Day 9: Cameroon vs Serbia | South Korea vs Ghana | Brazil vs Switzerland | Portugal vs Uruguay

Rodrygo has changed the game for me. A bit of creativity through the middle that was massively lacking in the 1st half. Perfect replacement for Neymar. Could have had 2 assists.
 
Vini for fecks sakes
 
Strange to see so many of these Brazilians now playing in England. This is the most European Brazilian team I've seen and ironically this is what will made them win the World Cup.
 
You know when you've been in a game with Brazil. Swiss will sleep well tonight
 
I think you'd be hard pressed to find many players, at any level, who've never appealed to a referee to give a yellow to an opponent for a bad/cynical challenge. For some reason I find the card wave mime approach way more annoying than someone shouting "come on ref that's a yellow all day", but I couldn't really explain why.
I do it myself too with my pub team on saturday :wenger:

At least I dont have fecking highlights.
 
Fred - World Cup winner. How crazy does that sound? I saw he got compared to Kleberson by Gilberto Silva earlier. Yep, sounds about right.
 
Lee Dixon is so boring and annoying. Typical old fashioned dinosaur
 
Vinicius has been really wasteful over the last 5-10 minutes. Could’ve killed the game already.
 
They always find a way but as you can see, they are favourites to win this World Cup for a reason.
 
Rúben Neves starting again feck my life
 
The maxim of football of the last decade: if you have Casemiro you win
 
Everyone talks about Brazil's attack, their defending is pretty sound too.
 
The maxim of football of the last decade: if you have Casemiro you win
I didn't realise how good he was until he removed himself from Modric and Kroos. I just thought that Madrid trio was carried by Kroos and Modric. Turns out they could only do what they do because Casemiro clearly was allowing them to do ZERO defensive work. Sheesh
 
Brazil have not been as impressive as their favourites tag suggests. After two rounds, I'd say France look the team to beat. Brazil, Spain and England have been decent if not unspectacular.
I think Switzerland makes anyone look bad with their grinding style. I don’t think France would run them over either.