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Nerdlingr · 06-06-2014 02:10PM

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Massive blow to the underage prostitution industry of Brazil.

They still have Benzema to fall back on.

Ribery and Grenier are out, Cabella and Schneiderlin in.

Some season for Schneiderlin!

greendom · 06-06-2014 02:13PM

The loss of Ribery is a big blow to France, but it would have been bigger but for the emergence of Griezmann.

patmac · 06-06-2014 03:20PM

Could work in France's favour one less pre Madonna, he certainly didn't contribute to the squad spirit in 2010.

MarkY91 · 06-06-2014 03:29PM

just did my 50 euro bet on spain. i have faith in la furia roja

pavb2 · 06-06-2014 06:54PM

I'm thinking Brazil Argentina Germany holland for top four apart from holland I guess this is probably the form guide

Smithwicks Man · 06-06-2014 07:20PM

pavb2 wrote: »

I'm thinking Brazil Argentina Germany holland for top four apart from holland I guess this is probably the form guide

I wouldn't touch Holland with a 10-foot pole

eh i dunno · 06-06-2014 07:22PM

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

I wouldn't touch Holland with a 10-foot pole

The worst Holland squad I can remember

brevity · 06-06-2014 07:31PM

Twitter saying Reus has injured himself..anyone watching?

DubDani · 06-06-2014 07:32PM

Didn't look too good. But it only happened 2 minutes ago, so early too say.

Boskowski · 06-06-2014 07:34PM

Ye went over his ankle just 5 minutes ago. Footage and his reaction is not looking good. He had to come off.

xtal191 · 06-06-2014 07:42PM

Heres the replay

https://vine.co/v/MDJLaUKa6wB

KombuchaMshroom · 06-06-2014 08:30PM

Not exactly struggling without him. Great 2nd half

klose · 06-06-2014 08:34PM

Some introduction by podolski! Nice to see klose break mullers record and is now outright top german scorer, now onto ronaldos wc record!

Paully D · 06-06-2014 08:39PM

Reus is in hospital now according to Twitter, left the pitch in tears. It doesn't look good.

Reus, Ribery, Montolivo, Oxlaide-Chamberlain, Montes and Shirikov, all injured in pre-World Cup friendlies over the last week. There's probably another few I'm forgetting.

daRobot · 06-06-2014 08:48PM

Won't shed any tears for Ribery, that's for sure. Horrible little runt.

Rezident · 06-06-2014 08:50PM

I am sorry to have to say it but I am glad Ribery is out of the World Cup. I was a big fan of him for years, and he's had some heroic performances in the past for club and country but he has become one of the most appalling divers in football. He must be hanging around with Robben too much. Repeatedly diving and cheating, despite his amazing talent, it is depressing. The World Cup is better off without the likes of that. I am afraid we will have more than enough diving with Neymar and co.

callaway92 · 06-06-2014 08:58PM

Is Brazil struggling over the line against Serbia (albeit a good team) with their best team out something to worry about or are these friendlies' results irrelevant in the grand scheme of things?

More inclining to pick Spain over them to win at this stage.

Paully D · 06-06-2014 09:01PM

callaway92 wrote: »

Is Brazil struggling over the line against Serbia (albeit a good team) with their best team out something to worry about or are these friendlies' results irrelevant in the grand scheme of things?

More inclining to pick Spain over them to win at this stage.

I'd read literally nothing into them to be honest. This close to the World Cup players aren't going anywhere close to 100%, and the vast majority will just want to cruise through escaping injury.

I'll be on Spain myself.

06-06-2014 09:15PM

The pitch was in a terrible state in the Brazil match tonight as well.

klose · 06-06-2014 09:21PM

Bit strange how scolari has been playing, bar injury, the same starting eleven for the guts of a year now. You would think he would try a few other combinations as is the norm.

weldoninhio · 06-06-2014 09:24PM

pavb2 wrote: »

I'm thinking Brazil Argentina Germany holland for top four apart from holland I guess this is probably the form guide

Holland won't get out of their group.

Aenaes · 06-06-2014 10:10PM

Bloody hell, the hate for Ribery is strange.
Oh, rumours of unsavoury actions off the field? Not like he's the only one. He dives/cheats/whines? Not like he's the only one. The World Cup is there to showcase the best players in the world and Ribery is one of them. It should be a shame he's not going to be there not a big serving of schadenfreude for people.

Unless of course, you're all wanting Ronaldo, Neymar, Van Persie, Gerrard, Suarez et al to get injured too. I mean, you don't want to be hypocrites.

Meglamonia · 06-06-2014 10:14PM

Anyone have any idea who will Colombia's starting striker?

Alfred Borden · 06-06-2014 10:17PM

Meglamonia wrote: »

Anyone have any idea who will Colombia's starting striker?

Id say Jackson Martinez

callaway92 · 06-06-2014 10:18PM

Meglamonia wrote: »

Anyone have any idea who will Colombia's starting striker?

The guys on the Guardian Football podcast seem to think it will be Jackson Martinez (Porto) but Carlos Bacca (Sevilla) and Adrian Ramos (new Dortmund signing) might eat in to some of his playing time. They are still strong up front and should get out of the group.

K4t · 06-06-2014 10:20PM

Aenaes wrote: »

Bloody hell, the hate for Ribery is strange.
Oh, rumours of unsavoury actions off the field? Not like he's the only one. He dives/cheats/whines? Not like he's the only one. The World Cup is there to showcase the best players in the world and Ribery is one of them. It should be a shame he's not going to be there not a big serving of schadenfreude for people.

Unless of course, you're all wanting Ronaldo, Neymar, Van Persie, Gerrard, Suarez et al to get injured too. I mean, you don't want to be hypocrites.

Fair point but what if your daughter was a prostitute who Frank Robery slept with? You might not be so rational.

Aenaes · 06-06-2014 10:32PM

K4t wrote: »

Fair point but what if your daughter was a prostitute who Frank Robery slept with? You might not be so rational.

Allegedly, no? Most people complaining don't seem to care about who he slept with. It seems it's only referenced in "jokes".
The majority of those who dislike him seem to cos of his on-field antics.

K4t · 06-06-2014 10:45PM

Aenaes wrote: »

Allegedly, no? Most people complaining don't seem to care about who he slept with. It seems it's only referenced in "jokes".
The majority of those who dislike him seem to cos of his on-field antics.

It's really because he's ugly.

Dolph Starbeam · 06-06-2014 10:46PM

Big blow for Germany if Reus is out now. That's their last warm up game, anyone know what way they will line up?

sawfish · 06-06-2014 11:09PM

Australia vs Croatia on BT Sport now. Unmissable

Stadium is less than half full. A minutes silence for something and the crowd was as noisy as feic.

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