FIFA World Cup

@canefan said in FIFA World Cup:

@Jet said in FIFA World Cup:

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This is the match in a nutshell.

That Spanish bank of 4 had carte blanche while Mbappe and the other sunshine boys seagulled up front.

Perspiration beat inspiration.

So seagulling doesn't work?

Luis Enrique launched Mbappe out of PSG and won two Champions Leagues back to back.

Mbappe is great at knocking over the minnows, but at the business end when you meet a team as technical as you , you need all 11 players running their socks off. Yes all 11. Even the Spain keeper was playing as a sweeper.

It’s the same with every team that indulges latter day Ronaldo. He is like a siege gun that needs to be wheeled into position.

Portugal will be exponentially better once he fucks off.

@canefan said in FIFA World Cup:

@sparky said in FIFA World Cup:

Shameful and embarrassing from the Argentine Vice President going the English "usurping pirates" and "invaders" ahead of today's game, although lots of British lefties will agree with her:

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The English need to rise to that level of intensity or they will lose. Beckham can give them a team talk about how he got sent off, and the way the Argentinian team celebrated afterwards. They won't necessarily fight fair, and won't give it a second thought in their quest to win

It’s going to be pure and utter skullduggery tonight.

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA World Cup:

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Judging by that poster 2026 world cup winners should be the All Whites!

@nostrildamus said in FIFA World Cup:

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA World Cup:

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Judging by that poster 2026 world cup winners should be the All Whites!

Except that Darren Bazeley is a Pom!

@Higgins said in FIFA World Cup:

Except that Darren Bazeley is a Pom!

Nobody's perfect!

(Especially if they are English)..

Maybe his job was to wave a white flag?

@sparky The British left (of the twitter variety anyway) are fucking insufferable. Tuchel needed to print this off 50 times, slap it on the dressing room walls and get the lads firing.

C’mon lads, play with passion, play with pride. Please for the love of sweet Jesus keep the pace up, go for the press and make space. This is gonna be spicy!

2 minutes in and the spice had commenced…

Dog shit game

How simeone doesn't have a card yet is beyond me

The fuck has it taken this long for the first card. Both teams guilty of shithousery, very little fluidity as both keen to mark their territory

1 a piece now for bookings

First World Cup since record of these things were made (1966) not to have a shot in the first half hour.

No shots on goal in the first half.

A combined total of 0.08 XG so far.

Where is this man when football needs him?

That’s the first half. No doubt a heated occasion, but very little football played as both teams preventing each other from finding flow. England need to stay motivated otherwise they’ll revert to staying back and creating little. Kane has been anonymous.

It's a pity Elliot Anderson was booked. He has been excellent so far but you have to wonder how long Tuchel is willing to risk having him out there. A lot of baiting by both teams. It's a terrible game.

Djed Spence skinned twice by Alvarez at the start of the second half.

@sparky Very different Spence from the first half.

BOOM

Tony Gordon in with the first

take it back

What an assist by Morgan Rogers!

@sparky said in FIFA World Cup:

What an assist by Morgan Rogers!

Justs play the Villa players more.

Shades of play from the Southgate era. England hanging back, passive defence, zero press. Argentina all over them.

They won’t win like this
Riding their luck
Ball watching

So fucking frustrating, it’s just all to predictable from England.

I just hope England can hit them on the counter when the chance comes

MacAllister might have blown it for the Argies. He should have scored from there. Even Lisandro Martinez should have done better with his chance.

There it is…

Told you
Dumb, dumb football

Some ping that, but it’s just so utterly uninspiring, so utterly predictable from England. Score from a counter against the run of play, then put all eleven players behind the ball to help ride out the 90. Complete pish.

Now England have a team full of defenders out there.

That could be the game…

Playing not to lose is the most cowardly way to lose.

Argentina = mentality monsters.

@African-Monkey said in FIFA World Cup:

Now England have a team full of defenders out there.

And yet they concede two goals.

@sparky said in FIFA World Cup:

@African-Monkey said in FIFA World Cup:

Now England have a team full of defenders out there.

And yet they concede two goals.

Good enough for the dopey fluffybunnies

Absolutely no fucking movement on attack. This is not a world cup winning team.

@Camberris said in FIFA World Cup:

Absolutely no fucking movement on attack. This is not a world cup winning team.

Harry Kane chose the worst time to have his worst game in an England jersey.

@sparky Utter dross eh. He’s been totally anonymous. Let’s face it, England were hugely reliant on HK and JB - both have been absolutely nullified by the Argies

Same old England.