The 2026 World Cup — Day 19

What time does the Brazil v Japan game start tonight?

Not sure who I want to win which is strange for me because I usually go for Brazil no matter how good they are but Japan have a really good team of skill and pace so I’m expecting a good game with a few goals.

I’ll just go for the best team on the night!

1800 Dave ie ten mins

Japan all day long. Love watching them play.

This Brazil team is not the Brazil team of olden days but I bet they win.

I dropped some shopping of at my 90 year old mother in laws today and the first thing she said to me was she hoped Japan get beat.

She has no interest in football, but when it looked at the TV she was watching an afternoon re-run of Tenko!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Nice! Telemundo foregoes the revenue and stays with the stadium. Okay, a quick border ad, no problema.

Get to Japan!!!

Banzai!

And the Japanese crowd goes on the counterattack! Gooooool!

Love those goals that roll in from distance.

GET IN!

Casemiro totally exposed

Shocking defending by Gabriel

Daisy cutter. Great strike

I have Japan to win 2-1 lol !! c'mon you blues

Take away Vinny JR and Brazil are a top 6 Prem team

Brazil does not look like they have the speed or guile to break them down. They may need a mistake to get going.

Casemiro needs subbing Crosby Carlo

Although Japan have limited possession, they are very clever with it.

Brazil look to be relying on individual brilliance.

Japan has some impressive ways of supporting the players coming back into the middle from the forward lines.

They always have an outlet to run into space left by man coverage.

Japan are such a tidy team, tidy shape, not wasteful, purpose and choice in everything they do.
Happy to surrender some possesion, because when they turn it over they act instantly as a team.
This level of organisation and understanding is a joy to watch.

Get in Japan not get to Japan

How Joao Pedro is not in this squad makes no sense

Good point. And I notice Tomiyasu healed up, would have taken him.

Can Endrick be the spark?

Lee Dixon talks wham most of the time but he's right about Brazil being awful out of possession

That was exciting.

Lee Dixon. More boring than Father Austin Purcell from Father Ted. What's you favourite humming noise Ted ? Mines Mmmmmm or sometimes mmmm. Fucks sake Lee, shut the fuck up

Carlo has whipped them into action!

Brilliant far-post header. No way you are defending that!

Tomiyasu got scorched.

That look on Suzuki's face was priceless.

Casemiro can hardly run but he's great in the air.

Japan so lucky not to be behind. Great save!

Carlo has been playing Fifa Connect 26 on his whiteboard and is ready for the masterstroke!

Mark 26, Dixon has been on ITV for years, I don't know how he gets away with it.

I have never ever heard anyone saying Dixon is a decent pundit, he is a boring cunt.

At last a proper World Cup tussle

Jeff, don't sit on the fence, say what you think ha ha. Could not agree more, a truly dreadful boring co-commentator

Fuck me. They've won it

Japan couldn't live with Brazil second half.
Deserve this now.

The Leeds player Tanaka completely funked up

Fuck me. They've won it

Perhaps Carlo really is a magician after all!

Just not with us...

Pleasure to watch that.
Only the second full game I've watched up to now.
Great side Japan

He was dressed a bit like a magician

Tough on Japan, not a good Brazilian team, Rayan very poor, and leaving Richarlison and Pedro at home and bringing Neymar, who's not match fit, a big call by Carlo. If they get through and England in the last eight, that's as far as they'll go.

That was a decent match. Japan could not create anything once Doan was subbed. Still like them though.

I thought Japan deserved to go off at half time ahead, their performance was well described by Andrew @ (20) but in the second half they were second best for most of the time although I was still fearful for Brazil when Japan broke away two or three times but in the end they were well worth their victory even if it was very late.

They are still in it and with a player like Vinny Jnr. they could progress further relying on his individual brilliance.

I enjoyed that game well worth watching and hopefully we see a few more proper football matches in the next couple of weeks.

I usually really enjoy watching Japan, but I wasn’t that impressed with them today, simply because I didn’t think that really tried to play close enough to each other imo.

It’s a gruelling tournament, I expect the stronger nations to keep going whereas I’m not sure the smaller nations that have been doing really well, have got enough in their squads to sustain playing at this level, now we have reached the knockout stages and the competition begins to intensify?

Livin on a Prayer in these hydration breaks. Every freaking time.

Seriously, who's arsed about the World Cup??
Our so-called manager apparently, hopefully he's in discussions with the Scottish FA. The World Cup has been turned into the WWE.

Living On A Prayer...

Soul-destroying American poodle rock.

Germany doing their best impression of England.

Paraguay defending superbly. Almiron, the human tadpole, has been brilliant.

Germans will probably spawn it 2nd half.

Is he really human, Liam?

Part man part polliwog

That sucked.

Fuck, I have to watch Nagelsman again. He did slightly extend the arm into the keeper

Ha! Teutonic titty-boys, fuck off.

Shite

Get in

Pennos it is - I fancy the Paraguay keeper to make a name for himself.

Who the fuck is this Darren fella talking about decisions on BBC commentary ?...sounds like Dudley Moore.

Nah, the Germans are very efficient when it comes to penalties.

Watch were the none kicking foot is facing when its planted prior to kicking, it's always a pointer to where the ball is going.

You know the Paraguenos anticipated this though.

Hee hee

GET IN

Hell yeah! You could hear the Germans gasp at the place I am watching.

GET FUCKING IN

Poor effort

OH shite

OH NOOOOOOOOOOO

What a miss

Derek called it

Goaaaaaaaaaaaal

TA TAH

Nagelsman out!!!

YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS

Vamos

Might have to go looking for some Paraguayan beer tonight.

