World Cup 2018 thread

[Goofle]

Brazil look easily the best team. Just need to figure out how to set up against the various opposition. Nobody has a better squad.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Goofle

Brazil look easily the best team. Just need to figure out how to set up against the various opposition. Nobody has a better squad.

Easily? To my unsophisticated eye Brazil looked a lot like Argentina until the lost time. It was nil nil at 90 minutes and like Argentina they were applying constant pressure just not finishing. Costa Rica’s goalie is a bad ass, btw.

Now that I’m a soccer lad I got opinions yo!

[OccultHawk]

I mean, eight minutes extra time when it was supposed to be six?

Brazil’s celebration after the first lost time goal.

[Goofle]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Easily? To my unsophisticated eye Brazil looked a lot like Argentina until the lost time. It was nil nil at 90 minutes and like Argentina they were applying constant pressure just not finishing. Costa Rica’s goalie is a bad ass, btw.

Now that I’m a soccer lad I got opinions yo!

No other squad has the same versatility in midfield and attack. They can choose from any formation and make it work with top class/world class players in basically every position. If they need to go counter-attack they have the midfielders to do so, or if they want to play high press, possession, all-out attack etc. they can make it work.

France have a great squad but their coach seems completely unwilling to make any kind of sensible decisions. And the players overall are slightly overrated imo.

[Oriphiel]

Hey Goof, any thoughts about Nigeria?