How often do England's fans write off the team prematurely? This is a really good team with some dangerous goal scorers. They have to be favorites over Colombia.
FIFA World Cup 2018
England didn't play Brazil in 1966. I'm not at all convinced they're the best team this year. I expect the Russia/Spain winner to play either England, Colombia, or Sweden in the Semis.
I expect Brazil to beat Mexico, but Brazil-Belgium should be epic. I'm rooting for France in the top half, but Uruguay and Argentina both could be dangerous.
Am I overlooking Croatia? Maybe. I just don't believe in them yet.
England didn't play Brazil in 1966. I'm not at all convinced they're the best team this year. I expect the Russia/Spain winner to play either England, Colombia, or Sweden in the Semis.
I expect Brazil to beat Mexico, but Brazil-Belgium should be epic. I'm rooting for France in the top half, but Uruguay and Argentina both could be dangerous.
Am I overlooking Croatia? Maybe. I just don't believe in them yet.
Croatia beat Argentina 3-0
Poor Messi. He didn't score 1 goal ![]()
He is not.
Ramos is a great defender, and a sneaky-dirty player. There are YouTube videos chronicling his direct red cards, not including those fouls the refs didn't see.
The guy is only 50% in major tournaments in penalty kicks,
Out of what, 4 penalties? And that's not including shootouts where he's always scored as far as I know.
always shoots
That used to be a weakness (everyone has them). In the last 2 years though he's become much more of a team player. Prefering usually to lay the ball off and get in the box rather than shoot from distance. In front of goal he's not selfish at all nowadays also.
and rarely scores from free kicks,
Not his strong suit. Still he does step up in important moments. What comes to mind is against Wolfsberg 15-16, the club world cup final this year and of course against Spain. And has the Champions league record for free kicks. Not bad.
and still is considered the greatest. No. He's a show-off,
Being a show off doesn't really change his effectiveness though.
and a great goal scorer.
His career as a whole should be remembered as much more than that of a goalscorer. People have a short memory. This was generally about his level of all round performance against the big teams from 10-11 to 14-15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1lrHAbECck
But he's not a great team mate.
Again you haven't kept up. Nowadays he's an amazing leader and motivator for Portugal. And he even let Benzema take a penalty Whilst on a hat trick earlier in the season.
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Does anyone else get the feeling both Belgium & England aren't playing to win.