Belgium v Iran - Los Angeles - 8pm

Noticed it straight away. If he held on, the move would have been the same.

what  a goal

Imagine getting a season ticket and at the first game of the season you find abba in the seat next to you.

Ruled out

Probably maybe offside , clearly offside .

there was a player offside but not interfering with play or active or whatever they call it nowadays

I was hoping a goal however would have been shocked if given.

The goalscorer was offside wasnt he

Jun 21, 2026 -- 8:26PM, DIE LINKE wrote:

Imagine getting a season ticket and at the first game of the season you find abba in the seat next to you.

Those celebrations

maybe, but close

Argentina would have been 3 up by now

lucky buggers

Bit inappropriate wearing army gear is it not?

This game could be painful

And millions of viewers switch off for 3 minutes

Belgium players in each others area getting in way

Sick bucket

How does this work?

I thought straightaway that he was offside, bet accordingly on the win markets
Offside confirmed, my bets voided?
Surely people are betting taking the goal being ruled out into their betting?
Caveat emptor


After all my years on here, perhaps I should know the rules

0-0HT. Belgium no good.

Does Emma's level of football intelligence and knowledge intimidate you, duffY ?

the female pundit experiment isn't working. but will they drop it? No chance, not while the male pundits are little better.

Perhaps mes, but not as much as her impression of Alan Partridge does

What we're really missing, is Alex Scott, always scrubbed up well.

Miss Bunton has let her self go since the Spice Girl days.

lol at the theatrical ref back-stepping with that over-exuberant hand gesture to the player to 'come here', reminded me of when a ref done that to Zlatan once, and Zlatan stood dead still and just stared and him....so the ref went to him instead

Should be a least 7 mins injury time..

Why are belgium playing with one forward they need get players in box

Lukaku's more likely to be sent of than score, needs replaced at HT.

Iranian player back from the dead , its a miracle .

they will need a stern talking to by Martinez at Half Time.

Lukaku has always been one of those players, if you play to his strength and have balls pinged into him he can be World Class in front of goal, when he's starved on the ball he looks like a donkey

unlikely des as hes assistant manager of portugal these days

too fat to jump

Belgium crying out for a Eden Hazard/Wilshere type player to carve open the middle of the pitch

yes, but he's still there in spirit.

Belgium keep BOMBING
Down the wings
Iran know all the tricks

Putting a bit more on 0ver 1.5, have feeling this 0-0 or 2 or more all over it.

Who the hell put Lukaku up front

Useless

Wow 2.04 now over 1.5 had a small top up.

Shocking form belgium not found one man with a cross

Jun 21, 2026 -- 8:54PM, ImSoLuckyLucky! wrote:

Belgium keep BOMBINGDown the wingsIran know all the tricks

lol

Jun 21, 2026 -- 8:55PM, abba21 wrote:

Shocking form belgium not found one man with a cross

Yet they have a few Catholics in the team.

Ive just had a result bet goals in the wrong game

Studs up challenge to the keeper's shoulder... 3" to the right and the poor sod might have needed plastic surgery.

Lukaku very lucky not to get a straight red.

tobiasr 21 Jun 26 20:49 
unlikely des as hes assistant manager of portugal these days


I'm having that tobes....deserves a shout out

Just get the ball to wings and get players in the box surely would have scored by now stop passing through the middle and no need to take 30 passes to go two yards

Lukaku really does look like a bloater these days, someone joked earlier he was too fat to jump, he actually looks like he is

Jun 21, 2026 -- 9:02PM, duffy wrote:

tobiasr 21 Jun 26 20:49

double spaced, but good one.

to be fair Belgium are playing like a Martinez team.

tbf to Martinez his Belgian side reached Number 1 in the world and made a World Cup semi final in which the difference between them and France in that game they lost, was bare minimal, and he won the FA cup as well with little Wigan, who are not even a footballing town. More famous for Rugby and Pukka Pies.

ref more interested on where throw in taken form other than players leg been ripped off

Can only see Belgium winning this after Lukaku has been subbed off...

Just a big useless blob..

blimey, how did they miss that?

God is in goal

feels like Belgium should be an even shot by now but the market stubbornly holding out

this is shocking from belgium

shocking, but not surprising, tbh.

Red card

Take Lukaku off, put a midfielder on.. Belgium still win.

That'll help Belgium, IF Iran try and utilize the extra man, it'll create room for Belgium to exploit, in reality it probably won't change the pattern of the game.

cheating hate it

Christina waiting until he's well off the field, before she commits herself.

Belgium look out on their feet.

Shyte game. 0-0FT looks NAILED ON.

Rio Ferdinand randomly watching the match live

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You can see why Pep farmed De Bruyne out of City when he did, he hasn't got it anymore

It had to be you Greg

The 0-0 layers must be somewhat miffed that there hasn't been a goal.

WHY Are iran playing with four players in defence with extra man

0-0 backers in further clover. well up if backing 0-0 in every match so far

0-0 backers in further clover

0-0 backers in further clover

no idea whats gone on there

Belgium will probably still go through, as New Zealand are even worse.

This Iran team is crap though, they've been defending for their lives every since the other team went down to 10 men, you'd think it was them.

you can't say crap?

This Iran team are cr(a)p though, defending for their lives when Belgium went down to 10 men, you'd think it was them.

Third attempt at this post as apparently you cannot even say the word cr*p on this forum. Embarrassing.

pretty shocking

This Iran team are cr...a....p though, defending for their lives when Belgium went down to 10 men, you'd think it was them.

