🇦🇷 - 🇪🇬
Anyone else thinking something dodgy is going on? 🤐
- 13 fouls from Argentina and again zero yellow cards, compared to egypts 4 in 11
- Another disallowed goal
- Another penalty
Coincidence? 👇
⚠️🌧️ LONG NIGHT INCOMING AT THE AZTECA 🏟️⚡
Rain lands in ~30 mins - and Mexico's weather service (SMN) has thunderstorms parked over the ground for the whole opening period. 😬
Will this favour England🏴?
Hour-by-hour read 👇
🕔 17:00 → 80% storms ⛈️
⚽ 18:00 KICKOFF → 60%, thunder overhead 🌩️
🕖 19:00 → 60%, still coming down 🌧️
🕗 20:00 → easing to 40% 💧
FIFA's protocol is brutal: one strike and everyone's off until 30 mins after the last bolt. Ecuador lost an hour to it here days ago.
Brace for a long, stop-start night at the Azteca. 🌩️
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🚨 ARGENTINA SURVIVE THE SCARE OF THEIR LIVES. 🇨🇻 Cape Verde, take a bow. 👏
🇦🇷 3-2 🇨🇻 (AET)
- ✨ 29' Messi. Silky control, ice cold finish. His 20th World Cup goal. Business as usual, right?
- 🔥 Duarte levels for Cape Verde. The island of 525,000 aren't going quietly.
- ⚡ 92' Lisandro Martínez smashes Argentina ahead in extra time. Surely that's it?
- 🚀 103' Cabral says NO. Cuts inside and curls an absolute WORLDIE into the top corner. 2-2. Might just be the best goal this world cup 😱
- 🧤 Vozinha (40 years old) with EIGHT saves, denying Messi one on one and from a free kick. Hero
- 💔 111' an own goal finally settles it. Cape Verde's dream ends by the cruellest margin
The 64th ranked side, smallest nation ever to reach a World Cup knockout, took the world champions to the wire. Football, we love you. 🇨🇻
Your Fourth Official 🫡
🇺🇸 🚨
"Red cards can't be appealed." FIFA, three days ago.
Today: Balogun's ban is suspended under Article 27. One-year probation. No reasoning given. He plays Belgium.
Ronaldo got the identical treatment before the tournament. Funny how the rulebook bends for the names that sell tickets. ⚽️
The officials protect the stars. Now the paperwork does too
🏴 0-0 🇬🇭 Ghana came with a plan and England had no answer.
Zero shots on target in the first half. ZERO
So… is it coming home, or are we doing this every tournament? 👇
Last Night at the World Cup 🌎🏆
- 🇲🇽 🇰🇷 Mexico are into the knockouts beating South Korea 1-0 a stunning 86th minute double save from Raúl Rangel sealed it
- 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 USA are through too, back to back World Cup wins for the first time since 1930.
- 🇹🇷 🇵🇾 Türkiye are OUT. Zero goals, two defeats, beaten by 10 man Paraguay. A tournament to forget.
- 🟥 First ever straight red for covering your mouth given to Paraguay's Almirón
-🏴 🇲🇦 Morocco beat Scotland leaving Scotlands final game vs Brazil as a straight knockout.
- 🇧🇷 🇭🇹 Brazil finally clicked Cunha 🏄♂️ and Vini Jr had it wrapped by half time.
FourthOfficial 🫡