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Day 18: Switzerland vs Spain | Belgium vs Italy (QF 1&2)
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There's levels to it though. That went way beyond what's normal. The amount of diving by Italy in their last two games was surreal, pretty sure you could find close to 100 examples of it in their last 2 games.
Belgium timewasted against us and knocked us out and it still felt awful to watch that even though I wanted them out
Italy definitely look like the ones to beat. Will be tough for any team to overcome them this summer.
4 days before their semi final and 9 days before the final takes place... Let's go nuzzle some people in the crowd lads!
Was just thinking that , so much for staying in a bubble. It would be a shit way to miss the semis and the final catching covid off your own fans.
fecker was in his undies
Did you see england play? Italy will eat england alive.England hope will be Spain in final not Italy.
Huh?
Well done to Italy, clearly the better team. Hope they win the whole thing. Sad for Spinazzola though.
The way we've played recently was pretty poor imo and nowhere near the level we had at the world cup even taking Hazard out. This midfield with Tielemans has been very disappointing
The way we've played recently was pretty poor imo and nowhere near the level we had at the world cup even taking Hazard out. This midfield with Tielemans has been very disappointing
Probably true. They were unlucky to run into France in SF, very very tight match that one and would've beaten Croatia in final.
One advantage they still have is De Bruyne and Lukaku will still be pretty decent in 18 months time and if Hazard has any ambition left he'll move out of Madrid and get fit again so they still should have a decent attack for Qatar.
Rest of side dosen't look as good as a few years ago though unless a few of the younger ones step up at club level in next 18 months but likes of Dendoncker have their limits.
Mwahahhahaahaha
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Belgium
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Belgium
I wouldn’t want to bet on that, but it would be a great game I would love to watch. I think England are a pretty fun team now, and could be much better with a brave manager.
At this moment this feels inevitable, and it's going to be too close to call given that England has home advantage. It's Italy's name on the trophy any other venue aside from Wembley.
They also said England wouldn't beat Germany.
You’re told not to do it with certain injuries. The guy is taken off the pitch crying and you’re worrying about a few minutes.
Immobile, the cheating tart!!!
Southgate is too negative. He can't attack Italy so long as he plays both Rice and Phillips
This! Apart from De Bryune. I also don’t / didn’t like the 3 Belgian players who played for us. Can’t think of a more dislikeable national team.Bye bye Belgium. A really dislikable bunch of players.
Italy, by far the better team. Zero threat from Belgium. Worlds best team, my arse
This Italian team is nothing like Germany, the work 10 times harder and have the best midfield in the competition. They are a nightmare for England to play against in a game which the media have already declared England as the winners, which suits Italy down to the ground
Same here. The number of unlikeable players in that Belgium team is staggering.Mwahahhahaahaha
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Italy was the better team, and deserves to go through. They dominated for the most important parts of the game and we didn’t turn our chances into goals. Looked like a better team when it matterd most.
It’s just the shithousery I can’t put up anymore. A rules change would help that massively.
Congratis @giorno @Bepi et al. Good luck the next game(s).
It’s just the shithousery I can’t put up anymore. A rules change would help that massively.
Congratis @giorno @Bepi et al. Good luck the next game(s).
I see that Belgium rubbed everyone the wrong way.
To be fair, that was more based on history. Italy is stronger in pretty much every part of the pitch than Germany.
They do look good and I would say are favourites right now but I wouldn't predict anything with certainty after what has happened in this tournament.
Didn’t expect to see Italy dominate the ball like that, only stopped when they decided to park the bus.
He was laughable 99.99% of the time.
Nah, England were favourite this time against Germany.
That Ireland match is a painful memory.
*few minutes taken off the game actually but okay. Couldn’t care less about it if the game clock would have been stopped. The guy was crying because he knew his tournament is over, doesn’t make his injury worse or not. Could’ve walked off the pitch and started crying there, littly symphaty from me atm.
Lukaku waa absolutely shite throughout the game. Audacious that he thinks himself at the same level of Lewandowski.
WC winners France, with almost the same player and manager as 2018.
Overrated is England, who hasn't won anything since 1966, and haven't knocked out a big team in since 1970, it took them more than 40 years to knock-out a big team in a tournament.
He is complaining because his team was denied a chance of playing with a man advantage.
I think your ire is better aimed at the refs, though. This could have taken as long as it did if the ref simply properly added that time. The 5 minutes that were added were taken by this scene alone.
No I’m not. You don’t think they’d have lined up a replacement within 30”?
Nah the ref can’t be blamed for that, if time is added properly you’d have +15-20mins of added time, not feasible. Football needs a change in rules to take out these kind of things. Can’t blame a ref to only add a few minutes; that’s standard procedure regardless of what happened during the game.
Who himself was less than stellar in two of Polands three games.
Two of my hated teams France and Belgium are out. Feels good
How the hell are Belgium number one in the world, must be the most over rated crap ‘good’ team.
Out to wales in quarters ‘16
Out to France semi ‘18 (fair enough I suppose)
Out to Italy last 16 ‘20.
number one in the world my arse
Out to wales in quarters ‘16
Out to France semi ‘18 (fair enough I suppose)
Out to Italy last 16 ‘20.
number one in the world my arse
I've been really critical of Southgate but tbh I would be very glad to have him in charge if we had to face Italy. Think the only way to go would be suffocate their midfield and I would fancy players off our bench to get a late goal. I'm 100% certain we would be better set-up for them than Belgium were tonight. Their shape just looked totally wrong.
You could have had another hour and not score though