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Group B: Spain, Netherlands, Chile, Australia
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grecian
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I must admit I get riled about these newbies to football whining about football rules, but one of the thing that really annoyed me was how no-one seems to are about the best rule ever invented in football about 10 years back. I.E. that attackers being given the benefit of the doubt in tight line calls. It was announced but never properly backed-up.
In the end it should be announced that every close offside giving to the attacking team is not a mistake. Simple, but they bottled it, and comms still say it's a great decision when an offside is called because he's 6 inches offside on replays.
Anyway ****ing good header that.
In the end it should be announced that every close offside giving to the attacking team is not a mistake. Simple, but they bottled it, and comms still say it's a great decision when an offside is called because he's 6 inches offside on replays.
Anyway ****ing good header that.
OverratedSanity
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Just creamed myself a bit there
Scaly piscine
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Serves them right for that attempt at chipping the goalkeeper when it'll come off about 1 time out of 10 when a routine shot is a favourite to score.
Come on everyone playing Spain.
Come on everyone playing Spain.
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grecian
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It's pretty good, and then him thumping into the dirt whilst still watching it, it's all pretty damn good.
BoyBrumby
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Comfortably the best so far. yeah.
Tom Halsey
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Nah he's right IMO. It wasn't just "not taking avoiding action", he actively went out of his way to stand on him.
EDIT: No denying it is a rash challenge though.
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BoyBrumby
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Except Argentina, Croatia, France and Italy, obvz.
Neil Pickup
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Phenomenal header. You don't save those. Key save from Cillessen from Silva at 1-0 looks all the more important now.
For what it's worth, looked like a penalty to me. Crazy challenge and you're just asking for it if you charge in like that.
For what it's worth, looked like a penalty to me. Crazy challenge and you're just asking for it if you charge in like that.
Yeah they were but this is the biggest of the group stage so you want it to be a good one, and well it has.
Cabinet96
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Don't think it was necessarily deliberate, but he definitely put his foot on the defender.
Neil Pickup
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What this is really missing is Adrian Chiles' analysis.
grecian
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Yes, as he was tumbling over because of the wild challenge. Honestly if Costa had planed that he's more of a genius than RVP.
Clear pen, lets move on.
OverratedSanity
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Blind the player of the match so far. Put in some ridiculous balls.
OverratedSanity
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I dunno, on the slow-motion replay it looked clear that Costa deliberately stepped on the trailing foot. Honestly think the Dutch defender didn't complain because he probably thought the contact was the natural result of his challenge and not something Costa created to intentionally go down.
Anyway it was a **** challenge so it probably deserved a pen anyway