World Cup: R16: Spain vs. Russia, 7/1/2018

[Jussi]

If not for the goal, would have been a penalty.

 

[Bakayoko Ono]

Russia have a few players that look legit 40+ years old.

 

[Asiantuntija]

Extremely lucky goal

 

[The Moose]

If that didn't end up in a goal, it should have been a a penalty for Spain.

 

[kov]

Good lord that was ridiculous skill by Isco bringing the ball under control like that, even if nothing came from it.

 

[Bondurant]

Does that OG set the WC record?

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

RIP Spain

poor lads don't know any better

 

[Bakayoko Ono]

Intensity off the charts

 

[NyQuil]

Lol, Ramos is hoping that no one believes in peripheral vision.

 

[mouser]

Embeliahmwnt on Russia, guy gets tapped on the neck and goes down holding his ear.

 

[Firsov99]

Dive on Russia, guy gets tapped on the neck and goes down holding his ear.

Tapped on the neck? It was an elbow to the neck. A clear foul. Ramos didn’t complain much.

 

[NyQuil]

Dive on Russia, guy gets tapped on the neck and goes down holding his ear.

Ramos knows what he’s doing.

He only casually swung the one arm at the guy as he’s waiting for the ball.

Hard to believe it was for balance.

 

[Bakayoko Ono]

Russians are aware they're losing.... right? Zero pressing when the Spanish defenders are just casually passing the ball around.

 

[mouser]

Meant to say embellishment.

 

[Chandrashekhar Limit]

Sergio Thuggery

 

[Luigi Habs]

Isco has insane control on the ball. Almost at Messi’s level.

 

[The Moose]

Spain is obviously a good team, but I hate their nauseating passing game. They have great possession numbers as a result, but you have to watch 50 lateral passes before they bring the ball closer to goal scoring range. Boring as hell.

 

[NyQuil]

 

[Tryamw]

Well right now to me they are just content to deflate the ball even though the ball is moved almost all the time. I'll admit it's boring as a guy wanting to watch some good ball.

Edit: Best thing I think that could happen is Russia pulling even.

 

[Firsov99]

Finally a chance for Russia. Golovin should have done better.

 

[TMLeafer]

Was Ramos pulling the Russian's arm again while falling? Looked like it on that replay.

 

[maclean]

I think we all expected Spain to dominate here, but this is ridiculous, even Iran did more against Spain

 

[Blender]

Was Ramos pulling the Russian's arm again while falling? Looked like it on that replay.

The answer to "was Ramos doing something dirty?" is always "Yes".

 

[Tryamw]

Handball. No reason to have his hand up there.

 

[The Moose]

Clear handball.