The Official 2018 Russia World Cup natter

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[Pericoloso]

I thought Diego Costa's first goal was the best in the game,fended off Pepe who faked injury and flounced on the floor for 5 seconds before getting.g up and pretended nothing happened,meanwhile DC has twisted and turned what looked like too many times and missed his chance,only to shoot anyway and boom,an equalizer.
Genius.

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[wjb]

Pericoloso said:

I thought Diego Costa's first goal was the best in the game,fended off Pepe who faked injury and flounced on the floor for 5 seconds before getting.g up and pretended nothing happened,meanwhile DC has twisted and turned what looked like too many times and missed his chance,only to shoot anyway and boom,an equalizer.
Genius.

It was a good goal by Costa wasn't it?

You're wrong, but it was good, definitely Diego Costas best goal of the game if that helps?

[vonuber]

Hard to believe Rooney and Ronaldo are the same age.

[Cobnapint]

andyjo1982 said:

For me, its more the antics during Euro 2004 and WC 2006.

Superhuman person though. Machine.

Yep. I can never forgive the 'wink'.

[Cobnapint]

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[coldel]

Keeper was actually at fault for the third too in my view. Gave way too much to aim at on that side, he was totally in the wrong position. All Ronaldo had to do was get it over the wall on that side of the goal and its in, he could have hit it two yards inside the post and the keeper was still too far away. Really poor goalkeeping all night from him really.

[Pericoloso]

That's also why I prefer Diego Costa's first as goal of the match,as someone else said,De Gea had 3 things to do and messed them all up.
I also prefer goals from open play.

[Cupramax]

vonuber said:

Hard to believe Rooney and Ronaldo are the same age.

That was always bound to happen due to their relative body chemistry. Rooney is clearly a fat bloke forced to be fit by his job whereas Ronaldo is a genuine athlete.

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Pericoloso said:

That's also why I prefer Diego Costa's first as goal of the match,as someone else said,De Gea had 3 things to do and messed them all up.
I also prefer goals from open play.

Likewise. Free kicks always get the headlines but I much prefer goals that come from instinctiveness in open play rather than repeating a drill with a dead ball that you've practiced for hours with opponents stood 10 yards away.

[vonuber]

Cupramax said:

That was always bound to happen due to their relative body chemistry. Rooney is clearly a fat bloke forced to be fit by his job whereas Ronaldo is a genuine athlete.

But that's where being a dedicated professional comes in. Ronaldo clearly has that mentality.

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Cobnapint said:

By rights, DDG's mistake should be recorded as an own goal, not CR's.

If the last person to touch the ball can decide a throw-in or a corner then why not a goal. Well it can - Harry Kane was awarded one for the ball allegedly brushing a molecule on his upper arm. If it's good enough for that then an o.g. it should really be.

Nah, if if the shot is on target it's 99% of the time the strikers goal.

It has to be a significant deflection (a shot off target, changed course to become on target for example) for it to be classed as an og against a defender or goalkeeper.

[Gavia]

coldel said:

Keeper was actually at fault for the third too in my view. Gave way too much to aim at on that side, he was totally in the wrong position. All Ronaldo had to do was get it over the wall on that side of the goal and its in, he could have hit it two yards inside the post and the keeper was still too far away. Really poor goalkeeping all night from him really.

Are you serious? All Ronaldo had to do was ........ of course, all DDG had to do was save the penalty too. No arguments in the second goal.

You could’ve had two keepers in goal and they’d have struggled to stop it. There’s an approach when you’re setting up a wall which is to try to block off half the goal with it and cover the rest as a keeper. If the striker hits the ball up amd over a wall that’s doing its job then younaccpet there’s little you could’ve done.

I wonder how much of this criticism of DDG is because it’s Ronaldo that scored, if it had been Messi, you’d pretty much be wking yourselves dry.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Cobnapint said:

If the last person to touch the ball can decide a throw-in or a corner then why not a goal.

Most goalies would then score 20 own goals a season. In many goals, the keeper gets a touch as he's trying and failing to save it.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Gavia said:

coldel said:

Keeper was actually at fault for the third too in my view. Gave way too much to aim at on that side, he was totally in the wrong position. All Ronaldo had to do was get it over the wall on that side of the goal and its in, he could have hit it two yards inside the post and the keeper was still too far away. Really poor goalkeeping all night from him really.

Are you serious? All Ronaldo had to do was ........ of course, all DDG had to do was save the penalty too. No arguments in the second goal.

You could’ve had two keepers in goal and they’d have struggled to stop it. There’s an approach when you’re setting up a wall which is to try to block off half the goal with it and cover the rest as a keeper. If the striker hits the ball up amd over a wall that’s doing its job then younaccpet there’s little you could’ve done.

I wonder how much of this criticism of DDG is because it’s Ronaldo that scored, if it had been Messi, you’d pretty much be wking yourselves dry.

I disagree. It was a good free kick, but not a great one. It doesn't go in the top corner, but a fair distance in from the goalies left hand post. DDG's starting position was far too far to his right, and I said this before the kick was taken. All CR had to do was to get it over the wall and down again, (not an easy skill in itself), and get it to the right side of the goal from CR's point of view, and it was in.

CR has hit loads of free kicks better than that one and had them saved.

[Pericoloso]

Some serious Aussie beard going on there.

[Cupramax]

vonuber said:

Cupramax said:

That was always bound to happen due to their relative body chemistry. Rooney is clearly a fat bloke forced to be fit by his job whereas Ronaldo is a genuine athlete.

But that's where being a dedicated professional comes in. Ronaldo clearly has that mentality.

If the body gives out there’s no amount of being dedicated going to make any difference because you’ll just keep getting injured, its the fact that Ronaldo’s naturally athletic build means he’s able to keep going a lot further into his 30’s...

[selym]

World Cup day three and the jizz fest is well under way.

[Pericoloso]

I tried to divert with the beard comment.

There's a game on chaps.

It's not all about wotsisface.