FIFA World Cup Football 2014 Official Thread

Who will win the WC?


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Argentina didn't play well. Belgium were the more defensively sound team today, they only lost today because of their forwards. Hazard was one of the worst players of the tournament by far. Mirallas should've been kept on, and Hazard subbed for Mertens. If Argentina fans are celebrating this win they have another thing coming. Messi was practically invisible during the 2nd half, and was humiliated by Courtois' save.

Before the tournament I stated it would be a Dutch-German final, but started to lean more towards Belgium, because they were more defensively compact then the Dutch. Who at times can become overly suicidal with their attacking. The Dutch will be much tougher for FC Messi though, and if they survive that, the Germans ruthless. If you think Messi is going to get 10 yards of space against those teams you have another thing coming. Today's goal was quite lucky, and it seemed Belgium just didn't believe in themselves after it happened. More experienced teams won't be fazed like that (Germany/Holland have shown the will to fight until the very end).
 

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and now only Holland needs to win and the football world order shall be restored
 

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Argentina win 1-0, it was boring, unimpressive but they did what they had to do. They defended well today, Zabaleta, Demichelis, Basanta and Garay were good today as defenders, especially in first half wherein they completely shackled Belgium. Argentina's attack was present in first half but in second it was non existent, Sabella got his strategies right. Higuain was their best player in attack.


As for Belgium they were totally poor and seemed mediocre in their attack in first half, in second half it was a story of too little too late.
They were uninspired and didn't believe in themselves, which I could not comprehend as they were only a goal down and had 80 minutes to get it, they were full of disdain, in first half they didn't even test Romero, whole of their attack looked pathetic today.

In the end it was a mediocre match and Argentina who didn't impressed at all this World Cup but found ways to win.
They are in their first semi final since 1990.

TBH both team played bad, neither of them deserve to win the game.

^This
 

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VIVA LA ARGENTINA!!!!

Cya next World Cup Belgium xD
 

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Here comes the excuses again the plain and simple truth is that argentina were the better man out of the two teams they were more tactical and compact and deserve to go through. Messi dream of lifting the world cup continues.
 

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Lol I give up. Im not responding after this. Portugal could only compete with Brazil and Argentina twice. Read what I said properly. The fact that Uruguay won the world cup the first two times had no effect on their performance against Italy. By that logic Uruguay should never ever have lost to Colombia. Anyway back then the whole world cup was organised in a different way. Hungary were a force in the 1950s. That clearly doesnt mean a lot now does it ?

You're an idiot. The proof is in the pudding. In the Brazil vs Colombia game, in the 1st half Colombia feared Brazil and it was like they were playing the Brazil top with 5 stars not the actual team. That happend because of the Brazil's history in the past. The fact of the matter is that Urugauy are known to play crap and still win games and that is what they did against Italy. Read what i'm saying properly.
 

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see ya in final argentina (brazil fan)
 

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Nobody said anything about that, The Media overlooked the incident LOL, such double standards right ?

Apparently some people fanboy him because of his attitude here... his attitude is by far, one of the worst in Barcelona. I can hardly even name a player who has even worse attitude than him. Fair player, my ass.

What do you mean by double standards?
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I find it cool that in all 3 quarter final rounds, they scored under 10 mins. xD
 

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Apparently some people fanboy him because of his attitude here... his attitude is by far, one of the worst in Barcelona. I can hardly even name a player who has even worse attitude than him. Fair player, my ass.

What do you mean by double standards?
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He means everyone says Ronaldo is arrogant only cares about himself and is judged differently to Messi. If it was Ronaldo smashing the ball into Barca fans we wouldnt hear the end of it. If it was Ronaldo who had a go at villa it means hes greedy and selfish but cos its Messi it doesnt matter. Thats the only reason I like Ronaldo more than Messi. Everyone acts like Messi is a saint.
 

