FIFA World Cup 2014 - GROUP D [Uruguay, Costa Rica, England, Italy - 14/19/20/24 June] **spoilers**

We would need to beat Costa Rica by 2 or 3 goals (assuming Costa Rica don't get beaten by a large margin against Italy).

No chance.
 
England going out is the best thing that can happen. England players get more applause for a safe pass back to goalie or a long ball sideways than for a clever piece of passing or technical ability.

Something has to change fundamentally in the system when a country with a smaller population than London can embarrass us in terms of keeping, crossing, and passing the ball. England being eliminated will hopefully make the powers that be realise this.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
Rooney had some great chances today and has been involved in both goals. I honestly don't get wtf people can't see this.
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In the first game it was a good cross, but it was the ONLY 20 seconds he played like a left winger and he was poor defensively. Football is about a 90minute performance not about 30 seconds.

Likewise he fluffed a bunch of pretty easy chances he found himself in and then scored one when the entire defence turned off and he got an absolutely ridiculously easy tap in. Maybe not everyone could have made that cross, but anyone with half a brain and a tiny bit of discipline would have put in a better overall 90 min performance in the first game. Literally anyone could have scored that goal in this game. He was rubbish throughout.

Players can look good(to some) by scoring or doing one thing in a game, but teams win games because of players who perform over the entire 90minutes, or at least the majority of it.

Rooney was rubbish in both games judged over 90 minutes, completely rubbish.
 
robfosters said:
I'm calling it now.

Sack Roy. Get Harry in. NOW!
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Is Barry Fry still kicking about?

Shamikebab said:
Exactly. Look at the contributions of the likes of Fred and Diego Costa playing in much better teams and in their preferred role. Rooney has hardly done badly.
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Agreed. Rooney was one of our better players today. Henderson, Gerrard and Jagielka were bad and Welbeck was non existant after 20mins
 
Shamikebab said:
Did they? Compare them to Chile the other night, Uruguay faded fast and were on the backfoot for most of the game. They created very little in the final third too, just lucky they have 2 world class strikers.
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I agree with Tim Vickery on World Cups and have done for a long time really, it's important to grow in to a World Cup, really like any competition.

There should be a marked improvement each game, only seeing some teams play once makes it impossible to judge this, so it's easier to judge at the end of the group phases.

I genuinely thought England were better tonight than against Italy, not that it matters as they lost, I felt the defence were more cohesive, I thought the midfield did ~ok~ but the forwards looked a little ... one dimensional really. I don't know, I've not really had time to think about the match.

Uruguay looked better tonight than they did against Costa Rica, while it certainly was not a vintage performance from them, it didn't need to be, similar to Italy, teams don't have to be at their best to beat England, for all the possession England had, they rarely did anything with it. Suarez looked dangerous all game, reflected by his two goals and Cavani looked dangerous and sharp, 'dat pass for the opening goal :eek:. Uruguay pressed better too, comfortable on the ball, much more confident too.

Anyway; still a good game to come tonight! Come on the Samurai's :D.
 
Participant said:
Something has to change fundamentally in the system when a country with a smaller population than London can embarrass us in terms of keeping, crossing, and passing the ball. England being eliminated will hopefully make the powers that be realise this.
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We all said the same thing after we failed to qualify for Euro 2008. The only thing to change was the manager.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Yeah he was, they all were in different spells. As I said before the tournie they don't care. It gets int he way of a summer break and Hello photshoots. I have not liked or rated international football for years but England aside I have enjoyed the other games.
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Yup, enjoyed the tournament except England.

Chile in my work sweepstake and I'm impressed by them the most so far.
 
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