Re: WC 2018 | Round of 16 | Russia Vs Spain

by Guest Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:42

Iniesta legit looks like a grandpa.

by Guest Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:43

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
zigra wrote:Did Spain play a different style before they changed managers?

They've played this way since 2010 lol, only difference is Xavi retired.

David Villa>>>Costa>>>>>>Ass-pass.

by zigra Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:43

out of here with you clowns, there are literally dozens of threads for this nonsense.

we want to discuss this amazing match IMO

by Lord Spencer Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:45

Alba fell down like an idiot and the ref fell for it.

That would have been the goal to spare us extra time.

by zigra Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:45

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
zigra wrote:Did Spain play a different style before they changed managers?

They've played this way since 2010 lol, only difference is Xavi retired.

Hapless_Hans wrote:
zigra wrote:Did Spain play a different style before they changed managers?

Yeah. They played some spectacular stuff in earlier games this year tbf.
But I believe they'd have played just as poorly now were Lopetegui still in place.

^That's what I read and it was the reason why I asked. Heard several times before the tournament about some amazing football from them (not sure if I ever watched one of these matches).

by Guest Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:45

I want Spain to go through. So Croatia rips out their soul. End their golden generation in style.

by Hapless_Hans Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:45

Lord Spencer wrote:Alba fell down like an idiot and the ref fell for it.

That would have been the goal to spare us extra time.

VAR would have taken it back anyway. Yards offside.

by Lord Spencer Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:46

Betty La Fea wrote:I want Spain to go through. So Croatia rips out their soul. End their golden generation in style.

The entire match would be Pique and Ramos passing to each other until Modric dies of old age.

by zigra Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:47

Betty La Fea wrote:I want Spain to go through. So Croatia rips out their soul. End their golden generation in style.

I thought that happened in 2014. And 2016.
But yeah, Croatia got this.

by Lord Spencer Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:47

Hapless_Hans wrote:
Lord Spencer wrote:Alba fell down like an idiot and the ref fell for it.

That would have been the goal to spare us extra time.

VAR would have taken it back anyway. Yards offside.

The replay showed it wasn't offside.

by Mr Nick09 Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:47

we are gonna get our first extra time lol

by Hapless_Hans Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:48

Lord Spencer wrote:
Hapless_Hans wrote:
Lord Spencer wrote:Alba fell down like an idiot and the ref fell for it.

That would have been the goal to spare us extra time.

VAR would have taken it back anyway. Yards offside.

The replay showed it wasn't offside.

What

what replay did you watch Laughing

That was offside clear as day

by Lord Spencer Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:49

Hapless_Hans wrote:
Lord Spencer wrote:
Hapless_Hans wrote:

VAR would have taken it back anyway. Yards offside.

The replay showed it wasn't offside.

What

what replay did you watch

That was offside clear as day

Bein sports. Ramos was in front of Golovin and Alba behind him.

by Lord Spencer Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:50

Smolov wastes the chance to end this for all of us :tears:

by Hapless_Hans Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:50

Lord Spencer wrote:
Hapless_Hans wrote:
Lord Spencer wrote:

The replay showed it wasn't offside.

What

what replay did you watch

That was offside clear as day

Bein sports. Ramos was in front of Golovin and Alba behind him.

Nah the pass before to start the move was offside. Very clearly. No way a goal resulting from this move would have stood.

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:50

Mr Nick09 wrote:then maybe we need to close all players appreciation thread and stop talking about how good x or y player.

we have to be able to talk about both at the same time, the team and the player performance. and i refuse to put Asensio's potential impact on a game at the same scale as Messi's.

If you want to reason why argentina lost and havent won the world cup in the messi's era, then you are right you can point to how disfunctional the team is and has been at times. yet, i also watched the game, and i saw a very lacklustre Messi, far from the standards we usually expect from him.

We have seen dysfunctional teams before reaching greatness because they were being lead by a single great player. Was that too much to expect or ask from Messi? maybe.

Name these dysfunctional teams who couldn't defend and their star forward was never put in goalscoring positions that won? They don't exist.

This isn't Rocket science, you mentioned the piece of magic but that happened because he was actually put in a position to score.

It never happened again, I mean if you expect a player who never sees the ball near the box to be dangerous then quite clearly you don't understand football very well.

by Lord Spencer Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:52

Hapless_Hans wrote:
Lord Spencer wrote:
Hapless_Hans wrote:

What

what replay did you watch

That was offside clear as day

Bein sports. Ramos was in front of Golovin and Alba behind him.

Nah the pass before to start the move was offside. Very clearly. No way a goal resulting from this move would have stood.

Fair enough. I didn't see the replay for that.

On another note. The Russian old boys will have a heart attack in Extra time

by Hapless_Hans Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:56

Lord Spencer wrote:
Hapless_Hans wrote:
Lord Spencer wrote:

Bein sports. Ramos was in front of Golovin and Alba behind him.

Nah the pass before to start the move was offside. Very clearly. No way a goal resulting from this move would have stood.

Fair enough. I didn't see the replay for that.

On another note. The Russian old boys will have a heart attack in Extra time

I'll try to find a video or screenshot. That was no foul on Alba I agree, but the offside was already before that.

by futbol_bill Sun 1 Jul 2018 - 17:56

With this coach, we are winning anything! Perhaps we get by in this game, but no way with Croatia. My prediction is Croatia in final against France or Brasil or Belgium and in final Croatia loses.