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

by Guest Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:38 pm

futbol_bill wrote:
Unique wrote:Anyone seen futball billy boy

i’m Here and severely disappointed. Days here winner of Vrasil - Belgium wins all!

Japan has enough to beat Belgium.

by futbol_bill Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:38 pm

alexjanosik wrote:It also needs to be said that the rise and fall of Spain coincided with the rise and fall of Xavi. Not a coincidence that Spain have flattered to deceived since Xavi retired.

Lol, Xavi was still
Playing in that disastrous 2014 team!

by Doc Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:39 pm

Time to add old man Bill in the suffering list.

by Doc Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:41 pm

titosantill wrote:spain had russia where they wanted, they scored first, but piquenbauer decided to channel his inner maradona, that's just rookie defending , worse than rookie defending, as a defender one of the first things you're taught is not to have your hand up in crossing or set piece situations, the hands stay behind your back if you're on the ground and at your sides if in the air. this is a defender with 10 plus years experience. diego's ussr handball in 90 was much smarter.

was an entertaining game for me, there's a lot of time to watch blow outs once club football starts against some hapless side

We give Ramos a hard time, deservedly so but Pique is really a dope of a footballer. I think he is retiring from International football after this so I am sure no one would be bating an eye lid.

by Art Morte Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:41 pm

Spain got what they deserved. Never seen that much pointless possession without ever getting into the box. I hope they change their style now.

One of Russia, Croatia or Denmark will be in top-4, wattba.

by Unique Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:44 pm

futbol_bill wrote:
Unique wrote:Anyone seen futball billy boy

i’m Here and severely disappointed. Days here winner of Vrasil - Belgium wins all!

don’t be silly now. It’s coming home. Cool

by The Demon of Carthage Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:45 pm

Art Morte wrote:One of Russia, Croatia or Denmark will be in top-4, wattba.

I have no issue with having Croatia in the semi-final. They have the best midfielder in the world and very, very talented players. But Denmark and that joke of a team Russia have no business being there. I hope someone ends them before they reach that far.

by Doc Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:45 pm

As much as Spain deserve this just desserts, the Spain under JLo actually had a more direct approach. They played to score, not this warped version of Don Vicente's tactics Hierro mustered.

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:49 pm

Most of Spain's teams looked good in qualifying and then played really boring when the tournament happened.

I see no reason why this team would have been any different.

by Mr Nick09 Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:51 pm

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
Mr Nick09 wrote:I did not expect him to score all goaols for his team, i expected him to be better than what we have seen. And from what i recall, even Messi picking up the ball 40 yards from goal is still as deadly a playmaker we have seen.

He just played poorly this world cup, simple as that

He's really not though, because he manages it once in a while doesn't make him dangerous from there.

I just struggle to understand what you expect tbh, he was receiving the ball in areas nobody can consistently do damage from.

This isn't a Messi exclusive thing either, I won't criticise Ronaldo or any other forward in history in the same scenario

For him to meet your expectations with the areas he was given the ball he'd have to repeat things he's done only a few times into a close to 15 year career.

Messi manages it every other week in la liga, maybe you need to tune in again.

He set this level of expectation by himself, and now that we expect magic again, we are served with an average player in a poor team.

we signed him for something else, because had he won, the comparison would have gone straight to Maradona.

Messi can do more than Ronaldo on a pitch, so i expect more from him generally speakin

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:54 pm

I bet if I look at a YouTube video of Messi highlights from the past season I bet I would have found barely any instances of what you describe tbh.

by Doc Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:57 pm

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Most of Spain's teams looked good in qualifying and then played really boring when the tournament happened.

I see no reason why this team would have been any different.

Mole, I know you didn't watch Spain that much or at all (I think it's somewhere in between) under JLo but what we saw under Hierro is not what JLo was doing or at least tried to do.

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:59 pm

I didn't but I'm very skeptical of things which happen outside of tournaments, Spain didn't play that boring football they played in 2014 during the qualifiers.

It's meaningless to me.

by BarrileteCosmico Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:07 pm

So can we now finally admit that Florentino screwed Spain out of a final they would've achieved under normal circumstances?

Should be tried for treason imo

by The Demon of Carthage Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:14 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:So can we now finally admit that Florentino screwed Spain out of a final they would've achieved under normal circumstances?

Should be tried for treason imo

You misspelled Rubiales. All he had to do is wait until the WC ends to fire JLO. Instead, he chose to act tough and cause Spain the tournament by firing him two days before the WC starts. What could possibly go wrong, right?

by LeBéninois Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:15 pm

Florentino did not fire the coach

The coach knew Florentino was to announce publicly that he was the new RM manager ( He was happy about it right )

Flo is non guilty :coffee:

by Harmonica Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:17 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:So can we now finally admit that Florentino screwed Spain out of a final they would've achieved under normal circumstances?

Should be tried for treason imo

Spanish love Refdrid more than Spanish NT, so no biggie.

by titosantill Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:24 pm

we cannot know what jlo would have done (the guy really dodged a bullet cos i didn't expect spain to win, i expected them to be knocked out in the quarters). with qualifiers and friendlies there's ample time to rectify errors, there's ample time to test depth and to use players you may end up not calling, not to mention, you play half those games at home in front of home support. we can't use qualifiers as a yard stick for the real competition when there's little room for error

like club football, qualifiers are suited for the big teams. there's ample opportunity to choose players and test out different systems that small teams do not have. the players play on the pitch, considering hierro was just an interim, i am very sure the inmates were running the asylum in this tournament

by Babun Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:44 pm

I don't know what was more boring. Watching Spain pass lateraly 90% of the time with no pace in the final third or clueless Russians defending with everything they had. I hope that Russia gets knocked out.

by CBarca Mon Jul 02, 2018 3:55 am

No excuses. The manager thing didn't help but if you're Spain and you can't beat Russia, you have nothing to blame but yourselves. Disgraceful

by BarcaLearning Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:54 am

Still difficult to accept Spain got knocked out by Russia, but thats always been the way of the WC often, where the weaker team defends well, sneaks a goal, hope for the draw and pens. So many top teams have been knocked out like this before... too bad for Spain, they really should have done better in the WC I thought....

by breva Mon Jul 02, 2018 3:00 pm

Ok, for the past ten years Spain has been a very good national team. But, this is the first time in history that Spain had a team that could seriously contend for a World Cup title. It isn't a stretch to imagine that the group of players that made Spain a contender would age at a certain point. Combine that with a late change in manager and a Russian team playing in a home World Cup, it is not a huge surprise.

by RealGunner Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:30 pm

Diego Costa: "Koke will miss"

Fernado Hierro: "Koke's alright"

Koke misses...

Diego Costa: "I told you!!"pic.twitter.com/n7skaL2cfT
— Caño Football (@CanoFootball) July 4, 2018

by Unique Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:33 pm

unreal

by Myesyats Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:37 pm

The way he slides out from the line and gives a death stare to Hierro, amazing rofl

Costa must have known Koke is a mental pleb since they spend lots of time together at Atleti

by Unique Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:40 pm

if i was the next manager of spain costa would never play for them again tbh.

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