He wasn’t really under much pressure.
Day 6: Colombia vs Japan, Poland vs Senegal and Russia vs Egypt
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Salah sala lalalalala. They have been awful haven't they? Such a boring side to watch. That Mohsen defender especiaaly.
Worse than the Six Day War
Yeah, his passing looks inconsistent. Still only 22 though, plenty of time to improve.
Odd, he’s been pretty invisible today
Not the player. I mean the team in general were desperate to get back
Yeah, I think Cuper done a very good job overall getting this lot to the World Cup but it's overall a pretty weak squad, despite having one of its best ever players.
Previous squads were a lot more balanced throughout and had more quality in areas where this team is lacking.
Russians look like as they're potrayed in movies, big tough mean bastards
I saw him
Congrats to Russia for making it to the next round. Worked very hard and deserved.
These commentators taking the piss out of the Russian commentator for celebrating in front of them. Fecking hypocritical cretins. Those two commentators last night creaming themselves after england beat the mighty tunisia.
Feck all self-awareness.
Feck all self-awareness.
Russia have been super surprising. The cynic is me hopes that the drug testers are doing their job fully, given the recent history of Russian sport.
BBC need to stop whining about Salah, they are such an awful broadcasting team.
BBC need to stop whining about Salah, they are such an awful broadcasting team.
Yeah agreed. It's made it more exciting in a way actually. But I hope they do it in the background instead of making a big thing of it.
Egypt look like they were portrayed in Raiders of The Lost Ark
Can't pinpoint it myself either.
Well done by Russians. Played their heart out on both matches in front of their home crowd.
Will probably not make it through next round, but being the first team to get in is great effort
Will probably not make it through next round, but being the first team to get in is great effort
Congrats Russia. Deserve it very well.
Rubbish everywhere. Conceding an own goal this way while the game was still 0-0 just shows how stupid this squad is.The stupidest team in the tournament with a mile.
Rubbish everywhere. Conceding an own goal this way while the game was still 0-0 just shows how stupid this squad is.The stupidest team in the tournament with a mile.
Thanks. He's crazy. In a good way.
Cheryshev, Dzyuba, Golovin... even their old CBs have been playing well. I'm really liking this Russia team
Agreed. Such a shame the 2006-2010 generation never got to play in a world Cup. They really deserved it and played much better as a team imo.
Typical stuff today really. Once the other team scores first, Cuper doesn't really have a response. Salah definitely not 100% fit and yet still the main threat.
That's twice I've heard someone drop something in that BBC studio behind the cameras, on different days. Someone has serious butter fingers.
Overall a rubbish team that has one of the best players in the world that got them to World Cup. I only feel sorry for him as he deserves better than this crap all around him. At least he scored for his own sake.
Bit of a dive that penalty, for me
I had replied to @K2K few days ago that this generation is just very poor accompanied with a trash manager. They're not suited to lace the boots of any player from 2008-2010 team. Only Salah from this group will get into this historic generation.
But here it's : our best generation never qualifies while the worst goes on to play in World Cup.
The other teams from Africa cont. were stronger. The competition to get qualified for WC is tougher.
Edit: South Africa hosting the WC2010 is unfortunate though. It took a place for stronger African nation
Just seen the chest control from the Ruski, imagine this has already been said but
Sign him up!
Sign him up!
They will, they’re not that good
Let's hope Russia crash out immediately in the round of 16. Nasty country.
At 2010 it wasn't. We got an easy group and fecked it up against Algeria, whom we beat in CAN later 4-0 and they themselves got knocked out of World Cup not scoring even a single goal.
These are the types of score predictions that feel 'intuitive' to fans, but very rarely happen. Nonetheless, I put a bet on this combo at 2300 odds.
Maybe not the correct scores but I did have a total of 10 goals to be scored across the 3 games
You know Jose’s working for the Russian media?Just seen the chest control from the Ruski, imagine this has already been said but
Sign him up!
They were 6 African teams at the tournament
Yes. Remember those great Egypt sides that won 3 AFCONs on the trot.I had replied to @K2K few days ago that this generation is just very poor accompanied with a trash manager. They're not suited to lace the boots of any player from 2008-2010 team. Only Salah from this group will get into this historic generation.
But here it's : our best generation never qualifies while the worst goes on to play in World Cup.
This is a far cry from that.
Egypt have one of the best players on the planet but have wasted his talent by not surrounding him with more quality. It's very unfortunate but perhaps they were not ready to compete at this level yet.
Russians were very good. Deserved victory and they're flying right now. Feel sorry for Egypt but they weren't very good tonight tbh.
I had replied to @K2K few days ago that this generation is just very poor accompanied with a trash manager. They're not suited to lace the boots of any player from 2008-2010 team. Only Salah from this group will get into this historic generation.
But here it's : our best generation never qualifies while the worst goes on to play in World Cup.
Agreed. Imagine salah with abou treika, zidan, younger el hadary, gomaa, Ahmed hassan, hosny et al
We've taken it poorly in our house, we really thought Egypt would do better.
They can't surround him if they don't have quality players.
So who could Russia face in the last 16?
Russians to do a Greece? Admittedly there aren't many comparisons between the two. Iirc Greeks were very well organised defensively, this Russian team are not imo.
Portugal or Spain, providing they both go through.