It was 1-0 and manageable, and then it wasn't. Spain doubled up on France in the second half of their World Cup semifinal, and the goal that made it 2-0 came from the last guy anyone in the building expected to be scoring in a game this big.
The scoreboard flipped to Spain 2, France 0 around the 57th minute as the broadcast cut to Spain's bench erupting.
The goal belonged to Pedro Porro, and the Barstool crew couldn't get over it. Porro plays right back for Tottenham. He's paid to stop goals, not score them in World Cup semifinals, which is exactly why Barstool Gambling felt compelled to point out afterward that 'Pedro Porro is a defender by the way' -- as if the game itself needed the disclaimer. A fullback going up 2-0 in a semifinal against France is the kind of moment that turns a comfortable lead into a laugher, and the cave treated it that way immediately.
France had chances to answer and blew the best one. Keeper Unai Simon got caught wandering off his line -- the exact kind of mistake that ends careers in these games -- and Desire Doue had a look at an empty net that he couldn't finish. Barstool Gambling called it plainly: France may not get an opportunity better than that one.
Doue's clearest look of the night came right after Unai Simon got caught off his line, and it didn't go in.
That miss mattered because Doue's club teammate Kylian Mbappe wasn't doing much to bail France out either. Big Cat's read from the couch was that Mbappe was 'doing UFC moves out here' rather than the kind of finishing that gets France back in a semifinal, and once that miss went by, the vibe in the building flipped from tense to funeral. Mintzy's line in the group chat -- comparing the scoreline to an unconditional surrender -- was a joke, obviously, but it captured how quickly a 2-0 World Cup semifinal turned into a laugher instead of a fight.
By the time the final whistle context started circulating, the framing had shifted from 'Spain is up 2-0' to 'France got embarrassed.' That's the headline Barstool ran with once the dust settled, and after watching a fullback double the lead and a golden chance sail wide, it's hard to argue.
The post-match consensus in Barstool's coverage: France got embarrassed by Spain.
Spain now sits 30 minutes of game time from a World Cup final, and depending how the rest plays out, this could be the version of this team that everyone remembers -- the one that steamrolled a favorite behind a defender's goal and a keeper's blunder. Jon Gruden, who'd been rooting for the USA and running around Barstool's own Kings Cup coverage with El Presidente all tournament, put it simply after the fact: he always knew Spain would win. Big Cat's crew will keep watching, keep needling France's absent fan, and keep making sure nobody forgets it was a right back who did the damage.