good team good team. na wetyn we dey see so

I was about to say the whole semi final na snooze fest.
Thank you perisic

wetyn mk dis man put rashford

Somebody just pointed out that the oldest player for the English team is called Ashley young

odizeey:
wetyn mk dis man put rashford

Temple run things

Everybody gats start to dey do this England corner kick style. E dey work.

larride:

Temple run things

d guy is just useless here

rashford dey irritate me here

SMH!! See as Stones off at the worst possible time. Later they'll tell us how Pep did this and that for England!!

All City players were useless in this tournament!!

Make we see how much flak Kane go catch.

Forget story, Maguire is not better than Smalling

That guy for pass that ball.

Eeyah! It wasn't coming home afterall!!

In other news, Welbeck just go Russia go do excursion!!

Baba no see anything play!

sterling wen dey worry defense u comot am for this one waste. mk mourinho sell am abeg

chic2pimp:


E go be like Film trick for your body when my Lads lift that trophy.

C'mon Ladssssss let's have it!

Bro you still dey dey watch ya film trick �

chic2pimp:


Will you sharrap Dia!...Appreciate don't Hate greatness abeg.

He actually told me to appreciate greatness, buahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I need forgiveness for ever comparing rashford with mbappe.

dopeJemi:

LMAO, I like as you conclude say England go comot tomorrow, na the only thing I see for this post. Nice

Well

odizeey:
I need forgiveness for ever comparing rashford with mbappe.

Abeg ask for both of us!!

Odunharry:

Lmao. Your thoughts on Fred

Pre City Fernandinho esque player. I hope he can also play the DM role effectively like Fernandinho.

Kane just another overrated piece of shîte! Mans cant even lace Rooney's boots even if he tried.

Useless striker wia no fit play anything if he no see PK!!
And that overrated Alli!!

I swear Eriksen dey try playing with those Donkeys everyweek!!

England and overrated players ehn!!

Lana1:
Abeg ask for both of us!!

I abeg bring yam d gods dey vex.

odizeey:
I abeg bring yam d gods dey vex.

I go bring am. Abeg arrange 10 Unilag virgins join!!

Lana1:
I go bring am. Abeg arrange 10 Unilag virgins join!!

no wahala

Funny how Modric has cemented his place as the best midfielder in the World. Had a similar argument on this thread concerning Modric and Kroos's performance in Madrid and who was the better midfielder. I have been vindicated.

Kroos is awesome, no doubt but Modric is what makes them tick in the midfield.

When we said England have been playing weak teams and will be eliminated once a stronger opposition arrives, some people doubted us. First real opposition (excluding their match against Belgium), they're dominated and outclassed in ALL departments except for goalkeeper position because Pickford couldn't catch a break all night.

England lost tonight solely because of Southgate's naivety, I'll explain. Southgate got both his formation and choice of players wrong.

1. Formation: the 3-man formation have been working against weak teams because none of the weak teams knew how to press well and put England's average and mediocre midfield to real test. Southgate went for a 3142 formation and it's all shades of wrong. When Conte used his 3-man defense, he played a 343 formation, with two defensively disciplined DMs in Matic and Kante. These 2 DMs act as an extra shield for the defense who will be left terribly exposed when the wing-backs who are expected to bomb forward, attacks. But Southgate started tonight's match with just ONE fuckîng DM against a midfield that contains naturally talented midfielders like Rakitic and Modric who CAN CONTROL THE TIDE AND FLOW OF A GAME AND CAN PASS UNDER GREAT PRESSURE AND IN TIGHT SPACES, ably supported by the workaholic Brozovic. But take a look at England's midfield cast. ALLI, LINGARD AND HENDERSON. How can you compare both midfield? Lingard is no CM, but a winger used sometimes as an AM by Mourinho. Even as an AM, he's more of a goal outlet than a midfield enforcer. Same applies to Alli who used as winger but can come in as an AM to play off Kane and score while. Both Lingard and Alli have midfield enforcers and controllers at their clubs in Pogba and the Denmark guy respectively, who can pass in tight spaces and give pass-splitting through balls. England sorely lacked ANY FORM of creativity tonight in that midfield. At point I was pitying them. What Southgate should have done was go for a 343 formation (if he'd wanted to persist with a 3-man defense)with 2 DMs, with Dier providing an added help to Henderson who was overran in that midfield, or go for 4231 formation with 2 DMs to reduce the endless wave of midfield pressure from Croatia; and while the more attack-minded Henderson move forward to attack occasionally, Dier would sit back to mop up loose balls. Which leads me to my next point. . .

