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* Someone being interviewed on DSTV said Messi is the best ever. Wnder what would have happened today.

*** Who is watching DSTV? That magician prediction box has been opened. He predicted German one nil and Gotze to score. Witches....

ChristineC: Hmmm Mexico '86...
Let me remember where I was then

I guess you were still negotiating your way into mother earth. Negotiating with Angels if you would come to Nigeria or Togo or Aghanistan. Lucky you got Naija at last.

coogar: if they had aguero & di maria fit, they wouldn't have won. i only saw his x-factor in the group games against iran & nigeria. maradona had a weaker supporting cast but every decision maradona made was the right one. go & watch 86 & 90 world cup games again.

Is there a debate as to who is greater? I mean here.

But Maradona has not helped matters. Someone told me Maradona has accepted Messi is better than him.

Nairalandinfo: Yes he is not Maradona but maradona in his time had good supporting cast unlike messi who had to do do everything alone...Aguero all season had been injured but the funny Sabella took him to the tourney. Higuan just didn't turn up for them...i just feel they missed Di maria who possibly would have complimented Messi. As for Palacio, may he have a good nite sleep.

The sub of Lavezzi at half time was a grave error.

Yes, it's my best world cup since Mexico '86.

chic2pimp: Messi over Hames in this world cup?

Messi. No sentiment.

Messi was MOTM for first 4 matches, if I am not mistaking. Only Robben had a similar feat.

SailorXY: I don't know if Messi deserves the golden ball tho he just did ok in my opinion

1. Robben
2. Messi

3 and 4. Neymar and Rondriquez. Not too sure of the order.

I am now a fan of Messi. I commiserate with him and the entire Argentine team. Gallantly they fought. A winner has to emerge.

I watch the match with someone who was waiting to immediately crown Messi best ever. He and some of his friends argued Messi was the best ever before the world cup. On the ground (physical), on facebook, nairaland, sports journalists, we are spared the agony of pronouncing Messi the king of soccer. At least not yet.

However, I wished it wasn't Germany. Why not Chile or Uruguay? Or even Belgium? Lol

On the match, it could easily have gone either way. I thought Argentina have the best chances and Higuan squader most of them. The coach shouldn't have substituted so quickly, they were okay the way they started. The substitutes didn't live up.

Concluding again with Messi. Whichever way we want to look at it, Messi has proven a point.

Good night all.

Person go attend Church tomorrow.

Dadehmola: Thiago silva was culpable for the 1st goal, and shoulda been sent off as early as the 5th minute or so, yet you are here talking about stability and a respectable score line. Isn't it ironic?



In short, this was why they conceded 3 goals today abi? Some of the things you type here ehn..



By conceding a penalty and being lucky not to be sent off, isn't it? You even see the reduction in goals conceded (7 to 3 )as an achievement, isn't it?



It supports nothing other than the fact that this Brazilian side is an embarrassment to the footballing legends produced by that country-both dead and alive!

You are not talking. Thiago was not sent off, and that's it.

Ramos was pardoned by the referee in 2012 when he was the last man and hacked Evra down. He went to play the 2nd leg- all 180 minutes. Forget all these megedefede you are writing.
Holland, France all benefited from referee's favours or errors. Diego Maradona used hand to score a goal and eliminated England. We can go on and on.

The Brazilian squad lacked any direction upfront without Neymar and that made Germany and Netherlands to play more adventurously. Brazil could have converted some chances today, but no leader up front. Lame lame lame

But emh. I too like Robben. I felt he should have won the Eurpean best player instead of Ribery. I have always like d his drivings, I think people are giving him his (over)due respect too late.

Ramres ddnt represent well in this word cup. He fall my hand. May be because he's not a regular, he decided to play cautiously and with reservation. I didnt see those cherished 40 yards run.

David Luiz is a restless kid.

Now that Cortana has failed.

Does it mean Argentina has a chance? I don't even know the team to support. Messi will likely play the game of his life. Is Di Maria fit now? Mascherano ever ready.

Germany going for its 4th word cup. What do I even have against Germany outside this forum?


Why isn't it Belgium playing the final against Brazil or Uruguay?







Tomorrow is Sunday. Log out.

Dadehmola: Typical of your flimsy excuses , you forgot to add that Thiago was lucky to still be on the pitch. Had he been rightfully sent off, what's the assurance that the Dutch wouldn't have hit double figures?



Stories that touch....

What about the dubious decisions that have gone the way of the Brazilians during the course of the tourney?



The last time,You blamed the absence of Thiago silva. Now it's alves and Marcelo ( just as I predicted). Nawa for you oo!!



This Brazilian side isn't better than the super eagles- accept this obvious fact and move on!

My argument since last time stands. Thiago brought maturity today. If he weren't there Brazil would have been murdered after those early goals. He led his team mates well by keeping the scoreline respectable. If not for the offside goal, it was actually two at the end.

Despite Marcelo and Alves not being around, and Luiz overlapping, Thiago kept the score line respectable as compared to the last time. This supported my argument that it will be hard for a Thiago defence to concede 4 goals.

chrisley024: You are calling Marcelo again?

How many goals came from the left against Germany?

Marcelo is a regular. Regulars are comfortable playing together. He offers attacking threat which the new guy didn't have today. He didn't defend, he didn't attack.

chrisley024:
Elampiro, is Thiago in the defence?

