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Thread: [World Cup 2018] Group E (BRA - CRC - SRB - SUI)

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    This is another game where the teams are playing in the wrong colours.

    Brazil had no business being in blue earlier either. What was the clash - socks? That can't have been their proper away kit anyway as don't they wear blue shorts with the home kit?

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    I think the whole second round has just been away kit advertising.

    Stojkovic all over the shop there. He is a proper clown keeper.

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    Im no tough guy but I don't understand how players very often, turn their back and face when shots come to them. If Ivanovic would have faced the ball, he could have made a better attempt to block the shot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    This is another game where the teams are playing in the wrong colours.

    Brazil had no business being in blue earlier either. What was the clash - socks? That can't have been their proper away kit anyway as don't they wear blue shorts with the home kit?
    Both Serbia and the Swiss have a red home and white away kits so the colours on show make sense. I also noticed weird coloured combinations during games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    South American coaches always have their pet players. Firmino would probably have to score 3 as a sub to get a look in at starting (although he clearly should, not biased at all, like). Jesus is a better goalscorer, but Firmino would get more out of their other stars (and seeing as that is their game he would be better for them). Paulinho's another one. They're wasting Coutinho as well, as Liverpool did in the brief 'fab 4' era, you lose so much of what he can do when he's always picking the ball u on the halfway line. He's a forward. There's also the danger that they are going to get absolutely rinsed down that flank by anyone half decent as Marcelo-Coutinho-Neymar might be just about the least defensively capable trio in those role in football history.
    I dunno, without Coutinho in the midfield you’ve just got three cloggers, a la Argentina. Not sure who else Brazil have that could do that job. He seems to be doing alright in that position, from an individual perspective.

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    The Dudley Boyz would have been proud of that move on Mitrovic.

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    I'm sorry but for VAR not to look at that makes it a total joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I'm sorry but for VAR not to look at that makes it a total joke.
    Yeah that was ridiculous.

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    The referee has been fully pro-Swiss in this half. In fairness he's a German lawyer, so...

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    I can understand Mitrovic's seethe there. Brych hasn't been very good.

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    What a sexy little midget

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    Tosic though

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    Why would you pick up such a cheap yellow card? Get another and you’re suspended.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Serj View Post
    I can understand Mitrovic's seethe there. Brych hasn't been very good.
    I'm no lover of Serbia but I think he's been outright biased.

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    Complete injustice that.

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    The exact situation that VAR was meant to eradicate. How can it be so abjectly utilised?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I'm no lover of Serbia but I think he's been outright biased.
    I had money both on 2-1 Serbia and 1-1, so I am obviously very biased in this case, but I'd tend to agree. I'm actually surprised the Serbs didn't complain more after the final whistle.

    That said, the Serbs' transition from attack to defense was underwhelming at times. Especially for the equaliser, it seemed that five of them were still standing in the opposite penalty area when the Swiss were attacking.

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    Shaqiri and Xhaka both did the Albanian eagle thing with their hands after they scored. That's going to go down well in Belgrade.

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    And yet they refused to play for Albania

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    Aren't political gestures like that banned? lol if they miss the next match and they go out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel View Post
    And yet they refused to play for Albania
    Why would they? Refugees and persecuted hence why they are Swiss.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CJay View Post
    I dunno, without Coutinho in the midfield you’ve just got three cloggers, a la Argentina. Not sure who else Brazil have that could do that job. He seems to be doing alright in that position, from an individual perspective.
    He's done well enough (had some individual brilliance mixed in with being their best player) but that's because he is their best player. It would be beyond funny if they won it, and he starred and thus ousted Neymar 'clearly the third best player in the world' Jr (lol) in the Ballon D'Or pecking order.

    As far as cloggers are concerned, I like Willian and all, but he's a bit of an attacking clogger himself so you could bin him for Fernandinho without losing much (seeing as he isn't allowed near set pieces).

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    Willian is one of those players who can often look shit on an individual basis, but balances the team nicely. It also allows you to change it up from the bench if needed, as they did yesterday, rather than blowing your load in the first half.

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    Douglas Costa should start from now on.

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    People not from Switzerland getting very angry about the Albania stuff and their 'disloyalty to Swtizerland' is mad and a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is to be 'Swiss'. There's not a single person in the country that's actually from here further back than a generation or two. We're a series of mongrels and people will wear that on their sleeve.

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    Tyldsley kept calling him 'Doog-lass'.

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    This Serbian seethe is beautiful.

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    Confused as to why Brazil keep starting with Willian and Jesus.

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    Thankfully, Serbia actually have to win, so it should be a good game.

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    They need to just play the two verses of the Brazilian anthem rather than have this cringey shite every time.

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    Ten meters offside there.

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    That Sommer save looked absolutely fucking ridiculous.

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    Costa Rica looking dangerous

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    Willian is so average.

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    Take a couple more minutes there mate.

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    1-0 Switzerland

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    How many fucking rolls was that?

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    Fucking loved that finish by the Swiss.

    He proper twatted it.

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    1-0 Brazil. Now they're top of the group.

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    Stojkovic yet again, you just can't take clowns like him to the World Cup.

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    That was a great ball really.

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    Nice pass and run.

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    No drama tonight then.

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    It was, great to exploit that gap.

    Serbia have been a bit reckless defensively though.

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    I can't think of a footballer I enjoy watching less than Neymar. Every moment, every touch he thinks of himself.

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    Coutinho has been the star performer for Brazil.

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    By far.

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    Costa Rica equalises

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    Serbia are most confounding the national stereotype. Some nice touches here and there but seriously flaky and mentally weak.

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    Brazil look shaky. Keeper is a clown.

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