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He means everyone says Ronaldo is arrogant only cares about himself and is judged differently to Messi. If it was Ronaldo smashing the ball into Barca fans we wouldnt hear the end of it. If it was Ronaldo who had a go at villa it means hes greedy and selfish but cos its Messi it doesnt matter. Thats the only reason I like Ronaldo more than Messi. Everyone acts like Messi is a saint.

Yeah, except Neymar's gonna shit on both of them. u.u
 

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He means everyone says Ronaldo is arrogant only cares about himself and is judged differently to Messi. If it was Ronaldo smashing the ball into Barca fans we wouldnt hear the end of it. If it was Ronaldo who had a go at villa it means hes greedy and selfish but cos its Messi it doesnt matter. Thats the only reason I like Ronaldo more than Messi. Everyone acts like Messi is a saint.

Messi isn't a saint but the same applies for ronaldo, off the field he might be completely different but on the field he looks very arrogant. Remember when ramps scored the equaliser in UCL final? Where was ronaldo? And why does he feel the need to remove his shirt and display his assets when he scored a meaningless goal from the penalty spot? A goal which didn't make any concrete impact in the game because the match was already decided.
 

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Dat Navas tho .
 

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Messi isn't a saint but the same applies for ronaldo, off the field he might be completely different but on the field he looks very arrogant. Remember when ramps scored the equaliser in UCL final? Where was ronaldo? And why does he feel the need to remove his shirt and display his assets when he scored a meaningless goal from the penalty spot? A goal which didn't make any concrete impact in the game because the match was already decided.

Are you really comparing that to the the kick? Ronaldo isn't nowhere near as arrogant as Messi is - like my post was 'simplified', everybody say Messi is a saint and Ronald is the douchebag. That's erroneous and false spout from a child who's followed a day football and next day claims to be a professor. Removing a shirt in matches, so fucking what? Ronaldo isn't the type of guy who disrespects the oppositions fans by kicking a damn ball to their face. What if he injured somebody? One guy broke his arm when his teammate shot a ball at him. Imagine if the ball hit a child's face - snap, and the kid is dead. I've never seen such behavior
, especially when we're talking about a man who won significant amount of trophies. 'So-called best player'. Glad Ronaldo won the Ballon D'or as well as the boot. Messi sure as hell did not deserve that.
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Messi isn't a saint but the same applies for ronaldo, off the field he might be completely different but on the field he looks very arrogant. Remember when ramps scored the equaliser in UCL final? Where was ronaldo? And why does he feel the need to remove his shirt and display his assets when he scored a meaningless goal from the penalty spot? A goal which didn't make any concrete impact in the game because the match was already decided.

Ronaldo was taking the ball back to the center so they can continue quickly, and he did cheer and congratulate Ramos after that,
whats wrong with him taking off his shirt ? there's nothing wrong with that ?

this is the prime example that people criticize Ronaldo for doing something that doesn't really matter,
I mean did you remember when messi insult Barca VP ? for saying that barca won't renew his contract this season cause the just do that a few month ago, Messi respond angrily and said Faus don't know anything about football, and the next we know they re new his contract again LOL,

Hence earn him the nick name The Little Dictator
but of course everyone is behind Messi on that matter, if it was Ronaldo people will called him greedy etc
 

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Are you really comparing that to the the kick? Ronaldo isn't nowhere near as arrogant as Messi is - like my post was 'simplified', everybody say Messi is a saint and Ronald is the douchebag. That's erroneous and false spout from a child who's followed a day football and next day claims to be a professor. Removing a shirt in matches, so fucking what? Ronaldo isn't the type of guy who disrespects the oppositions fans by kicking a damn ball to their face. What if he injured somebody? One guy broke his arm when his teammate shot a ball at him. Imagine if the ball hit a child's face - snap, and the kid is dead. I've never seen such behavior
, especially when we're talking about a man who won significant amount of trophies. 'So-called best player'. Glad Ronaldo won the Ballon D'or as well as the boot. Messi sure as hell did not deserve that.
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