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South Africa vs Czechia
FIFA • Group A • Jun 18 2026
Mercedes-Benz Stadium
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8.0
@jacksauer2
12d
Not a bad game at all. Czechia struck in the 6th minute, but after fighting back for nearly 80 minutes, they got a PK in the 83rd minute to tie the game. I doubt either of these teams make it past the group stage, but getting a point each is huge if they can pull off upsets over Mexico or South Korea.
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7.3
@tclem
12d
sorry but both of these teams feel mediocre and unexciting
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6.0
@matthew613mr
12d
A very mid match until South Africa tied it up late. Czechia in my opinion just didn’t look good and tried to play park the bus from early on and even with their size advantage, it just felt like South Africa was knocking all second half
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5.9
@newyorkdepression
12d
STOP GIVING ME DRAWS I WANT WINS I WANT LOSSES NOT THESE STUPID TIES! Czechia was very aggressive early (No I'm not calling them the Czech Republic. Deal with it.) and they cashed in finally in the 5th minute to take a very early lead. After that, South Africa started bringing some classic AFCON chaos ball to the World Cup shooting from 500 miles away and finally scoring right before stoppage time and unfortunately no other team could score in stoppage time for ANOTHER. DRAW. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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5.0
@nick
12d
Knicks in 5
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6.3
@Landon
12d
Czechia’s gotta score more than one goal. Your lead is not safe when it’s 1-0. South Africa is a good team but they don’t play well together as a group. Czechia’s gotta be disappointed with this result, they needed the three points and now they are going to have to beat Mexico to have a chance at advancing. South Africa will have to take down a great South Korean squad to possibly advance to the knockouts. I did not think this game would be a draw, I’m kinda surprised. I had Czechia but they did not really feel like scoring today I watched this off my phone, bad experience, lots of lag and freezing. Onto the next. Philly here I come!
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4.5
@ilikenumbers
12d
Was so uninspiring it didn’t even qualify for background noise at work. Both teams look poor in their first match and didn’t look any better here. A point was deserving since neither side deserved to win. As uninspiring as Czechia were vs south korea I thought they’d beat a south africa side which looked like one of the worst teams in the tournament.
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5.3
@sum
12d
This was just a mid game after Czechia scored the game kinda died but South Africa got a penalty and scored to make this a tie game make it harder for both teams to make the round of 32
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5.7
@tsukiko
12d
Such a mediocre game genuinely
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6.4
@jefe
12d
South Africa once again looked very sloppy and I might be the only who thinks they didn’t deserve the win. Even though they had the momentum in the second half they did not have the skill to finish. Missing so many opportunities missed.
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7.0
@curiousgeorgie
12d
Look, 1:1 is better than 0:2, but Czechia was practically BEGGING for the equaliser and even a 2:1 was on the cards
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6.2
@Olibro64
12d
I feel like South Africa used confuse ray on me. I don't have any persim berries.
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6.0
@selisic
12d
Czechia should've took advantage of the moment they had from that first goal, in the end decided to go defense and let the South African team tie. Either team needed a win here to possibly fight a direct spot to the next round.
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6.7
@sohaillon
12d
Czech struck early but couldn't get going again, and SA got a penalty on a handball that saved their world cup chances. It was a back and forth game that could've gone either way tbh.
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6.6
@rafiki
12d
Another draw
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