The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[justinian]

kirby007 said:

justinian said:
Why do some teams perform well against the established teams and play badly against the less established?

Like Italy, Uruguay, Netherlands... Argentina?

those teams pull up a wall and the bigger teams don't

Maybe there is a lesson to be learnt somewhere in that. Yes, it makes bad viewing but it's the result that matters.

I was mainly thinking of Costa Rica, though. They didn't put up much of a wall, and Australia played attacking football that bothered Holland more than Spain did.