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Basel 18932 - 5Barcelona
HAMZAAAAAAAAAAAAA MY STRIKAHHHHHHH I TRUST IN YOU
Alaves3 - 0Getafe
getafe red in the first game we’re so back
Alaves
Udinese1 - 0Barcelonawatched that dude play violin for what felt like hours
Barcelona1 - 0Nott'm Forest
raphinha i missed u and love you and would die for u that’s all
England1 - 2Argentina
the final in my heart. the final he deserved. fuck it allllllll
Argentina
Spain1 - 0Argentinavery happy for spain. but for my leo… i have so much to say. i don’t know football without leo messi. i genuinely don’t know how to say goodbye to him either. and i don’t know how you grieve someone who’s technically still playing. because that’s what this feels like. it feels like i’m saying goodbye to the biggest chapter of my life as a football fan, and i don’t know what comes after that. i think that’s the most beautiful, and the most heartbreaking, part about football. how unbelievably bittersweet it is. my heart broke watching him lose his final world cup. but in the middle of all that heartbreak, i couldn’t stop thinking about something else. maradona’s final world cup ended in heartbreak, and football found messi. now messi’s final world cup ends in heartbreak, and football has found lamine. maybe that’s how this sport survives. maybe every goodbye is also the beginning of someone else’s story. football is so fucking beautiful like that. legends leave, but they never leave the game empty. they leave it in better hands than they found it. and i don’t think there’s a more beautiful example of that than watching leo smile as this next generation begins to write its own story. so thank you, leo. thank you for every ounce of joy you’ve brought me. every ounce of passion. every ounce of belief. from the little girl who fell in love with football because of you, to the woman i am today… thank you. i’ll never know football the way i knew it with you. i don’t think i’ll ever love this sport in quite the same way again. but because of you, i’ll always love it. you’ll always be the reason. maybe that’s what feels the most full circle. my heart shattered in 2014. somehow, that heartbreak became the reason i fell in love with football. and twelve years later… you broke it one last time and still left me with something to love. forever grateful, leo
ArgentinaEngland1 - 2Argentinai wanted to take my time and truly let it all settle before i wrote this. honestly, i can’t really put into words how i feel about all of it. there was a brief moment where, despite how confident i was in my team, i thought this might be the day i had to say goodbye to messi in an argentina shirt. and that thought broke something in me. this is the same messi who changed my life, especially my love for football. i think i was in denial that one day we’d have to let this chapter end, and even now, it still hasn’t fully reached my heart. but wow. what a privilege it has been to witness this. at 39 years old, he’s going back to back in a world cup final. somehow, people have made an achievement like that feel ordinary because it’s messi. the hate, the agendas, the constant attempts to diminish him have made greatness feel expected. but it isn’t. one day, we’ll look back and realize we were watching something we’ll probably never see again. whether you love him or hate him, you were lucky enough to exist at the same time as this version of lionel messi. and then there’s the poetry of it all. as a culer, my two worlds are meeting in a world cup final. a true la masia final. instead of spending the morning sick with nerves, i get to simply appreciate the football. and if this really is his final world cup, how fitting that the last hurdle is a team filled with barcelona players who grew up idolizing him, players who would have given everything to share a pitch with him in blaugrana. some stories just feel written long before they happen. more than anything, i hope he walks off that pitch feeling at peace. whether he lifts the trophy or not, this already feels like a beautiful ending. i’ve dreaded the day i’d have to say thank you and goodbye to messi for as long as i can remember. but if this is how his world cup story ends, i honestly couldn’t have imagined a more poetic one.
Argentina
Spain2 - 1Belgium
pau cubarsi youngest bossman ever
Spain
France2 - 0Morocco
this game was literally the mbappe special
FranceArgentina3 - 2Egypt
i don’t even know where to start with this match. i genuinely went into it expecting argentina to come out on top, so that first goal definitely rocked me. weirdly enough though, i was calm. i think seeing messi live and knowing he already has a world cup has settled something in me. even if today had been the end, i don’t think it would’ve changed what he’s already accomplished. and then football reminded me exactly why i love it so much. there’s something so beautiful about watching a team that has already won everything still fight like they have nothing. you could see the desperation grow. every tackle, every run, every chance suddenly carried so much more weight. i can’t even imagine what that stadium sounded like. even messi looked off today, but then that late goal happened. holy fuck. i’ve always said messi taught me how to believe. he taught me patience, hope and perseverance. once again, he reminded me why. i do wish scaloni had changed things earlier. i still don’t understand some of the lineup decisions. but none of that matters right now. i’d already accepted that maybe this was the end, but i’m a sucker for a fairytale. they’ve already shaken hands with greatness once. who’s to say they can’t do it again?
Argentina
USA1 - 4BelgiumFOOTBALL WON TODAY SOCCER DIED TODAY😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️😭❤️😭😭😭⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
Belgium
Portugal0 - 1SpainGREATEST 7 IN THE WORLD FERRAN TORRES RETIRED SOME GUY FROM PORTUGAL
Mexico2 - 3Englandwhat a farewell. mexico were wonderful hosts. they brought so much colour, passion and life to this tournament and i don’t think anyone could’ve asked for a better host nation! this was one of those matches where you thank god you didn’t fall asleep. the thrill of it all, the desperation creeping into every player, the tension growing with every minute… football at its absolute best. seeing ochoa on the bench afterwards genuinely broke my heart. watching him cry was emotional as fuuuuuck and moments like that remind you that this sport can be so incredibly cruel, but that’s also why it means so much. was a big failed hate watch for me i won’t even lie (but i know haaland is gonna handle england) but man… what a beautiful game!
