Confederations cup 15th-30th june

Hammer Archer

Boooooo!

GLaDOS

Feck sake :pac:

Lando Griffin

OMG an OG

Mint Sauce

Tahitis 2nd goal of the night.

Neeson

Deserved

Mint Sauce

Lando Griffin wrote: »

OMG an OG

Well Nigeria cant score them, themselves.

Rezident

Good to see them score earlier but shocking defending from tahiti there.

Lando Griffin

irish-stew wrote: »

Tahitis 2nd goal of the night.

You can shave that 0 right off.
Couldn't have made a bigger mess if they tried.

Hammer Archer

Nigeria are absolutely pants to be fair. None of their goals have been created themselves really. 1st was a ridiculous double deflection, 2nd came from a terrible pass in defence, 3rd was a gift from the keeper and 4th was an OG.
Tahiti will obviously be destroyed by Spain and Uruguay, but Nigeria will almost certainly do likewise if they don't show a massive improvement.

Headshot

its embarrassing this Nigerian team, this is suppose to be the best team in Africa, it really shows how bad the standard is over there

elefant

That Ideye is absolutely muck

tolosenc

Lando Griffin wrote: »

These Tahititations are getting rightly stuck in.
What was the name of the lad who scored? you can add another 0 to his price tag.

I'm hearing Monaco are interested...

GLaDOS

roanoke

These next 15 mins could be horrifying.

Amirani

Headshot wrote: »

its embarrassing this Nigerian team, this is suppose to be the best team in Africa, it really shows how bad the standard is over there

Not a chance are Nigeria the best team in Africa. Same way Tahiti aren't the best in Oceania or Uruguay the best in South America.

miralize

I cant wait to see the Spain - Tahiti game.

tolosenc

It's a disgrace that a team as bad as Nigeria can be allowed into this competition. It demeans what should be a major championship.

shrewdness

Nigeria are embarrassingly sh!te up front. That's at least 4 or 5 clear cut 1-on-1's with the keeper that they've made an absolute balls of.

Edit: And yet they've still scored 6 with 10 mins to play. If Spain or Uruguay play at full pelt against Tahiti I dread to think what the final scores will be.

Witcher

Tahiti aren't out of it yet lads..believe:pac:

Amirani

Gotta feel bad for Tahiti.

Mint Sauce

Its only for a tired Tahiti side that Nigeria seem to be scoring now. They have been pretty awlful up to now.

Darkglasses

Nigeria should keep their celebrations pretty muted, nobody's impressed.

klose

Spain could play reina-valdes-casillas as their front 3 with cazorla in goal and theyll still score double figures

tolosenc

If Tahiti were fitter this would be much closer.

tolosenc

klose wrote: »

Spain could play reina-valdes-casillas as their front 3 with cazorla in goal and theyll still score double figures

They should put Valdes in goal. Give Tahiti a fighting chance.

MarkY91

so eh 500 euro on spain -10 lads :L?


but seriously, nigeria are a disgrace themselves..half of the nigeria team should be dropped from the team against uruguay

Bob the Seducer

Nobody has said it yet?

I might as well...

1-6? It's like watching Ireland v Germany

Neeson

Pitch looks rough

klose

tolosenc wrote: »

They should put Valdes in goal. Give Tahiti a fighting chance.

http://www.hiyoooo.com/

tolosenc

Should have been a second there...

Fowler87

Ah unlucky super ball. Shame they're dead on their feet

Mint Sauce

MarkY91 wrote: »

so eh 500 euro on spain -10 lads :L?


but seriously, nigeria are a disgrace themselves..half of the nigeria team should be dropped from the team against uruguay

Will Spain want to score that many goals against them. Might just start playing keepie uppys after 8-9.

Mint Sauce

Will its save to say Nigeria were pretty awful.

Tahiti in the end, came out of that looking pretty well.

Hammer Archer

Bob the Seducer wrote: »

Nobody has said it yet?

