Saint Pete

Shaping up to be an "interesting" summer for the Geordies. Already sold both Antony Gordon and Tonali for big money and now Bruno Guimaraes reported to have asked for a transfer with Arsenal rumoured to be waiting in the wings. If they are forced to sell him too, they will be sitting on a major wad of cash and will probably be held to ransom on deals to get in replacements as everyone will know they are desperate (and minted). Maybe we can get them interested in Charles to fill one of the midfield gaps to drive his price up more?

Well, actually if you watch the pens again, both Davinson Sanchez and Akanji did stutters in their run ups to their awful penalties!

Akanji 🤣

Wow, Sanchez gave that a whack!

Barn doors and banjos spring to mind.

Missed the first half, but on basis of 2nd half so far, can't see either of these beating Argentina (or Egypt if they had got through). So if we can deal with Erling on Saturday, reckon it'll be the Argies in the semi, but wouldn't be too worried about that having watched their game earlier. Reckon Norway may be the bigger challenge as Haaland is so difficult to deal with.

Yeah, my suspicion is that Egypt goal wouldn't have been disallowed had it been an Argentina one. Argument would have been constructed to say "too far back in the move".

Defending has let Egypt down, had the game in the palm of their hand.

Also, there's plenty for Tuchel to work on if we do meet them in semis. They have looked wide open to the counter attacks from Egypt.

Shite.

Brilliant!!!!

Certainly would have been interesting to see if the same decision would have been arrived at had it been an Argentina goal and not Egypt.

Wonderful breakaway goal about to be spoiled by VAR.

Looking like at least a couple of these Belgian goals will need to be suspended by Fifa in order for the States to progress from this one.

Horror show for that 3rd goal from the US.