Ibime:



Where did you learn your own football? Only fickle born yesterday fan like you can be swayed by a little blood on someone's face.

Mascherano that was the worst player on the pitch today, misplacing passes upandan. He misplaced like 5 passes in the first 10 minutes, then went to nod his own player to concede the corner, then he gave away the penalty. Inbetween times Musa was winding his waste like somebody dancing salsa.

It seems all one needs to do to be considered a Lion is cut their face and play rubbish.

If Argentina are truly serious about winning this WC, they will drop Mascherano pronto.

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lordAdamx


did they ban you from posting in this thread ?

RuuDie:
Been watching some clips of Franco Armani and scratching my head as to why he isn't Argentinas number 1 goalie... or at worst, 2. I mean, the dude is a starter for River Plate!

RuuDie:


Yes, he was dribbled, misplaced passes, made errors... but kept fighting for every ball, kept running, kept playing and talking to his team-mates, heckling the ref. Dude was like the coach on the field. Abegiii, dem no dey buy dis kain experience for market.
If the Super Eagles only had this qualities for the last 15 minutes of the game, may have been a totally different outcome!

RuuDie:
Been watching some clips of Franco Armani and scratching my head as to why he isn't Argentinas number 1 goalie... or at worst, 2. I mean, the dude is a starter for River Plate!

snrman:
As for me i won't say anything cud this Argentina squad is very weak... I see France beating them .but what av learned frm this worldworld cup so far is to never underestimate any team

snrman:
As for me i won't say anything cud this Argentina squad is very weak... I see France beating them .but what av learned frm this worldworld cup so far is to never underestimate any team

snrman:
As for me i won't say anything cud this Argentina squad is very weak... I see France beating them .but what av learned frm this worldworld cup so far is to never underestimate any team

Ibime:


Nonsense. Forming activity upandan. Is it Ighalo or Mikel that did not argue with ref? He is lucky Ighalo missed those chances and Rojo took a more difficult chance, that's all.

Ibime:



Where did you learn your own football? Only fickle born yesterday fan like you can be swayed by a little blood on someone's face.

Mascherano that was the worst player on the pitch today, misplacing passes upandan. He misplaced like 5 passes in the first 10 minutes, then went to nod his own player to concede the corner, then he gave away the penalty. Inbetween times Musa was winding his waste like somebody dancing salsa.

It seems all one needs to do to be considered a Lion is cut their face and play rubbish.

If Argentina are truly serious about winning this WC, they will drop Mascherano pronto.

DarkRebel69:


I concur, Mascherano is completely washed-up. I watched the game against Iceland and took note of his misplaced passes and ill-timed tackles. It's such minute and unchecked errors that often accumulates until it leads to a debacle. They - La Albiceleste - didn't address the issue after the game, probably because it didn't cause any serious damage, and that was why they got defeated 3-0 by Croatia.

One would think that all those years spent at FC Barcelona - getting steeped in the Tiki-taka culture - would mean that he'd at least be capable of executing accurate passes, but no... He's all brute & no brains.

Some would argue that he's since moved to China & hasn't been playing competitive football in a while, but then Paulinho maintained his form even after a long spell in China.

I think Mascherano would be more useful if he played as a central back like he did at FCB, rather than playing as a holding midfielder - a position that's no longer natural for him to play in. He's not creative and has got zero midfield presence. He has an abysmal presence of mind (which accounts for his poor tackles most of the time), his first-touch control of the ball usually is piss-poor; he's often indecisive & can't get the ball out of tricky situations as fluidly as a Sergio Busquets or Casemiro would do.

If I were the coach and I had no better replacement, I'd field Mascherano as CB rather than as DMF - that way there would be less damage.

But of course, when defending against pacy players like Neymar & CR7 who are very "professional" in drawing out fouls, having a Mascherano as CB could prove disastrous (his old age & poor presence of mind comes to play here).

1. A certain tattoo-merchant with a gorimapa the size of wall-clock was found out to be a fraud. Said tattoo merchant was actively campaigned for by the same entity to a whom this L is issued.

2. The goblin-nosed Turk, Valmierda, was found out to be a packed penalty box merchant and summarily dispatched by the Romans. So ironic that he wasn't even a Jew to begin with

3. Lionel Andres Cuccitini Messi dropped disaster-class...after disaster-class...after disaster-class against the Vikings and getting put to the sword by the much despised, oft maligned Croatian lesbian, Ivan Rakitic until he came in contact with some Ashebi merchants from West Africa.

4. Cristiano Ronaldo Aveiro dos Santos being adjudged as the greatest to ever do this by even his most ardent detractors.

Ladies ůnd gentlemen, here are the most news worthy L's shared to Byke in recent times.

Stay expectant as yours truly updates this list in due time.

snrman:
As for me i won't say anything cud this Argentina squad is very weak... I see France beating them .but what av learned frm this worldworld cup so far is to never underestimate any team

LosVikingos:

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lordAdamx


did they ban you from posting in this thread ?

RuuDie:


Your tuppence!

Excerpt from Rohr post match comments: "we are disappointed. My young team was missing a little experience to handle the final minutes..."

This is why the "activity" of Mascherano was important and is valued.

snrman:
The only country i feared is out. Big chance for ronaldo or messi to win this cup o
.
Ps
If argentina wins france and Portugal win uraguary guess what
Ronaldo vs messi quarter final

Edubbs:
Brazil are looking good for the cup.

Germany just cleared the way for Brazil.

DeadPresidents:
While we welcome Byke back, it's important for him to catch up on the L's delegated to LLippset for safe keeping awaiting the re-incarnation.

Here are Byke's L's in due order:

1. A certain tattoo-merchant with a gorimapa the size of wall-clock was found out to be a fraud. Said tattoo merchant was actively campaigned for by the same entity to a whom this L is issued.

2. The goblin-nosed Turk, Valmierda, was found out to be a packed penalty box merchant and summarily dispatched by the Romans. So ironic that he wasn't even a Jew to begin with

3. Lionel Andres Cuccitini Messi dropped disaster-class...after disaster-class...after disaster-class against the Vikings and getting put to the sword by the much despised, oft maligned Croatian lesbian, Ivan Rakitic until he came in contact with some Ashebi merchants from West Africa.

4. Cristiano Ronaldo Aveiro dos Santos being adjudged as the greatest to ever do this by even his most ardent detractors.


Ladies ůnd gentlemen, here are the most news worthy L's shared to Byke in recent times.

Stay expectant as yours truly updates this list in due time.

snrman:
The only country i feared is out. Big chance for ronaldo or messi to win this cup o
.
Ps
If argentina wins france and Portugal win uraguary guess what
Ronaldo vs messi quarter final