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

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Seriously, hes not our player anymore i dont care.
Just to show how stupid this system can be.

Still, a 6.5-7/10 performance is considered stellar performance for him nowadays. That shows how bad he was for United
 
The people arguing do it because the notion of intent is influencing their view. It doesn't always matter, the handball in this case prevented a clear goalscoring chance

This is only taken into consideration for red cards, not penalties. If he denied a goalscoring chance he would have been given a red in addition to the penalty. He wasn't. You can't give a penalty for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity and then not give a red card. It doesn't work like that.

Which means it's not an intentional handball. Then accidental handball rules go into effect. His hand was used as support to break the fall. As per the rules, which also use an image with this exact situation, it's not a penalty.
 
I'm pretty sure that most strikers in this world cup could have attempted and failed this header. He didn't even jump particularly high. But yeah, lets say that in this specific situation, he did better than a 10 man team without any strike, what an impressive contribution!
I didn't say that he was impressive, far from that. But he played a role in his team's victory and that's a fact.
 
Since when was Inaki Williams Ghanaian? I was always under the impression that he’s Spanish and I thought he came on against Germany?
 
Portugal looked decent tonight. Some very good players in their squad like Dias, Cancelo, Bernardo Silva, Bruno and Rafael Leao.
 
Since when was Inaki Williams Ghanaian? I was always under the impression that he’s Spanish and I thought he came on against Germany?
That was his brother. Inaki declared for Ghana.
 

Make of that what you will.
 
Since when was Inaki Williams Ghanaian? I was always under the impression that he’s Spanish and I thought he came on against Germany?
Thats his brother Nico Williams. Not to be confused with the Welsh leftback Neco Williams :lol:
 
Since when was Inaki Williams Ghanaian? I was always under the impression that he’s Spanish and I thought he came on against Germany?
That was his younger brother that came on vs Germany, Nico Williams. Both their parents are from Ghana, kids were born in Spain. They go to Ghana often to visit grand parents.
 
Still the goal wouldn't have happened without him and it was an important one in such a game.
But the goal should have happened with him, the luck after is just that. Luck. You can’t have a bad miss then say it’s ok because luck bailed you out.
It was just the typical Ronaldo miss this season.
 
Call me petty but seeing goals taken away from Ronaldo is going to massively bug him. It feels great :drool:
 
He wasn’t the best player on the pitch but he was better then Felix in both games.

His positioning has been great, scored a goal, linked up the play which led to the winning goal vs Ghan, had a direct influence in the first goal today.

He’s done his job. Looks better in these two games then in any game for United this season.
Yeah the last sentence is obviously accurate, in that he was terrible with us. But I still believe he's a hindrance to the overall play of Portugal, who hare much fluider without him. Which is fine for me, I don't support Portugal, but there's a lot of potential in that team that isn't being maximized.
 
Whats funny is that Portugal won't be rid of Santos anytime soon, he has delivered the bare minimum now, get past R16 and he will last a couple of tournaments after this.
 
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Seriously, hes not our player anymore i dont care.
Just to show how stupid this system can be.

Still, a 6.5-7/10 performance is considered stellar performance for him nowadays. That shows how bad he was for United
Yeah, no one’s calling that a stellar performance unless I missed something.
 
I was hoping for a video. I’m not necessarily saying he didn’t wave his arms. But how can we say so conclusively from this? That pic could have been from any moment in the game.
If you have a replay option, just watch the game from after the celebration. The next two minutes till Darwin takes the ball from his feet when he is about to shoot will show you.

Don’t have replays here unfortunately
 
That too. But I put emphasis on Arrascaeta. I see a lot of Flamengo games and he's magic. Put him in front of Betancur and Valverde
I know we have to do that. That's what we did late in the qualifiers to nail them. I regularly travel to Rio by the way so watch Flamengo quire a lot. He is mint.

The problem is this joker seems hellbent on dismantling anything we may construct anyway. Wasn't that bad last year, he tried hard but was rather peripheral so you appreciated the workrate and badgering. Now he has become the focal point though, which is a fecking disaster.
 
Ronaldo will put pressure on FA to demand that goal from FIFA.
Of course that he will say to Bruno that it wasn't his call
 
This is only taken into consideration for red cards, not penalties. If he denied a goalscoring chance he would have been given a red in addition to the penalty. He wasn't. You can't give a penalty for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity and then not give a red card. It doesn't work like that.

Which means it's not an intentional handball. Then accidental handball rules go into effect. His hand was used as support to break the fall. As per the rules, which also use an image with this exact situation, it's not a penalty.
Just gave my opinion, not based on the rule. It was a good decision for me
 
Yeah the last sentence is obviously accurate, in that he was terrible with us. But I still believe he's a hindrance to the overall play of Portugal, who hare much fluider without him. Which is fine for me, I don't support Portugal, but there's a lot of potential in that team that isn't being maximized.
The potential not being maximized has more to do with the coach but I’m sure we won’t agree on that
 
That was his younger brother that came on vs Germany, Nico Williams. Both their parents are from Ghana, kids were born in Spain. They go to Ghana often to visit grand parents.
Argh… id of thought inaki would have chose Spain and could have made their squad. Wonder what made him go for Ghana… obviously it’s easier to make their squad.
 
Pellestri > Leao...in this game anyway. Nice to see our forgotten/hated/fringe players do well