Match Thread - World Cup 2018

**St Charles Owl** · 15-06-2018, 22:10

(15-06-2018, 22:06)Maddix Wrote: Brilliant game until Spain took the lead. Then it turned into a borefest. It could almost have been Coco in charge trying to hang on to a lead for 40 minutes Glad to see that they got their just deserts for not going for the kill as they could have scored at will if they'd wanted to. Serves the f'uckers right

Agreed, they were in control for most of the game and were the better team. Ronaldo is clinical and took his chances but Spain needed to stand on their neck when they went ahead and as you say paid for it with a stupid foul on the edge of the box in the final few minutes and we could all have predicted the outcome of that!!

Maddix · 15-06-2018, 22:22

What I can't abide is the pure arrogance of teams who think they've won once they are in front and think that they are so good they can just piss about for a bit until the end of the game. We were guilty of that time after time under CC and quite often were bitten on the arse. Football just does not work that way and I can't get my head round people who think it does Doh

You've got to put the game to bed by putting goals away not pissing around playing the ball along the defensive line and playing pretty triangles in the centre circle Cool

**St Charles Owl** · 15-06-2018, 22:26

(15-06-2018, 22:22)Maddix Wrote: What I can't abide is the pure arrogance of teams who think they've won once they are in front and think that they are so good they can just piss about for a bit until the end of the game. We were guilty of that time after time under CC and quite often were bitten on the arse. Football just does not work that way and I can't get my head round people who think it does You've got to put the game to bed by putting goals away not pissing around playing the ball along the defensive line and playing pretty triangles in the centre circle

I could understand Spain playing possession football against the other teams in the group once they have the lead because they know they will still create chances and the other team won't, but when you have a player like Ronaldo up against you then you know it only takes a chance or two for him to punish you and that exactly what happened.

Maddix · 15-06-2018, 22:40

Ronaldo is easily the best player in the world. Messi comes nowhere near him. He single handedly drags Portugal through qualifying and into tournaments surrounded by shite whilst Messi has all the best tools available to him in the Argentine squad and fails time after time at international level. And I'd rather have Ronaldo at club level too. Their records are much the same but Ronaldo puts in much more of a shift than Messi ever does.

**St Charles Owl** · 15-06-2018, 22:54

I wouldn't turn either down but I have always preferred Ronaldo. He is a game changer time and again, and as you say he invariably does it on his own. Messi has been surrounded by better players at both club and country level than Ronaldo througout his career, and while he is still exceptional he isn't the influence that Ronaldo is. For a relatively mediocre Real Madrid (by their standards) to lift 3 EC on the trot and for Portugal to consistently progress in tournaments is almost solely down to him.

**St Charles Owl** · 16-06-2018, 18:55

VAR been used a couple of times for penalties and both looked like the correct decision to me. Two missed pens today, so correct decision on the call via VAR but poor by the players taking the pens!!

Maddix · 16-06-2018, 19:39

Been too busy watching the cricket Chaz Thumb up

but it does look like Australia are going for an hat trick of defeats today Laugh

**St Charles Owl** · 16-06-2018, 19:57

Wall to wall WC for me. Denmark v Peru was a good game, both teams attacking and trying to win it, penalty miss by Peru and one class move by Denmark enough to win it.

Maddix · 17-06-2018, 01:22

Mission completed Laugh

That great nation of sports lovers will be choking on their cornflakes as we speak Laugh

I would love to see the Sydney Mo(u)rning Herald right now Laugh

Imre varadi · (This post was last modified: 17-06-2018, 02:08 by Imre varadi.)

They wont be to pissed off maddix after watching agent jones destroy the proper rugby over here !

too me ozzies are like blades and wankers like peiowl ! they deny how shit they are by saying how shit you are when the facts states that they are shiter ! no wonder the only country that will have the pedo is canada xxxx pedo country !