If you haven't gotten into this World Cup craze, I mean......WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE!

GROUP A

Hosts Russia started off the tournament agianst Saudi Arabia. While everyone thought this is going to be a 2-goal-max game. Well.....BAM 5:0! All eyes on this guy: Aleksandr Golovin

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(Marco Reus is that you?)

Nah who are we kidding, MVP goes to this guy (for the meme, chill mate)

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We then saw the pharaoh Salah held a tear or two as Egypt lost out by a goal to Uruguay in the 89' minute

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GROUP B

Morroco 1 : 0 Iran

(I'll be honest...I didn't watch the game so.....MOVING ON)

Okay... just in case you wanted to watch it....and FYI: it's an own goal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG6hK0eZ_Ys

Portugal vs Spain is one of the marquee matches of Round 1 and let's just say IT DELIVERED

We got an early penalty, a rare blunder from arguably the most reliable GK De Gea, a redemption wonderstrike from Nacho, two goals from dieee~~~go-dieeee~~~go-dieeee~~~~go AND OF COURSE

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3:3 summed up

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GROUP C

VAR was on full-blown duty in France vs Australia

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A peanlty from Greizmann and a deflected + goal-line-technologied shot from Pogba had France squeezed past the Socceroos

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BTW I bet you can stick 10 pens into Jedinak's beard

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Peru's Cueva missed a penalty against Schmeichel Jr., sending the ball to the moon to meet Ramo's.

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/06/16/17/gettyimages-976233818.jpg?w660

And that costed his team as Denmark found the net with their very own ronaldinho-look-alike Poulsen

https://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/58/photos/317000/620x/Denmark-503877.jpg

Group D

The first major upset of the tournament came in Argentina vs Iceland. World-cup-debutant Iceland forced a 1:1 draw through Finnbogason's historic goal, after having first fallen behind to Aguero's powerful opening strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpbToCvOCE

Oh and Messi missed YET another penalty....

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Croatia took the top spot of this group with a 2:0 victory of the Nigeria

This guy did his magic

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While this guy got that clean sheet

https://media1.giphy.com/media/8cKrwA4I52RPGed9dz/giphy.gif

But hey, Nigeria still won with their kit combo

https://plustvafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/super-eagles-768x432.jpg

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Stay tuned for more highlights from Groups E to H!

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