Rio de Janiero - 2014 Fifa World Cup Thread

[Nachos Jones]

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Pretty much the same as you Nachos but I'll come out of the cellar and pick Belgium over USA.

Belgium have not impressed me at all, lack cohesion. I think that under Klinsmann, the USA are tactically superior and will pick Belgium on a counter attack.

[Duty281]

Neymar's pen the best of the lot. Superb.

Chile out...gutted.

[mystiroakey]

Brazil well done but far from convincing

[Dolphin Ziggler]

I love Chile and it's annoying Greece or Costa Rica will go further, but this World Cup is richer for Brazilians and their passion

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Watching Brazil in this World Cup is just engrossing

Big Phil is huge for their team spirit too

[kingraf]

No chance Doody, Luiz had the best pen. Keeper guesses right on the Neymar pen, I'd back him to save it... nothing you can do when Luiz hits that from 12 yards

[mystiroakey]

once england went out i think many englishman like myself started rooting for chile..

We jinxed the poor lads.

Sorry chile!

[Duty281]

If I start supporting Colombia now I'll inevitably jinx them. In that case....

Come on Uruguay!

[mystiroakey]

so  the BBc commentary team have totally changed there tune after masterbating over Brazil after the first half . now they admit it was low quality..

[mystiroakey]

Good Idea Duty.

Come on Uruguay!!

[Hammersmith harrier]

One of my bug bears is when refs don't clamp down on keepers jumping straight off there line before the penalty has been taken, cuts off so much of the goal.

[Nachos Jones]

People saying that Neymar's penalty was quality, I disagree. I think once you start your run up, you must take the kick. Keepers have enough problems in penalty shootouts without the staggered run up.

I don't like it and never will.

[kingraf]

Think Cavani fires tonight. Hes apparently pretty decent, but never in a match I've seen.

[Duty281]

Colombia v Uruguay
Football v Anti-football
Honour v Scum

Come on Colombia!

[mystiroakey]

I just recently watched a 30 30 documentary on the two Escobars and it is very telling in regards to how Columbia became a good team in 1994 and it certainly wasnt honourable in there rise and fall...

I am not sure what is going on today and i hope there football isn't still built from the foundations of the marching powder.

but anyway. I will give them the benefit of the doubt. I personally have no problem with Uruguay , but they are just not a very good team without suraez.

So come on Columbia.

[kingraf]

Didn't realise Jose Pekerman is the Colombian coach. Boy did he ever stuff up tactically in the 2006 WC with Brazil.

[kingraf]

Argentina, not Brazil - he stuffed up tactically with Argentina

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Cuardrado really is a lovely player

[Duty281]

Already simmering like a curry.

The referee should whip out an early card or two to establish his authority.

[Duty281]

Should be two cards for Uruguay already.

I don't care if its the sixth minute, or the sixty-sixth minute, a card is a card.

[kingraf]

Cavani all industry so far - covering some decent real estate

[Champagne_Socialist]

Argentina, not Brazil - he stuffed up tactically with Argentina

Sorry we have to accept your first answer I'm afraid which was incorrect.

[kingraf]

[lorus59]

What was wrong with that corner? Why didn't the linesman allow it?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Imagine if Columbia had Falcao, they'd be proper genuine contenders

[Lowlandbrit]

GOOOOOL

[kingraf]

Goal of the tournament

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

HAMES!!!!!!!!!!

[Fernando]

1-0 Colombia - James Rodriguez

[Nakatomi Plaza]

Take a back seat Tim Cahill, Rodriquez has done you!

[Duty281]

Oh you beauty, James Rodriguez!

Fabulous, wonderful, stunning, Colombia in the lead!

[Crimey]

Didn't think there would be a better goal than Tim Cahill's, it has just been bettered. Should go down as one of the best goals at a World Cup of all time.

[Duty281]

Four goals, two assists, Mr. Rodriguez is having an OK tournament, isn't he?

[mystiroakey]

come on replay the goal ITV! i missed it

[Fernando]

[kingraf]

That is the goal of the tournament, but I personally prefer RvP's attempt vs the Spanish. That was poetry.

[mystiroakey]

Cheers nando, class

[Dolphin Ziggler]

How many of you just came? FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Duty281]

Just technically perfect.

It deserves to be the goal that wins this game...it is a goal that would befit a winning strike in any game, in truth.

[mystiroakey]

That is the goal of the tournament, but I personally prefer RvP's attempt vs the Spanish. That was poetry.

that would have been goal of the tourny if it went in. it reminded me of shearer's goal in 96

[kingraf]

Stone penalty for me.

[Fernando]

That is the goal of the tournament, but I personally prefer RvP's attempt vs the Spanish. That was poetry.

It ain't got Poopie on Arsene taught him everything he knows      

[kingraf]

That said, ThomasMueller's goal against the US was unbelievably laser-like.

[The Special Juan]

Ah, we finally have a World Cup raker!! Not as good as Frings or van Bronckhorst but still lovely. And I missed it because I was ordered to run an errand for my neighbour.

[kingraf]

Fernando - is that really Wenger?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Hopefully it finishes 1-0 cos that deserves to be the match winner

Orgasmic

[Duty281]

Colombia are comfortable, composed and in control. Possession and inventiveness come naturally to them.

Uruguay are lacking ambition, and probably fear Colombian crucifixion on the counter.

One more time, though: what a goal by Rodriguez.

[Fernando]

Fernando - is that really Wenger?

Yes it's him Bixente Lizarazu & Christian Karembeu and a random Arsenal Scout apparently   

[sportform]

Goal of the tournament

Robin Van Persie's goal was technically far superior. The run, the vision, the header. Plenty of strikers in Rodriguez's situation would have done the same. I had have scored goals like that playing park football.

I doubt very many, if any, strikers would have attempted what Van Persie don. Even Thierry Henry and Alan Shearer said they would have took the ball down.

[The Special Juan]

Is Rodriguez always this good or is he having the tournament of his life?

[kingraf]

Robin's goal is technically far superior, and I nearly fell over in real time, so unexpected was it... But Rodriguez's goal was a aesthetically better.

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