***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

[coolerifyoudid]

Aussie's keeper leaned early on that one

 

[jdoggivjc]

that was a cheeky penalty kick

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I was just telling my wife, "I don't recall anyone going down the middle on a PK" before Salah took his.

 

[harimad]

Looks like the moment was too big for the Socceroos.

 

[harimad]

I was just telling my wife, "I don't recall anyone going down the middle on a PK" before Salah took his.

Those are my favorites. So ballsy to tap it in right where they’re standing.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

And Egypt moves on.

 

[Kaner04]

It’s always really interesting who steps up to the spot. Australia’s midfielders and attackers are cowards

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Those are my favorites. So ballsy to tap it in right where they’re standing.

It seems like the South American teams do that more often than others for some reason. As much as I love it when it works, I love it more when the keeper stands his ground and stops one and smiles at the taker.

 

[BigJCy]

 

[coolerifyoudid]

My wife, daughter and I started a family bracket once the knockouts started. I'm 0-4 so far.

For as much soccer and basketball that I watch, I am amazingly awful when it comes to tournament brackets.

I'm turning it around. I haven't missed a pick since the first 4 games.

 

[Clonehomer]

I was just telling my wife, "I don't recall anyone going down the middle on a PK" before Salah took his.

Didn’t Ronaldo put one down the middle yesterday?

 

[Cyburbbalz]

World cup has been spectacular so far. I watch it every day. Speaking of which, hopefully other sports and TV networks can learn from fox making so many games available to everyone cable or not. Ratings have been great from what I understand.

 

[Cyburbbalz]

Didn’t Ronaldo put one down the middle yesterday?

Yes he did

 

[jdoggivjc]

It seems like the South American teams do that more often than others for some reason. As much as I love it when it works, I love it more when the keeper stands his ground and stops one and smiles at the taker.

Well, the Aussie goalie was doing a lot of cheating and guessing, and was leaving especially early. If they're going to cheat that much, if the taker can sell the direction they're going to cheat, where they were standing is going to be wide open... and as I said, the Aussie goalie was cheating a lot.

 

[AppleCornCy]

World cup has been spectacular so far. I watch it every day. Speaking of which, hopefully other sports and TV networks can learn from fox making so many games available to everyone cable or not. Ratings have been great from what I understand.

Sounds like NBC wants to try to get English language rights to the next one to go along with Spanish language rights on Telemundo.

 

[BigJCy]

 

[enisthemenace]

Just an amazing goal there. I could watch that in slow motion on repeat.

 

[BigJCy]

 

[pulse]

I love how they haven’t shown any slow motion overhead replays where they show positioning for offsides. Rob Stone completely cut them off when they started talking about the pass.

 

[Clonehomer]

World cup has been spectacular so far. I watch it every day. Speaking of which, hopefully other sports and TV networks can learn from fox making so many games available to everyone cable or not. Ratings have been great from what I understand.

I just hope that this is finally what gives soccer momentum in this country. While the MLS doesn’t have some of the name brand stars that the EPL has, it has great competitive games. For those of us that don’t get baseball, it would be the perfect summer sports fix. Big question is how the schedule shift starting next year will affect its popularity when competing more with football.