Colombia vs Greece RTE2/BBC1 5pm

Lostman1990

Really looking forward to seeing what this Columbia team is capable of. No Falcao but quality players in James Rodriguez, Fredy Guarin, and Jackson Martinez. The young lad at Porto, Quintero, is also supposed to be a special talent but probably won't start....

ben.schlomo

Guarin is suspended.

Lostman1990

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Guarin is suspended.

Didn't see that.
Columbia are my "dark horses" for the tournament.

mike65

Greece 9 behind the ball and a 2 goal game at best.

kryogen

Looking forward to this, hopefully the cameramen get their act together

Corholio

Anybody know who would take penalties for Colombia?

Nuri Sahin

From unknown/dark horses, to being well known and overrated.. right back to being dark horses again all as a result of Falcao's season ending injury.
I think Columbia will do fine myself.

He earned himself a big money to Monaco last summer, but the next week or two will be the making of James Rodriguez. Well, the platform is there for him to do so anyway. That reminds me, I need to put a little something on him as POTT!

Fiorentina's Cuadrado is another one to look at for. One of the most exciting players in Europe, in my opinion over the past season. He's been heavily linked with Barca over the past month.

And despite Falcao not featuring, Columbia can still boast to having recent Europa League winner and Sevilla main man, Bacca up front, along with Martinez from Porto and Gutierrez to call upon, all of whom have decent records for club and country. It'll probably be Gutierrez starting though.

Greece do have a few decent players to call upon themselves in Mitroglou, Manolas and Sokratis , but Columbia should win, and win by a couple of goals I reckon. Greece will do their usual thing of trying to keep it tight and score from a set piece.

Lostman1990

Corholio wrote: »

Anybody know who would take penalties for Colombia?

James Rodriquez took the last few penalties for them. Was Falcao before that. Might be a decent bet at 7/1 for first goalscorer...

DildoFaggins

Not really looking forward to this Greece are the most boring team on the planet.

The Backwards Man

It's like 1990 all over again, Valderrama Rincon, Higuita, Asprilla. Hell of a team then as well, never realised their potential.

KevIRL

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057230127

CurryFlavoured

Backing a 0-0 draw worth a few bob maybe? Colombia don't have Falcao and Greece are guaranteed to park the bus and play physical.

weldoninhio

I don't think Greece will park the bus. I watched them against Nigeria the other night and they looked a decent attacking team, albeit without a striker to convert their chances. Hopefully Mitroglou will be fit.

luckyboy

Maybe I am a bit behind the times but I can't recall a really impressive Colombia since the side that thrashed Argentina 5-0 in a World Cup qualifier back in 93. That would have been the side that later imploded in the finals the next year in the USA (Escobar RIP). Pity Falcao is missing this time, but - by the sounds of it - some of their other players aren't bad ...

Corholio

1 D. Ospina
2 C. Zapata
3 M. Yepes
6 C. Sánchez
7 P. Armero
8 A. Aguilar
9 Gutiérrez
10 Rodríguez
11 Cuadrado
14 S. Ibarbo
18 J. Zúñiga

Colombian lineup. For someone who would know Colombia better, Will Rodriguez play up front with Gutierrez?

wp_rathead

James Rodriguez

brianregan09

No Martinez ??

LuckyLloyd

Fully up for Greece here. They always play way above the sum of their parts. Hoping they pull off an upset.

fyfe79

Watching Greece must be similar to what non-Irish fans thought when watching us back in the Charlton days - basically "not these hoofers again!" We were too caught up in it at the time but the neutrals must've hated us.

(Btw, I'm another lurker who has taken advantage of the WC-relaxed rules around here! Hi there)

Nuri Sahin

MadYaker

Greeks have such cool names :cool:

GoldFour4

Such passion in the anthem. The stadium looks unreal too, a field of yellow in the stands.

LuckyLloyd

Away game for Greece. No better team for the job.

LightningBlue

Great atmosphere in the stadium. Looks full too. Huge Colombian support there.

Nib

First goalscorer - Gekas 10/1

You heard it here first!

NabyLadistheman

A big blue bus to be parked

Son Of A Vidic

Expecting the Greeks to suck the life out of the game. Come on Colombia.

GreNoLi

Just found out that the rules have been relaxed, great stuff.

Vamos Colombia.

LightningBlue

Flying start for the Colombians!

LuckyLloyd

Disaster!

Mars Bar

COLOMBIA!!

Aw what a celebration!!

munster87

West Ham man!

Insane Rambling

Columbia 1-0.... lively start to the game.

Nuri Sahin

Hipsters supporting Greece

edit - Columbia 1-0!

kevohmsford

1-0 Colombia great start

Diabhal Beag

Shakira with a scrappy finish

brianregan09

Waaheyy and what a great celebration too ! I love how all these games have had early goals

Chances of a south american 3-1 treble ?

Mars Bar

Nearly 1-1

I hope it stays this frantic!

Langdon Alger

great start from Colombia

Son Of A Vidic

Delighted, the Greeks will have to move the bus now.

kevohmsford

Great start to this game. Kone had a great chance to equalise

NabyLadistheman

wheres the goal-line technology?!

LightningBlue

Very open game.

kevohmsford

Suarezistheman wrote: »

wheres the goal-line technology?!

Normally takes a few minutes

Nib

Should be fun if Christodoulopoulos and Papastathopoulos come on.

Poor commentators.

CurryFlavoured

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

Backing a 0-0 draw worth a few bob maybe? Colombia don't have Falcao and Greece are guaranteed to park the bus and play physical.

Nobody listen to me.

Andersonisgod

Cuadrado hugely impressive down the right, almost as impressive as that celebration.

HaveASnickers

Great.

Why do teams like Greece get support while teams like Crystal Palace etc get stick?

String

Suarezistheman wrote: »

wheres the goal-line technology?!

I think they were just showing it all the time early on to let people know it exists for this world cup. Pointless showing it on obvious goal

Ulysses Gaze

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Cuadrado hugely impressive down the right, almost as impressive as that celebration.

He has been fantastic for Fiorentina for the last two seasons.

Can see him moving to a bigger club after the WC.

keith16

HaveASnickers wrote: »

Great.

Why do teams like Greece get support while teams like Crystal Palace etc get stick?

Because more people live in Greece than in the whole of Crystal Palace.