Football Thread 21/22

[DonFerrari]

Wyrdness said:

DonFerrari said:

And the only goal suffered in this Cup is from a charge against the defensive player.

If Brazil put a strong defense and Belgium decides to play open offensive game I think the odds of Brazil winning is high.

I already see Brazil in the SF tbh no offence to Belgium but imo only France (and maybe Uruguay aka Atletico 2.0 if they can get an early goal and defend until pigs fly) have a chance of stopping them the organisation combined with the individual ability is what wins tournaments. In all their games Brazil have played intricate passes with a willingness to go forward and the only response teams have had so far is to try and give them a literal kicking.

Either way this imo has been a great WC with everything, if England lose tomorrow I won't even have a problem with that as we already got further than both out last WCs and Colombia are one of the better teams to watch if we do go through then well down Southgate.

Belgium is not a weak team, but they took 2 goals against Tunisia and Japan so if they keep open defense they can get past.

I don't think only Uruguay and France can stop Brazil but they certainly have strong teams. The further in the road the hardest to win. And congrats on England going further, I was also pleased of Japan getting to Top 16 and almost snitching a game on Top 8.

When Brazil play to their best their are a very hard team to stop, and have been in basically all world cups they entered. Only team to enter every Cup and also only got eliminated in the group phase once at that controversial 66 Cup ( a Team that won 3 WC 58 62 before and 70 after with Pele isn't a team that would lose group on normal situation).

HomokHarcos said:
I know Belgium's plan, they wanted the game to end up like that to make Brazil underestimate them.

Very complex plan =]