When you expect to be the champion every WC, yes, it was disappointing

Good lord you really shouldn't run your mouth about me.

So Im back home and Im sober again, good times. Now I can enjoy the other teams battling it out for the other 14 spots.

The city centre was preety dangerous actually. Here you can see what the riots look like:

Can you do a tl:dr on the riots pls?

Its just drunk fans going ape**** because we won a game of football. The problems are that some fans start celebrating on top of the bus tops or on statues which leads to police intervention which leads to rioting.
The damages are 300 buses that were attacked which means the service is going to be more awful than normal tommorrow.

Nowadays I dont stay for the clashes because I dont feel like running from a patrol or recieving tear gas. I stayed at the city centre because I went to have dinner on a restaurant.

brasil wont win this world cup for sure, specially if they keep playing like this

and neither will Argentina if they keep playing like they did vs Bosnia. am i doing it right?

CHI CHI CHI
LE LE LE
VIVA CHILE!!!

Did spain look as bad as they looked on television?

I really DO want Aussies to at least get a point. They deserve something, they've had a good world cup. Just got the unluckiest group

I have aussies on 0 pts so please don't

Yeah definitely, not to mention in both of their losses they were giving the better team a hard run. I actually thought they deserved the game vs Chile and it was close vs Netherlands. Buuuuut

This

Yeah you gotta hand it to them. They played way better then pretty much everybody expected. Spain will try to get it together and at least end the WC with a win. But the Aussis might have a chance, didnt expect Spain to loose the second game though.

Might this be the end of Tiki-Taka? For me it seems as Spain pretty much lost it the moment Guardiola left Spain. Real and Athletico play a different style and Barca isnt the dominant team anymore it was a few years back.

Spain didn't play their tiki-taka this year. They tried to play more vertically, but forgot to use the wings, and abandoning the control passing game left their defense exposed and they got clobbered behind. They were set up to play tiki-taka but tried to do something else, and the result was horrible. It didn't help that everyone buy maybe Iniesta and Ramos quit.

If he could get over nationalist biases Guardiola will be an obvious option when Bayern fires him at the end of the coming season.

Dominance in football is not measured by margin of victory. During their run they hardly gave up any goals. They didn't need a second goal. They were a great team because of Luis Aragones. Del Bosque's virtue was to not **** up something good (which is not so easy). This year he failed at that.

'grat val

agree on all these

I think it's clearly better for you to play Croatia/Mexico, so I think you have to try hard to beat the Dutch.

More like Mex/Croatia, Italy, Argentina. France would be on the other side. But what route to the finals is ever going to look easy at this point. One side is Argentina and Italy but the other is Germany, Brazil, France. Since that quadrant is the one without Germany, Brazil or Argentina, I think it's clearly the "easiest."

So now there will be an inquisition into Spanish football. No one expected that.

Chile/Netherlands is the game that matters for group position but Australia/Spain might be a game to watch nonetheless. While there will be a certain amount of disappointment among the Socceroos I doubt any of them really thought they were making it out of the group alive. There's a general feeling here and abroad that they have done their country proud despite the results. That is, if I can use a little understatement, not exactly the case for Spain. There's blood in the water, the Socceroos are a young side and Timmy Cahill has an unlimited supply of WIM. I expect them to let their hair down and have a real go at the dejected Spain side and it could get entertaining.

Timmy Cahil is suspended tho

well i'd think vdb will play all the youngins with a view towards the future.

koke, cesc, martinez, pedro, silva, diego costa, ddg, alba, ramos, pique will be the main figures for euro 2016

yeah spain was ridiculously dominant, they imposed their style and forced everyone else to accept technical inferiority and adjust thusly, using scorelines as if they were jammy mourinhoportotards is pretty lol

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