Torreira makes tackle with head + Spurs fans feel season ticket price burn

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England’s route to the final is certainly looking… you know… not the hardest?

Can we say it?

Is football… coming… home?

Who knows, Colombia are monsters and the karma gods were drawing pictures in my dreams of David Ospina saving 3 penalties in a shootout moment of glory last night. I think we have a very stern test against a very unpredictable team there. Croatia, despite playing pretty poorly last night still look the favourites from our side. A team choked full of quality that you’d have to imagine would make our midfield look a touch pedestrian.

Scanning around the matches that excited Arsenal fans, we were not all transfixed on the number 14 during the Uraguay game? Lucas Torreira, what a player. The guy held his position, he ran for days and he put his head on the line to make a tackle on the floor. We’ve needed that sort of die-for-the-cause mentality for many a moon, and we’ve been crying out for a DM who actually wants to play there. I am very excited about the move, though I’ll always have that dull feeling in the pit of my stomach that worries we’re going to fuck it up royally at the last minute. Still, his dad seems confident he’ll at least end up in London.

“As soon as the World Cup ends, Lucas will go to London for his medical.”

There hasn’t been much movement on the transfer front, though I do suspect now we’ve hit July 1st we’ll some names roll in. The Sokratis deal has been taking a while, I can only assume that because of the July 1st date. No idea what that means in football terms. Is it the fiscal year in football? Is it something to do with a clause? I have no idea. Just stop pestering me about it.

There are strong rumours that Arsenal are being linked to Pavon for £26m. The Boca winger is going to land a move to Europe this summer, just can’t see that being Arsenal. Not often we raid directly from South American, but I’d welcome someone of his talent. He has some of that immense power Sanchez has boasted and he’d certainly ramp up the South American vibes in the dressing room.

Finally, great to read that Spurs fans are feeling the full force of a club that is now charging some of the most expensive season tickets in the world

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Shite seats up with the gods for a whopping £2200… they’ve even had the cheek to charge a £2.25 transaction fee.

Welcome to the new world Spurs, wait until your excellent manager leaves and you start dropping down the table breaking even every year.

Right, short post today. Good luck Mexico today!

 

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Buckhurst Gun

“I’m afraid he has the trait that Le grovellers hate… He makes the game look easy .”

LOL , what part of this game is witsel making look ‘easy’

Goonah

Well..good for Belgium they started defensively with Witsel so they could score a late winner

eey Pierre?

Dissenter

Belgium had Marc Wilmots as manager in 2014…a nothing coach
In 2018 they got Martinez who’s lucked out all his career to manage them.

WengerEagle

Lol fluke.

Alex Cutter

Oh my god.

Dissenter

Lucky goal
He was heading it back across the goal, lucky boy.
They all count the same.

Belgium will go on to win it now.

Rambo Ramsey

Too many cases we’ve seen club form doesn’t correlate with how players perform for their national side.

Marc

No way that was intentional he was looking to put back into the box.

Come on Japan!!!

Goonah

lol…the spud cunt tried to get the ball into the mix and they ask if it was deliberate

Dissenter

Brazil will prefer Japan, no doubt.

China

Dissenter nah man, belgium has a tonne of class in terms of players (not referring to them as a team performance) This Brazil team is the worst in my life time (I’m almost 30). They’re still a very good team but theyre not special at all. Neymar aside, they’d only get a small handful of current players even in the squad 10 or 20 years ago, let alone into the actual first team. Coutinho, one of the world’s most expensive players is a perfect example. A great player but not as good as peak Kaka. This is an 8/10 Brazil… Read more »

Dissenter

Excellent officiating
Good referee

Samesong

Bloody hell.

Dissenter

That’s all Fellaini is good for these days.
He does that so well.

Danny

2-2
Good game, but Brazil will destroy either of them so therefore of no importance.

WengerEagle

Worst Brazil team ever are you having a laugh?

2014 side had Fred as the CF and an ancient Maicon and Dante at the back with QPR’s Cesar in goal.

Hulk out wide…

Goonah

Everybody frown at that manmonster except the team he’s playing for 🙂

Marc

Fucking hell.

On the bright side this Belgium team isn’t going to get past Brazil.

Dissenter

In 2014, Brazil played with Fred and Jo as strikers
In 2014, Brazil played with Hulk as winger

This Brazilian team is the most loaded I have seen since 1982
It is loaded from top to bottom, even the two goal keepers are excellent.

