Soccer
- ⚽️ Great setpiece from Croatia. Breaks through the Morocco defense that had been so strong in most of the tournament
- ⚽️ …and Morocco equalizes on the very next play
- Much more attacking chaos that we saw from both of these teams in their earlier stalwart defeneses
- ⚽️ Persistence for Croatia pulls off
- Announcers said 3rd place games tend to be high-scoring, and depsite the defensive skill of these teams that prediction is coming true
- Croatia has practiced a number of interesting setpieces
- Feeling bad for Morocco on these injuries and subs
- Couple tough calls there from the refs, and probably should have been a PK for Croatia and yellow (but not PK, outside the box) at the other end
- Congratulations to Croatia
⚽️ spouse “Well, I’m glad both the stars got theirs”
⚽️ Mind games begin.
⚽️ 538 has been giving #ARG a 55/45 edge any time it’s tied, but they’d dropped it to 50/50 now that we are in PKs.
⚽️ This ref has been as good as all the others were bad.
⚽️ Real shame this is going to PKs, but we’ve already seen some amazing saves from both keepers. Maybe we’ll get some more.
⚽️ This. Game.
⚽️ That header deflection was a really courageous choice, but it ended up being the right one.
⚽️ great snot-rocket from Giroud 🤭
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If Argentina wins then the #USMNT was only two away from winning (USA -> NED -> ARG), which means USMNT is technically semi-final-strength team.
Right? Right?
Ok, so you know who to root for.
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(We are season ticket holders #6)
⚽️ Croatia vs. Morocco
sorta live-blogged
⚽️ Now rooting for a Croatia v Morocco final.
⚽️ Kane’t
Mount’s gotta be mad he didn’t get to take that after earning it.
(edited to add: Harry Kane missed his second penalty kick. Many managers won’t give a player multiple penalty kicks for this reason. The mental games and pressure can be too much, and it was worse in this case because he was going against his club team goalie.)
⚽️ yikes, ref may have just gave this game to Portugal!
(edit: luckily he didn’t)
⚽️ let’s go Ziyech and Morocco!
⚽️ congrats to Martinez. #teamgoalie
(edited to add: Argentina’s goalkeeper made a brilliant save to help them beat Netherlands in penalty kicks.)
⚽️ tomorrow’s games: Dire Straits
(You can thank my spouse for that one)
⚽️ that was some wicked fun rascally-wild #NED goal
(edited to add: Netherlands did a “slow-roller” to get around the wall on a setpiece and scored in the last minute of stoppage time to tie the game and take it to overtime)
⚽️ Incredible Livaković! #TeamGoalie
(edited to add: Croatia’s goalkeeper made three penalty kick saves, which is almost unheard of. After defeating Japan, in their next game, he again made saves to help them defeat Brazil.)