Day 8: Japan vs Costa Rica | Belgium vs Morocco | Croatia vs Canada | Spain vs Germany

Gringo

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It's actually genius if you block the view of the keeper but stay onside
 

Reij

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Lukaku is in touching distance with Shaq in terms of tonnage. Eye test says so.
 

Ainu

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Oh well. Let's just get eliminated and reset now. I am so fecking sick of our current core and especially Martinez. We've utterly wasted our best generation.
 

bosnian_red

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That's fair, we no longer got two top 5 players at their very best either (we've been spoiled in that regard) but otherwise it's not too bad, lots of upsets as well which i enjoy so there's that.

Annnd we've got ourselves another upset.
I don't think Belgium losing can be classed as an upset... Them beating Canada in that game was the upset based on the performance in it! They're actually woeful. Never understand how the world rankings are done.
 

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No reason to disallow that. To the person who said that Courtois is the best in the world. He's been beaten twice from direct freekicks. Now one of them has stood.
 

Red the Bear

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Exactly. You wonder how Wilmots got the sack after 2016, but Martinez (with a more experienced team) survived last summer's Euros plus this bottle job a few months later. Unless they value winning the Fifa ranking too much.

It has to be that no other explanation, that or they're just thick.

To think what they could have achieved with a proper manager up top.
 

Andycoleno9

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This was offside again, right? Saiss was in offside and influenced on gk.
Wait, was he in offside?
 

Superunknown

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Belgium are utter morons for sticking with Martinez for so long. 8 years! They've wasted such a great generation of players on a crap manager and have nothing to show for it. Needs to be ditched after this tournament, 100%.
 

Bole Top

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Batshuayi actually making it as pro is almost comparable to Bebestation getting out from the newbies on here. you can't help but ask what were they smoking.
 

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I can't remember De Bruyne playing worse than he has at Qatar 22.
 

MUnchies

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Eden Hazard is to Belgium what Ronaldo is to Portugal. Both past it but have to be selected every game.