2022 Fifa World Cup - Group D - France, Denmark, Australia & Tunisia

[Nicky91]

France
Australia
Denmark
Tunisia


22 November 2022
16:00
Denmark Match 6 Tunisia


Education City Stadium, Al Rayyan

22 November 2022
22:00
France Match 5 Australia


Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah

26 November 2022
13:00
Tunisia Match 21 Australia

Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah

26 November 2022
19:00
France Match 23 Denmark

Stadium 974, Doha

30 November 2022
18:00
Australia Match 37 Denmark

Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah

30 November 2022
18:00
Tunisia Match 38 France

Education City Stadium, Al Rayyan
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[Nicky91]

Australia being here at a world cup for 6th time in a row already is amazing :clap2:


France is not unstoppable far from, they rely on their powerhouse Mbappe too much, but otherwise they are kinda average, were also flopping in nations league, close to relegation into division B, rowing into the same boat as England more or less for now

[Calderyon]

France easy winner
Denmark easy 2nd
Australia 3rd
Tunisia 4th

[Nicky91]

France 1st
Australia 2nd (more wishful thinking maybe but GO Aussies GO)
Denmark 3rd
Tunisia 4th

[Nicky91]

Guus Hiddink had joined Australia's staff team as an advisor


the one who became a legend in South Korea after their surprise long run in the 2002 world cup

[Nicky91]

fun fact

Graham Arnold (now manager) had been Hiddink's assistent back when he was australia manager

and Guus is his advisor


technical staff socceroos

manager: Graham Arnold
assistent: Rene Meulensteen
advisor: Guus Hiddink
assistent: Tony Vidmar
goalkeeping coach: John Crawley
fitness coach: Fabian Ehrmann
technical consultant: Ron Smith



soccer is really starting to become more and more popular over there


their most experienced, most capped players currently are

Matthew Ryan (GK) 75 caps (FC Copenhagen)

Trent Sainsbury (DF) 61 caps (Al-Wakrah)

Aaron Mooy (MF) 53 caps (Celtic)

Mathew Leckie (FW) 72 caps, 13 goals (Melbourne City)




as preparation for them, they are going to play two friendlies vs New Zealand today and the 25th september



4 times winner of Oceania Cup, 1 time champion of Asian Cup

1 time runner up, 1 third place in Confederations Cup


and this is literally their 5th appearance in world cup in a row and 6th appearance in total


has been a solid top 50 nation in the FIFA Rankings since 2016 basically

[Nicky91]

come on Socceroos :dance2:


can Les Blues get back to top form compared to recent bad form in nations league?

[Calderyon]

Denmark v Tunisia 1PM

France v Australia 7PM

[Vanessa]

Denmark vs Tunisia.
Denmark is a good team. Should do well

[Vanessa]

Tunisia offside. No goal.

[Vanessa]

Come on Danemark!

[Vanessa]

Offside again.

[Crimson Dynamo]

what a save

[Vanessa]

Yes, that was impressive.

[Nicky91]

am thankful these are two opponents of australia somehow


not very impressive from denmark, and tunisia well decent but not good




am curious for tonight, what we can do against a more weakened france (without benzema, kante, pogba whom are tbh real superstars and big misses for les bleus)

[Nicky91]

offside denmark

[Nicky91]

denmark sub time incoming i think


i see Cornelius warming up

[Nicky91]

Cornelius for Skov Olsen

Mathias Jensen for Kjaer

Lindstrom for Dolberg


3 fresh players for denmark

[Nicky91]

Tunisia sub time

Sliti for Ben Slimane

[Nicky91]

great shot from Eriksen, and a great save from Dahmen

[Nicky91]

what a header from Kristensen and barely not a goal, Cornelius couldn't get to the ball in time, before a tunisian defender

[Crimson Dynamo]

If Tunisia score there will be a riot :joker:

[Nicky91]

should've been a penalty for tunisia?

[Crimson Dynamo]

pen

[Nicky91]

pen

no penalty, VAR didn't intervene

[Crimson Dynamo]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it does not go to VAR

:facepalm:

[Nicky91]

sub time tunisia

teenage talent from birmingham city


Mejbri

[Calderyon]

Tunisia v Denmark 0-0 82'

[Nicky91]

good var, wasn't a penalty for denmark, mejbri went for the ball with that sliding, good defending from a attacking player

[Nicky91]

Khenissi yellow for what? :conf:


they both went for the ball, and then collisions can happen

[Nicky91]

a draw is most deserving here i feel


both got their flaws and good bits in this match

[Nicky91]

