| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC 00:30 - Jun 22 with 817 views | Ryorry |
Fun and joy.
Go Cape Verde, that’ll teach Uraguay to be complacent  |  |
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 00:39 - Jun 22 with 783 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Dead right.
As a result, I’m enjoying this game far more than I should be at this time of night. |  |
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 01:39 - Jun 22 with 724 views | Bluespeed225 |
Too right. never forgiven them for Suarez' handball in 2010! |  | | |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 08:22 - Jun 22 with 549 views | Churchman |
I don’t. Have outclassed dross like Saudi Arabia yesterday means pointless games.
But then I’m loving the supporters. Cape Verde’s (not the best place I’ve ever visited) went nuts, so brilliant.
So to utterly contradict myself, yeah, include the ‘smaller nations’. Why not. |  | | |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 08:31 - Jun 22 with 520 views | StokieBlue |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 08:22 - Jun 22 by Churchman |
I don’t. Have outclassed dross like Saudi Arabia yesterday means pointless games.
But then I’m loving the supporters. Cape Verde’s (not the best place I’ve ever visited) went nuts, so brilliant.
So to utterly contradict myself, yeah, include the ‘smaller nations’. Why not. |
Cape Verde were actually very entertaining, they played some lovely stuff.
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 08:51 - Jun 22 with 499 views | muccletonjoe |
Made them my underdog to follow as I went there on holiday once. Very nice place btw. I think they will qualify . |  | | |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 08:55 - Jun 22 with 490 views | Perublue |
It’s been a great World Cup no matter how much people don’t want it to be.
The Saudis traditionally are one of the strongest Asian teams but this iteration is poor and struggled to even get there….Qatar the same .. World Cup hosted very rapidly back to obscurity with their Brazilian players. [Post edited 22 Jun 8:57]
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:12 - Jun 22 with 451 views | Ryorry |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 08:22 - Jun 22 by Churchman |
I don’t. Have outclassed dross like Saudi Arabia yesterday means pointless games.
But then I’m loving the supporters. Cape Verde’s (not the best place I’ve ever visited) went nuts, so brilliant.
So to utterly contradict myself, yeah, include the ‘smaller nations’. Why not. |
It's like the international version of our January FA Cup 3rd round  | |
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:17 - Jun 22 with 440 views | yorkshireblue |
Cape Verde would have qualified for the World Cup under the old format as well. They topped their qualiying group, which included Cameroon |  | | |
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:24 - Jun 22 with 426 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
I expected it to be a disaster with lots of teams completely out of their depth but I was wrong.
I don't think it is complacency at all. I think it is the fact that a lot of these lesser teams are very well coached with some decent players in them. It is happening far too often for it to be the bigger teams being complacent. |  |
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:32 - Jun 22 with 405 views | Ryorry |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:24 - Jun 22 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I expected it to be a disaster with lots of teams completely out of their depth but I was wrong.
I don't think it is complacency at all. I think it is the fact that a lot of these lesser teams are very well coached with some decent players in them. It is happening far too often for it to be the bigger teams being complacent. |
The complacency was a reference to Uruguay's casual, lazy passing across their own box after they'd gone 2-1 up - they'd obviously thought they had the game won already.
Yes CV were certainly well-coached & have quality players, that's clear.
Good man changing your mind & sticking yer hand up though. | |
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:41 - Jun 22 with 384 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:32 - Jun 22 by Ryorry |
The complacency was a reference to Uruguay's casual, lazy passing across their own box after they'd gone 2-1 up - they'd obviously thought they had the game won already.
Yes CV were certainly well-coached & have quality players, that's clear.
Good man changing your mind & sticking yer hand up though. |
Thanks. I didn't watch the match so didn't see that. Thanks for explaining the reasoning behind your comment.
Having said that, keeping possession when ahead is a good tactic against a team you know are good. Of course, if it is lazy passing and they conceded the possession too easily that is poor, though. | |
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:54 - Jun 22 with 367 views | Ryorry |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:41 - Jun 22 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Thanks. I didn't watch the match so didn't see that. Thanks for explaining the reasoning behind your comment.
Having said that, keeping possession when ahead is a good tactic against a team you know are good. Of course, if it is lazy passing and they conceded the possession too easily that is poor, though. |
It was that lazy passing which led to CV's equaliser - quick thinking & reacting Varela nipped in & stole it, lovely composure in scoring (tho looking just now at the replay, it was well outside the box, but anyway ..)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fo | |
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| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 10:20 - Jun 22 with 337 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| I love the ’smaller nations’ inclusion in this WC on 09:54 - Jun 22 by Ryorry |
It was that lazy passing which led to CV's equaliser - quick thinking & reacting Varela nipped in & stole it, lovely composure in scoring (tho looking just now at the replay, it was well outside the box, but anyway ..)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fo |
Thanks for sharing. That's a crazy pass from the wide defender and I am not sure what the keeper was doing being that far out anyway! It looks like some low quality football from Uruguay rather than simply lazy passing but I guess I would have to watch the whole play from when they took the lead to see it in all its context.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it is that good from the attacker. The ball was played blind into no-man's land allowing him to get to it before anyone else. The keeper was already outside his box so had to close him down well outside it which left the attacker with an open goal from 30 yards. I think that even I would probably be able to score that (though might still miss!) | |
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