World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Discussion

After the yellow, cleaned forgot Veratti playing. Not one of his best matches...

futbol_bill wrote:

sportsczy wrote:Spain still going with the asinine "false 9" concept.

Yeah that false 9 against 5 men Italian defence is really bad, only a 3-0 win!!

Genuinely shocked how easy a striker-less Spain actually was getting into their final 3rd. Other than that minor issue, excellent match by Spain. Isco literally ruined Veratti and I get to see Villa in a Spain jersey again.

Italy just look old down the middle. De Rossi, Barzagli and Buffon looked geriatric... and Bonucci not much better.

I would also mention that the score is extremely flattering to Spain. They were the better team. But Italy's finishing was awful while Spain was unusually efficient. This should have been 2-1 game in reality.

2 goals were on Buffon. He was VERY slow to react on both of Isco's goals.

I'll also add that 2 very early DUMB yellows to De Rossi and Verratti made it very hard for them to defend aggressively.

Italy looks like a team in transition to me.

No way. Barzagli and De Rossi were MUCH better than Verrati and Bonucci. Those two were the worst players on the pitch by far.

In reality, it finished 3-0 to Spain Sports. And Veratti was horrid all night. Couldn't tackle, couldn't defend and certainly couldn't dictate the midfield. And every time he faced Isco, he became a highlight reel for youtube vids to promote Isco's dribbling.

Agree with the mad scientist, Barzagli and De Rossi didn't shower themselves in shit like Veratti did. Also, it was Bonucci's weird foul that caused the free kick.

Spinazzola is the only player that looked decent for Italy.

Playing a two man midfield against Spain away from home... not really a fan on that one.

Yeah Ventura screwed up. The organization and pressure for the most part looked good but 2 mid vs like 6 was just not working. He should have changed to a 4-3-3 or 3-5-2 quickly.

azzurri looked like garbage. buffon so slow to react

verratti? ..he aint pirlo!

Ventura is not going to take this team very far and the FIGC won't fire him, unfortunately. Ventura is a small club manager that the players don't respect. If he had balls and confidence in himself he would start Donnaruma in goal, Buffon is too slow these days.

Veratti should just retire adter this game. Isco made a mockery out of him lol

zigra wrote:Spain

I'm glad we weren't the only ones who got embarrased

Verratti was pathetic Don't tell me he's another Ozil level luxury player in that every facet of his game turns to shit unless he's in the comfortably better team on the night.

France - Luxembourg 0 - 0

Unreal

Theres no weak teams in Europe anymore

well, Italy

Delaney is a football god. Hatteick as a cm ffs. Second time this year

I remember Denmark vs Armenia in the last Euro Qualification group, what a difference 2 years makes

Denmark is on fire ffs. We need a win today which can be tricky because we're facing a weak team at first glance but in reality theres no weak teams anymore

urbaNRoots wrote:I remember Denmark vs Armenia in the last Euro Qualification group, what a difference a new coach makes

Slovakia looking like the beter team in the opening 10 minutes at Wembley.

Ayyyy Milik great goal

Slovakia leading against England too, would be funny if England didnt qualify

This Lobotka guy looks like a boss.

Germany ripping Norway to shreds... 3-0 up in ~20 minutes.