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WillyWanker
Profile Joined December 2011
France1915 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-15 21:59:06
November 15 2013 21:57 GMT
#141
On November 16 2013 06:55 sharkie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2013 06:45 WillyWanker wrote:
You guys don't follow France so much! Since 2006 we haven't been worth of the Top 20 teams in the World. Our team is made of arrogant players that can't show their so called skills when big games come : Ribery, Evra, Nasri, Benzema... And they're still playing because no coach has the balls to put them on the bench (or out of the list ).

Ribery has been talking about Ballon d'Or for the last 2 weeks, as if it mattered more than going to the WC. Well good job, you're probably going to win the individual trophy and miss the WC.


Ribery has been doing quite good in the last games...

Yes 3 games against Australia and lower European teams. 3 good games in 4 years. Where's is Bayern's Ribery ? I'm a bith harsh with him, he's the "least bad" of the 4 I listed. But he has history too, 3 games don't change everything magically x)
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
November 15 2013 21:57 GMT
#142
On November 16 2013 06:54 GoTuNk! wrote:
fuck yeah Chile being amazing again


Lol i watched 15minutes and i wanted to die.
England players playing like they dont give a fuck, they are bad anyway which doesn't help. Then everytime a Chile player got "touched" they went down like they were shot LOL

I would be asking the FA for a refund after that game if i went
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mAKiTO
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Colombia4171 Posts
November 15 2013 21:57 GMT
#143
Alexis Sanchez is amazing
No quiero soñar mil veces las mismas cosas
mAKiTO
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Colombia4171 Posts
November 15 2013 22:00 GMT
#144
well English futbol is too permissive , in PL you guys so some very hard tackles and touches that in la Liga or any south American league would be yellow cards, in PL not even a fault.

The Col vs Belgium game was reffed by a Enlgish reff and I was amazed how he didn't call some faults, but I guess they were standard tackles in PL so..
No quiero soñar mil veces las mismas cosas
Copymizer
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark2107 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-15 22:04:30
November 15 2013 22:00 GMT
#145
I was watching Sweden vs Portugal on swedish tv channel and what the hell is up with the horn music in the bagground Portugal, that was just plain annoying to hear through out the match xD.
Other than that, heja sverige! Håber i giver portugal revanche i den næste kamp mine skandinaviske brødre :D . Intet land til at repræsentere skandinavien til VM ville kun være trist
~~Yo man ! MBCGame HERO Fighting !! Holy check !
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
November 15 2013 22:06 GMT
#146
On November 16 2013 07:00 mAKiTO wrote:
well English futbol is too permissive , in PL you guys so some very hard tackles and touches that in la Liga or any south American league would be yellow cards, in PL not even a fault.

The Col vs Belgium game was reffed by a Enlgish reff and I was amazed how he didn't call some faults, but I guess they were standard tackles in PL so..


Yes that is why they are not fouls, because they are not. English and German refs allow the game to flow at the right level compared to any other league or referee. Even the Italian ref in Portugal vs Sweden blew his whistle to many times.
Don't forget this silly game of Football was invented in England where they used to punch and kick the fuck out of people and "score" a goal lol.

To keep it simple and short, this is NOT a NON CONTACT sport and isn't like any other. The ability to pass the ball is great South American teams thrive on this, but they also thrive on rolling on the floor from the "slightest" of touches. Every player is beginning to do it more and more again there seems to be a larger influx again but it still is a contact game.
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Ysellian
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands9029 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-15 22:29:56
November 15 2013 22:16 GMT
#147
WTF France. 0_0

btw: Congratz Steveling! Big win for Greece, hope to see you at the World cup
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-15 22:27:36
November 15 2013 22:27 GMT
#148
EUROPE Play Offs 1st Leg Results!
Ties to be played over 15th November & 19th November

pt Portugal vs se Sweden

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pt Portugal 1-0 se Sweden


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se Sweden vs pt Portugal


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ua Ukraine vs fr France

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ua Ukraine 2-0 fr France


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fr France vs ua Ukraine


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gr Greece vs ro Romania

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gr Greece 3-1 ro Romania


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ro Romania vs gr Greece


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is Iceland vs hr Croatia

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is Iceland 0-0 hr Croatia



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hr Croatia vs is Iceland



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TBA

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Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
November 15 2013 22:31 GMT
#149
Lol france and england.
Does ukraine even have a star player anymore? I don't recall anyone.

I'd forgotten sanchez was chilean, that explains things.

Meanwhile our own breakout star Mitroglou is still on fire, I think he's 2nd scorer only to Cristiano so far in this season.

Also lol at croatia not beating iceland, hope the ice vikings make it!
My dick has shrunk to the point where it looks like I have 3 balls.
kyllinghest
Profile Joined December 2011
Norway1607 Posts
November 15 2013 22:39 GMT
#150
On November 16 2013 07:31 Steveling wrote:
Lol france and england.
Does ukraine even have a star player anymore? I don't recall anyone.

I'd forgotten sanchez was chilean, that explains things.

Meanwhile our own breakout star Mitroglou is still on fire, I think he's 2nd scorer only to Cristiano so far in this season.

Also lol at croatia not beating iceland, hope the ice vikings make it!

