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2014 FIFA World Cup Brasil™ - Europe vs. America


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Two pretty poor sides, imo. Not impressed by either team.

 

Both will probably go through, but England will struggle.

 

Thought England looked much better than I remember having seen them tbh. Italy is Italy, never impressed by them, but like some say, they do enough to beat you and that's what's needed.

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Pirlo was absolutely majestic. So calm on the ball. The guy is pure class.

 

England will still go through. Enough in tonight's showing to think a win again Uruguay and Costa Rica is possible.

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Best performance in defeat we have had in ages....bit more cutting edge from strikers, bit more desire to get on the end of things and who knows.

Positives for me.

 

After the disgrace of 4 years ago this is a million miles from that. Its all about the next Euros and 2018.

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Deserved a draw, like.

Like fuck did we. We had a good 10 minutes in the 2nd half, and had 3 decent attacks in the first half, 1 of which we scored from. Italy didn't have to do much because when Italy were in possession we did fuck all. In the 2nd half no one wanted to set anyone else up, all it was from us was our players running into a crowd of their players or our players shooting from distance instead of playing someone else in.

 

Of course we deserved a draw man. Didn't you watch it?

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Game over. Shame for England. I fear that may be the end of this World Cup for yous.

:lol: what?

 

Realistically you will now have to beat both Uruguay (who also need the win to stay in the tournament) and Costa Rica (who will also be in with a chance of qualifying at that stage after today's win). Tall order.

If Uruguay had won today I'd agree, but Costa Rica beating them by 2 means 4 points will probably do it imo.
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England looked like exactly what they are...talented, quick and inexperienced at this level. I didn't expect Italy to be that good and efficient that early on. Didn't deserve to lose, but probably won't be consistent enough to get maximum points from Uruguay and Costa Rica.

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Best performance in defeat we have had in ages....bit more cutting edge from strikers, bit more desire to get on the end of things and who knows.

Positives for me.

 

After the disgrace of 4 years ago this is a million miles from that. Its all about the next Euros and 2018.

Yep. The old guard of Gerrard etc. weren't good enough in their prime but they're doing a nurturing job and like you say 2016 onwards should be even better.

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Two pretty poor sides, imo. Not impressed by either team.

 

Both will probably go through, but England will struggle.

Maybe I'm just used to utter shit football, but I honestly thought England played well today :lol:

 

So did Italy, and once they decided to shut up shop our final ball was lacking, but I thought all in all it was a good display. Better than I expected anyway.

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