^ Similarly with past England teams, the coaches repeatedly picking the older more experienced players and the repeated consequential failures.

This current squad is very young in comparison but the expectation is that failure is inevitable.

The moral being for coahes....damned if you do and damned if you don't :doh:

Switched on just in time for the 3:0. Seems dear ol' England is enjoying itself... :)

Correction, 4:0. :D

England seems to go against a simple victory.:)

Beware the English party animals - 5:0. :)



England writes history, never have they done more than 4 goals in a cup match.



Poor Panama, they are getting plowed under.

Panama writes history as well: 1:6 :up: First goal ever at a WC cup.

Back to Germany-Sweden.

The match between Germany and Sweden, got a sad sequel.
Swedish football player Jimmy Durmaz, which fault led to the German 2-1 goal, has been exposed to smear.
His family has also been threatened.

Markus

Sorry, Ivan - I beg your pardon.

Shure that was Eurocup - and they didn’t make it for 2010 WC ( I had to google that - was really convinced it was a WC in 2008 - pardon my ignorance).

Didn't do them much good and having watched the match I think they'd be well advised to take up rugby instead of football :)

Russia finally come across a half decent team and tril 0-2 with a man sent off.

Final score was 0-3.

Mohamed Salah scored his second goal of the World Cup but Egypt ended their campaign pointless with defeat by Saudi Arabia, their first World Cup win since 1994.

Just seen the first 0-0 bore-draw of the tournament....Denmark v France, both had already qualified for the knockout stages and had nothing to play for and boy didn't it tell :yawn:

Messi has actually scored at last to give Argentina a 1-0 lead at half time against Nigeria :)

Two old Habsburgers talking
"Today's play: Austria - Hungary"
"Against whom?"

Argentina progress at the expense of Nigeria.

SKO - GER.

T minus 30 minutes.

2 goals are in demand. Minimum.

We'll see.

That will be the biggest upset in this tournament so far, if Germany fail to progress.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44629181

I believe Mexico will win so he'd better start looking for an alternative :)

Sweden scores. 50th minute. Currently Germany is out.

The german team may be good, but the crew performance again is sub par :doh:
'So wird das nix.'