Match #48, 2018 World Cup: Colombia vs. Senegal - 6/28/18

Seems like Colombias biggest weapon is the defense Mina and Mojica amazing today

 

Wow. Colombia wins the group and Japan goes through second on Fair Play (!).

 

Morocco unlucky. Senegal, a little unlucky and a little overhyped. The rest overhyped.

 

Despite the fact that what they did at the end, refusal of play, was the contrary of "flair-play". But that's the game...

 

To be fair, they tried very hard to be eliminated.

 

Barca signing Mina was always a good thing. He would be very useful for us against bus parking opponents. Anyways well played Colombia and Senegal

 

And Poland gets some points to go home without much shame. Had Japan really wanted, they could have beaten the Poles and topped the group.

 

Bob Marley lookalike is a good coach nevertheless.

 

Being eliminated on fair play seems like a worse way to go out than on penalties...

 

Your anti-UEFA agenda is showing. Plenty of "boring" sides have qualified, including Japan.

 

Why? They couldn't beat Japan.

 

That's debatable since they were always taking the risk of a Senegal goal in the other game, I really don't believe that they were expecting a place in play-off thanks to yellow cards accumulation.

 

I liked Senegal way of playing, wish they could have gone through too. Only an equalizer and one less yellow card away...

 

But they were outplayed in their direct matchup with JPN. Look at the stats and listen to Cisse after the game.

 

I doubt the Japanese press will be fine with their players passing the ball around to waste time those last minutes.

 

Yeah, I actually find UEFA pretty annoying and most of those teams pretty dull. Japan at least has flair and organization.

 

A boneheaded play to try to deny a clear goal. Not sure why a boneheaded team should win a match.

 

Colombia plays better football and I’m happy they went through. I’ve always had a soft spot for Colombia as a nation itself in general. I also felt that samba touch in Colombia.

 

Senegal only looked convincing in the first game, but their goals were due to rival errors. Japan bossed Colombia in the second half of their game, but one man up. Overall, both teams were pretty bad/inconsistent, so I cannot agree with your assessment of one of them being more deserving than the other.

 

So, you're defending the idea that bonecrunching tackles that could injure an opponent or professional fouls shouldn't mean anything, but knowing how to intelligently play out a game when you're ahead in the tournament, that's somehow wrong.

Pressing in that circumstance and risking a goal that sends you home would have been profoundly dumb. Sitting back and absorbing pressure would be dumb. Getting the ball and holding it is actually a decent approach.

So, you're basically in favor of dumb, thuggish football. Lovely.