cruiser647 Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 How did Torres miss that? That's Torres! Fantastic Dutch display with cracking goals. The Spainish don't like it up'em Capt Mainwearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulboy Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Holland were stunning tonight. Best match I have seen in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulboy Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Holland were stunning tonight. Best match I have seen in a long time. Only spoiler was the 'headbutt'. I know it was wrong, but to collapse on the floor like a sack of spuds was pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm Chris Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Master class from the duo at the front, let's hope the same duo don't both end up at Manchester's poorer club (not Wigan) next season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted June 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Robben is supposedly a target for Van Gaal. I can't see it happening though. The Dutch were majestic last night. I agree with Soulboy, it was probably one of the best world cup performances I have ever seen. I'm struggling to think of any other team that has played as well since I can recall watching most tournaments (1982 being the one I remember although I do recall a few games from 1978, especially the final). Chile will test Spain too, although their defence looked like you could drive a bus through it at times. I thought Australia did quite well and a little more firepower up front could have seen a very different result (or at least a draw). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Is cloning possible these days? Human wise? FIFA need to clone Pierre Luigi Collina. THE best ref the world (OK, I have) has seen in any football match! The Spain/Holland ref was OK, but there as some shocking displays. FIFA have been too busy concentrating on goal line tech! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted June 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Collina was okay, but not beyond the mistakes that others make. The Spain/Holland referee did a reasonable job barring one huge mistake - Diego Costa should have been sent off for a headbutt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Costa Rica..... 2 - 1 up so far! Great goals, but Uraguay (sp) are no headers of the ball and no defenders of the free kick!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuprabob Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Looks like they need Suarez on sooner than later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Looks like they need Suarez on sooner than later ie, from the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Another cracking game and an upset. This'll make the group tasty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted June 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 And England fail again. No surprise there then. Beaten by an Italy team that hasn't won in 8 matches, including draws against Armenia, Ireland and the powerhouse of Luxembourg. The only team to have players with cramp with 20 minutes to go? Hmmm. Preparations have gone well then. Not. Sterling did well, but he got caught in possession too often too. Rooney was his normal tournament disaster. Playing him on the left is baffling and it provides no support to Baines whatsoever, but last night Mr Rooney was appalling. Baines wasn't much better. The same old crosses and he was torn apart by Darmian. Why so many England fans expected us to get through this group I'll never know. We're just not good enough and Hodgsons tactics never fail to amaze me. So we now have a do or die game against Uruguay in which Mr Suarez will return. Lose that and we're out - which I fully expect. Even if we were to scrape a win we have Costa Rica waiting to teach us a lesson in how to look like you want to win a game with 30 minutes to go. After 60 minutes we offered nothing. Absolutely nothing. All I'm reading is how well we did.......oh come on, wake up and smell the roses. We're awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 Well, that was the best I'd seen England play for a long time. Completely different (read as - better) to the warm-up games and the qualifiers Faster pace, more attacking, but not enough goals (as always with England). Only the 1 real striker and he scored. But that was it, Sterling was alive for a while (when the FIFA goal tech went wrong and it thought he had scored??). Was Gerrard playing? He must have had the fewest touches of any England player. Rooney is like Hick - get him in an England shirt and he goes to pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted June 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 If that was the best we've played then it tells a very sad tale. Ineffective. The running stopped after 60 minutes and we got passed to death by a very average Italian team. Did our substitutes do anything whatsoever other than Barkley with his shot? No. We're just not a good international team, nowhere near good. We could well exit this competition with zero points - and it'd be deserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm Chris Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 Positive vibs for a Sunday Morning..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted June 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 Nothing different to what i've been saying would happen to the team for the last few months..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 Drop Gerrard, Rooney etc. Give all the young ones a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuprabob Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 As a neutral, I think you are being a bit harsh. Thursday's game should be a cracker as both sides really need to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted June 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 Uruguay will win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinspark Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 It baffles me why managers insist on playing players out of position. Rooney scored 19 in 40 games for United last season - a very respectable strike-rate - yet Woy played him out wide. Then the press / ABUs tear him apart for being less effective than they think he should be. We've seen it before with Paul Scholes - being pushed out wide so managers could play Gerrard and Lampard in the same side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted June 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 He's been pretty crap all year in truth. Plus, the 19 in 40 doesn't really tell the tale. For a £250,000 a week striker too... Hodgson playing him out of position doesn't help, but the story last night was much more than just Rooney. England are simply a poor team. Nothing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinspark Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 I gave up on England years ago - it's not so much the hype vs delivery, but it seems that every tournament has the press looking to blame a United player for our exit. We could get torn apart 5-0 in every game, but the press will still find a reason why it's all the fault of a United player. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted June 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 I've not seen any of that to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 We could get torn apart 5-0 in every game, but the England fans will still find a reason why it's all the fault of a United player. Fixed that for you. That's the non-United England fans obviously, happens every single tournament because they're all a bunch of ****s. I thought England were positive, created plenty of chances - and in a tournament where nobody expects us to do well that is what the fans and press have been clamouring for. It was a brave move by Hodgson to let them off the leash. Of course, much as that resulted in the best attacking England performance I've seen in a while it left some horrible gaps at the back - which is where we will be punished by the better teams. It's still not beyond the bounds of reason that we could do enough against Uruguay and Costa Rica to go through, but if we do then we'll lose to the first real contender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 Looks like Tipex might have overdone his support a bit 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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