Football is BACK in the mixer today and I am very excited because our yet to be announced defensive midfielder is about to face a seriously stern test against the sometimes irrepressible France. He had this to say on his ascension.
“It all happened very fast, a few years ago I was playing in the fifth division of Wanderers and now I’m 22 years old at a World Cup representing my people and my family.”
What. A. Game.
Then in the afternoon, we’ll get to see the most intelligent striker on Twitter, Kevin De Fraud and Eden Hazfraud face off against the ramen haired whinger from PSG and his boring crowd of non-Samba melts.
What a day.
This World Cup has been a lot of fun, but I’m glad we’re finally landing in a place that feels like some quality football is about to happen. Not quite sure England vs Sweden is going to have the same appeal, it’ll be a bit like watching Burnley take on Everton, but who cares, I’m only there for the memes a the GOD BLESS GARETH SOUTHGATE after.
It’s interesting thinking about this World Cup so far, like, be honest, who are the star players who’ve ratcheted up their value 7x? There aren’t many, are there? Pavard from Stuttgart looks like he might land a good move after hitting the purest of strikes last week. Golovin has done his value no harm, looking an excellent player. Outside those guys, I’m struggling to find hidden gems. Have we simply become to amazing at scouting for a real surprise to land on anyone these days?
I don’t really have many Arsenal updates. Kelechi Nwakali, the Nigerian U20 captain, is close to moving to Porto for a season. That’s a very exciting move, hopefully, he’ll land some game time over there.
Jack Wilshere is close to making a move to West Ham, kind of predictable, I think I said as much a few months back. It’ll be an easy move. The club has low expectations, he’s close to his family, he’ll probably get a lovely salary and the faithful over there will love him. Good luck to him.
Gelson Martins will apparently move to Atleti. I mean, he looked exciting in those videos, but he also gave me severe Gervinho flashbacks. Not a lot of end product there.
Marca reckons Banega is going to reject Arsenal. Gut feel tells me we were never in for him. He’s a 29-year-old who took a pay cut to go to Sevilla for his mate, you could see right through all that nonsense. He just wanted a new deal. N’zonzi is now supposedly trying to push for a move out of the club, but again, do we need another 29-year-old look for an epic payday? I’m not so sure.
It’s very amusing to read around people meme-ing the new regime that has come in. People gearing up for the new season, semi-hoping that the horse they aggressively backed for 11 years was actually still a brilliant manager held back by kryptonic like forces that came with the stadium move. The wounds of the #WengerOut war will never heal, it’ll be interesting to see how the positioning works out next year. #CantWeJustBeHappy
That said, I do find the new trend for shite observations packaged up as deep insider insight quite amusing. Usually comes from the type of people who put ‘UEFA B LICENSE’ in their bio accompanied by a Sun Tzu quote about counter-attacking.
‘The lack of sharp bone structure inhibits aerodynamics in the final third, but more importantly, it manifests in a lack of confidence in front of goal. A man who cannot score off the pitch is doomed on it.’
But be honest, did you ever see Wenger raise his finger with such authority?
Right, enough rambling from me.
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At this point looks like Bam Bam was right lol
Brazil have done enough to score a goal or two already though.
Neymar is a bigger cunt than Ronaldo, absolutely irritating prick.
Courtois palmed the ball back into the danger area. He was lucky Kompany got there first.
Bamford
You have to come back here to do a victory run regarding Neymar
Right after you get a pie in the face for all the Germany-will-win predictions 🙂
I truly feel Florentino Pérez and Neymar were made for each other
Marko
You are so easy to wind up
I knew you would take the bait
Thought Belgium would do more damage offensively on the counters second half but they haven’t seen much of the ball.
Conservative. Content to sit more after doing the damage in the first period.
Tite deserves this. His insistence on certain players over others is costing them
Ishola
“Thought Belgium would do more damage offensively on the counters second half but they haven’t seen much of the ball”
Agreed
They may come to regret their conservative style if Brazil get one back.
They have recovery pace at the back, all their defenders are fast and they don’t need to sit back as much as they are doing.
You are so easy to wind up
I knew you would take the bait
No you didn’t. Could have been anyone around here
Marko
“Tite deserves this. His insistence on certain players over others is costing them”
Got their tactics wrong from the first whistle.
As in other matches they should have bided their time and let the game develop and show patience.
But not tonight. They went full pelt right from the start.
