WC 2018 | Semi-Finals | England vs Croatia

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:RG dropping dem truth bombs.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

juvealbanian wrote:Exactly. With Croatia dominating the midfield he might not even see a good chance for him unless from corners or free kicks.

I would say Kane is the only true threat to Croatia.He's the only true world class player in a team that tends to get overrated because they all play in EPL aka best league in the world.
Sterling is selfish and wasteful af while Lingard is damn average.

They have mr.50m Stones leading their defense.I feel  Mandzukic will be a nightmare to him.

The only chance for England will be counters and having in front a tired and injury plagued Croatia.And again they should hope Kane really shows his class by being clinical as he might not get much chances of Modric & Rakitic will dictate in midfield.

On a good day for both teams I think Croatia will pass this 7/10 times. but right now it's 6/10 around 60% chances for Croatia to win imho.

This post is an example of what I mean in a nutshell.

Kane being overrated lmao, also what's wrong with Stones?  Croatia defenders have made much more obvious errors than him this tournament as have France defenders etc etc.

You are vastly overhyping Croatian players and vastly underselling England players because you don't like the Premier league for whatever reason.

Sterling is a sure fire starter for Man City but I'm supposed to believe that Man City would get rid of him to sign one of Croatia's attackers?

You don't come out and say it but there's clearly a level of anti English here, if Sterling played for another national team I'm sure the reaction to him would be very different.

I understand Croatia are a good team and have a good chance of beating us but Modric-Rakitic aside they are nowhere near as talented as you and others are painting them to be.

zigra wrote:There is no anti England movement. You people believe in some weird conspiracy theories.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:It's the way people are doing it lol, they are making it pretty obvious IMO.

It's not just they are saying Sterling is overrated it's that they are saying Kramaric is better.

Like I said if a foreign player scored 23 goals and 17 assists for arguably a top 5 team in Europe they would get way more hype than Sterling does.

Same for Kane, top scorer of the tournament and people think in a tournament where general play hasn't been great he doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as other golden ball nomineees. (not to mention he's only failed to hit 30 goals once in 4 seasons)

Again would get way more respect if he wasn't English, you can say there's no anti English agenda but I'm afraid the posts in this thread betray that.

Mr Nick09 wrote:im about to make $300 ($20 bet) if england wins tomorrow, dont disappoint ffs

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Babun wrote:Iniesta not winning was the biggest fraud back then and I don't even like Iniesta but one has to respect his talent and what he achieved back then in that tournament.

I've always disagreed with this tbh, didn't think Iniesta was that great in that tournament and him scoring in the final always disguised that IMO.

Xavi was always the best Spanish player of that tournament IMO.

Controversial hot take here, but I don't think Xavi was THAT great in 2010 relative to his Barça performances something was a bit off with him that WC.

Nishankly wrote:Agree with Urban, it's usual on GL. Liverpool faces this every season under Klopp when we do well, us fans make some noise on GS and most people jump to put you down.

It is because England, once a large footballing nation with vocal fans has been a small team which is again now finally doing well and big boys can't fathom it.