Round of 8 (AKA The Quarter-Finals)

[LABlue2]

Tbh that should have been a yellow on Can

 

[Tommy Chong]

This is a quality game. Both going for it.

Needs a goal before HT to spice things up a bit though.

 

[Billy Dean]

Probably should’ve done better there

 

[carolinablue232]

Kai Havertz seems to scuff so many shots. Having a decent game otherwise.

 

[Tommy Chong]

Emre Can is only 30 years old. He seems to have been pissing me off for much longer than that

Remember when he signed for the RS and he was lauded as the second coming of Christ, aka 'Der best midfielder in history to ever exist'?

 

[Papa Shango]

Remember when he signed for the RS and he was lauded as the second coming of Christ, aka 'Der best midfielder in history to ever exist'?

Well they had to replace the previous best midfielder in the world, Aquilani.

 

[Runub]

Surely Spain must have someone better than Morata

 

[Tommy Chong]

Well they had to replace the previous best midfielder in the world, Aquilani.

And then after him, along came Thiago with his miracle 'idea balls' to blow us all away.

 

[Papa Shango]

Can anyone cross a ball these days?

 

[Papa Shango]

Surely Spain must have someone better than Morata

 

[Martin Alvito]

Can anyone cross a ball these days?

James and Messi still deliver peaches.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Surely Spain must have someone better than Morata

That's how they ended up playing Diego Costa, isn't it? So, no.

 

[Chegsy]

Surely Spain must have someone better than Morata

Unfortunately for them it doesn't look like. Joselu is their next best offering. They even have Ayoze Perez in the squad.

If they had a prime Villa or Torres they would probably walk the tournament.

 

[Drico]

FIFA and UEFA shrugged at Xhaka and Shaqiri making an Albanian nationalist gesture at the Serbian bench six years ago. I don't think we can call the adjudication fair or consistent, here. The message is, "We don't like the Serbs, we don't like the Turks and we definitely don't like Turkish right-wing politics." That may be true, but it's not a good message to send.

Hypocrisy like this just provides oxygen to the ultra-right nonsense. They'll see racism and religion, where reality is dollar signs more often than not.

UEFA are being consistent. They had nothing to do with the FIFA decision at the World Cup.

I'm glad they've taken this action. These fascists need to be made feel their world is small. Now, UEFA MUST take similar action the next time someone else behaves in this manner. If they don't, then we can consider them hypocrites.

 

[Tommy Chong]

James and Messi still deliver peaches.

Apparently he played a blinder for Columbia the other night, didn't see it though.

Can anyone cross a ball these days?

The Turks where putting in some pearlers the other night against Austria, but I think that was just more of a case of rising to the occasion.