[WC] World Cup 2014 - General Talk Thread (21 Viewers)

[zizinho]

Portugal is better than Croatia, they haven't beaten us 9 times out of 10.

You're about as neutral as Traitorman Swag.

wow, great logic. Netherlands never won against Australia before this world cup, yet Australia never won against Ecuador. Ecuador > Netherlands.

 

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[Enron]

Modric - Rakitic - Kovacic, one of the best midfields around, they are hardly 6-7 teams with a better midfield than Croatia, add Mandzukic, the experienced Srna and Olic and thats a pretty good team. now lets see the USA. Dempsey is obviously a classy player, but Croatia has atleast 3 players better than him. Bradley, Jones, Altidore, Howard, Beasley and that that guy from Island. not good enough to be better than Croatia in my opinion. what Croatia lacks is a better coach. they just picked the current one 5 months ago and even if he hadnt had time to sort everything out, he has done a good job. thats still not good enough and they should aim for a better one...

We play really well as a team and are difficult to break down. Plus the center of our midfield is very strong physically, our center backs are good in the air, and our goalkeeper is top notch. That's really all you need to keep a match close. Ask Portugal, that's a team on paper that should have thrashed us, but they didn't.

 

[ALC]

Modric - Rakitic - Kovacic, one of the best midfields around, they are hardly 6-7 teams with a better midfield than Croatia, add Mandzukic, the experienced Srna and Olic and thats a pretty good team. now lets see the USA. Dempsey is obviously a classy player, but Croatia has atleast 3 players better than him. Bradley, Jones, Altidore, Howard, Beasley and that that guy from Island. not good enough to be better than Croatia in my opinion. what Croatia lacks is a better coach. they just picked the current one 5 months ago and even if he hadnt had time to sort everything out, he has done a good job. thats still not good enough and they should aim for a better one...

Listen,first of all players don't mean shit if the team isn't balanced. otherwise Real Madrid would win CL every time. uS works way harder and are more organized. They're a better team, period.

Second of all, that midfield is not as good as you're saying it is.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

I forgot to mention that Sochi will host the next world cup and teams will have a hell of time here because of the sunny weather and huge humidity so pray for that your teams will avoid our city

I would want them to avoid all of the bombings in your shitty country too.

 

[Alen]

I'd say Croatia lost it because of poor tactics and obviously they were robbed against Brazil

Nope, the tactics were decent. The Mexicans are faster and technically superior to most of the CRO players. The final result from the group stage was more or less expected. What wasn't expected, at least by me, was players who run their socks off (Modric and Rakitic) unable to run after 50-60 minutes. The tiredness also resulted with inability to pass well. And that's all on the weather.
Still, even in perfect conditions 4 points were the most this team was capable of.

 

[Enron]

wow, great logic. Netherlands never won against Australia before this world cup, yet Australia never won against Ecuador. Ecuador > Netherlands.

Let's not discuss logic.

 

[alex_samatar]

What does USA know about football. They are lucky that America is divided in to two Groups South and North and they are in the weaker Side. What If America qualifying system was one category we wouldnt even know their football team exist let alone participating the WC finals.

 

[Twenty---3]

Speaking of... the next Copa is gonna be played in the US. Oh right!

I'm excited can't wait

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

Croatian squad is 10 time better than USA has
I would use something like that
Mandzukic
Olic/Perisic - Modric - Srna
Rakitic - Kovacic
Pranjic - Lovren - Corluka - Vrsaljko

 

[Twenty---3]

What does USA know about football. They are lucky that America is divided in to two Groups South and North and they are in the weaker Side. What If America qualifying system was one category we wouldnt even know their football team exist let alone participating the WC finals.

Shots fired.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

What does USA know about football. They are lucky that America is divided in to two Groups South and North and they are in the weaker Side. What If America qualifying system was one category we wouldnt even know their football team exist let alone participating the WC finals.

ALEX!

Show me a picture of your 38 metre penis!

 

[Enron]

What does USA know about football. They are lucky that America is divided in to two Groups South and North and they are in the weaker Side. What If America qualifying system was one category we wouldnt even know their football team exist let alone participating the WC finals.

Says the guy from Somalia.

 

[zizinho]

Nope, the tactics were decent. The Mexicans are faster and technically superior to most of the CRO players. The final result from the group stage was more or less expected. What wasn't expected, at least by me, was players who run their socks off (Modric and Rakitic) unable to run after 50-60 minutes. The tiredness also resulted with inability to pass well. And that's all on the weather.
Still, even in perfect conditions 4 points were the most this team was capable of.

do you think that, if the coach was there from the begining of the qualifications, you would make a better result? i mean, 5 months as a NT coach and he never coached any team before...

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

Nope, the tactics were decent. The Mexicans are faster and technically superior to most of the CRO players. The final result from the group stage was more or less expected. What wasn't expected, at least by me, was players who run their socks off (Modric and Rakitic) unable to run after 50-60 minutes. The tiredness also resulted with inability to pass well. And that's all on the weather.
Still, even in perfect conditions 4 points were the most this team was capable of.

Mexicans are technically superior to CRO? Are you kidding me? Lone Modric is more skillful player than anyone that Mexicans ever had lol

 

[Alen]

And I'm not sure why are the Americans so much aggressive when one criticizes the weather conditions in Brazil. The climate in Qatar was a huge issue for them when the US lost the WC 2022 bid to the Arabs. We have the thread here, everyone can check it.
Qatar or USA, what's the difference? Same conditions for everyone no matter where it's played.

 

[Enron]

Croatian squad is 10 time better than USA has
I would use something like that
Mandzukic
Olic/Perisic - Modric - Srna
Rakitic - Kovacic
Pranjic - Lovren - Corluka - Vrsaljko

Portugal was 20 times better. Yet they're 0 - 1 - 1 against us.

 

[Bjerknes]

wow, great logic. Netherlands never won against Australia before this world cup, yet Australia never won against Ecuador. Ecuador > Netherlands.

Portugal is miles ahead of Croatia, obviously. Do you disagree with that?

You just said they would beat us 9 times out of 10 you fuucking moron.

Where's Swag and the rest of pity party Portuguese?

 

[CrimsonianKing]

Mexicans are technically superior to CRO? Are you kidding me? Lone Modric is more skillful player than anyone that Mexicans ever had lol

Blanco > Modric in his best day

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

Portugal was 20 times better. Yet they're 0 - 1 - 1 against us.

that's why we love football, team work could beat any class, what i like about Klinsman is that he is maniac about physical conditions of his players, have you seen what americans are doing after the half time? special fitness 2-3 metres runs

 

[ALC]

And I'm not sure why are the Americans so much aggressive when one criticizes the weather conditions in Brazil. The climate in Qatar was a huge issue for them when the US lost the WC 2022 bid to the Arabs. We have the thread here, everyone can check it.
Qatar or USA, what's the difference? Same conditions for everyone no matter where it's played.

People play football in Brazil all the time. Almost a quarter of the teams in the world cup play in south America. It's not even close to Qatar.