Round of 16: Belgium vs Japan

[ilikecheese]

I am delighted for Bobby.....for Rom....most of all for big Felli.

I hope they stuff Neymar and his Kopite mates.

Allen Belgique....

Gonna be weird watching sound blues cheering for Coutinho and Firmino to score just so they can poke fun at Martinez.

 

[Tubey]

Strange post considering you were still expecting Belgium to win.

Because I have a sense of humour and found it funny?

Laughing at the desperation to have a pop at me - so desperate in fact that you all deliberately choose to ignore certain posts over others and disregard context.

Did you really think I was 'having a go' at davek there? Seriously???

 

[deipnosophist]

Respect to Japan for properly going for it right to the end.

A nominally twice-as-talented small European side would have been playing for penalties from the 15th minute.

World Cup > Euro any day.

+100

 

[BlueStevie35]

I just think it's weird for people to lump all of the blame on him when they were losing, and then when they turned it around try to give him no credit. Two of the subs scored. Subs made by the manager not by the players.

Weird obsession people have with trying to discredit the man. Losing on Friday would be no mark of shame btw.

Subs he shouldn't have needed to make, they had enough fire power to be comfortably ahead, it was a thow of the dice gamble that eventually paid off

 

[ToffeeTim]

Gonna be weird watching sound blues cheering for Coutinho and Firmino to score just so they can poke fun at Martinez.

I will not be pandering to any blues cheering on Coutinho or Firmino or Neymar either for that matter.

 

[Moomin]

Gonna be weird watching sound blues cheering for Coutinho and Firmino to score just so they can poke fun at Martinez.

Bitter fans them.

 

[ilikecheese]

Subs he shouldn't have needed to make, they had enough fire power to be comfortably ahead, it was a thow of the dice gamble that eventually paid off

Personally I thought Japan were fantastic. You won't see a purer struck ball than the one for the second goal. If that was Ronaldo everyone would be creaming about what a world class strike it was.

I think Belgium were completely caught off guard with the pressing and frankly good passing football Japan played.

 

[paulbefc]

Because I have a sense of humour and found it funny?

Laughing at the desperation to have a pop at me - so desperate in fact that you all deliberately choose to ignore certain posts over others and disregard context.

Did you really think I was 'having a go' at davek there? Seriously???

Having a go at him? Not really, you just ripped him too early and it backfired spectacularly, even with the arse-covering post after it. No one's having a pop, come on, you can't throw your toys out the pram as soon as it comes back a bit.

 

[Goat]

I was defo having a pop at Dave and rightly so hes giving it back.

Game stay the game yo.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Personally I thought Japan were fantastic. You won't see a purer struck ball than the one for the second goal. If that was Ronaldo everyone would be creaming about what a world class strike it was.

I think Belgium were completely caught off guard with the pressing and frankly good passing football Japan played.

Absolutely, their naivety was their undoing in the end, ran themselves into the ground

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Gonna be weird watching sound blues cheering for Coutinho and Firmino to score just so they can poke fun at Martinez.

Coutinho jibbed them off, safe to root for him. Neymar’s probably looking at a triple hat trick though.

 

[deipnosophist]

It's probably been mentioned before, but would it be a daft idea to bring one or two of those Japanese players to Everton; God knows we need some spark, some energy and creativity and those lads have that in spades.

 

[deipnosophist]

Coutinho jibbed them off, safe to root for him. Neymar’s probably looking at a triple hat trick though.

Brazil are mercurial...and hence vulnerable to 'off' days. It won't be a match I'll be laying a bet on.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Belgium looked done and out of ideas, their saving grace was they were playing a team with the average height of an under 16's side. Take away that and what do they have left? Sure Lukaku should have scored 3 from the chances he had but if he can't bring his 'A' game against Japan he is surely going to struggle against Brazil also.

 

[peteblue]

So, is Pickford still too short then........