Gavin Cooney

Oh, massively.

I think they're the tournament favourites or joint tournament favourites before a ball was kicked along with France.

So if the Amalekans stay fit, they've just got world-class players in pretty much every position.

And even the striker or Yathabal really toiled against Cape Verde, didn't touch the ball in the first half an hour.

He had two goals by the half-hour mark against Saudi Arabia yesterday.

Remarkable, yeah.

Egypt have been competing in the World Cup since 1934, and yet they hadn't won a game at a World Cup

until last night obviously Ireland can can take their minor bit of history along those what nearly 90 years of denying Egypt wins at World Cups but Mo Salah you know the the he rolled back the years to stand up in the second half superb goal to to regain the lead in that game last night and then a corner for for a header for 3-1 so that means they're pretty much through to the knockout round great celebrations you'll see on social media Salah

leading the Egyptian team in Mary Dance.

So, major moment in their long football history.

Exactly.

God, Belgium are, you know, Belgium really have aged, aged without much grace.

You know, Kevin De Bruyne looking like a pretty old man.

And that was a that was a hectic kind of low quality draw against Iran.

Belgium played the guts of the last half an hour of the game with 10 men.

Iran weren't good enough to to trouble them, really.

But, you know, they just they were just really toiled and struggled.

And while they may squeak through out of that group, I don't think they'll be troubling anyone in the knockout stages.

Well, any signing of Leo Messi is good for anybody.

His Argentina team returned to action against Austria at the sociable hour of 6 o'clock on RT later today.