Third attempt at this post as apparently you cannot even say the word c....r....a...p on this forum. Embarrassing.

Dont worry Emma will explain what each team should have done

This Iran team are cráp though, defending for their lives when Belgium went down to 10 men, you'd think it was them.

fifth attempt at this post as apparently you cannot even say the word cráp apparently without getting around it with the accent on the -a, how embarrassing.

Thats all they do stattman wudda shudda cudda ffs

Grown adults can't even say the word -cráp

It's like on youtube in case you haven't noticed - they now asterisk out words like Gun and Cocaine

Even with Eminem's video -Stan, they've heavily censored the swearing, ffs that's what Eminem is all about

somebody has told her to take off the Camouflage jacket, wise decision.

Jun 21, 2026 -- 7:59PM, mesmerised wrote:

The odds just reflect the level of club teams these players are all playing atBelgium have 7-8 Champions League players, the rest Europa, Iran play out in the desert again your local Goat Herders, crop pickers and Tractor drivers, apparently Belgium are years past their best but they should still have enough to beat them.

If that was all the odds were based on, but we know how these teams have been performing. But Iranian players either don't travel well to foreign clubs for cultural reasons, or don't travel at all for political reasons. We can see from past results that they are about the level of Wales/Bosnia. Belgium's 'golden generation' meanwhile peaked around the 2018 WC, were not so good at Euro 2021 and were pretty awful the last 2 tournaments. Now rocking up here with completely washed up former stars and younger players mostly journeyman.Shocking in the 1st game and lucky to draw with Egypt. Still entitled to be favs yes, but more of a 1.85 chance.

anyone any wiser of who looks like playiong who in the last 32 now ?

Whilst most of that is true, they didn't even hit that price that you expected for well over an hour and for a reason, the way the game played out with xG, possession - even with 10 men btw, shots on goal and on target, number of passes etc, meant it was domination for Belgium but without really creating the big chances, Belgium still levels above Iran who's whole side nearly, plays in the deserts and mountains or their home country. All of Belgiums starts are playing in the top 3-4 leagues in Europe.

Iran may have played OK in the first game but what you haven't mentioned is a) they drew the first game b) they were still outplayed in the first game and c) they drew the first game against .....New Zealand, that's quite relevant don't you think, the worst team at the World Cup, lowest ranked and expected to finish bottom of the group - whilst Belgium had to play a team ranked over 50 places higher than the Kiwis in Egypt, NZ are only here because they're from the weakest qualifying region there is, spanking the mighty Pacific Islands of Tahiti, Vanuatu and Samoa in the groups before pumping Fiji and New Caledonia in the knockouts. They'd never have got out of Asian qualifier's like Australia do. So can't be giving Iran props for scraping a draw against them and conceding two goals in the process, especially given NZ even had more of the ball, made more passes and more shots on target than Iran. You're over estimating Iran based on a game against a pub team.

In fairness to Belgium as well, their two best players are clearly not match fit, De Bruyne and Lukaku, both had injuries this season/.

Kind Regards.

So Iran's FIFA ranking is meaningless but New Zealand are the worst team because FIFA rankings say so

Are Iranian players really all playing in Iran because none of them could get a game in Europe? Or is there more to it than that..

Jun 21, 2026 -- 10:05PM, mesmerised wrote:

Even with Eminem's video -Stan, they've heavily censored the swearing, ffs that's what Eminem is all about

It's because rap songs have a sanitized version for radio and pre watershed TV. And that version gets way more YT views because most viewers are not signed in and age verified so can't view the original, which will still be there.

You were making a case for Belgium's odds to be 1.85 and using Iran's result against the lowest ranked side in the tournament who came through the weakest qualifying region, as justification for that, yet you didn't even mention them by name (New Zealand), which couldn't be any more relevant, you just said 'they played better in the first games, which is a meaningless analysis without context, and you also didn't mention who Belgium played either, which was equally as relevant.

Iran #22, played New Zealand #83, and they drew, conceded 2 goals and were not even better statistically, less passes, less possession, less shorts on target, xG slightly better. Belgium played a side much closer to them in the rankings.

I don't see how a result against New Zealand who have a player in their squad playing for.....wait for it.....Braintree can be used here to make a case for NZ being anything other than rubbish, there's another one from Port Vale as well just relegated to the 4th tier in England

And moreover - the way this match panned out, with Belgium pretty much in complete control - even with 10 men Iran were on the backfoot mostly defending, and finishing the game with far more passes, possessions and shots, it does validate the original odds, even if the game ended a draw.

Kind Regards.

Egypt v New Zealand seems a likely draw IMO

I think Egypt will be comfortable against NZ, in the first game I couldn't believe why Iran conceded so much possession to NZ who were there for the taking whenever Iran went at them but they just did not do it often enough.

NZ have the feel of being a really poor side to me just waiting to be hammered.

I find it hard predicted international results.

I posted in one of the match threads today, that if you'd have just done something simple like back the draw in every single game so far with level stakes, you'd be in profit by 22.53 pts, think it was during the Spain game, which means now you'd be in profit by 25.03pts after the Iran/Belgian game, going by b365 pre-round odds.

Yet actually trying to predict results rather than a pattern, means my predictions instead are showing -9.58 after 37 matches, over 30pt difference, ffs.

Kind Regards.

Maybe I should just start following tober's own value lays instead, I might also be better off