5 minutes extra time

[Nicky91]

wow what a long distance shot from denmark, from lindstrom :o


Dahmen paying attention very nicely

[Nicky91]

penalty check for denmark

[Nicky91]

no penalty denmark


correct decision

[Swan]

Im not sure it was a pen tbf

[Calderyon]

Tunisia v Denmark 0-0 82'

Tunisia v Denmark 0-0 FT

[Nicky91]

Im not sure it was a pen tbf

nope, first torso then the arm and it wasn't intentional hands


controversial but correct, brave of this ref to make that decision

[Nicky91]

2nd upset of the tournament


first point for tunisia

[bots]

glad i didnt watch the denmark game

[MTVN]

Tunisia played pretty well, I think people underestimated them a bit

[Cherie]

Tunisia played pretty well, I think people underestimated them a bit

They came out guns blazing

Got the footie on in the office

[Nicky91]

some refugees tonight in our team, from south sudan :love:


a Tasmanian Devil as our rightback (Atkinson) whom plays in scottish league



our ''veterans'' are goalkeeper Ryan, midfielder Mooy, forward Leckie

[Nicky91]

i'm deffo gonna stand up and sing along to australian fair




France, well Benzema is way more consistent than Mbappe (Mbappe is just more overhyped) N'Golo Kante is a worldclass defensive midfielder and Pogba is a creative genius, missing those 3 is painful for sure

[Zizu]

i'm deffo gonna stand up and sing along to australian fair




France, well Benzema is way more consistent than Mbappe (Mbappe is just more overhyped) N'Golo Kante is a worldclass defensive midfielder and Pogba is a creative genius, missing those 3 is painful for sure


Benzema should be in jail so I don’t feel sorry for him missing the WC


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[Parmy]

Let's see if the hearts defence can shut out the blues strikeforce tonight

[bots]

will france turn up for this game?

[Crimson Dynamo]

i hope France get gubbed

[Crimson Dynamo]

mon the Crims

[Calderyon]

France v Australia in 2 minutes.

[Calderyon]

France v Australia 0-1 13'

9' 0-1 Goodwin (Leckie)

[bots]

woooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Calderyon]

Australia scores.

[MTVN]

Get in!

Thank God for that after the last two 0-0s

[Crimson Dynamo]

yaaas

[rusticgal]

Great goal…I want Australia to win..:cheer2:

[Calderyon]

France v Australia 0-1 13'

9' 0-1 Goodwin (Leckie)

France v Australia 4-1 FT

27' 1-1 Rabiot (T. Hernandez)
32' 2-1 Giroud (Rabiot)
68' 3-1 Mbappe (Dembele)
71' 4-1 Giroud (Mbappe)

[Calderyon]

France ravaging Australia.

[Crimson Dynamo]

its a pleasure to watch mbappe

the best player in the world

[bots]

he has so much skill, it's breath taking

[Zizu]

he has so much skill, it's breath taking


I prefer Dembele as a player .. plus he’s not as egotistical as Mbappe


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[joeysteele]

Well done France.
Good match this was.

[Mystic Mock]

its a pleasure to watch mbappe

the best player in the world

That's a weird way to spell Scott Hogan.

[Nicky91]

as expected a France win, but not a deserved score, 4-1 is too flattered, Australia wasn't bad and France wasn't fully dominating this game



unfortunate that Mbappe had to score :facepalm: him continuing to be overhyped more and more




yes sort out the errors in defence, be more clinical than denmark was, and i'm seeing some chances against tunisia, there were definitely good bits in this first group match, just a shame first group match nerves got the upper hand with Atkinson and Irvine

Ryan made some decent saves too i thought




Aussies could've been 0-2 ahead with that long distance shot which was very close, and also very close call header (just unlucky, where mbappe was more lucky with his header goal)



despite this loss, i remain quite optimistic, and as for our two refugees, Mabil and Kuol, and Kuol especially i get why they call him a supertalent, he did well in the minutes he played, funny story too, beginning barefoot in refugee camps playing soccer :D

[Nicky91]

Tunisia - Australia 1-0

1st Jebali

[Nicky91]

2-0 Tunisia

3rd Sliti

[Nicky91]

3-0 Tunisia

5th Jebali

[Nicky91]

4-0 Tunisia

7th Jebali

[Nicky91]

Tunisia really giving us a football masterclass :clap1: :clap1: :clap1: :worship:

[Nicky91]

Laduni another very nasty charge this time against Goodwin (first match that was against Eriksen)


who is on Feyenoord's radar to possibly sign in the winter or next summer from Ferencvaros

[Crimson Dynamo]

Tunisia really giving us a football masterclass :clap1: :clap1: :clap1: :worship:

its been all Australia for the last 10 mins :joker:

[Calderyon]

Tunisia v Australia 0-1 FT

23' 0-1 Duke

[Crimson Dynamo]

Terrific performance from OZ and great scenes after the match

:clap1:

[rusticgal]

Well done to the Australians...

