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Livakovic has not changed. Still as outstanding between the sticks as ever. He has kept Croatia in this tie. Guy na octopus... despite the 3 conceeded.

TheSuperNerd:
Livakovic has not changed. Still as outstanding between the sticks as ever. He has kept Croatia in this tie. Guy na octopus... despite the 3 conceeded.

He consistently denied Kane his hattrick

TheSuperNerd:
African teams so far at 2026 WC...

SA ❌️
Maroc 🤝🏿
CIV ✅️
Tunisia ❌️
Cape Verde 🤝🏿
Egypt 🤝🏿
Senegal ❌️
Algeria⏳️
DRC⏳️
Ghana⏳️

7 African reps have played and only CIV have secured a win. Egypt, Morocco and Cape Verde secured impressive draws.

Senegal fell to a Top 5 WC favorite France.

As for Tunisia and South Africa.....

African teams so far at 2026 WC...

SA ❌️
Maroc 🤝🏿
CIV ✅️
Tunisia ❌️
Cape Verde 🤝🏿
Egypt 🤝🏿
Senegal ❌️
Algeria ❌️
DRC 🤝🏿
Ghana⏳️

9 African reps have played and only CIV have secured a win. Egypt, Morocco, Cape Verde and DRC secured impressive draws.

Senegal fell to a Top 5 WC favorite, France.

Algeria also fell to a Top 5 WC favorite and reigning World Champs, Argentina.

Tunisia and South Africa still the bottom of our Africa performance index class

Ghana is next....

Amovingman:
Na so you talk say Portugal go win congo wetin end ham

Bring where I said that make I fit take you serious

This bread and circus (World Cup) has been an absolute banger

He has tried indeed but Rashford has settled this contest for good. England's quality prevails.

Napoleon55:
He consistently denied Kane his hattrick

Modric needs to retire, you don try uncle.

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FiveFootNinja:
So according to your brilliant logic, capital infrastructure, public schools, and regulatory frameworks are socialist myths?

If the Ministry of Labor isn’t tasked with fostering employment policies and job creation strategies, what exactly are they doing? Collecting salaries for vibes? Eh, genius?

So u've got mind reading capabilities?
Infrastructure e.t.c aren't the labour's ministry responsibility.
Now ur initial compliant that I responded to, was the government should create jobs, which is different from ur "brilliant logic", you dig?

minfelix:
Just that if Portugal start to show us small flash of their brilliance our players will begin to cower….Most of our boys too dey fear when the going is getting tougher

Yeah. Just that Portugal no get that factor right now. Even Bruno and Vitinha didn't come through atalllll.

kentebemoney:
So u've got mind reading capabilities?
Infrastructure e.t.c aren't the labour's ministry responsibility.
Now ur initial compliant that I responded to, was the government should create jobs, which is different from ur "brilliant logic", you dig?

Lol @ mind reading. It's not that deep. It's just basic economic illiteracy on your part.

The Ministry of Labour coordinates national employment policies. When people say "the government," they mean the collective state apparatus, which includes infrastructure. So splitting hairs over puerile semantics will not change the fact that leadership is entirely responsible for the current employment climate, you dig?

SymphonyRad:
Modric needs to retire, you don try uncle.

This World cup, we gonna tell any surviving player of the Zidane 3peat era to just go hang boot.

Ghana abeg no Bleep up, this one they are playing scared against Panama.

Didnt even watch the match but why did i always have the belief that he was already retired. That egbon and ororo no dey respect their self.

SymphonyRad:
Modric needs to retire, you don try uncle.

Add ayew to the list too. Just saw his bald head across my youtube stream right now.

Amedino99:
Didnt even watch the match but why did i always have the belief that he was already retired. That egbon and ororo no dey respect their self.

This is an atrocious Ghanian team. This Ghana team, alongside Curacao, is by far the worst team I have seen in this World Cup. Ghana has really fallen off. Ghana used to always produce quality midfielders, and what kind of junk are they parading here?