Thiago was responsible for one of the goals- the first. But you cannot blame anyone for being out paced by Robben. That was just a one off situation for Thiago. Muller or Kroos or Klose wouldn't have gotten the better of him.

The second goal was clearly an offside from the Netherlands guy who put the cross in the box. Luiz gifted Blind by awfully clearing into dangerous area.

Scolari is a joke. He and Keshi have the same mentality. What were Dani Alves and Marcelo doing on the bench? All. Last two goals came from left back.

Most importantly, Brazil is lame in attack without Neymar. Totally blunt. The fear factor was still off. Only Oscar was strongly.

chrisley024: Isn't Khedira similar to Di Maria? Inconsistent and injury prone!

Di Maria is consistent. How may players in this world are as consistent as Di Maria?

Rodriguez is £65m. It seems Madrid were already working on landing him for that amount even before the world cup started. Certainly not within our reach.

Robben won't leave Bayern.

*** But let's not forget that we still have Januzaj.

Lionel Messi's First Team Let Him Leave Because They Didn't Want To Pay For His $1,500 Growth Defect Medicine


https://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/frontpage/finance/news/lionel-messis-first-team-let-154305691.html?.b=%2Findex&.intl=US&.lang=en

No wonder. Drugs boosted his development. CR7 should be questioned as to what he used while he was training as a boy.

SailorXY: how do you know for sure about do Maria?
source please

I saw one unpopular site last nite saying Di Maria wants UCL action. Madrid wants to sell for £40m. Anceloti wants him retained.

On front page of nairaland. FIFA shortlisted 10 players for Adidas Golden ball.

Di Maria is there.

Is there anyone who think this guy is not having a great tournament?

SailorXY: Valencia is not surplus to requirement when we still have Young, for those that 'sold him in their dreams'... na u sabi that one.

so let me ask you what you think will be the 'realities' when the season kicks off

Patience. Patience.

However, if we are to follow was what reported last month. RVP captain. Rooney to be core part of Gaal's new Man United. DDG and Mata are the only other players that are sure. So he has four players he's t build the new team around. Fellaini is to be sold if a buyer can be find. Ferdinand retirement was instigated by Gaal. He also withdrew the club interest in Kroos even though Moyes had got it to an advance stage.

So, with the purchase of Herera and Shawn, may be we have 6 of starting 11. But as I said, let's wait and see as the players commence preseason now. It's a whole lot of rumble and only the best will come out top. Contrary to what a minute segment of United fan think, Rooney will always be one of the fist two payers to be selected in that forward line, if not the very first. I trust him. Is it not EPL and UCL we are talking about?

As for Valencia, I don't think his contract was extended for 4 years to be a 3rd choice. Valencia will be preferred to Nani and Young in the wings. Although papers speculated he's to be a regular right back for Gaal. He could also be used as a wing back.


Time will tell. It will be interesting.

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One of the wishes was that as soon as it was speculated Gaal would be coming, many over sabi mind readers here already sold Valencia in their dreams. What is the reality today?

More realities on the way.

SailorXY: I don't get what you mean by wishes & realities

Don't worry. We will know in a couple of weeks and months.

^^^
Next season no far. All these wishes will soon be put to rest as usual. There is a difference between dream (wish) and reality.

^^^codedguy1

The major problem is that Januzaj development might get stalled.

My only problem with Di Maria was that he did everything perfectly until he got to the point of taking a final decision. But he improved so much on that last season.

As for me, Selling Di Maria is a big shortage to Madrid. Buying Di Maria is a massive lift to any of European top clubs. We are lucky he wants to come. There is already a big fear in our rival camps. I pray the deal gets sealed.

coogar: i hope the transfer doesn't go through. surplus to requirements, he will become!

The way you belittle this guy. Shocking!!!

I can tell that Di Maria will walk into starting XI. That front line wil be very very competitive but Di Maria will be a regular.

chrisley024: You mean Garay?

Yea.

n0m0705: OCHE wetin? Is it not that guy that looks like flavour? Abeg that guy is not a footballer, I Don't even know how he got into the team.

I think he has potentials for the number 10. He appears not to have clicked for him. In some of the friendly matches, he looked more like the natural number 10 than others.

I beg make Di Maria come o

* Rumoured to earn £150k

* He is choosing Man United over PSG and Monaco.

* Gaal is a fan of Di Maria.


If all these materialize, we should be able to free many players in January. May be only one experienced defender too. That Argentina defender.........

afrodoc: Well in fairness Mikel surely didnt play in the hole or no 10. He was deep in midfield with onazi. We used babatunde and even osaze at times as our 10.
However i dont understand the heat behind the nff argument. Seems nihilist came packing to hit starboard up

I don't think the argument is about who played in the hole. You in this forum, when you slip, be sure your 'enemies' to have a free ride on you. Most especially if you are the type who usually take advantage of errors committed by other posters to make jest of them.

As for the Super Eagles role.

* Vs Iran.... It was Azeez. Late on Azeez and Moses went out, then Osazee and Ameobi came on, in what should have been a 4-4-2 that moment, but I can't tell where exactly Osaze operated because he was every where- midfied, wing and middle.

* vs Bosnia, it was Babatunde. He stamped his authority on the position.

* vs Argentina, it was Babatunde until he got injured. Ochebor came but could not command the role.

* vs France, it was Moses. I thought he struggled.

Osaze was tried in that role in a friendly against Greece (not too sure, it could be against USA), but he was woeful.


I think hole is for Babatunde. The subs should be Ochebor, Ideye and Mba.