World Cup Kickoff Thread

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  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 317 Empowering

    I hope nobody forgets Cape Verde. They were incredible tonight :)

  • Johnboy412000
    Johnboy412000 Community Member Posts: 533 Empowering

    Oh Well Fifa have decided to keep the 1am Fixture as it is. Oh dear late night tomorrow lol. Pubs will be rubbing their hands.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,744 Connected

    I predict Egypt will have a Pharoah'd time playing Football gets coat

  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 575 Empowering

    cape verde were amazing, glad i stayed up to watch the match

  • Holly_Alumni
    Holly_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 6,534 Championing
  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 317 Empowering

    I didnโ€™t get a pizza in the end, I wish I did though :)

    Iโ€™ve been enjoying catching up on Colombiaโ€™s games. They are very exciting, they were raining shots down on goal against Portugal. Thereโ€™s lots of forward running with overlapping runners. They advance quickly up the pitch. Itโ€™s very fun. They make England look so boring

  • Holly_Alumni
    Holly_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 6,534 Championing

    Aww well, you've got it banked for next time you fancy a treat because you know you didn't this time. Maybe the England match if you're staying up for it? ๐Ÿ˜Š

    I can imagine! I felt the same the first time I saw a Spanish La Liga game and completely loved it. It was so much more interesting than our leagues and made it seem like they were passing back and fourth in slow motion ๐Ÿ˜…

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 317 Empowering

    @Holly_Scope Hello, I hope youโ€™re enjoying your Saturday? :)

    Thatโ€™s true and I really like the pizza place near me. It is an indie pizza place and they do really great pizzas. I like to get a cheese and tomato base with toppings of pepperoni, salami, ham and fresh chopped tomatoes :)

    I am hoping to stay awake for it although Iโ€™m supporting Mexico as I canโ€™t get behind England, I find them so boring. Spanish football and German football is really exciting, they go forwards quickly and they actually run forwards with and without the ball :)

    Englandโ€™s latest league winners were Arsenal who play such a terrible, dull, soporific style of football going sideways and backwards with really pitiful attempts to slow the game down. Watching Barcelona or Bayern Munich or PSG is completely different and so exciting :)

  • Holly_Alumni
    Holly_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 6,534 Championing

    Oooo that sounds amazing @yellowpineapple84, my kind of pizza!

    Nooooo you can't support Mexico ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ, that's so wrong. Just kidding, to each there own. I will be cursing you if they beat us though haha

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 317 Empowering

    It was really tasty when I had it recently and hopefully I can get it again soon. I also like rocket on a pizza sometimes :)

    ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ If England showed more initiative Iโ€™d get behind them but this is years worth of underwhelming football ๐Ÿ˜…

  • Scooby222
    Scooby222 Community Member Posts: 170 Empowering

    I'm going to get my predictions in early for tonight:

    • wins for Morocco and France.

    Neither game is likely to be anywhere near as good as the Argentina v Cape Verde game though!

    ๐Ÿ˜Ž

  • Holly_Alumni
    Holly_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 6,534 Championing

    Think I'll go with France too! Don't know much about Morocco or Canada so I'll take a wild guess, go for Canada so I'm not copying you completely @Scooby222 ๐Ÿ˜‚

  • Scooby222
    Scooby222 Community Member Posts: 170 Empowering

    That's probably very wise! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜

  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 14,626 Online Community Programme Lead

    Evening all,

    So the very first fixtures of the round of 16 are already underway with Canada (@JoeGro) against Morocco (@Anhedonia2 and @Tazzi).

    And at 10pm we have Paraguay (@kieran04) v France (@wrighty08)

    Do we have any other predictions for whoโ€™s advancing?

  • yellowpineapple84
    yellowpineapple84 Scope Member Posts: 317 Empowering

    I think France will win :)

    Canada have been fun in this World Cup and in the first half they tried really hard and managed to stop Morocco getting forwards. But I think their lack of forward quality has been exposed this evening and Morocco are a very good team. No shame to lose to Morocco and Canada gave a really good account of themselves in this World Cup :)

  • kieran04
    kieran04 Community Member Posts: 10 Listener
  • Johnboy412000
    Johnboy412000 Community Member Posts: 533 Empowering
  • Johnboy412000
    Johnboy412000 Community Member Posts: 533 Empowering

    Here we go with the long day awaiting the England game in the morning lol. I'll probably get a nap late this afternoon to be able to stay awake lol. I'm hoping it's done and dusted one way or another by 90 mins. I just hope England don't give us another scare by coming from behind late on lol.

  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 575 Empowering
  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 575 Empowering

    to get us in the mood, its coming home, its coming home, its coming, footballs coming home