but you can't take the ER out of the girl

this game going the way it is going feels fitting for the 2 teams that are kinda just there. floating their way towards the quarterfinals.

not to say that our beloved football players are not drama queens when it comes to doing 10 flips on the ground after a gentle tackle because this is of course real and true and they are. but some of these reactions i'm seeing to how often they are lying down on the grass in pain after seemingly no significant contact etc while other people in other sports just get up after much harsher clashes from people watching football for the first time ever are underestimating what running across 100s of yards mostly nonstop for like 90 minutes does to a body.

the thing with norway is actually that you can't say one man is carrying the team even while erling haaland is scoring an insane number of goals and everybody's terrified whenever he touches the ball because it's like. martin odegaard running around taking the ball and directing the moves and sander berge finding the man who needs the ball and passing it to him and orjan nyland joining the race for most saves in the tournament and oscar bobb and antonio nusa making beautiful runs in the wings and andreas schjelderup apparently reading haaland's mind now and i'm forgetting a million things that are happening in these matches but i love them

told myself i will take a break and not watch the 4pm game cause i literally do not care that much. but it's now almost 4pm and. well.

i do unfortunately have to hope france makes it to the semi-finals because i don't think you should be playing a match against france when you're about to go on trial for rape charges in france let alone win it. but after that!