I might as well...

1-6? It's like watching Ireland v Germany

Except Tahiti had more possession, more shots and more shots on target than Ireland did :pac:

Maire2009

Them lads go home to this:



My sympathy has waned...

bluefinger

Ronnie Whelan is the Tahiti of football pundits.

Hammer Archer

Look at Ronnie squirm when the Ireland - Germany game was mentioned.

Neeson

Ronnie Whelan has a hole in his arse because premier soccer Saturday was cancelled. One less place to bitch.

Dempsey

Its like a pub conversation in the RTE studio.

Amirani

Spain's objective should be to have every member of their starting 11 score against Tahiti.

miralize

Xavi has to play blindfolded though & everyone has to shoot with their wrong foot

roanoke

Sadlier predicts Tahiti will be 'Mullered' on Thursday. I wonder does that mean 13-0 (Thomas) or 68-0 (Gerd)?

Hammer Archer

Great moment!!!!

elefant

Strange movements from the Nigerian keeper for that goal! Moonwalking around the 6 yard box.

MarkY91

elefant wrote: »

Strange movements from the Nigerian keeper for that goal! Moonwalking around the 6 yard box.

hahaha!..reminds me of fifa when the players just slide around

Giruilla

Jernal wrote: »

There's a massive difference between holding the ball at the back four compared to the corner flag. The corner flag leaves your options completely limited. Space is ridiculously tight so the most probable outcomes are throw-ins, goal kicks,corners or free kicks. You can't really develop a play or create space other than a limited 50/50 cross into the box.

Out the field you have the chance to move the ball around, drag players out of position or put your own players into position so they can hurt the opposition. It's slow and it's methodical but playing the percentages you're far more likely to create a decent attack from the middle of pitch. Conversely, you're also far more vulnerable to a counter attack. Which could also be entertaining if it's performed efficiently.

Spain's game is percentage based. Everything they do is based on the probability of them denying a goal to the opposition e.g Zonal Marking set pieces, and creating a goal against the opposition e.g refusing the standard "English" 50/50 cross. if they were truly into creating boring football they'd be playing less high risk football. One wayward pass and their high defensive line is very vulnerable to the counter attack. Against France in the home group game of the WC qualifiers they were 1-0 up with no time left on the clock. They kept it in the midfield and tried to create an attack. France intercepted the move, counter attacked and scored with the second last touch of the game. The last being the kick-off restart.

Yeah... think you may have missed my point...

Hammer Archer

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Great moment!!!!

With all the bullsh*t and arrogance that goes on in the game its great to see a moment like that.

Not meaning to be patronising, but while Tahiti were never going to be in any form of contention in this tournament, they put alot of so called top international teams from the past to shame in the way they at the very least had a go and went about their business in a positive way out of sheer pride for their nation (e.g unlike the likes of top paid professionals at top clubs like France were in 2010) .

I would hope they can keep the score down to single figures in each of the remaining 2 games but its a tall order.

Ferris_Bueller

Didn't get to see Tahiti play tonight, but based on their performance tonight and how good Spain were last night, can anyone actually see Spain hitting double figures?

Dr_Brian_Cocks

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Didn't get to see Tahiti play tonight, but based on their performance tonight and how good Spain were last night, can anyone actually see Spain hitting double figures?

If Spain want to, they will.

Also Ronnie Whelan just showed how much of a poor pundit he is. Saying Taihiti shouldn't be there and someone like Ireland or England shouldn't be there? Was he complaining when Shamrock Rovers made it to the Europa League?

Cypher_sounds

Dr_Brian_Cocks wrote: »

If Spain want to, they will.

Also Ronnie Whelan just showed how much of a poor pundit he is. Saying Taihiti shouldn't be there and someone like Ireland or England shouldn't be there? Was he complaining when Shamrock Rovers made it to the Europa League?

You know he probably was.

Ronnie Loves a good whinge, its what gets him through the day.