Iran vs Nigeria 20:00 RTE2/BBC1

john why

The pitch looks crap

efb

Come on Iran!

The Backwards Man

That half flew.

murpho999

efb wrote: »

Come on Iran!

I prefer "Quran Iran"

machiavellianme

john why wrote: »

The pitch looks crap

Yeah, that's all that looks crap.

Scorpion Sting

This looks like finishing 0-0.

RoryMac

Poor game so far, real lack of imagination from Nigeria when attacking.

I can see Iran catching them on the counter in the 2nd half

Washington Irving

Both teams' immense quality cancelling each other out. Wouldn't be surprised to see a repeat of this fixture in the final.

efb

Lennon: this is awful, SPL... Should be an improvement

Nuri Sahin

Genuinely dozed off for the last 20 minutes of the half.

edit - Vote for Mikel >_>

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=255931/match=300186505/man-of-the-match.html

Kat97

Poor game so far.. Very dull! Hopefully will be more interesting in second half but
it's looking like 0-0.

CountyHurler

Jaysus Ronnie Whelan is sucking the life out of the world cup for me.... That perturbed, irritated look on his face the whole time, baulking like some biddy ringing in to liveline..... The second tier panels are strongly in need of a bit of colour, they are all very dour ..

Morzadec

Just no quality whatsoever on display.

I must admit I expected more from Nigeria.

Might get slated for it, but I think it's a shame that Ibra and other quality players have to sit at home while these second rate teams produce these terrible displays.

Morzadec

CountyHurler wrote: »

Jaysus Ronnie Whelan is sucking the life out of the world cup for me.... That perturbed, irritated look on his face the whole time, baulking like some biddy ringing in to liveline..... The second tier panels are strongly in need of a bit of colour, they are all very dour ..

I'm a fairly optimistic guy but this match is turning me into a dour old man

DerekDGoldfish

Morzadec wrote: »

Just no quality whatsoever on display.

I must admit I expected more from Nigeria.

Might get slated for it, but I think it's a shame that Ibra and other quality players have to sit at home while these second rate teams produce these terrible displays.[/QUOTE]

I'm sure some other countries were saying this about Ireland in 2012

Corvo

This is truly terrible. Can't believe I backed Nigeria.

Headshot

Moses has to be one of the worse players at the WC. Such a sorry excuse for a professional player

The Backwards Man

The prospect of Ghana-US is the only thing keeping me awake.

GreNoLi

Moses on corners?

Agueroooo

Zzzzzzz*drool*Zzzzzzz

The Backwards Man

Iran playing in the same half they were in the 1st

Improvement.

This could be painful for accumulators!

Invertpyramid

Amafobi coming on.

The Backwards Man

Moses for Ameobi.

Lump on Iran. :P

GreNoLi

Ivory Coast look like the strongest African team so far.

murpho999

GreNoLi wrote: »

Ivory Coast look like the strongest African team so far.

France were pretty good too.

Agueroooo

It hurts when you think of the passion the Irish team and the mad following army
of supporters could add to the World Cup when watching this absolute tripe of a game at the World Cup.

Turtyturd

Moses off...Iran will nick it now.

Ulysses Gaze

For a soccer mad country of 180 million, surely Nigeria could produce better players to bring to a WC than having to take poor Premier League players like Shola Ameobi and Victor Moses...

GreNoLi

murpho999 wrote: »

France were pretty good too.

Dark horses indeed.

Hitchens

Kerr.....................arghhhhhhhh

IamtheWalrus

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The prospect of Ghana-US is the only thing keeping me awake.

Harps

Agueroooo wrote: »

It hurts when you think of the passion the Irish team and the mad following army
of supporters could add to the World Cup when watching this absolute tripe of a game at the World Cup.

Ireland were equally awful at our last tournament in case you've forgotten...

Agueroooo

Harps wrote: »

Ireland were equally awful at our last tournament in case you've forgotten...

I know trust me I was there but the fans and what we added to the tournament cannot be questioned.

Oat23

I grew up watching Egyptian 2nd tier and Irish 2nd tier football. This is worse than both.

Hitchens

Oat23 wrote: »

I grew up watching Egyptian 2nd tier and Irish 2nd tier football. This is worse than both.

I grew up watching the oul lad playing for the local pub team...............this is even worse than that
:pac:

The Backwards Man

I went through puberty watching Ireland-Egypt in Italia 90

This is better than that. Slightly.

Francie Barrett

A chance at least.

FatherTed

You're all spoilt from how good all the other games have been up to now. Bound to be a few clunkers. 1990 was awful including a few of our own like Ireland 0 Egypt 0

Ulysses Gaze

Francie Barrett wrote: »

A chance at least.

Pity it fell to the man who has scored the grand total of 5 goals in the last 3 years for Newcastle!

Francie Barrett

When Mikel is the classiest player on the pitch by a garden mile, you know things are bad.

The Backwards Man

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Pity it fell to the man who has scored the grand total of 5 goals in the last 3 years for Newcastle!

He has a good record against sides from war zones though.

P_1

Anyone got a tin of Crown going spare?

Hitchens

I wonder if Saddam was still in charge would they play better?

namloc1980

Hitchens wrote: »

I wonder if Saddam was still in charge would they play better?

Eh......ok. Different country dude.

Headshot

Hitchens wrote: »

I wonder if Saddam was still in charge would they play better?

lol Fail

TheTownie

Hitchens wrote: »

I wonder if Saddam was still in charge would they play better?

Get this person into the RTE studio !

Ulysses Gaze

Hitchens wrote: »

I wonder if Saddam was still in charge would they play better?

You're thinking of the Ayatollah

Hitchens

namloc1980 wrote: »

Eh......ok. Different country dude.

A Greedy Algorithm

Hitchens wrote: »

I wonder if Saddam was still in charge would they play better?

Hahaha.