They play pragmatically and may not be eye candy .

Sanmi

These Japanese are fit

Dissenter

Where’s Okazaki.

Sanmi

Dissenter

1998 and 2002 Brazil are more talented. Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho, Roberto carlos, cafu, G. Silva, Dida. Juninho couldn’t get in.
And they were defensive as well. Lucio kept the defense, that’s way better than what you have now

Goonah

Hope the Japanese can hol d on for 90..want theese scums,mancs and shits suffer

China

Yeah 2014 was pretty ass. Regardless my point that this isn’t a special team stands imo

I hope they get knocked out anyway as It would be mighty satisfying to see Neymar crying after the smug git

Dissenter

Sanmi
You make a good point about the 1998-2002 team that reached two consecutive finals.
My best team is the 1982 team that lost to Italy.

China

Yeah 02 Brazil blows this one anyway. It blows almost any team away

Sanmi

Even Giovanni Elber couldn’t get in

Marc

China

I know we live in an age where players exaggerate contact and feign injury etc but Neymar’s really pissing me off with the theatrics. Makes you actually want to see someone do a really bad tackle on him to stop all the play acting.

China

Even if you look at 06 you have most of the legends plus some great new talent like kaka Adriano Robinho

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_at_the_2006_FIFA_World_Cup

Awesome lineup

zeus

Dissenter July 2, 2018 20:38:48
In 2014, Brazil played with Fred and Jo as strikers
In 2014, Brazil played with Hulk as winger

This Brazilian team is the most loaded I have seen since 1982
***********

Christ….calm down. This Brazil is nowhere near the balance or talent of the 1998/2002 side.

This is a side that looked ordinary until Neymar returned to the side just before the WC. Brazil hasn’t played a decent team yet.

China

Marc as well as that it annoys me how Neymar makes everything about him. He’s the best player in the squad by a mile. Everyone knows it. But it always feels like he thinks everything is just about him and for the cameras. Check back to the second goal which he obviously made today and watch his celebration. Rather than piling towards firmino to share in the joy or whatever he stood there himself for 5 seconds thinking about how great he was for making it And that bs crying when they won late on in the group stages. It’s… Read more »

Dissenter

Zeus.
Nothing to be calm about.
“Brazil hasn’t played a decent team yet.”

The Brazilian team that won the World Cup in 2002 did get an easy run [besides England] to the final.

Marc

Heart breaking for Japan really deserved better.

Samesong

Painful.

Marko

Heart breaking stuff. Shouldn’t have gone gung-ho on that corner

Danny

Great no bloody extra time.

Dissenter

The World Cup just started for neutrals

Marc

China

The exact reason I’ll always rate Messi over Ronaldo.

You’re a great player, one of the best of all time fucking man up and stop the “look at me look at me” bollocks.

Marko

Kagawa was immense

WengerEagle

Cruel on Japan but Brazil-Belgium will be a belter.

Dissenter

Japan did a Wenger-Arsenal at the very end.
They didn’t manage the game well at the end. You’re playing a superior team so just get to extra time.

Pierre

Marko
“Chasing two goals you gotta bring on Nacer Chadli of West Brom. Martinez is a fucking lemon”

Says the biggest lemon of all… Keep em coming

Frost

MY GOODNESS. That’s the best world cup game I have ever seen in my life!!!!!! #BELJPN

Dissenter

Lukaku is the leader of the Belgian team.

James wood

Absolute credit to Japan.
Played the game in the right spirit.
Neymar was a disgrace he should watch this game .

Credit also tho Martinez subs proved vital
What a game.

Marc

Pierre

Cheap shot and would you have wanted to see Martinez get the Arsenal job?

Personally I’d love to see him replace the Poch.

Jay

Bit naive from Japan at the end there. But this is why the world cup is still the greatest spectacle in football. What a game!

Pierre

Proper football match … No histrionics from the players… Good Officiating.. A great watch.

Marc

Dissenter

If Lukaku is worth £75 million I love Redtruth. Really average player just can’t see the hype about him.

Dissenter

Batshuayi is still concussed from the last goal celebration he tried to do.

China

Bad luck Japan, a good showing from them this year

Belgium Brazil could be sick. Hopefully it won’t disappoint

Dissenter

This referee is going to get a call-up for a bigger game.
That was well officiated.

Redtruth

Courtois is such a shit keeper.
Debruyne proving what an ordinary player he is.
Two donkey’s in Lukaku and Kompany.
I’ve never heard of half the Belgium team ..

