11 things we loved on day 12: Quaresma, Amrabat, El-Hadary & more
On a dramatic day 12 at the World Cup, a former Chelsea loanee and a Watford winger both captured the imagination.
Uruguay secured top spot in Group A with a 3-0 win over Russia, while Group B went right down to the wire, with Spain and Portugal both made to sweat over qualification.
We’ve rounded up the best of the action on and off the pitch.
Ricardo Quaresma
This actually made us make a bit of a weird noise.
Ricardo Quaresma, again
There’s nothing quite like revenge.
Nordin Amrabat
This shot also made us make a bit of a weird noise.
Nordin Amrabat, again
What d’ya think of VAR, Nordin?
Iconic World Cup moment 😂 pic.twitter.com/dFzu4FeUcE
— VERSUS (@vsrsus) June 25, 2018
Essam El-Hadary
Forty-five years old. The oldest player to appear at a World Cup. Still got it.
Alireza Beiranvand
The World Cup is ace.
Iran’s goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand ran away from home, grew up homeless, and slept outside his local team's football stadium. People gave him change because they thought he was a beggar. Tonight he's just saved a penalty against Cristiano Ronaldo in the World Cup.
— Mootaz Chehade (@MHChehade) June 25, 2018
Russia
We’re not sure this American football style tactic at the wall worked out too well.
Genre defining stuff from the Russian player on the right hand side of the wall. pic.twitter.com/YdJsbP9hrV
— MUNDIAL (@MundialMag) June 26, 2018
Glasgow
Just watch out for the t-shirt.
What the fuck just happened?#SPAMOR #Glasgow #WorldCup2018 pic.twitter.com/Kkk9ZF6mgv
— Grant Gibson (@grant_gibson) June 25, 2018
Egger
The Austrian brewery really have saved the day.
Austrian brewery Egger have sent 420,000 litres of beer to Russia to prevent beer drought..
Heroes! pic.twitter.com/GF4wPgkyck
— Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) June 25, 2018
Orlando Menoni
We dread to think what age we’re going to have to live to before we see England win the World Cup.
Actually, this age It’s coming home.
Orlando Menoni (101) has seen Uruguay become world champion on four occasions and hopes to see La Celeste win it for the fifth time in 2018.
Beautiful story. pic.twitter.com/w0Y5p7Vw4P
— Warriors of Uruguay (@UruguayanHeroes) June 25, 2018
Mark Lawrenson
Lawro has been winding up a few people at this World Cup, but we’ll always love him.
To think Mark Lawrenson has played and commentated on football all his life, and this is still his greatest moment on television is literally astonishing 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/UlJejZgaz1
— Jordan Marley (@JordanMarley22) June 25, 2018
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