Topic: ⚽⚽⚽ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk World Cup 2022 - discussion ⚽⚽⚽ - page 5. (Read 10127 times)

I think the Moroccan coach went too far by taking quite a number of unnecessary risks with some injured players, I guessed the players especially the captain might have coerced him into doing so, and for them only to come off a couple off minutes into the game after conceding the first goal, Saiss was a big risk and you could see the bandage in his when he was walking of the pitch, I suppose that's why they opted for 5 at the back rather than their usually four, because how do expect and unhealthy Saiss to fare against Mbappe on the break or Griezmann if they pick him up ?



Perhaps if Boufal had fell too, it would have been a different argument, but I think the first impression the referee had was that the defender had the advantage of possessing the ball, while Boufal was the aggressive challenger going for the tackle/take on, that was what I saw at first too, until I saw the replay and it was evident that Boufal even withdrew his before getting anywhere near contacting the defender, and he was the victim in the end instead, so he got victimized twice, one by the defender and secondly by there ref.

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@igehhh I don't suppose that's how VAR works in total, I know for sure that it doesn't matter what the referee believe he saw at first glance, If the VAR advices him to take a secondly look at the monitor, because the have split decision with themselves, or at least a consensus that is different from what the referee, the referee's say is final but still the I don't think the referee will decline the request or suggestion from the VAR team.

In this case, the referee had already rendered a decision on the situation, so there was nothing VAR could do since the referee's decision is the ultimate. VAR doesn't intervene unless the referee gives signal or missed a situation and he is called to check it. VAR serves as the field's assistant referee, more like,"Hey, don't come in unless I need it." As long as the VAR is under the control of the ref, nothing will change until they act independently.


I took the opposite route this time, so it turns out Harko and CasperBGD were Argentina and France after all. I've gone over the questions, and all I can say is that, since whoever I back always ends up getting eliminated, may the best team win.

I don't have the complete stats but this was how it was poised about an hour before game started. So official markets were closed but somebody could still have placed bets even later trough those shared betslip links.
These are bets placed per our competitor, don't have the stats for amounts though.

Harkorede   19
Kanapka     12
   
Slaman29     10
CasperBGD   12

I believe we will have our bets settled tomorrow morning and then we should also get new markets for final and 3rd place playoff.

The questions for the final are here!

You will notice that some questions are in a h2h format, you can win a point even if you don't get the answer correct but get more points than your direct opponent.

Cutoff for submitting the answers is 2h before the start of the 1st game.

Good luck!


Yes, 3rd place is 25.5 mBTC and the 4th 10 mBTC.

And very quickly, it's my pick of the tourney to go through! Now it's up to you to burn my final bridge down

If it comes through, Harko, not only do you owe me a lot of beers if we ever meet up, I can join Trofolink as Sojoracle for non-premium predictor subscriptions

I wonder how many other people made consolation money on Harkorede/casperBGD making it through to the final.

Slaman and kanapka still play for a slightly bigger prize (3rd place) right?

was is interesting for me, Boufal didn't complained at all

all Moroccan players compained, and didn't, maybe he was afraid of possible second yellow, or red card, but he was stay put
it could be because he knew that he earned as well

IMO, it had to be checked by VAR

I had money on France so it went well for me that they did not check that start. It was clear penalty for me. Sure wasn't an attacker foul and especially not a yellow card for atacking player.

It really gets ridiculous when VAR does not check situations like this in world cup semi final.

So, the same thing happened in the 2nd semifinal as well.
That Hernandez - Boufal challenge in the 1st half should have been checked by VAR, to me it looked more like it's a penalty than a yellow card for Boufal.

Morocco was very dangerous in the 2nd half and deserved to score, it will be a tough game against them for the bronze.

it was a good duel
Giroud had two great chances to score, hit the post, and inched near the post few minutes later, but he wasn't lucky enough to score


congrats on passing through
hopefully, it will be a nice final, interesting till the end, as in all rounds so far


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Well done casper! I bet pretty big on myself and didn't make it, but I think it was awesome anyway in the end, you could have won 6-4 I believe but anyway moot point win is win, no matter the way to it, just ask Morocco before last night!

Giroud, as things should be, settled the game, I believe from highlights that he almost scored twice, more times than Mbappe!

Now let's all rest. I have a final round with kanapka!

