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
(Marco Reus is that you?)
Nah who are we kidding, MVP goes to this guy (for the meme, chill mate)
We then saw the pharaoh Salah held a tear or two as Egypt lost out by a goal to Uruguay in the 89' minute
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
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
3:3 summed up
GROUP C
VAR was on full-blown duty in France vs Australia
A peanlty from Greizmann and a deflected + goal-line-technologied shot from Pogba had France squeezed past the Socceroos
BTW I bet you can stick 10 pens into Jedinak's beard
Peru's Cueva missed a penalty against Schmeichel Jr., sending the ball to the moon to meet Ramo's.
And that costed his team as Denmark found the net with their very own ronaldinho-look-alike Poulsen
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
Oh and Messi missed YET another penalty....
Croatia took the top spot of this group with a 2:0 victory of the Nigeria
This guy did his magic
While this guy got that clean sheet
But hey, Nigeria still won with their kit combo
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Stay tuned for more highlights from Groups E to H!
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