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Portugal actually got away with it in the end.

Goalkeeper made the wrong choice there and its a bit unfortunate but the teams are level again.

Bernardo Silva should be hitting that not looking for the pass

Think he needs better support and Bruno Fernandes is not the guy for it but thats just me

The passing in the final third has been such a waste.

What a goal by Arda, stunning strike.

If they took the name off the stadium would it help?

@Tommy stadium thoughts? Its for science now.

So much activity in this group not going the planned way means the next round of matches are potentially going be even crazier than this set of games. I wouldn't really hinge any knowledge of these teams on anything. I do think Belgium will get upturned by Romania in the same way they undid the Ukraine though and that would be very entertaining to watch.

Kinda expecting this to get to 4 now because at some point the Ukraine are going to have to start pushing a bit harder leaving more open spaces which Romania will happily exploit.

Great goal that. Romania are now 2 up.

I feel like if Serbia had got one back earlier in the second half then Southgate would have been forced to undo his thinking a little but luckily for him, they didn't. He's going to have to go back to the drawing board and think a bit more on this as the next two matches come up. I can't see England not getting out of this group, but I do feel like they need to be tactically a bit better at ball control when they're up vs allowing the other team to have it and roam as they wish. It might work in this group but against a more adept side they'll get scored on with the kind of pressure Serbia was pushing onto them.

Looking forward to see how Robeto Martinez has this side setup for the tournament.

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I think we can all agree that putting the Skywalker saga to bed until they can come up with a good reason to bring back one of those characters into their own arc or do something novel comes by. I can see value in what Lucas was doing with the prequels and it may have not completely worked but there was so much he wanted to tell that there was no way a studio was ever going to allow that to fly for the amount of screentime he was granted. The bigger issue with Star Wars video content in general is how much of it relies on relational arc piecing that you lose if you dont know everything necessary at times and I feel like Marvel made so many of those mistakes too because at the end of the day folks want to be entertained and while you have a fanbase which you shouldn't alienate telling a compelling story to draw in folks who aren't fans sets up a show that can be consumed by anyone.

They still made money off the shows that werent even all that good and they have put out some good shows but its gotten to a point of saturation where they're just making content for the sake of it. This isnt a bad thing if you've got a team that knows who to hire and what projects to give them but that doesnt seem to be the case at Disney anymore.

You and a lot of fans and this isnt related to the aforementioned stuff. The scripts seem so trite and simplistic in nature with a lot of stuff that just isn't helping. I think there were rumbling from the Marvel camp that they wanted to do less but do more quality and maybe Star Wars needs this treatment too. Yeah its a money raker but if you're pumping out shows for anything and everything you're basically throwing money away and quantity isn't necessarily translating to quality. Needs a hard reset imo and then a shift in stance to something a bit more familiar. I would avoid the Skywalker arc altogether and try and bring something else in.

India might actually lose this game if they dont get a move on. Edit: NVM they'll be okay.

I caught up with the two episodes and its a very enjoyable watch. Love that they focus on a lot of actual exchanges between the characters with fight sequencing and the little trophy clause of no weapon usage keeps the fights a bit fresh.

T20 tournament 2021

Akeal Hosein with a bowling spell that rightfully puts him as MOTM. The man was on fire today.

Apologies this may have been bigger than Doom. I'd say it was bigger.

Its gotten rather drab with the gaming scene and if a Doom game was the highlight of a showcase then you didnt miss much honestly.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - 6/10 I can't really put my finger on it, but it felt drawn and really not as compelling as the last one. Considering who they cast and the fact that the storyline does lend itself to something very good it just felt like it labored to produce something very uninspiring.

So, the way to keep Real Madrid out of competitions is to set the prize money to 20 million. Message received.