks like Andreas Seidl is leaving McLaren to take up the Sauber post, although it's more of an Audi move. What a strange game of team principal musical chairs this is. Capito's exit looks to be a sacking rather than him having another job lined up as well.

I've only just noticed that the ITV line-up is England, England, England, England, Ireland, with two English hosts. What a variety.

That was beyond close.

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I dunno, Mbappe is celebrating because the opposition missed, Ronaldo would be celebrating if his own team missed and he hadn't been allowed to take it.