Team of the tournament so far?

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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Yago » Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:52 am

Cripps wrote:Iniesta has to be there somewhere.


Disagree. He wasn't actually bad against Chile. He did everything he could, dribbled some guys, gave some great passes. Him and Silva were the only ones actually trying. Not his fault he's surrounded by Costa, Pedro, Xabi Alonso ( :rofll: ), Busquets, Alba....
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Zedie » Fri Jun 20, 2014 12:21 pm

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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Angelito » Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:01 pm

Can't wait for Suarez vs. Italy. Should be a cracker.


Zedie wrote:Suarez


Aha.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Callum » Fri Jun 20, 2014 5:41 pm

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Aurier - Marquez - Vlaar - Blind
Vidal - Aguilar
Robben - Rodriguez - Sanchez
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby ThereIsBearCüm » Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:13 am

Vidal's been pretty "meh"
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Cripps » Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:16 am

He was brilliant against Spain.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby ThereIsBearCüm » Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:52 am

He was ok, but nothing special, and that was against weak opposition. Against quality opposition in the first game he was very disappointing.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Cripps » Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:03 am

Whilst I agree that the likes of Iniesta and Busquets are overrated vastly by the clueless on tv, press, here etc, to call Australia quality opposition is a bit far fetched.

There's a reason why they made their own version of football. It's cos they aren't very good at this one
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby ThereIsBearCüm » Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:33 am

Underestimate us at your peril. We played far far better than Spain did against the same opponents.

Creating this version of football hasn't seem to have done you any favours.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Sims » Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:48 pm

Got to remember Vidal is probably nowhere near match fitness either. Same with Suarez. Two remarkable footballers.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby ThereIsBearCüm » Sat Jun 21, 2014 6:44 pm

Agreed, but that doesn't change the fact that they haven't been all that good this WC yet.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Angelito » Sat Jun 21, 2014 6:47 pm

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:Agreed, but that doesn't change the fact that they haven't been all that good this WC yet.


Suarez just scored 2 goals and knocked England out. That was with 50% match fitness. If anything, it makes it a super duper achievement.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby ThereIsBearCüm » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:00 pm

He didn't really do much the rest of the match though, and with Jagielka and Gerrard in the side he probably should've scored more.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Santi » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:00 pm

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:He didn't really do much the rest of the match though, and with Jagielka and Gerrard in the side he probably should've scored more.
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Re: Team of the tournament so far?

Postby Callum » Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:00 pm

ThereIsBearCüm wrote:Vidal's been pretty "meh"

I know but I couldn't think of any other central midfielders and he was good vs. Spain.
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