I could listen to them talk all day...:love:

[Nicky91]

well done Tunisia :love: :clap1:

[Calderyon]

France v Denmark 0-0 HT

[bots]

this should be a good one

[Nicky91]

dull game

[joeysteele]

this should be a good one

I thought it would be too.

Really hope the second half is much better.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Iv switched over to Rangers v Celtic ladies on BBC ALBA

[Crimson Dynamo]

commentary is in Gaelic but still better than Jonathan Pearce

[Calderyon]

France v Denmark 0-0 HT

France v Denmark 1-1 72'

61' 1-0 Mbappe (T. Hernandez)
68' 1-1 Christensen (T. Andersen)

[arista]

What a Clever Goal

Sneaky pass it back plan

France is going to Win this
I feel

[Calderyon]

Denmark equalize.

[arista]

France v Denmark 1-1 70'

61' 1-0 Mbappe (T. Hernandez)
68' 1-1 Christensen (



Yes Clever Denmark

France needs another Goal

[joeysteele]

Yes Clever Denmark

France needs another Goal

They'll need to get moving then.

[Calderyon]

France v Denmark 1-1 72'

61' 1-0 Mbappe (T. Hernandez)
68' 1-1 Christensen (T. Andersen)

France v Denmark 2-1 FT

86' 2-1 Mbappe (Griezmann)

[arista]

They'll need to get moving then.


They did it

2 - 1 now

[bots]

that did my fantasy team a power of good :laugh:

[arista]

I had a feeling
France would win

[Zizu]

TalkSport saying that second goal was slightly offside going off the clips they’ve been shown


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[joeysteele]

They did it

2 - 1 now

Yes, good one

[Calderyon]

Australia v Denmark 3PM

Tunisia v France 3PM

[Nicky91]

feeling nervous :(


idk what the best approach for the socceroos would be, be careful i'd say, proper defending, and counter offensives might be best strategy here, a point is enough, and we all know denmark so far this tournament haven't been in their most top form either, also not very clinical in front of goal, so stay close on top of the danish forwards, look for any gaps in their midfield, defence and try to break through


France should do well against Tunisia in their current form, even if they're already through, i can still see them winning because basically they always want to go for the win



those 3 points for us against tunisia were oh so important and pls don't let them be for nothing, i love Graham being such a passionate manager as well :love:

[Parmy]

Mbappe
Giroud
Rabiot
Dembele
Lloris
Griezmann


All benched

[Nicky91]

Mbappe
Giroud
Rabiot
Dembele
Lloris
Griezmann


All benched

Mandanda also got plenty of experience

Coman from the start is also decent



they still have Varane anyway again, his second starting 11 place of the world cup now

Camavinga, Tchouameni are also huge supertalents



and a new zealand ref, so pls help out your friends the aussies here too by gifting a penalty to france :fc:

[Nicky91]

a fact about Mandanda especially

Mandanda spent most of his professional career with Marseille, making over 600 appearances across all competitions in two spells with the club, and was voted Ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the Year five times.

Since his debut in 2008, Mandanda has represented France at six international tournaments: four UEFA European Championships (2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020) and three FIFA World Cups (2010, 2018, 2022), winning the tournament in 2018.


so yeah Lloris might be the no.1 goalie, but he is not an unknown either, just proves how much of a worldclass goalie Lloris basically is, if he keeps a veteran like Steve behind him as the second choice

[bots]

as expected its the france B team

[Zizu]

as expected its the france B team


We should have done that to give the ‘chosen’ ones a rest , protect them from injury plus give the fringe players a huge boost


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[bots]

pretty **** game really

[Zizu]

How is Mattéo Guendouzi doing ?

I always liked him at Arsenal


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[Calderyon]

Australia v Denmark 1-0 FT

60' 1-0 Leckie (McGree)

Tunisia v France 1-0 FT

58' 1-0 Khazri

[Calderyon]

Australia & Tunisia in the lead.

[Nicky91]

Yassssssssssssssssssssssssss

[Calderyon]

France & Australia advance.

[Calderyon]

Denmark were awful.

What downfall from the Euros.

[Nicky91]

The Guus Hiddink Effect strikes again :clap1: :clap1:


nice goal too from Leckie

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yassssssssssssssssssssssssss

You support Holland

[bots]

i switched off at half time

[Parmy]

Well done the hearts....

[Nicky91]

You support Holland

to curse them