World Cup Kickoff Thread

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  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 299 Empowering

    Canada need the goals. They need to keep attacking. It’s relentless and exciting

  • Emilee
    Emilee Community Member Posts: 77 Empowering

    I wish I'd watched the match now, sounds like it was exciting! How long did they play with 9 men for and were they already losing before that?

  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 14,602 Online Community Programme Lead

    This evening we've got:

    8pm (BST): USA (@Shar17on) v Australia (@Elaine1961)

    11pm (BST): Scotland (@Holly_Scope and @Melisameli) v Morocco (@Anhedonia2 and @Tazzi)

    1.30am (BST): Brazil (@kreacher) v Haiti (@chiarieds)

    4am (BST): Turkey (@allycat17 and @slimjohn) v Paraguay (@kieran04)

    Any predictions? I'm quite interested in the USA v Australia game. I think that should prove quite interesting after the US' win last week and Australia's defensive discipline.

    I think I'll go for USA, Brazil and Turkey to win and Scotland to draw.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 6,351 Online Community Team

    Come on Scotland! ⚽️

  • Scooby222
    Scooby222 Community Member Posts: 158 Empowering

    Predictions: Australia to win or it be a draw, I don't think the USA will win… but what do I know! 🙃

    The rest as Adrian above, although Scotland drawing is for me a wish rather than a realistic prediction.

    Come on Scotland! ⚽️ 🥅 🏟🥳 Gotta love their supporters, they're drinking Boston dry of beer apparently! 😂

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,926 Online Community Team

    I saw that too @Scooby222! Even the suppliers were struggling to send out enough to replenish the stocks 😂 bet the Scots are having a whale of a time out there.

  • Emilee
    Emilee Community Member Posts: 77 Empowering

    I'm hoping Australia wipe the floor with the USA, I don't know if that's possible or anything about the teams but I don't want the USA to win.

    I'd like Scotland over Morocco and Haiti to beat Brazil, but it's probably unlikely.

    I'm not sure between Turkey and Paraguay so lets go for a draw!

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 299 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1132901#Comment_1132901

    Hi :) It was such a crazy game I can’t remember the precise order of things but they were already losing when they went down to 10 players and by half-time it was 3-0 I think. And then very quickly in the second half they went down to 9 players and there was lots of shots and more goals :)

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 299 Empowering

    I think USA draw, Morocco win, Brazil win and Turkey win :)

  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 518 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1133059#Comment_1133059

    don't watrch the tv as the aussies are losing

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 4,832 Championing
    edited June 19

    Australia need to get their act together, they are not in this game.

  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 518 Empowering

    australia need a good talking to at half time

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 299 Empowering

    Morocco look slick and up for a scrap too, very good in the tackling and winning the ball back. Scotland look quite dreadful

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 299 Empowering

    That was an odd game. Morocco looked very comfortable, they looked like they didn’t bother getting themselves out of second gear. Which is risky playing like that. Scotland didn’t really do anything about it. I think a fair result Morocco winning :)

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 4,832 Championing

    I think Scotland were lucky they only lost 1-0 to Morocco. They did not play well.

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Community Member Posts: 1,412 Championing

    Scotland under estimated their foe, they seemed to get swept up in the moment. Australia were over whelmed, not with class, but with speed. They looked laggy and out of shaped, and the USA jumped on that. I wouldn't say the USA were the better team, just lucky on the day with a fluke first goal which they capitalised on.

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 299 Empowering

    I was very surprised Turkey haven’t won a game yet and are out now already. I’m looking forward to Japan’s next game which I think is in the early hours of tomorrow morning but I’d like to stay awake and see it as I like the way Japan pile forward with energy :)

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Community Member Posts: 1,412 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1133187#Comment_1133187

    Japan have a very surprising team and they're fighters.

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 299 Empowering

    Japan are exciting and fun, they are a running team and like to get forwards quickly. I wish England played like this, they showed some of this in the second half against Croatia and against Ghana and Panama they need to play like Japan from the beginning and go for it. I’m looking forward to watching Japan later :)

  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 14,602 Online Community Programme Lead

    Evening all.

    Ahead of us this evening/tomorrow morning, we can look forward to:

    6pm (BST): Netherlands (@argh and @Nigel_56) v Sweden (@yellowpineapple84)

    9pm (BST): Germany (@WelshBlue and @jfc9419) v Ivory Coast (@66Mustang and @cityjacko)

    1am (BST): Ecuador (@Viran007 and @juliehall) v Curaçao (@WhatThe and @Stringer83x)

    5am (BST): Tunisia (@ripley13) v Japan (@DazzaC)

    I'll be picking a Netherlands/Sweden draw and Germany, Ecuador and Japan to win. What about you?

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