The 2018 World Cup Superthread

sligeach

That piece of dirt Pepe Le Pew.

adox

Wow surprising goal for Uruguay to concede.

irishguitarlad

Portugal to play for penaltys.

Will I Am Not

sligeach wrote: »

That piece of dirt Pepe Le Pew.

Give it a rest man and enjoy the football. Non stop whinging about the opposition of the team you want to win.

theballz

sligeach wrote: »

That piece of dirt Pepe Le Pew.

Ah leave it ou

Will I Am Not

Class finish.

sligeach

Another cracker from Cavani and Uruguay.

adox

Lovely goal.

eigrod

Brilliant again.

sligeach

Will I Am Not wrote: »

Give it a rest man and enjoy the football. Non stop whinging about the opposition of the team you want to win.

I'm sure you enjoyed that goal.

Will I Am Not

sligeach wrote: »

I'm sure you enjoyed that goal.

Of course. Class finish as I said in my post above.

irishguitarlad

Great goal.

Will I Am Not

2 Quaresmas on the pitch now.

pjohnson

Will I Am Not wrote: »

2 Quaresmas on the pitch now.

Nah #15 is Joao Mario twice now.

Sprinter Sacre

Ronaldo has been dog****e so expect him to score soon and then tap in the winning penalty later on.

osarusan

Patricio was a step or two too close to his near post. It was a class finish but wasn't actually that close to the corner. Maybe Cavani spotted him a bit out of position.

pjohnson

Bernardo......aims for the skies.

eigrod

Ah ****. Been the best player on the pitch

Drumpot

eigrod wrote: »

Ah ****. Been the best st player on the pitch

And most likable

Will I Am Not

eigrod wrote: »

Ah ****. Been thebest player on the pitch

Hopefully it’s not too serious and he’s alright for the next game if they do go through. Didn’t look good though.

the whole year inn

Drumpot wrote: »

And most likable

Thought the ref,he looks like he would get his round in.

osarusan

The amount of times Portugal have spurned a decent crossing chance to try, and then fail, to work a better one.

Akrasia

Suarez' two assists are a lot more valuable than Ronald's gloryhunting

nullzero

Fernandes showing exactly why he's on the bench so far, dogsh1t.

CSF

That Godin one is a penalty right? I mean, he doesn't get in between the player and the ball or anything like that, he just runs into him.

eigrod

Uruguay left back has been excellent

osarusan

Interesting to watch Suarez...he has no interest in going for a 3rd goal, it's all about just slowing it down and keeping it up the Portuguese end.

nullzero

Jesus, Ronaldo doesn't entertain the possibility of there very being another option but him shooting.

Trigger

eigrod wrote: »

Uruguay left back has been excellent

He usually plays higher up the pitch. He’s a natural winger

Trigger

That’s a free every day of the week

nullzero

Quaresma, lol.

Will I Am Not

State of that from Quaresma. Woeful player with the odd worldie up his sleeve.

nullzero

astradave wrote: »

That’s a free every day of the week

Only in fantasy land.

Dave0301

That was definitely a free.

eigrod

Deserved that for the quality of their 2 goals

Gbear

Great match. Really great performance by Uruguay.

Trigger

nullzero wrote: »

Only in fantasy land.

The free wasn’t to do with the leg tackle it’s self, he came across and impeded him with his arms

Will I Am Not

Not always pretty but very entertaining. Delighted for Cavani, hope that’s not the end of his WC.

sligeach

Good riddance to Ronaldo and Pepe. Ronaldo had another stinker. Delighted for Uruguay, by far the better team. You never know how far they might go. They need Cavani not to be injured.

Corholio

Uruguay do what they do. Portugal a bit unlucky, they fell asleep and conceded that 2nd goal, which was a fantastic finish. Thought only 1 team would have won it after Pepe's goal. Poor decision making around the box from Portugal as well when in decent positions.

nullzero

eigrod wrote: »

Deserved that for the quality of their 2 goals

They weren't amazing and could struggle without Cavani who improved massively since the group games.
Uruguay bet the farm on Portugal being one dimensional and we're proven right.

Quazzie

Ronaldo going home but not before he gets a yellow for nearly headbutting the ref when shouting at him. Seems about right for him.

titan18

sligeach wrote: »

Good riddance to Ronaldo and Pepe.

Tbf, Suarez and Godin are worse.

martyos121

Messi and Ronaldo out of the competition on the same day, at least one of them made an impact today though, didn’t see a whole lot of quality from the “GOAT” in the game just finished. :pac:

Will I Am Not

Immense performance from Laxalt. He looks a decent player.

nullzero

astradave wrote: »

The free wasn’t to do with the leg tackle it’s self, he came across and impeded him with his arms

Barely, the defender has the right to make a challenge and a player throwing himself on the ground isn't going to help his cause. Quaresma made a meal of it, had he reacted without the histrionics he may have gotten a free but it wasn't a cut and dry foul by any means.

Iused2likebusts

Brilliant stuff from Uruguay population smaller than Ireland and they regularly overachieve. Its also good to have a S American rather than another European team remain in the competition.

CSF

Uruguay are a great defensive unit, but they're helped in a huge way by being allowed away with murder by the referee. No idea how they finished that game without a yellow card, given the amount of cynical fouls in the first half, and the Godin one is a penalty.


Think France will dispose of them with relative ease.

irishguitarlad

Delighted to see Portugal out portugaled. Their luck was bound to run out.

Akrasia

Portugal created plenty of chances but the strikers were way too static. Ronaldo was strolling around like it was a dead rubber and when he got the ball he just booted it in the general area of the goal.

Suarez, for all his diving, at least he looked to move the ball and work with his team to create chances, and he had support, notably Cavani, and others ran with them and worked hard.

Uruguay look a lot like the German team 4 years ago.