FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Other Teams Thread

Discussion in 'England' started by BarryfromEastenders, Aug 28, 2022.

  1. Fireburn47

    Fireburn47 Member+

    West Ham United
    England
    Nov 5, 2021
    Through he is only 6,2 which is not the Weghorst/Crouch giant type.
     
  2. RobTheFool

    RobTheFool Member+

    Apr 19, 2008
    London, England
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Argentina also really do not look very good. Winner comes from our half I think
     
  3. lanman

    lanman BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 30, 2002
    If Croatia can stifle Messi then they'll go through
     
  4. Fireburn47

    Fireburn47 Member+

    West Ham United
    England
    Nov 5, 2021
    Another fight.
     
  5. BarryfromEastenders

    Staff Member

    Jul 6, 2008
    Argentina probably deserved to win. Felt like the better side for larger parts of the game.
     
  6. BarryfromEastenders

    Staff Member

    Jul 6, 2008
    Looks like Dumfries kicked off.
     
  7. Jenks

    Jenks Member+

    Feb 16, 2013
    Club:
    --other--
    Abraham is pretty big.
     
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  8. Fireburn47

    Fireburn47 Member+

    West Ham United
    England
    Nov 5, 2021
    Apparently the Dutch staff ran on including Edgar Davids
     
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  9. Marcho Gamgee

    Marcho Gamgee Member+

    England
    Apr 25, 2015
    Somewhere in English Arrogance land
    Club:
    Manchester City FC
    Anybody to win other than Argentina! For some reason they just rub me up the wrong way.
     
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  10. Khadrim

    Khadrim Member

    Jul 30, 2011
    Club:
    Fulham FC
    This was great. Classic. Shit ref. Extra time equaliser. Fights.

    Just brilliant.
     
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  11. manimal

    manimal Member

    Dec 23, 2018
    ********ing Argentina. I can't stand their fans
     
  12. ht_hu96

    ht_hu96 Member+

    Middlesbrough
    England
    May 23, 2019
    Completely agree. I’m sick of the talk around Messi, great as he is. They’re very dislikeable and always play acting. Anecdotally, I work with a Mexican, who says that they are really disliked in LatAm and S.America particularly within Mexico and Brazil. The BBC and Lineker especially are more supportive of them than England.
     
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  13. Marcho Gamgee

    Marcho Gamgee Member+

    England
    Apr 25, 2015
    Somewhere in English Arrogance land
    Club:
    Manchester City FC
    Let’s hope Croatia win in the semifinal!
     
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  14. Khadrim

    Khadrim Member

    Jul 30, 2011
    Club:
    Fulham FC
    Rather face Argentina more than Croatia. Argentina look mentally weak, Croatia the opposite.
     
  15. Fireburn47

    Fireburn47 Member+

    West Ham United
    England
    Nov 5, 2021
    I think Argentina will probably somehow beat Croatia but then lose the final to whoever makes it.
     
  16. Marcho Gamgee

    Marcho Gamgee Member+

    England
    Apr 25, 2015
    Somewhere in English Arrogance land
    Club:
    Manchester City FC
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    I dunno but I would hope that our players don’t resort to shithousery like this! No wonder the Dutch were pissed.
     
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  17. lanman

    lanman BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 30, 2002
    Contrast with the Casemiro/Modric reaction earlier.
     
  18. Marcho Gamgee

    Marcho Gamgee Member+

    England
    Apr 25, 2015
    Somewhere in English Arrogance land
    Club:
    Manchester City FC
    Yeah, I’ve always been taught to be gracious in victory and magnanimous in defeat. Obviously the Argentinians have a different theory.
     
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  19. Fireburn47

    Fireburn47 Member+

    West Ham United
    England
    Nov 5, 2021
    I can’t Imagine they would. A lot are teamates/ex teammates (Kane/Dier with Lioris, Trippier and Greizmann, Mount and Giroud, Rashford/Maguire/Shaw with Varane,) I can’t imagine the French doing so either as this current squad is nits that overly arrogant.
     
  20. Fireburn47

    Fireburn47 Member+

    West Ham United
    England
    Nov 5, 2021
    Tonight was the fourth penalty shootout of the World Cup - a joint record with six matches to go. A fifth shootout would be unprecedented,
     
  21. Slater582

    Slater582 Member

    Jul 21, 2008
    Shrewsbury, England
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Prescient. :alien:




    I'd say the Netherlands are decent.

    Not as bad but I recall John Stones turning to the Colombia players at the last World Cup.

    Deschamps has won the World Cup and Nations League with France. Runners up at the European Championship. Lifted the French League & Cup with Marseille. Also coached Juventus. Perhaps his most impressive managerial feat was getting Monaco to the Champions League final. I'm not anti-Southgate but his record is not even close.
     
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  22. Marcho Gamgee

    Marcho Gamgee Member+

    England
    Apr 25, 2015
    Somewhere in English Arrogance land
    Club:
    Manchester City FC
    Yeah, I think your right, I think Stones did do that but like you say in isolation plus remember not being keen on that also to be honest. I think Stones lost it due to the Columbians kicking our players off the park in that game and they resorted to all sorts of shenanigans.

    Quite interesting how people see games with very different views. Listening to the Argentinians after the game, they had the view they were hard done to and the free kicks just outside their area were never a free kicks. I mean they were obvious free kicks in my opinion and I also thought most of the soft decisions went their way too plus they were lucky not to get a red card also but I do agree that the ref was bad for both teams.



    If this was in England he would probably get a one match ban for this but I’m guessing FIFA won’t punish him in any way?
     
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  23. AJ123

    AJ123 Member+

    Man Utd
    England
    Feb 17, 2018
    The Mexican fans were singing a song about the Falklands being English earlier in the tournament. It will be weird if we get through to the final and play Argentina as they have a massive rivalry with us because of the Falkands whilst I'd bet most of our players have never even heard of the place. As a broader point it seems difficult for our players to get hyped up over a sense of grievance like you see with Croatia and the South American sides. Argentina were fuming about Van Gaal. It's hard to know if this is a positive or a negative thing.

    Messi also said that the ref needs to be looked at. No doubt nothing will happen to him. It looks like FIFA and many others want him to win the World Cup.
     
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  24. BarryfromEastenders

    Staff Member

    Jul 6, 2008
    On the flip side we could never have a coach speaking the way Van Gaal has been doing. It would create 100x the amount of grievance. Would be too draining. He even said before their QF that it was great news that Brazil had gone out. That would have been twisted into grievance by the Croats.
     
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  25. Marcho Gamgee

    Marcho Gamgee Member+

    England
    Apr 25, 2015
    Somewhere in English Arrogance land
    Club:
    Manchester City FC
    Has Van Gaal been learning how to be Eddie Jones….
     

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