2. Choice of players: I've said it before, I'll repeat it again, if Mourinho endorses Young as our first choice LB in the coming season, I'll confirm once and for all that Mourinho is outdated and living in past glory. Southgate is foolish for playing Young in an attacking set-up. All you need to understand what I'm saying is to go again and observe Rose's contribution immediately he came in and that of Young's. I doubt Young even whipped a single cross or did anything meaningful "attack-wise" till he left. Rose introduction lit up that left wing with his runs and within the short time on the field, he delivered some good crosses. Playing Young is a way of defending never attacking. Young attacks against average teams, against good teams, he spends his time defending all through.

Alli and Sterling: these guys have been mediocre and shockingly poor all through out this tournament, England's wins have been their saving grace covering their assës. Amongst the duo, Alli has been the worse. I'll make an excuse for Sterling because like I pointed out before, Southgate is very naive and couldn't recognise that Guardiola used Sterling to a devastating effect as a RW in a 3-man forward, instead he forced him to SS position which meant he couldn't stretch opposition defenders with his pace, and most importantly, gave oppositions the chance to easily close him down and dominate him aerially. In fact, I remember the match against United, ahead of City's UCL return leg against Loserfool, Guardiola played Sterling as a striker in that game while giving Jesus and Aguero who's coming back from injury some needed rest ahead of a do-or-die match. Sterling singlehandedly cost City that match with his brainfarts and horrible misses till United were able to recover and win the game from 2 goals down. That match made me realise Sterling sucks as a striker or SS. Southgate repeated that mistake through out this WC but never bothered because he's intoxicated by the wins and the rubbish IT'S COMING HOME nursery rhymes being belted out by dreaming England fans. Coming home my black hairy ass!! The only thing coming home are the players and their luggages at Heathrow with shattered hopes and unfilled lofty dreams. Southgate should have changed to 4231 after seeing the enormous pressure England were under. All he needed to do was to attack some more to reduce the pressure and push Croatia back. He'd have achieved that by switching to 4231, removing Trippier and pushing Walker to the RB (Walker will give you the attacking prowess of Trippier and he's more defensively stronger than Trippier, so he's not going to miss Trippier going out except maybe his crosses), bringing Rashford, Rose and Dier to replace Trippier, Young and Alli. Rashford moves to the LW to run at the Croatians and keep them a bit pegged back, while Sterling keeps Strinic back by forcing him not to attack much to avoid getting caught off guard during counters. Dier provides more steel for Henderson who can bomb forward without fearing of leaving his defenders open to attacks. Rose replaces Young and together with Rashford puts the fear of God on that RB, forcing Rebic, Perisic and Mandzukic to fall back to defend, thereby giving a breathing space to Maguire and Stones and England's defence in general. Southgate was instead contented with the endless pressures on his team, hoping IT'S COMING HOME anthem will somehow make the Croatians have mercy on them or defend for them. Dumb move!!

PS: Dayo is the biggest winner in this semi-final. Hazard shaku-shakus his way out of a possible WC win, while England got booted out. He'll be boisterous tonight and have the edge over EPL fans again. What a dose of double blessings for him.

I'm officially moving to Team France. Pogboom, Kante and Mbappe, no fall my hands abeg.

patrickmuf:
This whole talk of England facing weak opposition until this moment doesn't make any sense, if Germany was any good, they'd have progressed, if Italy and the other big guns like Chile were so good, they'd have made it to the Mundial...Reaching the semi finals of the world cup is no mean feat and if England goes on to win, history will remember them...

Sweden is weak yet they qualified ahead of Germany in a group many of you considered weak.
Colombia is weak yet Chilean players have been holidaying for the past one month...
I am sure if England beats Croatia, some of you will come here to say it's because Croatia went into extra time and penalties in their last two games...

By now you guys should have known Dayo, he has prepared a two faced excuse waiting for whatever outcome, if England wins the world cup, he will attribute their success to Pep and the fact that they've had to play against so-called weak opposition but should Croatia wins tomorrow, dude will be all over the place saying England faltered in their first big test...Pick a struggle bro...

And no, England's 2nd team lost to Belgium's 2nd team and not England lost to Belgium's 2nd 11 as one poster highlighted making it look like England first 11 was involved...

Sinizia call them by their names, e.g patrick

raumdeuter:



Sinizia call them by their names, e.g patrick

LOL. You forgot Unku Chic2pimp ChiLLLc2pimp and his IT'S COMING HOME band.

raumdeuter:



Sinizia call them by their names, e.g patrick

I'd like to know if you consider Chile, Germany as weak opposition, if not, then why would you say Sweden and Colombia are weak teams?
My post yesterday only served to correct the notion that England had it easy in the run up to the semi finals as a means to discredict the lads, you were quick to draw the attention of everybody that England has had better teams in the past but were only unlucky to be knocked out by superior opposition, sounds true but you are only admitting that they were knocked out by clearly superior opposition now just cos you think it sways the argument in your favor...
If only we could see the other side of the coin after it lands on the floor, I am sure you'd come here to say Croatia are easy opposition, anything to discredit the teams you hate...