Really!? It was the usual possession is everything so we keep passing the ball between the centre backs and the defensive midfielder for almost 130 minutes. I'm glad that that's over. And the most important thing: Ramos is out.

Which is silly - a foul's a foul. They're not there to modify or smooth over decisions they are there to correct them. Anything else, whether "what happens" or not is only an indication of a broken system. VAR hasn't been used long enough to establish precedent on what should happen regarding original decisions, and hopefully it won't go the way of cricket where we get a video replay showing it was out, but for some reason the umpires decision matters about that.

Right now it should be absolute "Judge Dredd" style "I am the law!". They've got all the tech after all (except the High Ex ammo).

Absolutely not. Have you seen that the VARs did in the Bundesliga? Utter garbage. The VAR should change as little as possible, i.e. only intervene on a clear mistake by the referee. And that was not a clear mistake.

Yup. Watching Spain play was about as exciting as watching paint dry.

This match was some kind of dejavu... Argentina - Iceland?

We were spoiled from Uganda yesterfday flying all over the field with their asses on fire.

That was the end of the great Spain sides of Ramos,Iniesta & Silva. They were the leftovers from the Euro 2008 winners that started it all.

Yeah it's their fault Russia parked the bus in front of their goal. But i do blame Spain for choking the ball with endless passes (1137 to be precise) and not risking more. Also Russia only 6 goal attempts for 120 minutes, 5 in the first half.

Hopefully we'll get more excitement with Croatia - Denmark match. Croatia showed best team play in group stage and Denmark hasn't lost a match in previous 18 games. Should be interesting. :p

Once the referee invokes VAR it should be 100%. VAR was invoked, and it should give the fairest result possible. I don't subscribe to the "everyone fouls a bit" logic, it's just giving more room to players breaking the game. Right now we see shameless rugby tackles in the area because they are aware that even with VAR they are bulletproof. If the Russian player hadn't accidentally backfooted the goal, that tackle would have been ignored, that's not football.

Cool, Russia won - congratulations!

Because Croatia doesn't count?

The underdog.

It's comming home.

Also Russia. And Sweden.