Why are you playing defensive against Panama when you know your next two opponents are England and Croatia? No shot on target in the first half. Why is he playing with two defensive misfielders against Panama?

I like their attitude; they really care, but the talent is just not there. Ghana surely has better players than this. This Ghana team is bad.

Some thing does not feel right with Ghana. I can't put my finger on it exactly but I feel that the friendly with Austria killed their spirits.

Wallahi, Argentina would give this Ghanian side 7-0

Ghana's WC kicks off finally with that later goal and it is their brightest young talent, Caleb Yirenkyi who gets the matchwinner.

Ghana has been bad but Panama dont have the tools to hurt them. So Ghana escapes with a win.

TheSuperNerd:
African teams so far at 2026 WC...

SA ❌️
Maroc 🤝🏿
CIV ✅️
Tunisia ❌️
Cape Verde 🤝🏿
Egypt 🤝🏿
Senegal ❌️
Algeria ❌️
DRC 🤝🏿
Ghana⏳️

9 African reps have played and only CIV have secured a win. Egypt, Morocco, Cape Verde and DRC secured impressive draws.

Senegal fell to a Top 5 WC favorite, France.

Algeria also fell to a Top 5 WC favorite and reigning World Champs, Argentina.

Tunisia and South Africa still the bottom of our Africa performance index class

Ghana is next....

African teams so far at 2026 WC...

SA ❌️
Maroc 🤝🏿
CIV ✅️
Tunisia ❌️
Cape Verde 🤝🏿
Egypt 🤝🏿
Senegal ❌️
Algeria ❌️
DRC 🤝🏿
Ghana✅️

All 10 African reps have played and only CIV & Ghana secured wins. Egypt, Morocco, Cape Verde and DRC secured impressive draws.

Senegal fell to a Top 5 WC favorite, France.

Algeria also fell to a Top 5 WC favorite and reigning World Champs, Argentina.

Tunisia and South Africa still the bottom of our Africa performance index class

Up next is Match day 2 rounds....

Ghana equals Nigeria for most WC matches wins.

Most wins by African Teams in WC History...

🇳🇬 6wins
🇬🇭 6wins
🇲🇦 5wins
🇨🇲 5wins
🇸🇳 5wins
🇨🇮 4wins
🇹🇳 3wins
🇩🇿 3wins
🇿🇦 3wins
🇪🇬 0

Amedino99:
Tolu, ekong, boniface, awoniyi. major culprits of our campaign. Lookman too seeing that he played 10/11 matches in the qualifiers and could only generate 1 goal contribution and 2 yellow cards. Oh well, the tournament is underway, nothing else to do than enjoy the tournament as neutrals and prepare for the qualifiers of the next world cup starting next year. i know some of us have picked a country to support but it can not feel the same as supporting your own

What we lost is the opportunity to dream, the opportunity to be part of a global event holding in a country that is at the heart of global consciousness.

We miss the excitement, the adventure and the fever of national team football.

Ppogbae:
Some thing does not feel right with Ghana. I can't put my finger on it exactly but I feel that the friendly with Austria killed their spirits.

They will feel alright when they come back home.

Amedino99:
Didnt even watch the match but why did i always have the belief that he was already retired. That egbon and ororo no dey respect their self.

Ronaldo is in competition with Messi. Body go tell am.

The old guys often say leave football before football leaves you.

That he still leading Portugal's attack at this WC shows that they are not serious. The guy don sasa

Mujtahida:
Ronaldo is in competition with Messi. Body go tell am.

The old guys often say leave football before football leaves you.

That he still leading Portugal's attack at this WC shows that they are not serious. The guy don sasa

Ronaldo doesn't realize that Messi is a different kind of player from him.

Ronaldo is a CF/ Winger whose style of play typically involved non-stop energetic running on and off the ball and high leaps in the air to finish crosses. Certainly not a job description suitable to a 41 years old man. Even Ronaldo's dribbling and shooting style requires energy and peak fitness. What will he do now that age is catching up with him?

