Goku de la Boca

Syria are usually a pretty competitive side, they nearly made the WCQ playoffs a few years ago against Australia where the latter had to scrape it, but they still aren't great, I wouldn't call them minnows though.

Syria's starting 9 plays for Alianza Lima. He's actually a very good player and one of the best 9's in Peru but I don't think it's the sort of decent quality Gonzo was referring to in attack.

Syria who have a much better frontline than defence. Sounds like a fun clash that.

It was, but posted by Chelsea’s Spanish social media, which actually makes it worse. No idea if it’s still up.

At home too, fucking hell. Viva international football.

Looks like I was right and wrong at the same time. There are still a lot of low scoring draws which is the norm for AFCON but I was right about the quality looking much, much better than past editions.

How do we tell Chelsea that I don't wake up to an alarm clock with "la Cucaracha"

Sincerely I think it's very likely Qatar retain their title. They've been the best team so far.

In 2019 he was nowhere near as good as he is now, he looks far more developed to a higher standard. Back then it was flashes of talent and he was already on of their better players but he could not win games with just his quality alone.

I am quite behind on European football that I didn't realize Al Tamaari was in France, and it looks like that helped his development. Looks a seriously class player now as opposed to 2019 where it was just raw talent.

I would agree if it was a random weak shot but the power of it made it look better apart from being on target, but I do agree on the goalkeeping. I'm sure he meant it but I don't think he expected it.

Even if the goalkeeping was bad the strike was ridiculously precise for it to fly in like that. It was a proper thunderbastard.

This aged fucking terribly.

Senegal the favourites to win this I reckon. I've been very impressed with their individual and collective game here.

Tanzania are a growing football nation from what I’ve seen, but yeah I still think Morocco will be too much for them.

For sure, I am pretty certain there are a lot of governments that prefer Taiwan but it just isn't worth losing the benefits with mainland China. They are just too powerful over tiny Taiwan. As for White Terror, that sounds like a worse version of the protests in the late 20th century in mainland China. No good guys in any of the governments then

Sure

Gossip, you haven’t been on the discord in months. Anyways I’m not sure if they told you everything of what I said on there but it’s really annoying making any post and the same 3 people pouncing on any slight error to make me look worse. Every post of yours in here since mine has mentioned the draw thing I said. That is provocation. I don’t mind sticking around but it’s kind of hard when I get treated like that, with all due respect.

Didn’t know I had to be mentioned to be provoked, there’s a thing called indirect provocation. Also “I’ll ban you in 5 minutes”. I never thought I’d see the day you became what you swore to destroy.

You’re the one provoking me, maybe don’t push your luck if you don’t want me calling you that

Kind of like how you didn't expect the Pogba thread to magically change back into clickbait, cunt.

That sounds a lot like the China PR vs China (Taiwan) situation tbh.

I don't think a keeper needs to make saves to be involved. I actually think before making good saves he needs to be secure in goal and not make any bonehead decisions. That said, he just made a top class save while typing. Clearly he's got quality on all fronts.

Burkina Faso's keeper has surprised me to be honest, very secure in goal. He has the height and wingspan to stop low crosses easily, made a couple of good saves that were down to reflexes, and doesn't budge when he needs to stop high crosses. His positioning is good in that sense.

Israel really do not help themselves do they? I try to justify both sides' actions by having some empathy on one of them losing land unjustly and the other side having a group of people who would have gotten killed wherever they went. Politics or politicians really only care for their best interests as obvious as that sounds.