The Football (Soccer) Thread - Season 2017/2018

lol not saying they are as dominant as chelsea, games I saw they shared some traits, maybe thats just me =/

the U.S will be have a hard time

Watched both matches in the best sports bar in Dublin yesterday. Wanted to shove those vuvuzelas up those South Africans arses so much!

The place was packed with Uruguayans and not much French for the second match. The boos every time Henry appeared on screen were hilarious.

Uruguay are also miles ahead in the bringing out the hotties field. So many amazing latina girls in there yesterday.

I have a feeling honduras will be owning.

lol wtf is wrong with people, what exactly don’t you like about vuvuzelas? Compared to europeans with flares, fireworks, crackers, toilet roll and Oasis. I was hoping some west african influence would be present, those guys know how to play good tunes on the drums.

Well, Argentina is winning 1-0 against Nigeria and Heinze of all people scored the goal. I’m pleasantly surprised.

Still, our defense is soooo shitty…

Unfortunately, they’re not playing good tunes on drums. They’re blowing their stupid and annoying vuvuzela horns constantly throughout every match. Don’t even have the respect to stay silent for other teams national anthems.

savages lol

what you call respect is just cultural difference :wink:

Maradona’s had more touches of the ball than some of the Nigerians on the pitch have.

They should be about 4-0 up at this point, tedious game, not helped by Mick McCarthy’s fucking pork pie accent.

4 vs 2 messi puts it wide :nono:

Nigerian goalkeeper is like Daigo’s 3S Ken HU! HU! HU!

Enyeama, Man of the match easily.

Too bad the rest of the team played like ass.

The Nigerian Goalkeeper was VERY solid.
Too bad the Nigerians don’t know how to use the space.
It’s always too crowded whenever they have the ball, if they use their space more effectively and play their position i still have hope. The left/right backs acting as centre backs looked ridiculous.

South Korea on the other hand looked very fresh. Very good combination play and strangely won most of the air duels dispite the fact that they’re alot smaller than the Greeks.

I’d say Argentina and South Korea eventually go through to the next round.

where the fuck is zanetti and cambiasso

Cambiaso had a fucking awesome season, best player in the CL final and Maradona just ignored him. Zanetti the vet but still going strong, any team would kill to have him on board.

HAHa yeah, nigeria were shit, mick mccarthy really gets on my tits he looks at everything from a “i manage a shit team full of average players” point of view, shit like “just get it in the box see what happens”

So far it’s been really poor, argentina played pretty well very wastefull though that higuane was poor, alot of hype around certain players like him and that suarez who was fucking terrible.
Ribery, what’s all the fucking fuss about the guy is complete crap, what’s he won? where the fuck does he get this major player reputation from? definently one of the most overated players about, not fit to clean zidanes jockstrap.

Hopefully england will put the usa in there place later, but i have a bad feeling about the game, england have started so badly the last few games and rooney started to develop an attitude problem again, i can see it going tits up

Zanetti is too old, no where near the player he was 5 or 6 years ago although maradonna ploy of playing that guiterez at right back will come back and bite him on the arse.
And cambiasso? he simpley prefers mashcerano rather than bring another clogging midfilder he’s brought match winners only time will tell if that was a mistake, i think personally that cambiasso brings more to the team, passing shooting vision plus equally good work rate.

Fuck yeah, Argentina and Korea won, I’m rooting for both countries.

Do hope Argentina doesn’t fuck up like they did last World Cup.

An hour to go until USA v England.

Should be the best match today and hopefully the US will win.

thierry henry sends his best wishes

veron is also too old

why not aimar or riquelme

oh well argentina and brasil have so many good players they could make two teams

Maradonna and riquelme dont get along.
As for aimar i wasn’t even aware he’s still playing, seemed to have slipped off the radar, didn’t do fuck all last world cup i remember that much, last i heard he was playing for real zaragoza. nobody knows what’s going on in maradonna mind why bring A and not B to me he looks like he has alot of personal faves which clouds his judgements. i dont think argentina has enough quality players to make 2 teams i dont even think brazil do either, the only real country that can boast such deapth is spain.
world football is in a bad way at the moment, despite what themedia would have you belive, you only have to look at the quality of the matches so far, there’s not really that many great players out there, so alot of average players are getting to represent