He has a thyroid condition that affects his weight. He is amazingly talented though. Won the first game against Italy but got injured just came back. Our best player and top goal scorer in the South American championships. Thanks for the congrats. Portugal was tough it was a great game
Wouldn't mind seeing you guys win the whole thing, though it's good to see Venezuela going through a good generation. I felt so terrible for Amaral after he missed his penalty he truly looked devestated. Obviously the last two Portugal players are feeling terrible right now, but he looked truly heart broken like he ruined everything. Good to know he can sleep comfortably tonight. Well bad for our boys ofcourse.
He is plump, yeah, but may be the best and most talented player in the Uruguayan squad. We have to be carefull with his freekicks, he is an expert freekicker.
Thanks man, hopefully but Venezuela is gonna be tough. They're the best team in the tournament in my opinion and we are missing our best defensive midfielder which would of been crucial in this type of match. But we should see. Portugal look like they have some very good talent coming up, that number 7 can definitely hit a ball wow!
Italy is getting schooled early on. Patson Daka puts Zambia 1:0 in the 4th minute. Its all Zambia so far.
Italy looked like they were going to equalize, but a Zambia break gives a moment of controversy when Italy deny a DOGSO. First its a penalty, then its a red card for Italy and a freekick outside of the area. HT: Still 1:0 for Zambia, but Italy down a man. Can't see Italy recover from this given how easily Zambia carve out opprotunities...
Congrats Italy. It was like the stereotypical Italy team (a team everyone loves to hate): cynical football, intelligent ball play, incessant diving, great goalkeeper. Fitting that the winner was scored by Vido, a player that should have been sent off for cynically stomping on a Zambian player. Zambia was too gungho, Italy took them out with some footballing finesse and cynicism. That said easily could have gone any way, but once Italy pulled ahead you could feel there was no going back. Timewasting made an art - Zambia would have well done to copy them when they went ahead in the 85th minute. Venezuela and Mexico probably the only teams I like left in this competition... EDIT: I didn't check the final tally but at one point there were 44 shot on goal between the two teams, pretty sure it ended in the mid-50s.
The same guy went on to score the winning goal for Italy. Isn't the video replay ref exactly for this type of situation? To summarize - Italy equalizes in the 88th minute from a freekick off of a dive, then wins the game in the 111th minute with a goal scored by a player that should have been red carded for serious foul play.
This Lookman kid for England is exciting to watch with the ball at his feet. Takes a while with his decision making but still.
Had a good season for the Everton first team. He's a bit of a late bloomer only coming about last season. We're excited about him. Incidently they knocked us out in the UEFA U19 semifinals last year.
Italy should've gone down to 9 men after that idiotic stamp by Zido. How does VAR not review that? However if you look at it from another point of view then that cancelled out the red card in the first half, which should not have been. Italy certaintly seem to be the pantomine villain's now aren't they? I'm really surprised Dimarco had only played nine minutes for the entire world cup before getting subbed on. He was brilliant last summer at the Euros, but last year was last year.
I'm not exactly sure how you come to the latter conclusion or how the commentator did: Zambia were denied an obvious goal scoring opportunity, where the Zambian player was going to be one on one with the goalkeeper and it would have been a goal, if he wasn't thrown off balance by the Italian defender. It was a foul, however innocuous. It was clearly a DOGSO. In was not a penalty. Add 1+1+1 and its a red card. The current rules state that with DOGSO its a penalty+yellow card or a freekick+red card. Debating this call basically show lack of knowledge about the rules of the game. http://footballrefereeing.blogspot....-dogso-outside-penalty-area.html#.WTWJNu9SDIU The only way its not a foul is if you don't believe there was a foul in the first place. Orsolini for me is the MVP of the tournament (would have been Sakala had Zambia progressed though, both of them are easily the best attacking players at this tournament). Sakala does dribble a bit too much and needs to pass more, but wow, what a player. Orsolini is another stereotypical all-brain Italian striker, but wow is he good!
I wouldn't call him a late bloomer, IMO a late bloomer would be someone in the system who didn't look like a standout until a later age such. I'd have Tammy Abraham as an example, he who was way behind the other strikers in his age group 2-3 years ago but has progressed massively. Lookman is a player who developed completely outside the academy system right up until the age of 16 when Charlton discovered him and he has looked like a standout ever since. He's a Jamie Vardy style "out of nowhere" player who got discovered 10 years younger.