Confederations cup 15th-30th june

Gbear

Headshot wrote: »

Are Brazil that starved of strikers that they have only a choice of Jo or Fred?

Steve and Bob are injured.

kksaints

NiallSparky wrote: »

Worst commentator around by quite a bit I reckon.

Lou Macari disagrees.

DUBACC

kksaints wrote: »

Lou Macari disagrees.

You mean Lou "everyone and everything is sh*t" Macari?

Rekop dog

NiallSparky wrote: »

Worst commentator around by quite a bit I reckon.

Lol did you not hear his 'a little peeved' pun?

klose

Can make out what scollari is telling em to do :pac:

Rekop dog

There hasn't been enough cameraman creeping. She was awesome.

DUBACC

Some lovely Brazilian honeys in the crowd!

Jo on for Fred. Sounds like a couple of plumbers or something.

klose

Theres going to be a lot of sad Brazilians next summer as they haven't a hope in hell of winning the world cup, will be doing well to get to the semis

Headshot

You know Dunga's Brazil is looking miles better now and that team was fair boring to watch

DUBACC

klose wrote: »

Theres going to be a lot of sad Brazilians next summer as they haven't a hope in hell of winning the world cup, will be doing well to get to the semis

Have to agree. But before that, I think Italy and super-mario are going to walk over them on Saturday. Also fancy Spain to give them a hiding in the semis.

Dr_Brian_Cocks

Wow!!!!

Gbear

Well that was tremendous.

ollie1

Great skill by Neymar

eagle eye

Wonderful from Neymar, good finish too.

Amirani

Class act Neymar.

DUBACC

World class by neymar

Rekop dog

Lol at the racist fans with the Mexican moustaches.

miralize

Fantastic, an assist to behold, the future of Brazil and the best team in the world - Barcelona. He will be better than Pele, Messi & Maradona put together!!!! The vision, the magic, the technique. Neymar!!!!!!

messinkiapina

I agree with Whelan, poor Brazilian side. Spain are light years ahead of them.

NIMAN

Brazil are average. Neymar saves them.

GTR63

miralize wrote: »

He will be better than Pele, Messi & Maradona put together!

I hope your taking the piss there.

Amirani

NIMAN wrote: »

Brazil are average. Neymar saves them.

Oscar, Silva and Alves are top players also. Other than that, it's a pretty below average Brazil side.

Amirani

GTR63 wrote: »

I hope your taking the piss there.

Andersonisgod has hacked his account I believe.

miralize

GTR63 wrote: »

I hope your taking the piss there.

I was just getting the hyperbole out of the way before Andersonisgod jumps in here

GTR63

miralize wrote: »

I was just getting the hyperbole out of the way before Andersonisgod jumps in here

I was thinking but he'd of left Messi out and dropped C.Ronaldo in.
When someone finds the starting XI of Italy and Japan could they post it please.

klose

I guess jo has to start the next game, lucas i assume will start too as hulk did the square root of fcuk all all game.

double GG

I don't get this Brazil being labelled average and poor.

From what I've seen they are very very good team, in with a very good chance of winning the world cup.

This team might not have the swashbuckling rampant full backs of Cafu and Roberto Carlos or the clinicality of Ronaldo or even half the flair of a couple of years ago, but what they do seem to have now is a tactical base to the side.

Defensively they are stronger than they were 6 years ago. You could argue they have 3 of the best defenders in their respective positions in the world.

With Neymar and Hulk they have match winners. For the world cupnext year Damiao will have another year under his belt, David Luiz will have 12 months under Mourinho, same with Oscar. Moura and Paulinho will probably have champions league experience next season.

Ramires, Ganso, Pato possibly Ronaldinho, Kaka etc... to come back in I can't really see the 'average'

There's a lot more to come from this Brazil side.

Whelan said spain are light years ahead, spain are light years ahead of everyone.

Amirani

double GG wrote: »

Ramires, Ganso, Pato possibly Ronaldinho, Kaka etc... to come back in I can't really see the 'average'

You mustn't be seeing very well so. How long is it since any of the above have been World Class? Neither of the first two ever have. It's debatable if Pato ever was, he certainly isn't now. Good few years since the latter two were.

Brazil are a decent side, but not on the very top level of International football.

double GG

NiallSparky wrote: »

You mustn't be seeing very well so. How long is it since any of the above have been World Class? Neither of the first two ever have. It's debatable if Pato ever was, he certainly isn't now. Good few years since the latter two were.

Brazil are a decent side, but not on the very top level of International football.

I never said 'world class' There's surely a middle ground between world class and average?

Amirani

double GG wrote: »

I never said 'world class' There's surely a middle ground between world class and average?

I agree, there is such a middle ground and Brazil are there. I just don't think that sort of level is good enough to win the next World Cup though when you have some genuinely World Class teams about.

