yes that was a foul on martinelli. whistle it card it. referee the game plesse no one wants to watch a free for all

brazil couldnt hit the side of a barn door today

Cameroon just took late 1:0 lead vs Brazil.

looking back on the orginal post it wasnt 'too far off' regarding how the groups ended 
A correct 
B Wales were terrible lmao finished last 
C correct 
D we all know what happened there 
E probably the shock of the tournament 
F i dont know what you where thinking with this one i laughed at the time Croatia were runners up last time and Canada are shit this was prob the worst call - Belgium are also know to be serial bottlers 
H S.K got a bit lucky with Portugal not playing a full strength squad as they had already topped the group similar to France against Tunisia 

Cameroon defeat Brazil 1-0.
Serbia gone. 
Switzerland 2nd.

Switzerland were one goal off topping the group which would've seen Portugal vs Brazil. 

Pretty good for a bit of tongue in cheek tipping with all the surprising results hey!

Imagine the multibet for picking the final 16 teams. What a blowout with Australia, Morocco and South Korea. Costa Rica would've done even more.

Well then. 

should tite have gone for his best starting X1 to fine tune combination and tactics? theres always the possible downside of resting too many first choice starters that you risk taking a humiliating morale sapping defeat like this

i had a bunch of multis non of them came though this WC in-particular has been 'really hard' has there has been massive upsets and due to the world cup being 3 days shorter qualified teams clearly used the 3rd game to rest key players

overall you did pretty good hell of a lot better then i did 

Mate of mine set up a FotMob tournament predictor for us (Group stage is you pick who finishes where in each group, 1 point for each correct, maximum of 32 points for group stage - Knockout fixtures start at 2 points for each correct based off who you chose to go through - adds a point each round until 10 points for the final)

From 10 of us, I'm sitting in 8th haha (First is on 17 points, I got 13, last is on 12)
The global leaders (2 users) are on 26 points - Both have picked Argentina to win the whole thing (but playing Denmark tomorrow..)

Group Stage (1 point each correct place, points I got are bolded)
Group A: NED, QAT, ECU, SEN (said mate who organised it convinced me that Senegal wouldn't perform well without Mane, and Qatar would do something sneaky - originally had Senegal second - and I stupidly believed him haha. He is one of the two on 12 points btw)
Group B: ENG, USA, WAL, IRN
Group C: ARG, MEX, POL, KSA
Group D: FRA, AUS, DEN, TUN
Group E: GER, ESP, JPN, CRC
Group F: CRO, BEL, CAN, MAR
Group G: BRA, SRB, CMR, SUI
Group H: URU, POR, KOR, GHA

Round of 16 (2 pts each winner - who I picked as winner bolded from here on)
NED v USA, ARG v AUS, GER v BEL, BRA v POR, ENG v QAT, FRA v MEX (I think I've fat fingered that one, because I surely would have put FRA, but I can't change now), CRO v ESP, URU v SRB

Quarter Finals (3 points each winner)
NED v ARG, GER v BRA, ENG v MEX, CRO v URU

Semi Finals (4 pts each winner)
ARG v BRA, ENG v URU

Third Place playoff (5 pts)
BRA v ENG

Final (10 points)
ARG v URU

what crazy drugs were you on to have CRC making it out of group E i mean they would of been paying massive odds to get out of the group pre-world cup 

LFC, I just checked myself who we have after Argentina!!!! Haha. A lot less confidence that your Portuguese inlaws.

I didn't. I picked them to come last. Group stage bolds are the teams that I picked in the right spot.

ATM the best teams have probably been France, Brazil, Netherlands. Based on Qatar form, it should be one of these teams who win.

Spain might lift. Japan have a chance.

In terms of mental strength, I think Socceroos, Japan, South Korea, plus Italy, who failed to qualify, and eliminated teams, Germany and Uruguay, are countries who always compete. These teams rarely drop their heads.

What were the Uruguayans complaining about? 

It's their 'divine right'.

Strange analysis. Netherlands hasn't been anywhere near the best. They've done just enough in all their games, but have impressed precisely no one with their play so far. They seem to lack true quality to go much further.  I wouldn't even be surprised if the US knock them out. Then again, if they get through, they face Australia in the next round, so a SF is certainly possible. Argentina, Spain and England have looked much better though. Morocco too. 

And it's weird that you include Australia and Uruguay as teams "who always compete". Australia has rolled over a number of times, most recently against France, where they didn't compete at all. And Uruguay only started "competing" in the last game when it was too late. They took it easy, scored no goals and showed absolutely nothing in their first two games. 

Really surprised/disappointed with Serbia. Having said that they never fail to disappoint. 

It's not surprising at all. They're a tall, slow team with shambolic defence and poor fitness. Only Costa Rica conceded more goals in the group stage. They can only play for about an hour before completely running out of gas, which happened in all 3 games. They're also mentally weak. They totally switched off against Cameroon when they thought they had it in the bag, and fell for Switzerland's provocations much too easily. It's so simple to unsettle them. They fully deserved to finish last in the group. 

Is this the first time no team has ever won 3 matches? 

Went to this game and it was the first time I've seen bottles thrown on the field (more than once), there was a warning for racist chanting and there were riot police outside the stadium.

Serbs eh? 

They thought they had a claim for a penalty late but also there was a VAR referral earlier the ref, to his credit, knocked back. (Good on him.) 

World Cup of upsets but to be fair South Korea were capable because they have some good players and technical and physically they are up there too.

Serbia were disappointing, them and Belgium I expected better.

It will be interesting to see how it will go in the knockout stages, these are one off games where sometimes it can be about attrition more than the skill to beat an opponent so it will be interesting to see how the big nations go against the less known teams where they will frustrate them.

Well to be fair, the Canadian goal keeper who is serb copped UStashi chats at him. So its a couple of pockets of fools.

No room for any of it (the Swiss have history ie the Albanians on their team starting stuff last time)

They are salty but they forgot how they beat Ghana in the second round in 2010 lol

So watched about a dozen replays this morning. Never a pen. Well done ref.

Problem is of course Ronaldo got given one similar. Which of course it wasn't.

Cavani being a dickhead.

https://twitter.com/OddsCheckerUS/status/1598769191196053505?s=20&t=JcllgBz4GES9Cj_y_oxjjQ

No way FIFA can change this 4 team format. Just such great drama on the last day.

Yeah I was speaking to my cousin last night and he was saying there's plenty of Croatian dickheads. Not surprised with what you just said.

Was sitting smack in the middle of the Serbs last night so couldn't celebrate the Swiss 3rd which was a gem.

One of the Australians I went with was sitting on the bench side and said one of the black players was blowing kisses at the Serb bench. Hahaha. (My cousin was also talking about the Albanians on the Swiss side.)

What's the deal there? I'm not up on Serb/Albanian grievances.