World Cup Last 16 and onwards (excluding England matches)

ASLEFshrugged

Brazil looking very poor.

thornburyiron

Throughly enjoying this game, open and both teams trying to play. Contrast it with the bore fest tomorrow afternoon.

SuzanneClaret

2 nil ;wahoo

grey_til_I_dye

If we can't get Anderson, I reckon we should have a try for de Bruyne; he looks like he might be useful.

thornburyiron

This should be 5-3 to Brazil at the moment

MIAHammer

Lukaku having a great game. Working his socks off.

IronHerb

Who are you watching tomorrow then thorn?

ASLEFshrugged

So two Man City players have scored...

chicagohammer

Best game that I have seen lukaku play, putting himself about with some nice touches

chicagohammer

All in all enjoying this one

MrsGrey

Golden Generation ;wahoo

SuzanneClaret

The ref clearly thinks Neymar dived, why then did he not hand out a yellow card.

MIAHammer

Brazil piling on the pressure.

Something that they just mentioned on the tv (which I was unaware of) is that VAR can only look at images at full speed. Does anyone know if that’s correct?

grey_til_I_dye

MIA

Seems unlikely, given how they look at offside.

grey_til_I_dye

Not true, according to this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/var-world-cup-2018-how-does-it-work-russia-decision-referee-video-a8397806.html

they will receive a stream from inside the stadium, which is made up of the view from a whole host of cameras – including slow motion ones – which the referees can flick between.

MrsGrey

I'm sure we saw one review that the ref went to look at and it was played to him in slow motion, and the comms said we were seeing what he was being shown.

MIAHammer

grey_til_I_dye said:

MIA

Seems unlikely, given how they look at offside.

Didn’t sound right to me. Doesn’t make sense to have the technology and not use it.

thornburyiron

Pressure had to tell in the end

MrsGrey

Poor defending

thornburyiron

Miss after miss now.

MIAHammer

Just found this on the FIFA website

https://football-technology.fifa.com/en/innovations/VAR-at-the-World-Cup#thecameras

Slow motion replays are mainly used for factual situations, for example, to identify the point of contact of a physical offence or the position of an offence. Normal speed is used for subjective judgments, for example, the intensity of an offence or to determine if a handball was deliberate.

MIAHammer

Come on Belgium. I so want to see Neymar crying.

SuzanneClaret

This ref had Neymar susssed ;biggrin

thornburyiron

France Belgium should be an absolute cracker.

MIAHammer

thornburyiron said:

France Belgium should be an absolute cracker.

Thierry Henry could soon become the most hated Frenchman in France.

imagelost

;wave Brazil

MIAHammer

I wonder what’s odds I can get on a European team winning the World Cup? ;wahoo

steve

Always sorry to see Brazil go out but then im old enough to remember the great teams of the 70s and somewhat the 80s .just think part of the world cup dies when they go ,having said that ,someone should slap some sence into Neymar

OutcastLondoner

I think Brazil would’ve won this World Cup without Neymar. Slowed down their play and dived when there were chances to have a go on goal. Must be hard to be Coutinho.

MIAHammer

steve said:

Always sorry to see Brazil go out but then im old enough to remember the great teams of the 70s and somewhat the 80s .just think part of the world cup dies when they go ,having said that ,someone should slap some sence into Neymar

Neymar’s antics sullies the memory of that 1970 Brazil team.

You have to give Brazil credit for that 2nd half. They gave it their all.