I suppose I'm the opponent  

Kanapka was such a tough opponent, our match up was hanging on so many factors, especially France not conceding any goal, because I'd have lost two points to him, since that's the only way Hugo Lloris could have stood a chance against Emiliano Martinez which he went with and Martinez already had 3 saves, so Lloris still eventually came 1 save short, having just 2... Those dying minutes were so nervy with France being all shaky and quite uncomfortable at the back.

It was really exciting tonight, and we have our 2 finalists!

The results are as follows:
Harkorede - Kanapka 7-6
slaman29 - casperBGD 5-6





Congratulations!

This was super close, we have final results but I'll let my colleague publish it since he is doing the graphic and one more checkup Have to be extra careful since then we have to tell Steve to take care of the bets on site. Never thought of myself as oracle, now I can add it to my resume

It was good battle and congrats to all of you that got this far. Don't forget we also have a match for 3rd place and I am still missing quite a few BTC addresses. First game is on Saturday and we will try to put out the questions tomorrow so you all have more then enough time to enter the answers.

There is a lot wrong with the Moroccan game here.  Since their first come up so high.  Because in the past, Morocco did not have such a reputation, but now Morocco participated in the FIFA World Cup 2022 semi-finals like this time.  Their backpass was the biggest mistake they could not provide much support to the defenders.  Because if two French players attack from one, then the defense breaks down and cannot stop the attack.  And because the French players are very experienced, they won today's match.  But hopefully Morocco will play much better in future.

and since Giroud hit the bench, we have first finalist
not an easy semi-final, slaman had great answers, I gambled with Petkovic to start, since he actually brought Croatia to penalty roulettes, but it was not enough for Dalic to send him in (and he was rotating one attacker, but stayed on same three from Brazil match)

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We made a mistake in the Morocco question - they played all their games so far in a back 4 formation and we expected the same today and asked you to name 4 players.
However, they started with a back 5 so we promise to be more careful in the final round.

We would have accepted all the answers that had these 4 correct, but neither Aguerd nor Allah started so no points for anyone here after all

Crazy overhead kick from Yamiq damn! And Lloris is already with 1 save (I thought 2 but stats seem to only count the first, guess the post would have saved him anyway?) so if he keeps a clean sheet and saves another, it affects quite a few of you...

I'm trying to see all the responses from all you guys, since I got money riding on it haha and it seems to me slaman-casper is tricky. Advantage casper I think but if Giroud scores/assists and it's all over as slaman had the earlier goal prediction, even if casper gets the point from Lloris, it's a tie, so yeah it all hangs on Giroud.

For Harko-kanapka, it's too early, France score one more goal, and advantage Harko. France scores again in 2nd half, and I think Harko wins, but as soon as Morocco score, then it's advantage kanapka! Tiebreaker advantage Harko. Everyone predicted a first half goal, huh!


Yeah, I think 10/11 lineup correct was the QF, but no room for error in semis, and everyone got it wrong, that's awesome haha. And this is awesome, that at HT, nothing is determined in either semifinal.

It's going to be a cracker of a final quiz, the way this is turning out!

Yeah we made it super though for our semi finalists,  final will be even harder, who gets 2 correct is winner for sure
Just kidding a bit but we did purposely made some questions a bit harder as the competition progresses. For instance in early rounds you just had to answer who will be forward 3 players while in the last bunch you had to get starting 11 for Argentina correct. And we knew that Di Maria alone was 50:50 and then you had to get all other correct and know that both full backs are missing due to yellow cards.

similar situation in both our semis
not sure about France being able to keep clean sheet, it will all come to how the match is going to be played, early goal and Morocco could end up with several conceived, but also few in France net

with goalless halftime, all things are starting to point into Morocco direction to get into penalty stage

I just hope that France finding the net will not be in first 34 minutes, or at least not by Giroud, but at the moment I do not think that France will win it 3:0 or something, where my thoughts were before last night match

Saiss in, and five at the back for Morocco, seems as they will not be interest at all to cross into France half until conceiving

Yeah we're only talking about the penalty because it was a semifinal and it opened the floodgates. There were at least 2 penalties (VAR reviewed too!) I remember in groups stages that were really many times softer... anyway, it is what it is.

So both semis tied after 1 game, very low points, go Harko!

We're not getting another extra time tonight, it seems, huh? France will be wanting to end the affair quickly and will probably force the issue...