Messi on the other hand, is comfortable playing basically as a No. 10 with young players ahead of him to do the running while he finishes off cutbacks, one-twos and orchestrates play from deep with little or no running required.

Messi has never been a pressing type of player, his game is centered around lurking around the midfield, looking for the perfect space and opportunity to receive the ball and then surge forward. Messi's dribbling style (body feints) requires no energy and appears almost effortless, relying on pure natural instinct. His shots are more finesse and placement than raw power.

This means Messi is naturally built to last much longer than Ronaldo. It's actually a credit to Ronaldo's legendary discipline and fitness routine that he is still able to play at all but he just needs to tell himself the truth.

Ramos is not even a better alternative. Imagine being the only striker in a club and you are still benched by a winger. The Portuguese are blessed with many things, a good striker is not one of them.

Mujtahida:
Ronaldo is in competition with Messi. Body go tell am.

The old guys often say leave football before football leaves you.

That he still leading Portugal's attack at this WC shows that they are not serious. The guy don sasa

WarHammer2000:
Ronaldo doesn't realize that Messi is a different kind of player from him.

Ronaldo is a CF/ Winger whose style of play typically involved non-stop energetic running on and off the ball and high leaps in the air to finish crosses. Certainly not a job description suitable to a 41 years old man. Even Ronaldo's dribbling and shooting style requires energy and peak fitness. What will he do now that age is catching up with him?

Messi on the other hand, is comfortable playing basically as a No. 10 with young players ahead of him to do the running while he finishes off cutbacks, one-twos and orchestrates play from deep with little or no running required.

Messi has never been a pressing type of player, his game is centered around lurking around the midfield, looking for the perfect space and opportunity to receive the ball and then surge forward. Messi's dribbling style (body feints) requires no energy and appears almost effortless, relying on pure natural instinct. His shots are more finesse and placement than raw power.

This means Messi is naturally built to last much longer than Ronaldo. It's actually a credit to Ronaldo's legendary discipline and fitness routine that he is still able to play at all but he just needs to tell himself the truth.

So true another thing I feel Messi is naturally talented while Ronaldo put in lots of work to get to were he is
If you watch Messi recent games both MLS and Argentina last match Messi play highly intelligent game still drop deeps to defend create and all of that even at that age is is just built differently 💯

Every team dey use Arsenal boys collect wins, Spain get mind to bench theirs.

No problem

comodo:
I tire oh. Even VAR didn't check it. It's messi.

It's annoying the rate they pamper that guy, with all that gift and teammates he had played with,

Imagine if it's another player, that certainly a straight Red at worst, or else a yellow

7 goals scored, 16 conceded, 2 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses . Oh well, cant say im surprised but i expected better. We move on to match day 2

TheSuperNerd:
African teams so far at 2026 WC...

SA ❌️
Maroc 🤝🏿
CIV ✅️
Tunisia ❌️
Cape Verde 🤝🏿
Egypt 🤝🏿
Senegal ❌️
Algeria ❌️
DRC 🤝🏿
Ghana✅️

All 10 African reps have played and only CIV & Ghana secured wins. Egypt, Morocco, Cape Verde and DRC secured impressive draws.

Senegal fell to a Top 5 WC favorite, France.

Algeria also fell to a Top 5 WC favorite and reigning World Champs, Argentina.

Tunisia and South Africa still the bottom of our Africa performance index class

Up next is Match day 2 rounds....

do4luv14:
It's annoying the rate they pamper that guy, with all that gift and teammates he had played with,

Imagine if it's another player, that certainly a straight Red at worst, or else a yellow

Make una calm down. Pamper? Nobody pampered Messi please. He worked hard for it.

I admit the foul was a yellow but several similar incidences already occurred in this tourney yet not punished. Hakimi's foul on Vini didn't receive this much backlash.