FIFA World Cup - Qatar 2022

lordromford

soapboxsam said:

Looking forward to why the first goal was disallowed by the Italian VAR guy at HT.
No one was offside as the ball left the free kick takers foot. 

In all seriousness, I suspect it may well have been offside from the header while the goalkeeper flapped, but it doesn’t help that in the official computer generated image to explain it, they’ve removed all but two of the players from the image - which just clouds the issue further. Far from convincing right now, but hopefully the tech bods in the studio will shed a bit more light at half time.

se9addick

I think it was offside, but if it wasn’t for VAR we would never have known 

R0TW

ForeverAddickted

Jesus... Jayden Al-Stockley there with the free header

ForeverAddickted

We'll get a Infantino statement over the offside if it gets talked about too much: "Europeans have been scoring offside goals for the last 3000-years now, stop with the hypocrisy"

soapboxsam

RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

I reckon Afif could nick a goal.

👏RCT

Bods64

Why don’t I hear any chants of دعمك هراء

Cafc43v3r

SELR_addicks

https://twitter.com/ShamoonHafez/status/1594379385666260992?t=UcBRvtxICtK9XT4-H6yYwQ&s=19

ValleyGary

Games gone flat. Ecuador just managing the minutes and Qatar are just shit.

Stu_of_Kunming

Glad I stayed up for this with work at 8am.

it’s gonna be a long old month 

ForeverAddickted

Oh that was a decent effort from Qatar

Could do with the referee giving them a dodgy penalty to make things interesting

IdleHans

Jeremy Sarimento. Well done, both commentators.

RodneyCharltonTrotta

Mickey D's on the McDonald's advert? I always thought it was Maccy D's

killerandflash

killerandflash said:

I wonder if Charlton will be mentioned, when talking about Sarmiento 

RodneyCharltonTrotta

Charlton mentioned in same sentence as Real Madrid.

ForeverAddickted

Be good to see how Sarmiento does - He's been really decent for Brighton... But feel he'd have played for Charlton a long time ago by now.

ForeverAddickted

On come Lionel Al-Massi and Kylian Al-Mappad for Qatar

2121

What happened to sarmiento? We released him or decided to go? 

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2121 said:

What happened to sarmiento? We released him or decided to go? 

Lost him to Benfica

Fumbluff

This is dull

oohaahmortimer

Qatari skipper who just got subbed got a Hollywood smile with those bright white railings 

se9addick

Surprised Ecuador haven’t gone for it more in the second half, could have won with a cricket score if they chose to.  

oohaahmortimer

Are group positions worked out on gd if points level or head to head 

se9addick

Also surprised at how many empty seats there are in the stadium now - assuming locals have chucked it and gone back to the pub?

ForeverAddickted

se9addick said:

Also surprised at how many empty seats there are in the stadium now - assuming locals have chucked it and gone home to take it out on their slaves

Fumbluff

That’s about all he learned from Charlton…

killerandflash

You can take the boy out of Charlton, but you can't take the Charlton out of the boy

DamoNorthStand

IdleHans said:

Jeremy Sarimento. Well done, both commentators.

You cant take the Charlton out of anyone..... as that last shot showed.

soapboxsam

Sarmiento Charltonised.