Group A - Russia/Uruguay/Saudi Arabia/Egypt

[Sassuolu]

Am I the only one who's expecting some kind of doping scandal on the Russian team?

Well fuck apparently, after a short google search, a lot of information on state sponsored doping by the Russians came up and how the Russian team is apparently running more than any other side in the tournament. This is the same team who couldn't win a friendly if their life depended on it and a country that was banned from the Winter Olympics.

 

[chipschups]

They are playing on their home grown, and Putin probably ready to feed them to his grizzlies bear if they didnt run his ass off in every match.

 

[Devious]

The most exciting game in the WC is about to start, I cant fucken wait!

 

[Native]

Well fuck apparently, after a short google search, a lot of information on state sponsored doping by the Russians came up and how the Russian team is apparently running more than any other side in the tournament. This is the same team who couldn't win a friendly if their life depended on it and a country that was banned from the Winter Olympics.

I think it's just the influence of playing on home turf, I mean you see it pretty often that average teams perform way above their usual level when they have the advantage of playing at home in a tournament like this, with even more of their fans around. The motivation this brings is a few thousand levels above the motivation they had for those weak friendlies.

 

[ElDuccio]

Suarezzzzzzzzzz!

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nice match.. now the world cup is getting interesting again

 

[AntonTheGreat]

Laxalt

 

[ElDuccio]

russian doping ended

 

[crzdcolombian]

Laxalt

Not good enough for Inter

Tho funny everyone was nutting on Russia. They finally played a good team.

 

[CoolMan44]

Game was already over before half time.

 

[Fapuccino]

How is Egypt so fucking shit? Jfc.

 

[ADRossi]

How is Egypt so fucking shit? Jfc.

Well for starters their coach is a dolt, and they have 3 players you've heard of before.

 

[Fapuccino]

Well for starters their coach is a dolt, and they have 3 players you've heard of before.

Saudi Arabia is averaging over 60% possession, and owning them in chances created. I don't think there's any Saudi players anyone outside of their own country has heard of.

 

[Devious]

How is Egypt so fucking shit? Jfc.

It's fucking unbelievable actually, quite an achievement, Ive seen teams in Serie C who play better football.

On the other side, seems like this is how Russian NT look like dopless.

 

[Fapuccino]

There goes my perfect bracket with that last minute goal

 

[Native]

Poor Salah…

It's also clear who's gonna win the Ballon d'Or again...

 

[Ed.]

Poor Salah…

It's also clear who's gonna win the Ballon d'Or again...

Messi.. :troll:

 

[Mino]

@ delusional people who don't think that every single professional athlete is doping.

 

[Ziyad]

Salah is still injured and he was a bit scared to go full throttle today, but what a class guy. I don't know why kahraba and shikabala didn't see action as much as they should. ( I know kahraba played but he needed to play more). Cuper plays great against big teams but badly against smaller ones. Nothing has changed it seems

 

[Wobblz]

@ delusional people who don't think that every single professional athlete is doping.

I think it's far worse that some people still think that they, in fact, aren't. Every professional athlete is "doping" nowadays. Depends of course how you define doping. And when you think of it, of course they would, there's so much money in sports and so much time and effort invested from the athletes part that improving your performance, provided you have a slim chance of being caught, is a no-brainer really.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Over 30 percent of athletes who competed at the 2011 world championships admitted to having used banned substances in the past, according to a World Anti-Doping Agency-commissioned study released on Tuesday.

And those are the ones that are openly admitting it, that's a fucking third of all the athletes on this tournament. Bulgarian weightlifters, for example, devised the following anti-doping strategy for a number of Olympic games - they injected some other guys urine through their urethra so they can pass the piss tests. Imagine how painful that is, but it worked for a while in the past.

Now imagine what powerhouses like China, for example, are doing in the field of doping nowadays, it's a whole science. Not to mention the whole scandal with Russian Olympians. Of course a large part of catching doping is also politics, Russians were probably "caught" as a form of political punishment, while the committee turned a blind eye to other team's doping practices.

I don't know how widespread is doping in football but one can only imagine that this sport is no exception.

 

[ScottishInterista]

Why anyone would stick anything up their Uretha for any reason is beyond me.