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Post by aubtin on Jun 21, 2014 14:34:38 GMT 1
I dunno I think it's a fair assessment. I think our defence was everyone's biggest fear before the tournament, and rightly so. There were just real problems keeping shape.
I mean, speaking of the first Suarez goal, Cavani's ball in was beautiful but the fact he was able to get in that position is exactly why I don't think much of Johnson as a right back. I don't know what it is but he seems to have a really bad habit of letting people come in on the inside, he just too passive and never holds his shape down his flank. I lost count of the amount of times he did that. And that second goal from Suarez was absolutely a massive defensive fuck up. Jagielka was in no man's land.
Honestly, of course I'm disappointed but tbh I really wasn't expected much this time round, if anything I'm pleasantly surprised with how we played going forward. I totally agree with you about England over the last few years, so even though this is our worst result at a World Cup since I don't know how long, I'm happy the team went out at least trying to play the kind of football we wanna watch.
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Post by aubtin on Jun 21, 2014 4:59:07 GMT 1
I did expect England to fail to advance (just gut feeling, pretty much), but at the same time I think they are still one of the better teams in this World Cup, certainly better than the English squad in 2010. Personally I really don't think that's the case. Perversely, I do think we played some of the best football we've played in years, and there's lot of positives to take from the younger attacking players, but our defence is by far the worst it's been in years. Despite whatever problems England's had over the years the thing that's always defined that team is the back four; Gary Neville, Adams, Ferdinand, Campbell, Terry, Cole. We've got no one anywhere near that kind of quality now. Johnson and Jagielka in particular have played really poorly I think. On a lighter note, an hilarious Scottish fan took his hatred of England to the next level by travelling all the way to Brazil to join the Uruguay fans in cheering against England! LOL, guy's and absolute legend!... Oh, and man France are playing some lovely football. I'm a big Benzema fan and he looks in some form so far.
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Post by aubtin on Jun 15, 2014 4:53:35 GMT 1
Shit. When Italy were coming forward we looked good countering. From 2-1 down though they just sat back a bit and we looked completely unable to open up space. Left side looked a bit ropey too. Plus, I don't really see the point in playing Rooney out of position. There were positive though. We tried to play positive football, and Sterling looked great. Also, epic reaction from an England fan when he saw himself on the big screen and seemingly decided to call everyone wankers...
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Post by aubtin on Jun 14, 2014 8:46:35 GMT 1
Fuck me Holland were fantastic! When they play their football there's always something special about the Dutch style and it was so great to see that after the way they played in the final four years ago. So glad I got up at 4am to watch it live. So many great performances but Blind in particular had a great game. Man, that pass to Van Persie that opened Spain up for the first goal... I think England vs. Italy will be such an enormous bore that will end in 0-0, especially since Hodgson is probably too conservative to field reckless (in a positive way) youngsters like Sterling etc. I like this English team, but don't think they will go far this time. To be fair I think Hodgson will be pretty positive with his selection. He seems to be in an unfamiliar position for an England manager whereby there's this general feeling we've nothing to lose, so that'll hopefully lead to some positive football. Saying that, assuming Welbeck's fit I'd imagine he'll start over Sterling against Italy to tighten up midfield.
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Post by aubtin on Apr 20, 2014 11:49:22 GMT 1
So great to see how much Werdum's evolved from the fighter he was back in PRIDE, he really looked like a complete fighter. Plus he always comes across as a nice guy. Even threw in show boating to boot, and we know what Fabricio thinks of cocky guys...
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Post by aubtin on Apr 16, 2014 10:33:45 GMT 1
KRUSH.40 results here... www.krush-gp.com/event/krush40/Taisei Kondo draw JGo Kato def. Naoki Ishikawa via 1st round KO (barrage of punches) Shintaro Matsukura def. Onder Ural via unanimous decision Masahiro Yamamoto def. Yannis El Hajaoui via majority decision Keita Makihira def. Yuya Yamamoto via ext. round decision In true Yamamoto style looks like the fight was a close draw after 3 rounds but in the extension round he got countered off a high kick with a punch that did enough to be called a knockdown. Yasuhiro Kido def Hiroki Nakajimi via unanimous decision Kido scored a down in the first with a right hook. After the fight he said he wanted to defend his belt against a top-level foreign fighter.
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Post by aubtin on Apr 16, 2014 9:40:33 GMT 1
Shit, very sorry to hear that you two. The pub is always open if you need to chat...
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Post by aubtin on Apr 15, 2014 6:39:25 GMT 1
Oh my days, heckyl's a mod...
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Post by aubtin on Apr 14, 2014 9:56:24 GMT 1
Back in the game!
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