Mexico
Brazil1 - 2Norway
haaland gifting ney that final pen so he doesn’t leave with nothing erling haaland activism: a thread
Argentina3 - 2Cape Verde Islands
coolest and best day of my life. i don’t think there are words capable of carrying what i felt watching the man i’ve adored for more than half my life score right in front of me. some moments are simply too big for language. football is so different from the stands. the television will never be able to bottle what it feels like when an entire stadium breathes together, believes together, hopes together. there wasn’t a second where i doubted them. there were crossed fingers, quiet prayers, tears falling, and then thousands of voices becoming one. it’s incredible the way the chants become something the players can carry with them. we need la scaloneta and la scaloneta needs us! i don’t know how many times i screamed vamos, vamos selección, hoy te venimos a alentar… but it feels like muscle memory off my tongue by now. it was one of those rare days you wish you could fold up carefully and keep in your pocket forever. the perfect match. the perfect day. la cuarta estrella is still so fucking on!!!!!!
Argentina
Germany1 - 1Paraguay
hahahahahahahahah PAVERTZ HAHAHAHAHAHAHA MY VOODOO FROM 2014 STILL GOING STRONG
Paraguay
Jordan1 - 3Argentinalo celso deserved his hatty VAMOOOO SELECCCIONNNNNN
Argentina
Colombia0 - 0Portugalgenuine ragebait colombia was edging for half the match
Colombia
Uruguay0 - 1Spainthis match could’ve been a fotmob notif
Spain
Germany1 - 0Argentinamy review was too long to fit here but i still wanted to share. leo u rock my whole world man
ArgentinaEngland0 - 0Ghana
shoutout to the ghanaian witch doctor lwk did ur big one on kane fr
GhanaPortugal5 - 0Uzbekistan
no… i can’t laugh yet… i must hold it in…
PortugalArgentina2 - 0Austria
tears in my office my goat ethical hoops won’t break records on a penalty. i love you so fucking much gordo there’s nothing and nobody like you
ArgentinaSpain4 - 0Saudi Arabia
sorry i have to get sappy because lamine yamal man. the difference every single time he steps onto a pitch. the difference he made in the first game, the difference he makes every time he touches the ball… this shit means something to me!!!!! i always mourn the fact that i was too young to consciously experience the beginning of messi’s journey. i grew up with him, but i was a baby for so much of the start of it all but how lucky i am because i get to experience this one in real time. some kids right now are witnessing their version of what messi was for me and so many others. that is such a beautiful thing. there’s almost a strange sense of pride too because he’s younger than me, it’s like watching your little brother do something extraordinary and feeling overwhelmingly proud of him. i just hope he knows how many people around the world are rooting for him. football is his. the world is his.
Spain
Netherlands5 - 1Sweden
kind of mad i predicted 3-2 instead of 5-1 what the fuck guys
NetherlandsBrazil3 - 0Haiti
ancellepstein I know what you’re trying to do to my raphinha and I won’t stand for it
USA2 - 0Australia
that fat fuck made chelsea look like usa and usa look like prime chelsea get out my face man. Australia you have failed me.
Mexico1 - 0South Korea
probably the one match where i felt truly neutral sometimes i felt korean, sometimes i felt mexican also felt lil bad for korea because they created so many chances and just couldn’t find the final touch, which is a shame because i thought they played really well calm little match i didn’t find it boring at all especially towards the end. good eats sweet sweet futbol
Mexico
Portugal1 - 1Congo DR
why argue with ronaldo fans when you can just wait 😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
Congo DRArgentina3 - 0Algeria
who else but the king, the love of my life. the fucking one and only to give me my five star game. incredibly biased but fuck it all man he’s going to do it all over again. i’m so emotional because we will never, ever see this again in football. he’s everything to me. the greatest to ever do it and the greatest that ever will. and what makes it even more beautiful is the team around him. no team has the cohesiveness, the confidence, the trust that we do. it doesn’t matter if it’s gonzalez or alvarez with an open shot on goal, if they can pass it to messi, they will. because the beauty of it all is the love between them, the love for the sport and the love for the man who is the sport. what a beautiful first game. he owns this shit man. no one in any other sport can wear the title of GOAT the way he does. let el ultimo baile be the one where you put that fourth star on the jersey. i am behind you until the very end. messi, i will never ever be the same because of you.
Argentina
Saudi Arabia1 - 1Uruguayhow many araujos actually play for uruguay
Belgium1 - 1Egyptjust happy for my new client hamza
BelgiumSpain0 - 0Cape Verde Islandsi’m not necessarily surprised or even that disappointed, but i am confused by de la fuente’s decisions (as always), for a first world cup match, i really struggle to understand that lineup and some of the positional choices fairs tho cabo verde because their defensive performance was excellent and vozinha had a fantastic match. from spain’s perspective though, the lack of a clinical presence up front is becoming a recurring issue yet again have to glaze tho pedri was one of the few consistently trying to create something and the young goat lamine yamal completely changed the rhythm of the game the minute he stepped on the pitch… auraaaa ultimately, i put a lot of this on de la fuente and our inability to convert chances. but if 2022 taught us anything, it’s to never define a team by their opening world cup match!
Cape Verde IslandsSweden5 - 1Tunisia
tunisia my friends you never stood a chance but i celebrated that goal with everything in me