World Cup 2014

[Muncey]

Yeah agree, Spain as a team haven't helped him look good but even when he's had opportunities to do something he's flopped. Same with Lukaku.

[magma]

In the hope that Costa can save himself from a dire WC. Chelsea strikers have been spectacularly shite this competition.

To be fair to Costa this is the first Spain has played with a proper striker in their system. So can't really blame Costa for his performance.

You CAN laugh at it though. Goes through all the rigmarole of switching national teams from the most glamorous side in the world to the all-conquering World Champions, comes back to his home country for the World Cup and goes out as soon as possible. Utterly wonderful stuff. The only thing left is for Brazil to finally find some form and win the thing without him...

[DiegoSapiens]

costa is sick don't really have nothing to demonstrate. he was better than most of spain players in the competition too imo

[lazyalf]

Yeah, Lukaku is such a massive disappointment at the moment. Tbh I hadn't seen a lot of his matches before but had heard and read all the hype about him and he hasn't delivered so far to say the least. Before the start of the WC there were even French supporters envying Belgium for him, saying they'd rather have him than Benzema

[lazyalf]

Costa shouldn't have changed national team and gone for Spain, they've paid the hard price for it. Karma's a bitch

[hubb]

Germany haven't played well yet imo. Portugal were atrocious in the first match against them.

US has a better German coach than Germany does and he wants to piitb.
Germany will have to play with nerves and it's at the same time the country they least want to get beaten by. Lahm has been shaky as fuck and they still prefer to have this dumb set up for the defence with four cbs and the US is quick and hard working. There's a good chance tbh.

[hubb]

Costa is a piece of shit, a fun piece of shit at times ofcourse but fuck him.

[DiegoSapiens]

Costa shouldn't have changed national team and gone for Spain, they've paid the hard price for it. Karma's a bitch

what is france national team without africa though

[DiegoSapiens]

Yeah, Lukaku is such a massive disappointment at the moment. Tbh I hadn't seen a lot of his matches before but had heard and read all the hype about him and he hasn't delivered so far to say the least. Before the start of the WC there were even French supporters envying Belgium for him, saying they'd rather have him than Benzema

haven't seen belgium yet but he si HUGE in everton

and hubb why do you hate costa? he is such a class player

[lazyalf]

Costa shouldn't have changed national team and gone for Spain, they've paid the hard price for it. Karma's a bitch

what is france national team without africa though

Racist

[Liam92]

Croatia 2 - 1 Mexico
Cameroon 0 - 2 Brazil

Netherlands 3 - 1 Chile
Australia 0 - 2 Spain

[Muncey]

In the hope that Costa can save himself from a dire WC. Chelsea strikers have been spectacularly shite this competition.

To be fair to Costa this is the first Spain has played with a proper striker in their system. So can't really blame Costa for his performance.

You CAN laugh at it though. Goes through all the rigmarole of switching national teams from the most glamorous side in the world to the all-conquering World Champions, comes back to his home country for the World Cup and goes out as soon as possible. Utterly wonderful stuff. The only thing left is for Brazil to finally find some form and win the thing without him...

Yeah agree, although I really don't believed he'd have done much better in the Brazil side, on an individual level.. obviously on a team level he would have.. they play similar football, Brazil are just playing much more creative and quicker on the attack. Costa in Brazil would just have been a better Fred and Fred doesn't work because of the way he plays (and hes a sack of shit). Neither Spain or Brazil really work efficiently with a poacher who just stands around upfront waiting to be played in. A lot of defensive teams in the WC are playing narrow football which isolates the center forward.. its why many of that style of striker have failed to perform as well as most expected.

[Muncey]

Croatia 2 - 1 Mexico
Cameroon 0 - 2 Brazil

Netherlands 3 - 1 Chile
Australia 0 - 2 Spain

I'm predicting similar scorelines, I've bet on:

Croatia win + both teams to score
Brazil game under 3.5 goals
Holland win + both teams to score
Spain -1
74/1

[DiegoSapiens]

Costa shouldn't have changed national team and gone for Spain, they've paid the hard price for it. Karma's a bitch

what is france national team without africa though

Racist

i met a french guy that lived in london that told me that spanish had the image of being racist, i asked him why and he told me that because we didnt allow black players play in our national team wtf

[scspkr99]

Luis Aragones

[DiegoSapiens]

oh yeah he was racist as fuck
there was a black player in his team though

[AxeD]

Sure, leave us to beat Chile. What the fuck are you guys contributing
And loosing to make way for the orange juice doesn't count.

[scspkr99]

That's the thing with racism when you're branded a racist people remember it long after they forget what it's for. Don't think Spain from my limited experience any more racist than anywhere else tbh.

Think Chile are going to get something from the game tonight. I don't think the Netherlands are all that tbh and they'll rest players I imagine.

[DiegoSapiens]

That's the thing with racism when you're branded a racist people remember it long after they forget what it's for. Don't think Spain from my limited experience any more racist than anywhere else tbh.

Think Chile are going to get something from the game tonight. I don't think the Netherlands are all that tbh and they'll rest players I imagine.

the thing is that here is much more less cosmopolite than other europe countries apart from madrid. personally i don't know any black guy

[lazyalf]

Costa shouldn't have changed national team and gone for Spain, they've paid the hard price for it. Karma's a bitch

what is france national team without africa though

Racist

i met a french guy that lived in london that told me that spanish had the image of being racist, i asked him why and he told me that because we didnt allow black players play in our national team wtf

Stupidity is universal unfortunately...