World Cup 2018

[Morten]

Morocco and Iran gave both teams trouble, play these 3 games again and one of Portugal/Spain could very well have gone out, but in the end, the two favorites scraped by.

 

[blaugrana1987]

Wtf?

Its true, Im from Croatia and can confirm.

 

[George_Costanza]

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[Givenchy]

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looking at that again, I changed my mind. how the fuck does he not get sent off with VAR aswell? unbelievable. they should retrospectively ban him just for the hell of it

 

[Morten]

Im hoping for an entertaining between Uruguay vs Portugal, but between Suarez, Pepe, Ronaldo and others, it will probably be a low-scoring game full of antics and cheating.

 

[jairzinho]

Im hoping for an entertaining between Uruguay vs Portugal, but between Suarez, Pepe, Ronaldo and others, it will probably be a low-scoring game full of antics and cheating.

Expecting a bruising match.
Godin vs Ronaldo
Saurez vs Pepe
Penalties, lots of cards, the full works.
VAR will be busy.

 

[Morten]

VAR helps, but i think its clear that even with VAR replay, people still dont agree with all of the decisions, so much is down to subjectiveness(is that a word?).

 

[El Flaco]

Lol, guys, it's Nigeria we're talking about. They lack discipline and tactics just like every African team. I believe that this Argentina team reached the bottom and can only improve after the group stage. I hope that Denmark beat France tommorow so that Argentina will have one of the easiest paths to the half final in Denmark and Portugal/Uruguay.

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[Sultan]

Was just looking at the world cup bracket. It is very possible that in the round of 16 we might have;

Uruguay vs Portugal
France vs Argentina
Brazil vs Germany
Belgium/England vs Columbia

All on one side of the bracket.

 

[Barcaman]

Looks like Croatia will field almost all reserves against Iceland.

So in case both Argentina and Iceland win, Argentina needs to score 2 goals more than Iceland to go through as they have worse goal difference by one and more cards.

So, if Iceland wins against Croatia 1-0, Argentina needs 3-0 against Nigeria.

 

[Messi983]

Go Iceland&Nigeria!

 

[Morten]

Looks like Croatia will field almost all reserves against Iceland.

So in case both Argentina and Iceland win, Argentina needs to score 2 goals more than Iceland to go through as they have worse goal difference by one and more cards.

So, if Iceland wins against Croatia 1-0, Argentina needs 3-0 against Nigeria.

Argentina might beat Nigeria, but 3-0 isnt going to happen, so if Iceland wins against Croatia, Argentina is doomed.

 

[Joan]

Looks like Croatia will field almost all reserves against Iceland.

So in case both Argentina and Iceland win, Argentina needs to score 2 goals more than Iceland to go through as they have worse goal difference by one and more cards.

So, if Iceland wins against Croatia 1-0, Argentina needs 3-0 against Nigeria.

Iceland right now 1:3
Aegentina 1:4

If Iceland scored 1, Argentina would need to score 2 and would go through based on goals scored

 

[snowy]

VAR helps, but i think its clear that even with VAR replay, people still dont agree with all of the decisions, so much is down to subjectiveness(is that a word?).

True. Take yesterday's "elbow to the jaw" incident for instance, cheek of the defender rippled and swirled into ringlets when seen in the zoomed replay. It looked like one of those Rocky slow-mo sequences; yet, ref still gave only a yellow.

Emotions running high, being flocked by screaming players, stadium going wild, score being tied and you're faced with giving a RC to CR, Ballon d'Or candidate and top flava of the week. Easy to get overwhelmed.



Ref would need a set of heavy cojones to make that kind'a call. That dude did for instance during the Remontada but then he got investigated and couldn't officiate for 6 months. So there's also the fear of that...

One solution could be to entrust the decision to a panel of judges having access to multi-angle zoom slow-mos, from the comfort of an AC cooled lounge, rather than have the ref run to the pit-side monitor to review the sequences.

First, it would save time and easier for 3 judges to make tough calls. 3 or 5... As long as it's an odd number, majority wins it. 2nd, would make no sense for the players to bitch at the ref since the call came from the top.

Another possible improvement would be to stop the clock whenever a sub is made. This way, makes no difference if an exiting player takes all the time in the world to hug his teammates, applaud the crowd, remove his pads, unlace his shoes, smell the roses and dance the blues.

Unless the drama is part of the shows that is

 

[pacp_96]

^ always thought that pausing the clock for any major stoppages would be a good idea.

VAR is a great addition to the sport, but it does need to change. Calls need to come from people outside the emotions of the situation so yeah, having calls from a panel of judges would be better. The issue would be both the length of time and more importantly transparency.