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Prufrock wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:14 pm

Really enjoyed that. In Dublin, hipster craft ale bar watching the hipster team best the Argies. Final whistle, cut straight to Evita, even the Irish hate then. Diego crying again. Mwah.

A determined team game beating the individual superstars. Unexpected 3-0, but well done Croatia, especially Luca Modric. What a Messi....
Socceroos did well to get a draw with Denmark and a few plans are not going as they might. France won 1-0, but that could have gone the other way. All entertaining stuff, none more so than the corned beef tango boys. More fouls then a turkey farm at Christmas (sorry). On with the motley

TANGODANCER wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 21, 2018 11:07 pm

Prufrock wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:14 pm

Really enjoyed that. In Dublin, hipster craft ale bar watching the hipster team best the Argies. Final whistle, cut straight to Evita, even the Irish hate then. Diego crying again. Mwah.

A determined team game beating the individual superstars. Unexpected 3-0, but well done Croatia, especially Luca Modric. What a Messi....
Socceroos did well to get a draw with Denmark and a few plans are not going as they might. France won 1-0, but that could have gone the other way. All entertaining stuff, none more so than the corned beef tango boys. More fouls then a turkey farm at Christmas (sorry). On with the motley

Individual superstars? Messi, Aguero....after that Argentina are really not stacked with superstars.

I said before the game that on paper Croatia have the better players. And that is what happened.

Sure Messi. But Croatia have a better defence, Rakitic, Perisic and Modric who'd all get into Argentina's side. I fancied Croatia to beat them.

Yeah, I fancied Croatia to edge it, but not to smash them.

Gutted that Rakitic didn't celebrate his goal right in Otamendi's face

boltonboris wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:38 am

Yeah, I fancied Croatia to edge it, but not to smash them.

Gutted that Rakitic didn't celebrate his goal right in Otamendi's face

Yeah, expected a 1-0/2-1 not 3-0!

Wonderful last ten when Argentina had goooone. Aguero taken off well before or he'd have been after David Luizing someone.

Lots of cuts to Maradona. Bar I was in cut straight to Evita.

Absolutely cracking stuff.

Imagine how good that City team is to make Otamendi look like a professional footballer.

Nigeria v Iceland.
Not a single black person playing for Iceland!!!
Not a single white person playing for Nigeria!!!
#racistbastards. They all need diversity training.

Brazil finally woke up and won 2-0 against Costa Rica and Nigeria beat Iceland 2-0 and were impressive, particularly Moses, Mikel and Musa. Now it's Serbia and Switzerland. On with it....

Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:53 pm

Nigeria v Iceland.
Not a single black person playing for Iceland!!!
Not a single white person playing for Nigeria!!!
#racistbastards. They all need diversity training.

With a population of 186 million I think Nigeria might have a few more options than Iceland with just a third of One million Spots.

And the Yodellers staged a great comeback and beat Serbia 2-1. Interesting....

Belting game that.

Shaqiri and Xhaka will get tediously predictable peters for their eagle business.

Mitrovic snatched Kane's crown for "how the feck did he not get a pen for that?!_ Picture the first Kane shout but with two of them.

Prufrock wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:51 pm

Belting game that.

Shaqiri and Xhaka will get tediously predictable peters for their eagle business.

Mitrovic snatched Kane's crown for "how the feck did he not get a pen for that?!_ Picture the first Kane shout but with two of them.

Aye, the refs for both should hang their heads in shame. So blatant the whole world saw them....except the refs. The age of techn ology eh, bring back Pierluigi Collina to give lessons.

I have sympathy for the refs, there's that much going on the box on set pieces you have to assume they didn't see them. Feck knows what the full kit w*nkers with the TV's are for if not those, though.

Germans do the usual I see, mind the Swiss Roll ed over in the second 45.

Hoboh wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 24, 2018 1:09 am

Germans do the usual I see, mind the Swiss Roll ed over in the second 45.

Germany were playing the Swedes Hoboh? They were always going to win one way or another, it's a German thing (they were actually by miles the better side)

Anyway, the Belgians made Tunisia look like a Sunday pub league team and the worry of that is it makes our injury time win not quite as dazzling as we made it. Today is now a must win if only for pride's sake and to make beating Belgium not critical.

TANGODANCER wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 24, 2018 12:24 pm

Hoboh wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 24, 2018 1:09 am

Germans do the usual I see, mind the Swiss Roll ed over in the second 45.

Germany were playing the Swedes Hoboh? They were always going to win one way or another, it's a German thing (they were actually by miles the better side)

Anyway, the Belgians made Tunisia look like a Sunday pub league team and the worry of that is it makes our injury time win not quite as dazzling as we made it. Today is now a must win if only for pride's sake and to make beating Belgium not critical.

The positives are that Tunisia had 16 shots against Belgium (6 against England) and 5 on target (1 on target against us) and had 50% possession (39% against England). Belgium are great going forward but a bit rubbish at the back and will be susceptible to pace.

Well, we managed to scape through 6-1 against the Hats. In actual fact, before giving us two manic penalties and that Achiles from Harry, it could have been 3-1. Mind you we played blow football second half and a bit of the lacadasicals set in, but we scored three absolutly cracking goals and that great set piece goal in the first. How good was Stones header and Lingard's curling shot? Still not delighted with Ashley Young, and Sterling didn't exactly set the game alight, but we're a young side and it's a decent start. Come on England....

75 mins gone and Colombia have just stuck number three past Poland. Ref's los the plot on this, it's like a cage fight with no cage. Poland look like lost sheep.

Sweden too much pop oh dear, well it would have ruined the joke

Not too impressed with our second half tbh thought the three subs would have wanted to push their way into the starting eleven and my pal Stirling did his usual, fair play about three nice tou'ches but bugger all else!
We should have had 9 or 10 in reality.

Hoboh wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 24, 2018 11:04 pm

Sweden too much pop oh dear, well it would have ruined the joke

Not too impressed with our second half tbh thought the three subs would have wanted to push their way into the starting eleven and my pal Stirling did his usual, fair play about three nice tou'ches but bugger all else!
We should have had 9 or 10 in reality.

I'm thinking that at 5-0 at half time and having done the job of going through, unless we ever looked in any danger, why run yourseves ragged and risk injury? Six goals in the bag in style, and a case of mission accomplished. Panama will have a national holiday for having scored one against England.

Hoboh wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 24, 2018 11:04 pm

Sweden too much pop oh dear, well it would have ruined the joke

Not too impressed with our second half tbh thought the three subs would have wanted to push their way into the starting eleven and my pal Stirling did his usual, fair play about three nice tou'ches but bugger all else!
We should have had 9 or 10 in reality.

It was 30 degrees. There was absolutely no point at all in pushing on second half. Job was done.

If you want a concern out of a super performance it was the first 10 minutes when they opened us up twice. Better teams will exploit our weak midfield and back 3.

However, job fecking done.

We wait for other results now to see whether we want to finish 1st/2nd.