Yarmolenko and Konoplyanka are pretty badass
"NO" -Has
mAKiTO
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Colombia4171 Posts
November 15 2013 23:11 GMT
#151
Pande,

I guess I could be taking out of my ass because I haven't done the research, but it seems that most of the leg breaking tackles come from England. at least the ones I can remember.

I agree its a contact game, and some players exaggerate like neymar or busquets. But where do we draw the line? some of the contact I seen in the PL not called as fault is plain ridiculous like they didn't even go for the ball or tried and things aren't called
No quiero soñar mil veces las mismas cosas
Akka
Profile Joined August 2010
France291 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-15 23:15:18
November 15 2013 23:13 GMT
#152
Such a great game from France tonight, you could feel that the players really want to play in the World Cup.

This sarcasm of Kagawa! (c)

2-0 for Ukraine, pretty much over for us.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
November 15 2013 23:21 GMT
#153
On November 16 2013 08:11 mAKiTO wrote:
Pande,

I guess I could be taking out of my ass because I haven't done the research, but it seems that most of the leg breaking tackles come from England. at least the ones I can remember.

I agree its a contact game, and some players exaggerate like neymar or busquets. But where do we draw the line? some of the contact I seen in the PL not called as fault is plain ridiculous like they didn't even go for the ball or tried and things aren't called


I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "two different cultures". Yes there is a line between a breaking leg tackle and slight contact.
I will accept the premiership sometimes borderlines bad tackles but it is way better now and most teams (i say most) play a decent level of passing game.
Hell look at Chelsea, we won the Champions League playing so defensively and sound, now we out pass Arsenal quite a difference in just 2 years.

Guess we both have valid points.
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gOst
Profile Joined June 2011
415 Posts
November 16 2013 00:19 GMT
#154
gg portual! i guess we can feel somewhat satisfied with just a 1-0 deficit going into the decinding match. 0-0 would have been the best we could have hoped for. but 1-0 is still ok considering the amount of pressure portugal established.
was a good match though, the better team won!
kyllinghest
Profile Joined December 2011
Norway1607 Posts
November 16 2013 00:20 GMT
#155
I think the premier league is growing too soft as well. More diving and less tackling every year!
"NO" -Has
warding
Profile Joined August 2005
Portugal2395 Posts
November 16 2013 00:27 GMT
#156
I was at the stadium for PT vs SWE and I didnt hear any horns/orchestra. I also didnt get to see Ibrahimovic actually play football he was just hanging out with Pepe and Bruno Alves all game. Its fascinating how Ronaldo saves his energy for bursts of energy here and there. 80% of the game it just looks like he's not giving a fuck. Whenever he touches the ball its like the whole stadium is expecting him to do something out of this world but hes only going to go all in at key moments.

Tickets for the game cost between 5 and 10eur btw. Absurdly cheap.
Tchado
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Jordan1831 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-16 07:48:57
November 16 2013 07:41 GMT
#157
To be honest , I quit playing and watching football after WC 2002 , I decided to catch up on what I missed and the current players , I must say , NICE !!!!!

Speaking of fairy tale runs , you guys mean like Senegal in 2002 ?

Edit : typo
PixelNite
Profile Joined August 2011
France1008 Posts
November 16 2013 07:57 GMT
#158
Ukraine played very well, they destroyed us physically and defended perfectly against Ribéry and Giroud. A 3-0 is still possible if the players don't meltdown.
I think the main problem is that coaches don't realize how shit Premier League players are technically and tactically: Rémy, Debuchy, Evra, Sissoko, Nasri were just bad yesterday, like they are since 4 years; and we keep calling them and not trying Griezmann / Schmid / Digne ...

Deschamps was too afraid of Ukraine yesterday, Pogba and Matuidi never went too high on the field and that's where they are the best
WillyWanker
Profile Joined December 2011
France1915 Posts
November 16 2013 09:18 GMT
#159
Agreed on everything except for the 3-0 part
Ukraine conceded 4 goals in the entire qualifying stage, and we got average players (like you stated), how could we win 3-0?
Not to mention than these Ukrainians will play like beasts like yesterday, and I'm sure they'll score at least one goal.

Blanc had the chance to start over after the 2010 fiasco, but he didn't. Deschamps was the only man left in the French scene that had both the talent and the balls to finally try something new, and he didn't. If he doesn't quit after this elimination, nothing will change. If he quits, we'll get Zidane and nothing will change.

We aren't a major football nation and we have to start playing knowing that. Either we create a nice group of technically talented young players and start building a gameplan (based on the examples of Germany and Spain) OR we start playing with our strengths of the moment, which is physical strength and strong defense. Kick the "talent" we think we have (Nasri, Benzema and others) and build a team based on impact and courage, people who actually love the French team.
We will not be brillant but at least the public will support the team again, and we'll have more time to build a long-term team that could go further than groupstage.
BeaTeR
Profile Joined March 2003
Kazakhstan4130 Posts
November 16 2013 09:37 GMT
#160
i still think positive outcome for France is possible
two of key ukranian defenders will miss second leg - kucher and fedetskiy (the guy who followed ribery everywhere on the field yesterday).
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