Match 1: South Korea vs Columbia.
In the early minutes of the game, there was controversial drama as Carlos Sanchez was handed the first red card of the tournament and suffers the second-fastest dismissal in World Cup history. And then a cool-headed Shinji Kagawa opened the scoring for “The Blue Samurai” by effortlessly converting the penalty.
Japan dominated the second half, creating a series of chances before Yuya Osako headed in the winner from a set-piece.
Even after the arrival of James Rodriguez and Carlos Bacca, Columbian Team still lacked that charm, That character which the so wanted to win.
James Rodriguez was a vital piece for the Columbian puzzle for he was their Messi and Ronaldo. His stellar performance in the last world cup was something people expected to see this year too. But unfortunately, that James was absent from today’s game.
Another day. Another match. Another humdinger!
Japan kicked off their World Cup campaign in a glorious fashion as they triumphed over Los Cafeteros. Maybe Japan truly has the power of All-Might and Ultra Instinct.
Man of the Match: Plato o Plomo and all the Pablo Escobar memes coming up
Match 2: Poland vs Senegal.
Teranga Lions roar to first African win.
Senegal showed everyone that they were not here to joke or model. Looking at them taking the game like it’s a final game, all That passion, and all that energy ARRGGHHHH, it was refreshing.
Everyone was moving as a unit, they pressure the opposition whenever they lost the ball. They got down to business and IMPRISONED Robert Lewandowski. Made Poland’s main man ineffective.
That’s what’s up!
Okay, Could they be the Dark horses of this world cup?
Tell me what you think in the comments. But something I am pretty sure about is that King T’ Challa would be proud of you guys!
Also ALL of the Senegal Fans in the Crowd cleaning their section before leaving after the game. YOU guys have my respect!!
Man of the Match: The entire Senegal team for being a fan of Daya’s Garba. And don’t you dare try and tell me it was not Garba. Modiji PROMISED uss acche din and here they are.
Match 3: Russia vs Egypt.
Where was Mo Salah? In Yuri Zhirkov’s pocket.
Three weeks and three days after Sergio Ramos twisted and slammed Egypt’s best World Cup hope into the grass, Mohamed Salah returned. He won a penalty, and scored it, ripping the ball with his left foot into the top corner. But by then, Russia was already three up and this game was as good as gone.
The Mohamed Salah on the field today was not the Salah that rained hell on Roma and City, Scored 32 goals in the premier league and netted 10 amazing goals to push Liverpool to Kiev. It was the Salah who was trying his best to make things work and hoped to deliver in this one match.
Salah was not a hundred percent fit and It was clear too in the first 30 minutes When he barely touched the ball. RUSSIA SCORED THREE GOALS, three goals that move Russia to the brink of a place in the knockout rounds.
Russian Keeper was on fire today. Amazing saves. Confident challenges.
Egypt’s tactics for the game seemed more like “Get the ball to Salah.” Russia anticipated their tactics and Made sure Salah doesn’t get the ball. Egypt now only hopes Uruguay does not win the match tomorrow or they will be as good as gone.
Man of the Match: Vladimir Putin, for he never taught his boys to surrender.
Germany won the FIFA World cup last time because they had a team. They did not rely on one player to shine always. They knew that it is an 11 man game. Relying on one man to be their “Saviour” always is illogical and unrealistic.
This year though, It seems like many teams have started their World cup journey with that particular ideology and that is why we have seen so many disappointments.
After the first round of matches, Asian teams have the same number of wins as North and South American teams combined. The first round of matches so far we saw Ronaldo scoring a hat-trick against Spain. Messi missing a penalty kick against a part-time movie director. Argentina equalizing with Iceland. Mexico winning against Germany. Japan decimating Columbia. Senegal calmly knocking on the doors of Poland saying “We are better”.
So many things all in this one week, With more three more to go I don’t know what the future holds but surely know it will be amazing.
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