Pierre

Marc
No, martinez has too many similar traits to Wenger though I do think he makes a good international manager…
Got away with one tonight though.

Dissenter

Marc
“DissenterIf Lukaku is worth £75 million I love Redtruth. Really average player just can’t see the hype about him.”

He had the awareness to sell a dummy at the end.
That was a pointer to real class. Players like Well;bneck would have swung at it rather than leave it to the better placed man.

Marko

Says the biggest lemon of all… Keep em coming

Ah fair enough Pierre. Old Chadli came up trumps with an actual goal rather than oh I don’t know a chance created. He made a difference with that ACTUAL GOAL as opposed to a created chance

Nw9 gooner

The subs Martinez brought on win the game- I have been saying he has turned this team around to a great team

Frost

If Lukaku doesn’t get an assist for that last move, assist stats need to be retired.

China

I’m calling the following winners:

Switzerland
England

England are nothing special and Colombia will be a test but I see them surviving it. I consider Sweden better than Switzerland but still think the Swiss will nab it on penalties

Marc

Nw9

Oh dear.

Nw9 gooner

Yes one of the best matches I have seen – 1st time in ages a team has come from 2-0 to win in the world cup

Dissenter

Pierre would be over the moon If Ozil was the one who did that dummy move to leave the ball to Chadli.

There’s nothing more exhilarating than an Ozil assist.

Kayciey

Hoof it to Fellaini

Elmo

Japan only have themselves to blame. Yes, they pressed high all game, but it was Wengeresque naivety to keep committing so many players forward on set pieces when they were completely unable to compete in the air. From 2-0 up they conceded two goals to fast counters from their own corners where they ended up completely outnumbered at the back. The other difference was their keeper was unable to catch the ball, constantly flapping and palming the ball back into danger, whereas Courtois caught and distributed for both of those fast counter goals. They had the system and work-rate to… Read more »

mysticleaves

Marc

You didn’t see where Pierre was coated for saying Witsel was a good player because Witsel seemed to be having a bad game? Selective response I say

mysticleaves

“Pierre would be over the moon If Ozil was the one who did that dummy move to leave the ball to Chadli.”

Dissenter are you saying you wouldn’t be when Ozil lays a dummy that results in a goal? wtf

Gooner63

Yes one of the best matches I have seen – 1st time in ages a team has come from 2-0 to win in the world cup

in normal time

england lost 3-2 to germany after being 2-0 up in extra time – 1970

Marc

mystic

Nah didn’t see that one. Did comment on the one I saw though.

mysticleaves

Heavy news that Papa has signed on. Can’t wait for Torreira to be confirmed too. A winger would be the only signing remaining.

Glad Chambers signed a new deal AGAIN. The lad must be doing something good. Hope he gets a real crack at CB this season

Nw9 gooner

Why Marc – did any of us anticipate his subs – in fact we were perplexed but he was proved right. Belgium have always fallen apart despite the quality they have. This is the first time in more than 20 years that a team has won after going 2-0 down . I am no supporter of Martinez but credit where it’s due. Remember he has Henry as Asst- wonder what role he has in this transformation

Redtruth

Japan technically superior to Belgium got undone by three donkey’s .

Radio Raheem

Belgium is too high a level for Martinez, it’s frazzled his brain. They went through today in spite of him.

What he’s doing to De Bryne deserves a death sentence.

Wenker-wanger

Debrynes charge for the goal was pure determination and vision with the pass. Great goal.
Japan should take a lot of credit. Good busy and skillful players.

Redtruth

KDB has Messivitis, meaning he looks better than he really is when playing for a dominant club team.

Redtruth

Tonight’s game showed Group G to be the poorest in the tournament.

Chika

Florian Thauvin is the latest winger we’re linked with.

Emiratesstroller

I must confess that I am not overtly enthusiastic about this year’s World Cup and that includes England’s prospects. Frankly there are at least four countries in the Tournament who are better than England so even allowing for a favourable draw I am not altogether optimistic about this country’s prospects. What is more important to me personally is how Arsenal are likely to perform next season. On current evidence I don’t see much change in league positions, although I would expect Arsenal to close the massive points gap. We have brought in sofar three new players. Two are now aged… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

It seems like N’Zonzi has handed in a transfer request because he wants an Arsenal move.

If we got Torreira and N’Zonzi in the same window that completely changes and improves our midfield with it turning into something seriously strong.

