Group D: Serbia vs the Yugoslav Diaspora/a few other exotic places and some Swiss

[Bad Blue 2000]

Fuckin' ell

[kevin04]

Shaqiri does the eagle too!

[Bad Blue 2000]

Shaqiri has such a weird physique.
He's ripped and fat.

[kancutlawns]

Makes the Brazil vs Serbia match really interesting.

[kancutlawns]

Wonder if Haid still thinks that Xhaka is lazy and useless.

[Eaststand]

Great match.

I seem to be saying this at the end of every game. This is the best tournament I can remember since euro 96, so far for me.

[Bad Blue 2000]

I once had a shirt like Rio's


in 1996.

[deisegirl]

A lot of the Swiss players have punchable faces.

Good match though

[subsub]

I had 2-1 Switzerland! Good old Shaqiri!

[Carlos J]

Great match.

I seem to be saying this at the end of every game. This is the best tournament I can remember since euro 96, so far for me.

It is very good and some cracking last group games to come. Didn't 2014 start well as well and was a decent tournament? Liked 2002 as well for the weirdness of morning kick offs.

[kevin04]

I had 2-1 Switzerland! Good old Shaqiri!

Well in!

I had over 3.5 cards, and over 2.5 goals. Sounds like boasting/bullshit, but it's not both were about a quid fifty, so in total I've won about 5.50 from it, but I'll take it

[tennisman]

Wonder if Haid still thinks that Xhaka is lazy and useless.

What a goal that was!

In this Swiss team, Xhaka play very deep in midfield and like many players in the back third, he spends most of his time passing it across the pitch.

For Arsenal, where he has tended to get caught is where the play was more end to end and / or where Arsenal lost the ball whilst they were all going forward with opposition players then flying past him on the counter-attack catching him out and showing up his lack of pace.

From Twitter clips I've seen of Torreira, the new guy, he looks like a cross between Cazorla and Kante - lightning fast over short distances to tackle or nick the ball back, good at shielding the ball but also with a good longer pass and a blistering shot too - quite a player.

Why Sampdoria would want to let him go at 22 is a mystery to me but then again, maybe they need the cash or define every player with a current saleable value and if a club will meet it, they take it and move on?

How Dick Emery plays him and / or Xhaka will be interesting.

[subsub]

I had 2-1 Switzerland! Good old Shaqiri!

Well in!

I had over 3.5 cards, and over 2.5 goals. Sounds like boasting/bullshit, but it's not both were about a quid fifty, so in total I've won about 5.50 from it, but I'll take it

Good lad. I had a few quid on a red card, too, because I thought that tempers would boil over. But the win covered that

[Jonathan]

I had 2-1 Switzerland! Good old Shaqiri!

Well in!

I had over 3.5 cards, and over 2.5 goals. Sounds like boasting/bullshit, but it's not both were about a quid fifty, so in total I've won about 5.50 from it, but I'll take it

I had two bets of a fiver each,

Mitrovic anytime score and gets booked @ 16-1

Plus 2.5 goals, BTTS and plus 9.5 corners @ 15-2

[sjbarca]

Xhaka doing the Albanian eagle to wind up the Serbs!

They could be in big trouble for this!

SWISS GLEE World Cup 2018: Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri Albanian Eagle gesture towards Serbia after scoring for Switzerland
Adopted Swiss goalscorers Xhaka and Shaqiri, born in Albania and disputed province of Kosovo respectively, nodded towards their birthplaces in Serbia win

https://www.thesun.co.uk/world-cup-2018 ... itzerland/