Originally posted by Mattomic
Me thinks you're talking out your arseWhy do you always piss on another person's opinion??
I hate your kind, those who mock others opinions, you're not gonna change my mind on it, and believe it or not, what you say about Ukraine is OPINION and certainly not fact
You're the one who claims that with Ukraine, anything is possible. Be real, it's not is it? A World Cup victory for them is possible in the literal sense, it's not realistically going to happen and you're a fool if you believe otherwise.
Originally posted by Mattomic
Look at Greece in Euro 2004
Look at the tournament they played in. That was luck, they're not a good team, Greece are a shit team. Ukraine are also poor, they have a single noteworthy player, even then it's a stretch. He relies on the ball being fed to him to a high degree.
Originally posted by Mattomic
Now stop being so far up your own arse and thinking you know better than everyone, and for god sake stop acting like god's gift to football knowledge!!! You certainly aren't that in any way at all!!!
Neither are you, so I guess we're even. Chill out, miss.
Originally posted by Mattomic
You would say that being a Brazil supporter.....well let me put a little bit of a dampener on your so called side, they needed a fluke goal to beat a very poor England performance four years ago
Let me put a dampener on your argument, the only people calling it a fluke goal are bitter England fans looking for an excuse. England fans always make excuses up, you know that right? "It was the Swiss ref!", "It was the heat!", "It was cos Beckham got a red card!", "It was cos we lost Rooney!". Funny, because when I say "England only beat Argentina because they took off Riquelme and a few others." people like you say "That made no difference."
The BBC even have commentators that were sitting there saying he meant it. If it had been Rooney or Beckham, you wouldn't dare say it was a fluke. I think it's pathetic that England fans hype up tap ins and jammy goals, yet when England are completely outclassed by the world's greatest player, you won't have the decency to give the man and his team their dues. You simply cannot accept that England are not the best team out there, it's sad. I called Deano a patriot, but at least the man recognises there are better teams than England.
Who's the worse off? The man who scored the "fluke" (not that it was one) or the dozey goalkeeper, past his prime, who let it in? Or maybe it was the defense when Rivaldo powered past them and screamed his shot past Seamen. Pick your poison, pick your excuse. You're the one who still hasn't got over Brazil getting that win, so you're the one who needs to cheer up. That was 4 years ago, buddy. Brazil have been beating top sides by many goals since then. England lost to Belarus, struggled against Hungary, struggled against Paraguay, what's the beef? Brazil are simply a better team, regardless of what you think of me supporting them, you cannot realistically deny that. Even Deano admits it.
Originally posted by Mattomic
And I think you'll find, for the first hour, we pissed all over Paraguay, and even when they ceased the initiative, they still never looked like breaking our solid defence
Pissed all over them and still couldn't score past their substitute goalkeeper, real talent. England had no signs of scoring a goal of their own in that match, aside from the odd Lampard shot, which were comfortable saves. That would have more than likely ended 0-0 if Paraguay didn't score the own goal.
England got an own goal and then played like Italy. If they do that against better teams (because there are better teams than England in this tournament), they'll get destroyed.
You think Ronaldo, Adriano, Ronaldinho, Robinho or Kaka give two shakes about England's "solid" defence? Every paper in England refers to John Terry as a rock, an unbeatable rock. Lest we forget the day Ronaldinho shoved him away and shrugged him off before putting his club out of the Champions League. That was Ronaldinho, Adriano and Ronaldo are both much stronger.
-AC
Man, Robben played like a demon in that 1st game, he really is a world class player. Should of had him instead of Van Nistelrooij on my fantasy team. Disappointing performance for Kezman, actually lost pts with him.
Good win for Mexico and it was good to see Iran at least score a goal. Kinda feel for their players with all that pressure they're playing under. Hate it when people mix politics with sports.
Angola and Portugal up next don't really know what to expect from this game. Thinkin Portugal should win easily but then again with all the surprises we've seen so far it will be interesting to see what kind of team Angola comes out with.
Originally posted by RZA
Man, Robben played like a demon in that 1st game, he really is a world class player. Should of had him instead of Van Nistelrooij on my fantasy team. Disappointing performance for Kezman, actually lost pts with him.
If Holland plan to play like that against Argentina or Ivory Coast,they'd better start packing their bags,though. 😬
Yes, I blame Van Horseface, he always has to be spoon fed by other players and when he gets his chance he often does nothing with it. He plays the same way for his club team. Robben is not suppose to be scoring the goals for this team, he's not a striker he's more of a set up man but if that's the way Horseface is gonna play then I think he might as well go ahead and score 'em all himself. I though Robben did an excellent job with possession and control as well as setting up his players and scoring for himself when he got the opportunity. What else do you want him to do? How can you blame him?
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
England got an own goal and then played like Italy. If they do that against better teams (because there are better teams than England in this tournament), they'll get destroyed.
Christ i hate it when this happens but i really agree with him. 🙁
England seem to have this built in mechanism that automatically makes them take the pressure off when we score a goal. We have sat back after taking the lead and ended up losing more times than i care to remember, Brazil, France and Portugal spring to mind but im sure there are alot more. With the midfield we have we should be able to create excellent scoring opportunities against the weaker teams, especially when they are as shell shocked as Paraguay was in the 1st half an hour. There was just no movement, no linkup play and no imagination in our attacking play. Just players walking around waiting to get the ball and hit the long pass, i can understand that Crouch is a decent target man but why not mix it up and use the skill we have in midfield as well?