All 3 co-hosts are through to the round of 16.
USA, USA, USA
Country road, take me home
Pochettinoās team came of age today
It was a mature performance. You can see maybe the experience of CONCACAF tournament football in not responding to some of the Bosnian aggro and preventing the game being allowed to boil over
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I just rewatched the fee kick. Awful goal keeping. Wrist injury? 
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It is an automatic one game ban, but FIFA could extend it if necessary. I doubt thatāll happen here. There are no appeal rights, either, but I donāt think there would be a basis for one. It wasnāt intentional, but it was reckless. If it was given as a yellow, I donāt know if it gets upgraded, but I canāt dispute it.
Itās a big loss for the US. Balogun is easily their best striker. Ricardo Pepi will have to step up. That Belgium squad is beatable.
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And the keeper let the first goal in off a deflection. Very easily could have been 0-0 going into ET with the US being a man down.
The US definitely were the better side today, though.
Gutted for Senegal. They just collapsed, few silly errors. The football gods were on Belgiumās side. Sarrās goal was ace.
Gutted for Bosnia, really wanted them to beat USA, but they are new in the World Cup, need more time and experience in these tournaments.
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Hereās another look at Harry Kaneās penalty call.
For me itās not the contact with the goalkeeper but with the defender.
Itās like a tap tackle in rugby, you just can not recover from that. Harryās heals clip due to it and he can in no fashion get enough weight on his right leg to stay up.
Iād still like a better view however ignoring that contact is criminal.
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I went to bed after the second Senegal goal, figured it was all done and dusted! incredible come back for Belgium but gutted for our Sadio.
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I think he dived but the defender did push him in the back.
Way too much use of the hands to push and grab in football. Something needs to be done.
Watch the video, the defenders knee went into Kaneās leg in such a way as to make it at least very difficult for Kane to have full control of his own leg.
It was not the goalkeeper that brought Kane down.
All Iām saying is it imo was a legitimate penalty call. That it wasnāt given isnāt my problem.
The fact he didnāt get a yellow card is also telling.
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I thought it was contact with the defender to begin with, but I couldnāt see that clearly on the replay.
Nah I dont think so. Not much contact there.
And I think Kane was preparing to dive well before he did.
Itās not seen on the 1st angle but the second is clear as daylight for me.
For me without that contact Kane is good and strong enough to get past the goalkeeper easily and wouldnāt have had any reason to go down.
Itās strange defending Kane like this 
. Some of the accusations seem well out of line to me from the evidence.
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Have you ever been tap tackled or other?
Not much contact you can see Kaneās leg flex.
The thing is you lose control of your leg, it doesnāt respond as it should. Itās incredibly destabilising.
Anyway Iām done .
P.S what I am saying is āit was a legitimate penalty callā. Not that it should be given. It seems to me that the referee and VAR came to the same conclusion as you in that the contact with the defender wasnāt sufficient to award a penalty however unlike you Kane didnāt dive, otherwise itās a yellow. Thatās also my position from what I have seen.
Incredible, so what happened there? Fatigue setting in? Concentration slipping away?
Many many times and never gone down like that.
He was playing for any contact there. I would have only given the push in the back if anything.
I added to my previous post. I will leave it at that.
A bit of both I think mate, hence why I went to bed. Will make sure Iām ready for the full 90mins next time.
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