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*Official* Round of 16 Thread
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
Not how it works.
VAR checks everything, the referee will only go over to the screen if VAR think he's ****ed up to give the illusion it's the onfield ref is making the final decision.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
I seem to remember the penalties against Argentina in 1998 being bad, although that might just be a false memory based on how awful Batty's was.
Haha yep. This feels like watching the mythical Brazil.
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Twitter calling it the type of football they used to only play in airports.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
In fact it's probably the best since 2002. The 06 vintage was great on paper (Ronaldo, Adriano, Ronaldinho, Kaka) but didn't translate to on field success.
And in the present, how the **** is it not 5?
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Haven't seen them hit the post though...
Yeah wasn't this the 'magic square' or something. That wasn't very magic.
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Yeah the 2006 side really wasn't great. They were massive favourites going in and just never looked up to it.
I thought the 2010 and 2018 sides were good enough to have won it but weren't especially stylish, and ended up losing games where they'd been the better team. 2014 side was really quite poor even before getting demolished in the semis.
In 2002 they were outsiders going in and looked so slick in their first game they were immediately made big favourites. Even then they tightened up a lot in the knockouts. But the group stage games were all like this.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Yeah they had a group game against Costa Rica in 2002 they won 5-2 from memory that was just a brilliant game of football, but Costa Rica's goals were the sort of goals that you can't be conceding if you want to win a tournament.
Was there not a change of system post groups that year? I'm sure Brazil went with a 1-11 lineup in the groups but then sacrificed an attacking midfielder for Kleberson (may have been Juninho who got binned, who I think wore 7).
Was there not a change of system post groups that year? I'm sure Brazil went with a 1-11 lineup in the groups but then sacrificed an attacking midfielder for Kleberson (may have been Juninho who got binned, who I think wore 7).
wpdavid
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Erm, maybe. Don't get me wrong, they are very good, but the mythical sides had an X factor which even these guys don't quite achieve. Any youtube compilation of their greatest goals from the 1982 WC will give you a glimpse. Having said that, the current line-up have a better centre forward and a much better defence and goalkeeper than the class of 82. I can see why so many people have them as favourites to win the thing.
I reckon the other factor is that the vintage Brazilian teams wore a slightly darker shade of yellow tops - pale gold rather than yellow. These things matter, of course.
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Yeah they binned Juninho for Kleberson, who did a great job as a defensive midfielder. Strange because he pretty much went through his entire United career without ever making a tackle.
