Men's Olympic Football Tournament ** spoilers **
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Soldato
Japan 1-0 Spain atm, almost 40 mins in. Japan are such a hard working team.
edit: WHAT A MISS! Should be Japan 2-0
edit: WHAT A MISS! Should be Japan 2-0
Caporegime
Is it me or has BBC live text now gone?
Another chance missed by Japan.
Yet another opportunity gone.
So close again. I hope they don't nick a goal.
Lol some of us could have scored that one. 
FT: Spain 0-1 Japan and a well-deserved win!
Soldato
Brazil are going to walk this if thats all Spain can do. Uraguay look pretty strong in attack, they could be up there.
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Japan were almost brilliant, workrate and closing down was second to none and a lot of their passing was very very good but they should have won that game about by 4-5 goals. If their finishing doesn't improve it won't matter if they can put in the same performance over and over again, they'll just not score enough.
Great to watch and great that they won, if Spain had stolen it at the end I'd have been majorly pee'd off. Spain though, what a joke, its not that I've never seen a team caught in defence so much though I don't think I haven't. Its that after 30 minutes of being caught in defence constantly, the midfield kept passing to the defence and De gea kept playing it out to them with short passes. Here's a hint, the cb's were epically awful, the replacement cb after the red cards were awful, stop giving it to awful players.
They also got clearly frustrated and to me appeared to kick out on several occassions and I can't quite decide if that was a deliberate stamp on the guy right at the end, I think it was.
However, just as much as people were claiming Spain to be favourites without the vast majority of people ever really watching the under 21's, Brazil have a side that on paper looks good, doesn't mean they'll play brilliantly with each other or make a good team. Japan most importantly, more than quality, looked a team, team GB has the problem that this squad hasn't played together almost at all, they aren't a team, its just a bunch of players. A good "team" with less good players could easily win against a squad of great players that aren't a team.
Spain's older side wins because its both great players AND a great practiced, established team.
Great to watch and great that they won, if Spain had stolen it at the end I'd have been majorly pee'd off. Spain though, what a joke, its not that I've never seen a team caught in defence so much though I don't think I haven't. Its that after 30 minutes of being caught in defence constantly, the midfield kept passing to the defence and De gea kept playing it out to them with short passes. Here's a hint, the cb's were epically awful, the replacement cb after the red cards were awful, stop giving it to awful players.
They also got clearly frustrated and to me appeared to kick out on several occassions and I can't quite decide if that was a deliberate stamp on the guy right at the end, I think it was.
However, just as much as people were claiming Spain to be favourites without the vast majority of people ever really watching the under 21's, Brazil have a side that on paper looks good, doesn't mean they'll play brilliantly with each other or make a good team. Japan most importantly, more than quality, looked a team, team GB has the problem that this squad hasn't played together almost at all, they aren't a team, its just a bunch of players. A good "team" with less good players could easily win against a squad of great players that aren't a team.
Spain's older side wins because its both great players AND a great practiced, established team.
Caporegime
Anyone watching Uruguay? UAE have looked very bright so far, helped by the fact Uruguay's defence looks shaky.
Caporegime
1-0 UAE!
Caporegime
Uruguay have been pretty shocking so far, Suarez and Cavani have been terrible. Balls are coming into the box and neither of them seem to be in there 