Falcao

They'd been rotating Falcao a lot tbh. Martial is injured, so it's just him and Riviere as the CFs. Each was supposed to play a half tonight.

Torn ACL according to prelim reports. Full tear. Out of the WC if true.

Hope that defender gets banned for life.

Nah, it was a bad tackle, but more careless than malicious.

That tackle isn't even that bad. Terribly unlucky is what it is. Not malicious at all.

McAgger wrote:That tackle isn't even that bad. Terribly unlucky is what it is. Not malicious at all.

+1

People need to calmá. It wasn't dangerous or malicious, just very unlucky

It was definitely dangerous. It's never the kind of tackle that's going to succeed. He's behind Falcao and the ball is one the opposite side a couple metres away. He's simply not going to get it.

But you understand why he did it. Option B is giving Falcao an open shot in the box. So throwing yourself in like that is probably just instinctive.

If Falcao's left leg didn't end up underneath the defender, it would simply be a shit tackle and a penalty. Not one single person would say it's dangerous

WTF is the difference between a shit tackle and a dangerous tackle?

Le Samourai wrote:WTF is the difference between a shit tackle and a dangerous tackle?

A shit tackle isn't always dangerous but a dangerous tackle is always shit.

This is a shit tackle



This is a dangerous tackle

Monaco should've never loaned out Lacine Traore and make use of Germain, instead of trotting Falcao out there tonight.

Catracho wrote:Monaco should've never loaned out Lacine Traore and make use of Germain, instead of trotting Falcao out there tonight.

Yeah that's what I thought when Sportzcy said somewhere there that they only have two (was it?) strikers. Why to loan out a new signing then.

Le Samourai wrote:It was definitely dangerous. It's never the kind of tackle that's going to succeed. He's behind Falcao and the ball is one the opposite side a couple metres away. He's simply not going to get it.

But you understand why he did it. Option B is giving Falcao an open shot in the box. So throwing yourself in like that is probably just instinctive.

So he should just let the attacker go because he cant get to the ball? People get injured, thats just how it is. To be honest there are very few injuries in football, game has gone soft.

Germain is not a CF and has barely played... remember that cup is important for Monaco since they have no Europe this year. So they were always going to play a very strong team.

The only true CFs on the team are Falcao, Riviere and Martial. Martial is injured. The idea was to play Falcao for a half and Riviere for a half.

Nothing you can criticize about this.

It wasn't even that hard a tackle. I've seen a lot worse. This is a physical league and you have to expect contact when you're a striker especially. Falcao hasn't had any issues with tackles this year... his only problem was a hamstring pull. Just one of those things...

What's the latest news? Really want him to play the World Cup.

What's the latest?
Sports, I need you to use your inside French connections to find out.

The doctors are pretty certain it's a fully torn ACL. To confirm, they need to wait 24-48 hours after the injury and get the swelling down. Doing a MRI now is useless because there's too much blood in the injured area to see anything. Once the swelling is down and they do a conclusive MRI, the definitive nature of the injury will be known.

This "he shouldn't have played" thing is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Players get injured everyday people.

Glad he does not play in BPL as he would have been just murdered along time ago.

Confirmed. Fully torn ACL. Falcao will be out 6-8 months and will miss WC.

Such a freakin shame.

Confirmed to miss the World Cup. Will be out for 6-8 months.

sportsczy wrote:Confirmed.  Fully torn ACL.  Falcao will be out 6-8 months and will miss WC.

Such a freakin shame.

Why do you care Falcao being in the World cup?

Because he is a great player and his presence will enhance the World Cup and not to mention playing in the World Cup is nearly every player's dream and the poor guy's dream got dashed,

Another Star player out of the WC

Feel really bad for Falcao.

Damn. Unbelievable.
I really hope one of our strikers (Bacca,Martinez, Muriel, Teo, Ibarbo, Ramos) can step up.

Not sure which out of those are actually gonna go to Brazil