World Cup 2022 - Team and Match Discussion

I think France could suit England the way they play. Another poster said England were walloped in the Nations League. But wasn’t it only Hungary that walloped them. The rest were close? Still France should have too much for England if they are tuned in.

I would agree with you to an extent but Brazil battered teams with pure swagger in 82.

I only went looking it up because Souness was eulogising about Brazil 82 best team he ever played against etc. Different level etc.

Now Souness is not a fella to give praise lightly at all. But basically said Scotland were lucky to keep the Brazil lads to 4 goals.

And that Scottish team was littered with quality but they were completely outplayed.

Good point on C. Ronaldo but he STILL gets the goals and STILL turns up in the big games.

I got to be honest football wise he impresses me. But it is with reluctance - as his big ego personality annoys me. And that Peirs Morgan interview was like a mockumentary.

I think the Brazil celebrations are annoying and OTT but if they can put their money where their mouth is and keep winning then they can be as arrogant as they want, however if they do get knocked out at some point I want to see whatever team beats them going 110% with every celebration.

Nobody hates Neymar because of what he can do with a football.

People hate Neymar because of every single thing he does without possession of the ball, on and off the pitch.

I just can’t believe the level of discussion around it! I didn’t even really notice they’re celebrations that much apart from with Tite but I thought that was a bit of craic. I certainly don’t see how it’s disrespectful to the opposition, planned celebrations have been part of football for decades and haven’t been reserved for tournament winning goals either.

Think Tite has done a superb job building this Brazil team generally and you can see the camaraderie throughout the whole squad. As much as I dislike Neymar I really like this Brazil team compared to recent others because it really feels like it’s not just about him anymore.

At international tournaments, 2018 they came from 2-0 down to beat Japan 3-2. They knocked out Brazil in a superb performance of attacking football.

Stupid things like being "injured" at the same time every single year to celebrate his sister's birthday back in Brazil (which is also a bit weird IMO), his primadonna attitude and general behaviour outside of football...

Do you really need more? As for the "endorsing Bolsonaro but what else?" comment; there doesn't even need to be anything else, that's pretty bad form in its own right given the political climate of Brazil and the financial incentives he's given for it.

He is making a lot of stuff up to prove his narrative.

Fair answer, he broke his back in 2014 and the surgeon said he was a small measure of never walking again. So thats the context of the “funeral”. I don’t think he asked for that funeral, it’s just Brazil follows football as a religion and this was a home World Cup and he was in a strikeforce with Fred, Bernard and…maybe Willian….which is deeply average without him so the country as a whole lost it.

i wouldn’t say greed is his style, his assist stats are huge. I’d call that out as nonsense. He should have played Vinicius in yesterday but it’s not normal for him to not play that pass.

A continuous string of sexual assault allegations? There is a troubling one with Nike. There is one where he was accused of rape, had hidden camera footage of the interaction and it was the opposite of rape. Why he had a hidden camera at all is questionable but it proved a wise decision. Not aware of anything else?

people have been strongly criticizing him a lot since very early, before these things came out so that is why it’s smells like jealousy to me.

I think Morocco could win this.

Its the preplanned nature of these celebrations that bores the ars off me. Give me SuperPippo or Marco Tardelli just screaming with pure joy any day over this tedious crap.

Best celebration so far was the Ghana lad doing Ronaldo's stupid publicity stunt 🤣

A bit too Man City/Dublin.

After goals just before half-time for the Netherlands, Argentina, France and England, hoping that Spain don't sneak one here so we can have a good second half!

Boufal is destroying llorente out there. Pedri is playing great again, Spain need to bring on Morata, at least he has a go at goal.

Jayus if Morocco score Spain are fecked. Morocco will just sit and watch them.