The Football (Soccer) Thread - Season 2017/2018

slovakia have wasted 2 great chances it’s really going to haunt them

Getting a bit bored of the dutches antics now, at least robben is off and we wont have to see his grass fetish anymore because i’ve never seen a player that loves rolling around in it as much as him

Van perise is a tit for moaning after being taken off, he did nothing all game, talent or no talent the guys attitude is pretty disgusting.

Credit to the dutch, they were the better team took there chances slovakia were wastefull though vittek could have and should have had a hat trick.

dutch are going pretty well, lets see how long it is till they implode, because with a chracter like van persie in your team it’s going to happen sooner or later

lol life

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so Brasil vs Holand

what a game!

For all those Brits out there…

1966 called.

It said karma was a bitch.

That literal last second PK killed my goal spread too. Luckily it just made it a push…so long as Brazil don’t fuck up!

English*

You have to remember he didn’t have much of a season because of his injury, it’s good to see him wanting to stay on the pitch, thats passion! I won’t bother comparing him to Rooney’s performance because that would just be beating a dead horse.

I was talking to my brother today about England’s performance. A lot of people are saying England have world class players but lack the technical ability. But I don’t think thats true at all, technically they are good but they lack creativity. Capello is making excuses that they were tired, but you just compare their foriegn team mate’s performances, they played the same season and the same games but they scoring goals.

My brother brought up a good point, these foreign players are taught creative football from an early age, whereas our homegrown players are taught old school tactics (lob it to the wing, hit it up the park into the box). So when our “world class” English players from Man U and Chelsea play without their foreign team mates they go back to what they know and they all under perform. And since the majority of the premiership teams play this type of football things aren’t going to get fixed by replacing Capello with someone else (having a English manager won’t help either). Premiership needs more couches like Wenger, managers that adopt modern football. On a side note, despite have the “greatest” football league in the world, players like Messi, Kaka won’t come because they won’t be able to play the football they love, doing so they will risk of getting hurt. Ronaldo probably got sick of people trying to kick him himself lol.

Spain Vs Portugal tomorrow, predictions?

I agree with most of what you said, having an english manager wont help, fuck the job is a poison chalice i think.

Yeah i get a bit tired of the greatest leaugue shit to, it’s the most exciting for sure but there’s also alot of really bad football being played.

I’ve got a bit of a weird theory, i blame greece for winning the euros in the style that they did, everybody started playing 4 5 1 flooding the midfield 1 upfront negating other teams rather than trying to actually win, especially if your team is not as good as your opponant.
You fill your team with athletes rather than footballers, just look at harry redknapps portsmouth team, maybe a bad example because they could play a bit haha

the whole mentallity has to change we all seen the mums and dads on the touchline “GO ON BREAK HIS LEGS” “CCLOSE DOWN” 11 year olds playing on full size picthes, far to much pressure on them, rather than goout and play enjoy your football is a win at all cost mentality, which in the end has killed off our game.

As for ronaldo leaving and others not coming here i think it’s a big concern for me anyway, maybe we’ve had our time at the top?
when you look at the terrible financial state some of our clubs are in they just cannot afford the wages it would seem bar the clubs backed by super rich owners like chelsea and man city, for me it seems like we are just serie A happening all over again.
Yeah also the tax thing is hurting us right now where they have to pay around 60 or so % tax, plus the fact like you said you will get kicked off the park.

I want spain to win tomorrow i got 20 quid on villa to be top scorer, but portugal can be very hard to break down can see it being a very boring game and tight i think spain have too much quality though 1-0

fabiano couldn’t finish his dinner, kaka looks a shadow of himself

HAHAH lucio the boy who cried wolf!

Penalty!!!:mad:

It was but when you’re going for an oscar you really need to polish up your acting

what a header

Great goal

lol brasil is taking the night off.

edit:scratch that

oh fuck me. damn you brasil shakes fist

fabiano to be top scorer and brazil to win the whole thing 20 to 1 looks well worth that 3 pound bet haha

I got 50 on them winning the whole thing COME ON BRAZIL!!!

portugal 1 spain 0

Great goal

ugh. guess i should head into school before the parade starts lol.

another 3-0

now I don’t feel as bad

I think Spain Portugal will be very low scoring and possibly head into extra time. I think it will come down to two things- fitness and tactics. Torres, iniesta and xabi alonso aren’t fully fit, and villa is playing out of position. Capdevila is undoubtedly Spain’s weak link, and I think Meireles and Ronaldo could exploit that. 1-0 Portugal after extra time I think.

please, if there is a god, make Spain beat Portugal!!!

And please please, learn from Brazil and finish your plays

paraguay v japan has been ok, santa cruz really should buried that chance he had, hondas shot just missed.

all about tonight though i’m expecting a complete dive fest, alonso is supposedly injured as is dani