Day 23: Uruguay vs France and Brazil vs Belgium

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Momentum with Brazil here. Another goal and they’ll go on to win this
 

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Kompany for somebody who's supposedly good at passing is a fecking horrible passer and also a shit defender.
 

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Hazard literally prefers to pass away possession rather than give it to Rom.
 

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Fair enough, then a drop ball I guess.

Still doesn’t explain the ref not reviewing it. I hate this sometimes they do sometimes they don’t malarky
The way it works is the guys in the office review it and then if they think the Ref made an error they will go "Ref, you should review it", Ref then will walk over to the monitor and watch it again.
 

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Martinez desperately trying to throw it away :lol: :nervous:
 

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He is not very good at changing direction. There is so much you can improve against your natural limits. He is to expand the dimension of his game is good enough. Those rapid strong straight run should be enough to add potent to his teams' attack. It's time for the coaches to work around it using other players ability
How about some stop and go then ?
 

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Where are the subs Belgium?
De Bruyne and hazard are pointless if they've ran themselves to bits.
 

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Ah now Martinez realized, that his players are out of power :D
 

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Complete and utterly failed to protect Brazil back 4 from all the Belgium counter attacks which is supposed to be his job tonight.

Now passing simple balls out of play.
He's had to mark 3 players breaking forward on his own. Watch all the counters, every time Belgium are picking the man he's not covering. Doesn't matter who was in that position, 1 can't mark 3.
 

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Vermaelen...I would throw a CM on there as well, to help provide solidity in the middle of the pitch.
 

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Irrelevant, he was completely out of control of it and the decision was that he rode Kompany’s tackle rather than Kompany bringing him down.


Lukaku is an absolute machine. You can see how much influence Henry is having on him. The way he picks up that wide position and leaves two centrebacks in a horrible position to defend and then attacks from wide with acres of space between fullback and centrebacks. He isolates the Fullback and leaves two centrebacks having to deal with De Bryune and Hazard getting up to full speed before they reach them.
How many times has a striker teased the keeper and knocked it past him, usually straight out of play, but gets wiped out and gets the penalty? Happens all the time and it’s no different.