When I refer to them as average, it's relative to past Brazil teams, and not International football as a whole.

In order to get to the next level and be in with a chance of winning the next World Cup, they're going to need a better striker and a better creative central midfielder. I like Hernanes, but he's not really good enough to dictate play for a World Cup winning side. It would benefit Brazil a lot if Mourinho was to play Oscar deeper next season.

Mint Sauce

A heads up for ya all.

BBC1 NI coverage is deferred, program does not start till about 5 minutes after kick off.

titan18

Whilst Brazil aren't going to be favourites, we always get tournaments where the host country does much better than where they'd be ranked, and Brazil are still a decent side with guys who can win games.

messinkiapina

NiallSparky wrote: »

I agree, there is such a middle ground and Brazil are there. I just don't think that sort of level is good enough to win the next World Cup though when you have some genuinely World Class teams about.

When I refer to them as average, it's relative to past Brazil teams, and not International football as a whole.

In order to get to the next level and be in with a chance of winning the next World Cup, they're going to need a better striker and a better creative central midfielder. I like Hernanes, but he's not really good enough to dictate play for a World Cup winning side. It would benefit Brazil a lot if Mourinho was to play Oscar deeper next season.

Yea. Anytime the world cup rolls around Brazil are one of the 2 or 3 teams that you absolutely have to watch. I just don't feel the same excitement about watching them at the moment. I think Spain, Germany and Argentina will be the 3 teams I won't want to miss a second of.

Turtwig

miralize wrote: »

Fantastic, an assist to behold, the future of Brazil and the best team in the world - Barcelona. He will be better than Pele, Messi & Maradona put together!!!! The vision, the magic, the technique. Neymar!!!!!!

The trouble for you is that you're a barca fan and you love them. Do you really want to make those type of posts given the preconceptions some folks have about Cules? :pac:

Amirani

Italy: 1 Buffon, 2 Maggio, 3 Chiellini, 5 De Sciglio, 7 Aquilani, 9 Balotelli, 15 Barzagli, 16 De Rossi, 18 Montolivo, 21 Pirlo, 22 Giaccherini

Japan: 1 Kawashima, 4 Honda, 5 Nagatomo, 6 Uchida, 7 Endo, 9 Okazaki, 10 Kagawa, 15 Konno, 17 Hasebe, 18 Maeda, 22 Yoshida

miralize

Jernal wrote: »

The trouble for you is that you're a barca fan and you love them. Do you really want to make those type of posts given the preconceptions some folks have about Cules? :pac:

I like to think I can rein in my opinions to something a little less... vomit-inducing.. :pac:

Sparks43

Not going to read back through 40 pages but did anyone else think the Nigeria Tahiti match smelled of a fix?


With their minds on it they could have won by 20/30

Be interesting to see what Spain do

Witcher

Buffon giving it socks

citytillidie

irish-stew wrote: »

A heads up for ya all.

BBC1 NI coverage is deferred, program does not start till about 5 minutes after kick off.

Can still get bbc 1 England hd up north

Rekop dog

C'mon Italy. Big Aquilani fan but not sure about him in that position, although Maggio will prob double up as a winger and Aqui will tuck in behind Balo.

Mint Sauce

citytillidie wrote: »

Can still get bbc 1 England hd up north

BBC1 London for me.

Mint Sauce

Sparks43 wrote: »

Not going to read back through 40 pages but did anyone else think the Nigeria Tahiti match smelled of a fix?


With their minds on it they could have won by 20/30

Be interesting to see what Spain do

Smelled off something.

Spain could stop after 6-7 goals.

Paddypower are giving them 4/9 on -6. 4/6 on -7.

aindriu80

watching it on RTE 2 HD. Looks like they got their sound and video to match up for once.

Brasil started good but went off the boil when Luis got a nosebleed.

Rekop dog

Brazilian fans are deadly. They absolutely love the game.

Sparks43

irish-stew wrote: »

Smelled off something.

Spain could stop after 6-7 goals.

Paddypower are giving them 4/9 on -6. 4/6 on -7.

11/4 on over 10.5 goals in the match

Spains record win is 13-0 surely they will want to beat that.

Now time to crack open a beer and enjoy the match

GTR63

Man I loved that Italy vs Spain game, it was even better that Kerr did commentary on it.

citytillidie

irish-stew wrote: »

BBC1 London for me.

Sky 976 is BBC 1 HD for me, miss all the regional stuff that BBC NI has

stampydmonkey

I like the glasses, not sure about the spits- Kerr ya genius

Darkglasses

Really enjoying this game, Japan are good to watch.

stampydmonkey

Darkglasses wrote: »

Really enjoying this game, Japan are good to watch.

Bigtime. Real tidy team. They'll still get beat tho