Minute-by-minute report: Follow all the action as Hervé Renard’s side take on Robert Lewandowski and co
in white, the Saudis in second-choice green. Hugh Molloy is at the ground with his four-year-old, Rufus. “It’s clear that the Qatari supporters are firmly on team Saudi today,” he writes. “As to fashion, there’s a brilliant 50/50 split between Saudi shirts and traditional white thobes. Those with white gutras, the head piece, tend to be Qatari, the red/white check style is more Saudi.
It’s 99% Saudi fans and band wagon jumping neutrals today. Rufus is on team Poland because his favourite colour is red.” We’ll be off once the anthems are played.“I found the video of Hervé Renard’s halftime team talk from the Argentina game really interesting,” writes Kári Tulinius. “His body language is so expressive that the Arabic interpreter is almost unnecessary. I feel I would’ve understood him even with the sound off.
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