To be fair. The very act of him moving the Coke is pretty much free advertising to them. It's going to get shared and shown everywhere. I think they're probably pleased he did it
I agree with @The Firestarter here. Bad publicity for Coca Cola here as it's basically Ronaldo telling everyone, including the millions of children that idolise him, not to drink Coca Cola but to drink water instead.
permanently.
Why should it be different?
I actually think Germany will do well in this tournament because they have no pressure at all. Amazing how no one is giving them any chance when bar the 2018 World Cup, they've never finished lower than 3rd in any major tournament under Joachim Loew. Won't even be surprised if they beat France tonight. France always meltdown when they come into a tournament being heavy favourites.I don’t agree. More people are thinking/talking about Coke if that’s even possible. I doubt it will have any effect anyway to be honest.
Well, we have every reason to be pessimistic.Gotta love how ze germans are always so pessimistic everytime.
).Does that really matter when Goretzka is injured, Kimmich plays as a wingback and Havertz is in attack though? Kroos and Gundogan are both great players but I doubt they'd make up a great two-man midfield against Tolisso, Pogba and Kante.Well, we have every reason to be pessimistic.
- 2018 the worst performance in world cup history for Germany.
- Struggling against any opponent ever since.
- 0:6 to a young Spain (biggest loss in german history) a few months ago.
- we even lost to Macedonia
- and due to Covid our starting 11 never could play together (Kroos for instance)
However, we are a classic tournament team (hopefully we didn't lose this magic in 2018 though) and our squad is still stacked with class players.
I just thought about it, France has probably one of the greatest squads ever seen in modern history. But if i compare their first eleven to ours, the difference is not that huge. Only the front 3 is a big advantage on their side, in midfield i think we are slightly better (Kroos, Gündogan, Goretzka, Kimmich, Havertz, ...) and in defense it might be even or a slight advantage on their side. However our GK is much better than theirs. So it's basically a 2:2 for that matter. We just need to keep their front 3 in check, then we can succeed.
If Löw tries his best not to feck up our team, i think we have a chance to beat any team in the world. Especially at home (which I still believe is stupid
If the Czech’s get past Croatia & we get past Scotland I could see Southgate throwing the last game letting the Czech’s top the group.
He definitely did that against Belgium in Russia.
It’s not like people don’t know coke is bad for you though. Ronaldo’s influence on social media is mind boggling - I don’t have social media but I googled #cocacola and it’s literally everywhere already.
Absolute monster of a match. Can’t wait
France learned the lesson :be practical = win tournaments.
As a Frenchman, sure. But you could see why neutrals would rather they not go all the way again after 2016 and 2018. Their antics against Belgium still make my blood boil if I think back about that game.
This is true, sadly. The last team to win a World Cup or Euros actually playing entertaining football was probably Brazil in 2002.
Spain and Germany were great too during their wins in '08-'14. Maybe not entertaining for everyone but still VERY different to France 2018.
Hehe yeah, you don't have to tell me practicallity beats flair. Im Dutch after all
Germany were decent yeah. I hated watching the “1-0 to Spain” era of international football from 08-12. I don’t think they were quite as boring in 2012 but their World Cup win in 2010 was a chore to watch.
The Czech’s might think the same though.
Then they shouldn't support Portugal either, which win was worse.
Subtracting one from eighteen or twenty-one isn't particularly challenging past the age of seven.
Actually though
Germany 2014 was a very practical team, their tiki-taka was only in group stage, nowhere near to be seen against Algeria, France and Argentina.
Argentina were shaky in the group stage, needed an ET winner against Switzerland, weren't impressive against Belgium in the QFs and needed penalty's in the semis. I don't remember them playing better than Germany in the final either just because they fecked up some big chances, if anything that shows that they were poor to me. I don't disagree that being practical gets you further in tournaments or anything, but it's definitely not mutually exclusive with trying to play good football. France didn't do that in 2018.
Are you Dutch ? In this case how can you want the germans to win ?
@KirkDuyt's nan who died in 2012 is turning in her grave.
Brexit means Brexit.
It's always said that you write the Germans off at your peril. They are a tournament team.
Right... got my t-shirt on and everything. I have a wager with my 70 year old Hungarian coworker.This is the day I've been waiting for in the tourney. Tasty France V Germany and to see Bruno and Ronny in action
Germany wasn't impressive either against Algeria and France.
