I'm clearer on who I'm rooting against than for in this WC

Yes, I said it! SPACE FORCE!!! *

S-P-A-C-E F-O-R-C-E

Space Force, bitches.

Oh!!!

You don't have a Space Force? Then you need to shut the fuck up! Shut! The! Fuck! Up!

It was almost a given they were going to advance given

the way the "draft" of groups went. No other European team placed into the Group and the top B team being at least the 3rd best team out of SA.

Forgot to add, they'll get killed by whoever works out (between Spain and Portugal) to be the 2nd place team in the B group.

And yet some predicted they'd lose to KSA

I guess they don't know FIFA very well.

Or they haven’t watched Saudi Arabia

Not that I’d blame that person. But they’re ranked in the 60s in the FIFA rankings for a reason.

Yes, but wasn’t Russia # 70? *

For a reason, they didn’t go through qualifying

It’s hard to accumulate the necessary points playing only friendlies

Prior to the start of Euro qualifying it looks like they were #38

That makes sense and partially explains their success

I did hear some "experts" opine that Russia is really bad, but their WC performance does not match that assessment.

Well, there are rumors out there that FIFA wasn't

quite as diligent as the Olympics was in looking for performance enhancing products in the Russian sports program. Not, that the Olympics didn't try to look the other way as much as they could.

Well...it’s Russia...

But every team should play a hell of a lot better at home than otherwise expected.

8-1 better so far? *