Good for the neutral.
Not so good for Brazil.
game on in the final 🙂
Game on.
Game on. Take off Paulinho and that’s what happens. Should have been taken off 20 minutes ago
WHAT A GOAL !!!!!!!!!!
GAME BACK ONNNNNNNN!!!!!
Good goal from Brazil.
Neymar not involved.
Maybe they should bypass Neymar a few more times offensively.
Belgium win from 2 down in R16. Now lose from 2 up in QF?
What odds on extra time?
Awful defensively though.
Where is Dembele?
Now Belgium have a long drawn out wait for the final whistle.
Still capable to get another themselves though on the counter.
Now Belgium will regret just sitting back too deep when they have excellent counter attacking tools.
This extra striker causing problems for Belgium.
Brazil have been arguably better for the most of this game. Should have been ahead even.
Ishola
They are really looking leggy. Belgium should have made some changes 5 – 10 minutes ago.
Firminho has been so much better, much better than anything Jesus brought to the team.
Why was Jesus starting ahead of him?
Got to nail that
Jesus Brazil only have themselves to blame here…
Coutinho’s been a bit shit today if we’re honest
So many misses. I can’t believe my eyes.
Penalty on Coutinho lol
There was contact on him after he fell over by an opponent
So many clear cut chances…
Marko
Yes I did
I knew it would be you
And surprise surprise…………
Fernandinho has been an absolute joke today. One of the most shocking individual performances I’ve seen among the top level players.
I still maintain that Lukaku is not a £70 million strike, no where near.
Torreira himself has just confirmed he is joining #AFC soon (video can be seen on IG: LucasTorreira_)
He might regret taking Lukaku off.
If Brazil get one they go on to win surely.
I really hope Brazil score a goal so we can watch 30 mins more of this game.
Crazy to take Lukaku off
Brazil need another offensive move that cuts out Neymar.
Since Jesus came to the PL it was plain obvious to see that he was just about tap ins. But he’s from Brazil so he has to be great eh? Firmino pisses all over him really. Coaches just have fixations on some players. Case in point Khedira for Germany, William over Costa always, Jesus over Firmino.
Neymar similar to Messi, does look like choking under severe pressure.
Great turn by Hazard
Frost
Don’t tease you slut!
Hardly touched him.
His hand slightly grazed his face.
raptora
Agree could easily do another 30 minutes of this.
Not that I had any doubts earlier but this match once again proves Hazard is better than Neymar.
Neymar is just a diving cunt.
Penalty in my eyes. Very similar to Ramsey vs Burnley.
Belgium right back has been immense.
Hazard been excellent
Hazard has been exceptional in the last ten minutes bringing the ball out and drawing fouls.
What a save that is
Fucking hell
Actually neutral on who wins but I’d love Brazil to get another
Sensible play
Neymar tears.
One from the cameras from Courtois.
Nah good save but every save Courtois makes he puts in dramatic affect
Belgium vs France will be worth a watch.
Jogo Bonito.
They gone #
lol
Redtruth
July 6, 2018 19:16:31
A functional Brazil will be too strong for the so so overrated Belgium’s.
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Hahahahaha!
Brazil came back well but guilty of underestimating Belgium.
What odd’s on Putin’s gun to the head of the referees daughter will win it?
This game reminded me of Arsenal vs UTD in the last days of Fergie.
I was certain Belgium were gonna blow that lol
Glad to see that little girl out of it now.
Arsene’s Nurse
Redtruth is not wrong.
Brazil were not functional tonight
They were gung-ho from the first whistle
Paid the price.
Well that’s my pick out!
Hats off to the Belgians, phenomenal result and some exceptional performances in there.
Hazard the standout.
Jog on Bonito
What a difference top players make.
Healthy James and Colombia win vs England.
Healthy Cavani and Uruguay win vs France.
Casemiro in play and Brazil win tonight.
Anyways kind of upset that Brazil are out.
I think they did more than enough to even win this game.
Football is a game of luck a lot of the times.
You cant lose with Thierry Henry on your staff impossible!!
All European final.
Tite lost them that game. Had he played Firmino and Douglas Costa they might have won it
kin ell Raptora
Your penalty mad.
Games would have five pens minimum a match with you officiating
Belgium have some of the best players at the tournament possibly the strongest squad, they also have a twat as a manager.
You can expect them to fuck up at any time all down to Martinez.
