WORLD CUP STUFF

Round of 32 - Spain 3 Austria 0 Austria's ploy of not playing any football at all didn't really work. It simply gave the Spaniards the opportunity to repeatedly humiliate them. It was indeed a joy to watch LAMINE YAMAL bring the crowd to its feet with so many failed tricks and wasted opportunities. Round of 32 - Portugal 2 Croatia 1 This game had everything. A thousand Ronaldo camera shots, a thousand Fernandez moans, a thousand bits of brilliance, a thousand missed chances, a thousand VAR offsides, one penalty and a huge Ronaldo sulk. And the feeling that brave Croatia were hard done by. Round of 32 - Switzerland 2 Algeria 0 Switzerland's second was scored by Dan Doy, which is a sure indication of how naff Algeria were. There's something about Switzerland which seems to bore their opponents into a stupor. Algeria looked almost relieved to be going home.