We're nearly to the final, but not without some amazing World Cup tweets from some tense semifinals. Let's get to it.
This was being touted to be the best game of the World Cup, but it failed to come even close to that. France just sat back after going up 1-0 to make the game boring, but Hazard did pull some skills to give a little excitement.
The Three Lions squad was spotted performing the most gruesome training regimen known in the world of sports, an ancient technique that some even say not a single Shaolin monk has been capable of. England, in tribute to Rocky Balboa, trained with a chicken. A rubber chicken.
The enigmatic, mad Frenchman is back with a vengeful commentary on the Russia World Cup. One of Eric Cantona’s most recent victims, one that we’ve all enjoyed criticizing this past month, is none other than Brazilian boy wonder and Oscar-nominated actor Neymar Jr.
The “Commissioner of Football” and King of Old Trafford, in one of his segments for Eurosport, bombarded Neymar with a not-so-subtle attack on his recent World Cup flopping antics.
Here’s what the former Manchester United No. 7 had to say.
After England made it through to the World Cup semifinals with a 2-0 victory over Sweden, English fans went berserk. In Samara, Russia, fans behaved themselves, but in East London, fans had another thing in mind: the local Ikea store.
Many videos went viral as England fans raided the Ikea store singing the lyrics to “Three Lions,” all while jumping on the Swedish company’s beds.
North Carolina FC and Charleston Battery played to a 1-1 draw in USL play on Saturday. Ataullah Guerra gave Charleston the lead in the 63rd minute, but NCFC’s Daniel Rios equalized in the 81st.
Seven minutes of second half stoppage time were added as North Carolina went in search of a winner, and it almost arrived in the 97th minute — if not for a goal-line clearance, a shot off the post, a save from the keeper and a myriad of other blocks/scrambles/deflections/madcap instances of defending.
You’re gonna want the sound on for this one, because the commentary delivers.
In the end, Neymar’s lasting legacy from the 2018 World Cup will probably be a KFC commercial that mocked his widely ridiculed roll against Serbia. The tumble also generated some great memes.
It’s a mantra that’s gathered steam over the course of the 2018 World Cup, but what does it’s coming home mean? Beginning with Harry Kane’s last-ditch winner against Tunisia, gathering steam in the five-goal first half against Panama, working into a crescendo following the breaking of the dreaded penalty shootout curse against Colombia and reaching a fever pitch following a 2-0 win over world-beaters Sweden, football's now well and truly coming home.
When Denmark and Croatia fell into a penalty shootout after a 1-1 deadlock, Denmark’s Nicolai Jorgensen failed to deliver. With that failure, the 27-year-old doomed himself to the role of a lifetime: the third villain in the next John Wick flick.
Jorgenson also received an alarming amount of online abuse — the Danish Football Association (DFA) even reported death threats!
On Tuesday, the Danish FA tweeted this:
On Tuesday we saw the last two games of the Round of 16 and Sweden and England were able to advance over Switzerland and Colombia, respectively. In short, Sweden was boring and defensive as usual, and England fans were nervous as hell the whole game, so you know there were plenty of great World Cup tweets.
The Round of 16 is off to a flying start, and it's everything we need in a World Cup. The underdogs have been ruthless — Russia taking down Spain and Japan nearly beating Belgium.
Every game this weekend from the Round of 16 was an absolute nail-biter. Two games went to PKs and the world's two best players went out in tight, goal-filled games. It was awesome.