“Well that’s my pick out!”
WE – jump on the Belgium bandwagon with me, plenty of room still!
Didn’t really care who won, but glad Neymar is gone. Should Brazil have had a penalty? Or justice for crying wolf so fucking often?
Yeah mind boggling as to why he didn’t start Firmino and D Costa, said before that they both offer more than Jesus and Willian who have had poor tournaments besides Willians 2nd half vs Mexico.
Costa especially had them looking so dangerous. Shame they spurned so many guilt edged chances because you’ll always get punished for being that wasteful.
Can’t see Belgium beating France so that’s Le Bleus in the final.
Will be entertaining though.
Marko
“Tite lost them that game. Had he played Firmino and Douglas Costa they might have won it”
Should have sat in the first quarter of the match and showed patience and see how the game develops like in their other matches.
Didn’t.
Flew at Belgium from first kick off like high on gooja.
Suited Belgium end to end first half.
Brazil should have gone for control first half. Didn’t. Found themselves 0-2 down.
Not good game management finding yourselves 0-2 in the first half.
The winner of Belgium vs France wins the world cup.
Who was it that said Neymar would generate a lot of talk but disappoint in the end, esp. in the biggest matches?
Oh right, that was me.
So much for his winning the Golden Ball, WengerEagle. More accurate to say that he won “the Golden Boo,” a newly-minted award that goes to the biggest twat in the tournament, the biggest primadonna and flopper. He won that hands down.
Cheers, Le Grove. Looking forward to the new season. All signs look very positive at moment.
I was thinking more about England when i chose Brazil to beat Belgium.
WE
Like Marko you are concentrating on individual players.
How about overall tactics?
Did you think it was a good idea to fly like madmen out of the traps straight from first whistle especially as that has not been the Brazil way to do things in this tournament until tonight?
Lineker’s a fucking tit.
“Sacked from Everton and now in a World Cup semi” was fucking awful at Everton and got Wigan relegated.
Tonight was the unofficial Final for me.
Think Belgium beat France and will be too strong for the remaining pack on the other side.
BAAAAAM! BAAAAAAAM!
Fuck all the haters and dissers.
You were right about the Trans.
God on ya lol
BAAAAAAM! BAAAAAAM!
“So much for his winning the Golden Ball, WengerEagle. More accurate to say that he won “the Golden Boo,” a newly-minted award that goes to the biggest twat in the tournament, the biggest primadonna and flopper. He won that hands down.”
He’s not wrong you know lol
Loooooool welcome back big guy! Shocked that you’ve returned. 😉
Looks like we were both wrong, you a little more so with Germany finishing bottom of the group below South Korea.
Well, for one, Neymar needs maturity if he’s going to be a star in a team he’s the leader. (not talking about Brazil, he will win a world cup with them but it won’t be because of him. Either ways his legacy as a Brazil legend is already stamped).
Hazard needs to perform consistently in a team he’s the leader of. Hazard is so flash in the pan it’s annoying he is in the conversion for best player awards.
Marc
“Don’t tease you slut!”
Haha all torreira here. Tbh even with those quotes, I’d still be certain he’s not gonna sign if “you know who” was still in charge
Brazil 1 – Germany 7
Why the shock ?
“I was thinking more about England when i chose Brazil to beat Belgium.”
Usually Redtwat when picking a winner between two teams in a football match most people would pick one of the teams actually playing in that match.
I wonder what club job offers Bertie Martinez will get if he wins the WC.
mysticleaves
“Well, for one, Neymar needs maturity if he’s going to be a star in a team he’s the leader”
This has been said about him for a long. long time.
Even in his homeland the majority of Brazilians say it.
He lacks maturity at this stage to lead Brazil to World Cup winners.
Bamford
Knew you wouldn’t be able to stay away – just how many hours have you been watching the comments on here waiting to make a comeback?
Hazard just made Neymar look a fraud
Same day Sky makes Ornstein look a huge fraud too….
Happy days!
Torreira, I bet, wasn’t too sad Uruguay went out of the world cup today. What a happy lad he will be signing for the Arsenal and beginning a new chapter.
Ishola
Incredibly naive indeed.
Games are won on converting chances though and Belgium were just ruthless tonight whereas Brazil were unbelievably wasteful. How they didnt score at least two Im still scratching my head.
Elmo
Hopefully the ManU job