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Talal on 13 June 2014
Conegamer said:
Ninsect said:
Is that a real heat map? lol

Somehow pezus I'm not so sure it is

Let's hope for more great games and surprise results like this one in the coming weeks!


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Slarvax on 13 June 2014
lestatdark said:

Rooting for Portugal all the way. I expect us to go, at least, to the quarter finals. I don't expect us to go any further than that though . 

We have some good players and we have consolidated our strategy and play style in our last matches, but we don't have the same quality as some of the best teams in the WC (like Germany, which we're playing in the first game xD) to be contenders for the final.

I don't know, they got very far with the Eurocup 2012, and had an amazing match Vs Spain. I think Portugal will get very far



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Scisca on 13 June 2014

This game showed what I was talking about for a long time and what I said before the game. Spain is too old. They stick to the same names for ages and Del Bosque doesn't have the balls to put Xavi or Iniesta on the bench (just like the coaches in Barcelona), cause "they are legends". Spain doesn't have a striker as well. Costa managed to produce one goal, but can't manage to play a full game - he's months away from being in top form. Torres won't score even if he's alone with the goal and 1 meter away from it. Villa... let's just forget about him. I've said - Brasil showed that when you're not scared of them and just put pressure on them, constantly attacking, they get lost and can be beaten. Worked again.

Before the tournament started, I was betting on Brasil to win it all and I still stick to it. I was thinking that Brasil and Germany would duke it out with Uruguay and Belgium being other main forces, but now Netherlands are slowly showing up on radar.

Slowly, because let's not get lost and crazy about the Dutch just yet. This isn't the first tournament they start on fire, but run out of steam just after the group phase. I loved how they played, but let's wait and see. They can do a lot, but they can just fall apart any day. This is a tournament, the team that wins a tournament isn't the team that started the hottest, but one that grew the most during it. I think Brasil still has a tremendous upside.



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poklane on 13 June 2014

The worth of our youngsters who played probably just went sky high.



Cheebee on 13 June 2014

Huh, we won against Spain? 5-1, too. That's just silly. Didn't see that one coming. X'D



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poklane on 13 June 2014
Cheebee said:
Huh, we won against Spain? 5-1, too. That's just silly. Didn't see that one coming. X'D

Agreed man. I obviously knew we would score a lot against Spain, because we're awesome. But I didn't expect Spain to score. /s



lestatdark on 13 June 2014
Slarvax said:
lestatdark said:

Rooting for Portugal all the way. I expect us to go, at least, to the quarter finals. I don't expect us to go any further than that though . 

We have some good players and we have consolidated our strategy and play style in our last matches, but we don't have the same quality as some of the best teams in the WC (like Germany, which we're playing in the first game xD) to be contenders for the final.

I don't know, they got very far with the Eurocup 2012, and had an amazing match Vs Spain. I think Portugal will get very far

I think it'll boil down to how good Ronaldo's form is gonna be in this WC. I'm just gonna take it one game at a time, since we already have some great matches in the group stage, playing Germany, US and Gana (Gana especially is gonna be a tough match, they play some great football).



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poklane on 13 June 2014

This match > E3
there, I said it



benao87 on 13 June 2014

Yes, that was beautiful!

And the the crowd's "Ole", what a lovely irony.

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colafitte on 13 June 2014
RolStoppable said:
Lafiel said:
Mr_No said:

I was wondering the same. The hate on Spain seems very strong not only here, but in the social media too.

they won the last 3 major international tournaments in a row (2 euros, 1 world cup) and very often with 1-0 - people are sick and tired of that

The low scores were hardly Spain's fault though. Tiki-taka is about winning through ball control and the intent to score which most teams tried to counter by coming up with catenaccio-like tactics which are hard to score against regardless of what a team does.

It's wrong to blame Spain for how the low scores. Their opponents must be blamed for not adopting a tactic similar to what the Netherlands did today, a more aggressive style that puts pressure on tiki-taka's core. The common mistake during the last years was that opponents allowed Spain to dictate the pace of the game completely. Recall all those matches where Spain could basically pass around the ball in an area 20-30m in front of their opponent's goal, that was complete surrender.

This.

It's very unfair to consider Spain boring when every rival against Spain played with 11 players in their area for years. At this level of competition, if a rival plays like this, it's very difficult to score.