Redtruth

Not sure

Elmo

Is this James Maddison kid any good?

Leicester have paid £24m for him from Norwich, and from the little I’ve read about him, he’s played a single season in the Championship, scoring 14 goals.

That’s more money than experienced goal-scoring CL / international players like Giroud and Wally.

Jay

DMC to the Warriors. 5 All stars on a team. What a fvcking joke

Jay

A team that won 3 champioships in the last four years and swept the last series, no less.

Jeez!

Guns of Brixton

” His name is Sokratis
He Defends like Hercules
Papastathopoulos
Ooohhhhh
Papastathopoulos
Ooohhhh “

China

Wally isn’t playing for England or in the cl mind!

Pierre

Elmo
Maddison is a very good technical player, when I’ve watched him I likened him to Mesut özil. A very similar game though it looks like he has a good eye for a goal..he’s probably a bit lightweight and not interested on the defensive side of things but a very creative player ..
That’s a lot of money for him though.

Pierre

CA ” if we got Torreira and N’Zonzi in the same window that completely changes and improves our midfield with it turning into something seriously strong.” Totally agree, nzonzi is exactly what we need at this moment. Yes he maybe 29 and 40 million but he ticks all the boxes for me and will give the team a much more balanced midfield, especially with Torreira alongside him. Our defence should immediately look more secure with those 2 protecting as their first instincts as footballers is to plug the holes in midfield and defend the midfield area. Nzonzi also provides much… Read more »

Graham62

For all his tricks, flicks and premeditated showmanship, Neymar is a fantastic talent. The problem is though, he comes across as an an absolute dick by stretching the rules and ethics of the sport by cheating, feining injury and playing to the camera. Of course, we all have our own perceptions of what makes a great sportsmen and why. When it comes to Football the arguments on who is the greatest will always go on based on our own individual opinions and views. However, for me, it is all very simple. A truly great sportsmen is someone that not only… Read more »

Graham62

loveable

TitsMcGee

Belgium looking like Belgium although previous Belgian sides would have lost 2-3 .

Coach 15

I thought that the diagonal run by Lukaku to draw the centre halfaway from the Belgium wide player,before coming back across the box for the dummy made that move for the winner ,great forward play to finish off a pulsating second half.
Really impressed with Japan technically,looked dangerous on the counter,Kagawa bossed the midfield.

gonsterous

graham

lol, I bet messi is a saint on the pitch.. guy is arrogant like ronaldo, make no mistake. the only lovable figure in football was and is Ronaldhino. Guy promoted the sport, made people fall in love with the game all the while respecting the opposition and the rules of the game. Never seen him dive like the so called players of today (messi included )

Pierre

Graham I am finding it increasingly difficult watching games with Neymar and Saurez in. Their antics are putting a stain on this world cup. Thank God for last nights game, a superb game of football played in the right spirit. At least we can’t have a brazil/uraguay final but sadly it looks like we will have one of Neymar or saurez in the final who will up the anti when it comes to doing all they can to get their hands on the trophy. I’m not sure I can face watching saurez anymore screaming in fake agony, writhing on the… Read more »

Pierre

Gonsterous
Not sure I would put Messi down as a diver.

gonsterous

https://youtu.be/xSLxa3MYMcw

great role model messi. put the video on mute though. That music is giving people cancer…

TitsMcGee

Brazil 2002 was the best version is quite some time.

Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Lucio and Roque Jr to boot.

UTarse

“I am finding it increasingly difficult watching games with Neymar and Saurez in.
Their antics are putting a stain on this world cup.”

Fuckinghell some here love the drama !… get a grip man.

TitsMcGee

They really need to crack down on the play-acting. It’s becoming embarrassing now.

champagne charlie

Gone off Neymar. Best player outside the duo by a distance obviously, but for him to potentially reach their heights he needs to cut out the god awful playacting and ditch the samba cuntery when up in the game.

Imagine if he had Cristiano’s mentality. Unreal footballer potentially.

Carts

That was some game last night. Fair play from Belgium. They’ll need to sharpen up a bit more cos brazil is a different animal.

Football can be cruel sometimes.

Pierre

Ufraud
If you want to watch drama then go to the West End..I don’t want to watch saurez and Neymar doing great impressions of the dying swan.

I prefer watching football.

If you think watching Neymar writhe about on the ground for 4 minutes in attempt to get someone sent off is what real football fans want to see, then you are mistaken.