Pilsen Dale - really refreshing

Great call Derek

Really enjoyed the Colombia v Portugal game the other night.

More threat from South America than just Brazil and Argentina this time around?

Vamos los Cafeteros!

Best match yet to come in 90 mins

Germany worse than England...made they're out tho.

Can definitely see England losing to Senegal and if they sneak through Mexico at the Azteca and if they sneak through that Brazil most likely in the QF and if they sneak through that Argentina most likely in SF

By by krouts, by by sausage eaters,
No farn farn farn on the auto barn for you.😀

New Hitler video on Youtube coming up

Paul watched some last night about hitlers flat at bmd.

I'll watch that later after NL V MO ta

Moyes 8 1 for scotch job, hope he gets it.😀

Good material as usual Mr. Kossoff!

Hi Dale, hope you are well.

Come on Morocco. Get rid of gobshite Koeman, Saint Virgil the Cheat and the other orange red shite.

Ben Godfrey joins Rangers LOL

Well, this is looking like a proper match early on.

The Athletic reports us closing on a permanent deal for Tyrique George.

Didn't Gakpo's partner lose her unborn son a few days ago? Brave of him/her/them to be playing.

HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES ARE WE/AM I GOING TO BE TOLD THAT THE US PLAY ON WEDNESDAY!!!!

At least tomorrow it will be tomorrow not fecking Wednesday.

I don't know why, but I'm having a bad reaction to seeing the Dutch in cowboy hats

There's absolutely no way around it Dale. With very few exceptions that I'm struggling to think of the Dutch are not cool.

I would hope to see van Hecke not coming back on for a concussion sub. But they won't do it will they? Madness.

Oh fuck, what is this match momentum graph shit? Does any other country try to go fucking Bloomberg on football like that?

And Dale, what exactly is Team A possession, Team B possession, and then fecking contest possession?

And, while we''re at it: 'superiour player'???!!!!

That Guano who plays for the Red Shite is bird shite

Love watching Morocco.

Saibari in midfield - what a player.

Me too Steve, but they need to step up next half or is it quarter?

Saibari had to score there.

The young lad in midfield, Bouaddi, has been one of the best players in the tournament. Only 18.

He'll be playing at Hill Dickinson in August Liam.

Plenty here for Moyes to erm 'scout' and put on his list - pencil and paper only.

Supreme player, Paul. Better?

I quite like sovereign Dale.

Ooh, break out the sash and crown.

The Germans and the Dutch in one day. Am I asking for too much?

Ouahbi has a football wizard's knowledge of positioning.

What a moment. Two of the four fastest players in the world, Hakimi and Van de Ven, in a breakaway race. VDV makes the tackle. And Hakimi comes up with his hand, congratulating VDV for a play probably nobody else could have made.

Class.

The Morocco players are unbelievably technical on the ball. Just lack.a cutting edge.

You got work later on Liam?

I went to Morocco a few years back and from 6/7 in the morning there were literally hundreds of young kids on the beach playing football.

Organised/coached sessions. Small pitches. No goals. The ball never went in the air. Just technique and moving the ball. These kids were about 8-10 years old.

Good eye Mike, I missed that. That was a manly tackle by Van de Ven.

No got loads of holidays to take.

The Dutch on the break

Nice Liam but that goal feck

Gakpo breaks down in tears as he scores. Overwhelming of course.

That's a wonderful moment.

Fuck yes Get in

What a header

All that lovely possession based dominance and they score with a header from a cross. Brilliant

Fuckin Talbi! Brilliant delivery. Issa makes up for not being alert on the first goal.

Virgil standing watching as Morocco score a header

What a tackle

Ace, more footy.

Remarkable save.

The Dutch playing not to lose; Morocco playing to win

Is there a bigger incentive than Canada in the 16?

No Reijnders. WTF Koeman!?!

Kluivert for possible penalties?

And pens it is.

Morocco do not deserve to lose on pens; the Dutch do

Keoman gets the. boot on this display/set up if they lose

Correct. Ibra and Henry absolutely shredding Koeman for the way he set up the Dutch and the way he had them play. I would love to see him walk off, embarrassed.

Ha ha, looking at the keeper instead of the ball

get in

bollocks awful pen

ah good

That was a yard wide!

YYYYESSSSSS

A U14 final has broken out here

YYYYYYYESSSSSS

YYYYYESSSSSSS
KEOMAN U TWAT

Justice.

Yep football won

Cloghoppers and sausage munchers in one day at the '32.

Weghorst has been crying for ages. Big baby.

It's not exactly a vintage Germany in fairness so comes as little surprise.

The likes of Wirtz and Havertz would struggle to anywhere near the squad of 25 years ago.

Looks like Ronald Koeman may be available later today. Anybody?

Andrew @ 147; I bet Niasse is laughing his head off at the tulip munching red and white Christmas tree decorating, last to arrive first to leave golfing twat.

And it's also good to see two 'smaller' teams running the big boys ragged going forward with skill, pace, intensity, passes that found the right coloured shirt or the dangerous space.
It's no use me asking Moyes to learn from that, he couldn't do it for a bet.

Yesterday's Man for Today's stability.

Koeman, the Edam headed tosser

Made up Netherlands are out, hate that Van Dyke, and the rest of the red shite who play for them, never watched it, can't stand watching that horrible Virgil the untouchable

If the refs had been goalkeeper friendly as they was for protecting the goalkeeper for Germany dissalowed goal how many more points would we have received last season?

Seems St Virgil of the Knee was a designated penalty taker pre match but bottled it when the time came.

Any chance of day 20 in the World Cup Michael?