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Re: FIFA WORLD CUP 2018?
by
pitiflin
on 10/07/2018, 22:52:32 UTC
Congrats  Wink 

About the game, Roberto Martinez deserves to get sacked after Belgium's atrocious performance tonight. Just wtf was he thinking whe he decided to play Fellaini as a forward next to (or behind) Lukaku? and when he wasn't in the 18-yard box he was playing as a winger...wtf? but let's say Martinez wanted to play Fellaini because he can defend in corners or set pieces since France have several aerial threats...but he still failed to do that! Umititi scored mainly because of Fellaini's mistake :S

I thought Martinez was going to use the same tactics against Brazil, but I was wrong, Belgium's gameplan were just crosses and more crosses. And it was so obvious that Umtiti and Varane were pretty much dominating every ball in the air, yet Martinez kept the same gameplan until the 80' min when he decided to bring in Mertens. And what's with the last sub in the 90' min? you're getting KO'd from the WC and you wait until the last minute to make a change?

Props to Hazard, though, he was brilliant today, but he can't carry the whole team on his back...Chadli was awful, same as Dembele, De Bruyne was lost, Lukaku was invisible, etc etc, they just felt like a different team today.

All in all, underwhelming match, France and Deshamps outplayed Belgium.
The sub was at the 91st minute. What were they thinking of doing in 2 minutes that they couldn't do in 90 minutes earlier.

Belgium had an awesome streak going on this world cup, but poor managment fucked that up. Belgium could have played better, had someone helped Hazard to score one goal at least. Looking at the stats, its just horrible. Belgium only had 9 shots(3 on target) while France had 19 shots(5 on target). And Belgium had 16 fouls. Belgium had good passes, but they couldn't just get pass through Varane and Umtiti. Also, surprisingly this was Belgium's first defeat since 2016 friendly game against Spain. I thought Belgium might just have a chance here, but sadly that didn't go well.