chaoslord posted:

Refs

Japan Costa Rica
Referee: Michael OLIVER (ENG)
VAR: Jerome Brisard (FRA)

Probably the ref the board knows the best. I think the biggest question here is going to be “Can Oliver work with a non English VAR?” England, at times, seems to do their own special version of VAR that no one else does.

Belgium Morocco
Referee: Cesar RAMOS (MEX)
VAR: Fernando Guerrero (MEX)

Ramos and Guerrero work again after Denmark Tunisia and has the same VAR. I think this means that the one handball shout they didn’t send to VAR plus going over to VAR for the other handball shout but deciding to go with the free kick coming out was regarded well by FIFA.

Croatia Canada
Referee: Andres MATONTE (URU)
VAR: Mauro Vigliano (ARG)

Leodan González (URU) was the VAR in England Iran but finds himself AVAR1 even though his fellow countryman is working this game. I think we can read into the tea leaves that either FIFA weren’t happy about the lack of send down at the beginning of them game, weren’t happy about the send down at the end of the game, or (probably) both. Matonte himself is someone I’m not super familiar with, but he is a relative newbie to the international stage. Only two WCQ matches and one international friendly I could find. Hopefully this goes well!

Spain Germany
Referee: Danny MAKKELIE (NED)
VAR: Pol van Boekel (NED)

Makkelie will also be very familiar to the board. He had the Euro 2020 round of 16 match between England and Germany and the semi final between England and Denmark. He also did Turkey Italy and Finland Russia in the group stages. He was a VAR at the last World Cup. It also looks like on his red card that he has a little picture of himself, so that’s kind of funny. He’s considered one of UEFA’s top guys, which makes sense for a match like this.

AnacondaHL posted:

feel bad for the dapper fan, he was so hyped

Paperhouse posted:

Robaldo martinez

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

How the gently caress did Japan lose to Costa Rica

Total Meatlove posted:

Every time they tried a penetrating pass the ball went all blocky

Bip Roberts posted:

I didn't watch the last Spain match but will fox get an announcer that goes hard into the catalan lisp for everyone's names?

Vegetable posted:

I think half the reason Spain look so good is they their players actually play together at the club level. How many teams have a central midfield trio that play together day in day out? That advantage gets accentuated by a World Cup without training camps.

thehandtruck posted:

interesting neck tattoo on raum. lightning bolt s. probably nothing. same font as ss. probably nothing.

paddyboat posted:

Vintersorg posted:

Translate plz

AnacondaHL posted: