Before anything, let us send some love to Ben White, who had to leave England World Cup squad for personal reasons.
There is some good and bad news coming from Brazilian side of the World Cup football. Martinelli showed his worth against Cameroon and had a very good game at the left coming close to scoring twice, saved eventually. He is such a threat to the defenders, I always get a CR7 vibes in him; he is probably one of the worst players to play against for any defender. Saying this when he is playing on the grandest stage of football means something.
Coming to the bad news, Gabriel Jesus picked an injury and will probably be out till January. That means he is going to miss some games for us, when we are fighting for the league. Time for Eddie Nketiah to show up, but this might tempt Edu and Arteta to go for a CF in the January window. We needed that fund for the midfield where we need a proper competition for Thomas Partey. I would personally prefer strengthening midfield and waiting for Jesus while Eddie fills up the spot. I have always wanted to see Martinelli in the CF role but I guess we will never know.
In other news, World Cup is getting exciting now. Germany, Mexico, Belgium, Uruguay are out. Such a shame with Belgium, even with so much talents they can’t get through the group stage. Same with Germany, I guess they need a reboot like Arsenal.
Good to see Japan qualifying for round of 16, kudos to Tomiyasu. England is doing great, finishing top of the group with some brilliant games. USA qualified too which will keep Turner busy.
Right, short one today. Apologies for missing for last two weeks, been busy a bit in my own marriage lol. I will take another week off, need some sun somewhere on the beach.
Hope you are doing well, have a good evening!
MNeymar magic 1-0
We can’t see Brazil go out can we?
Who knows I was predicting a France Brazil final.
Brasil is out on penalty shootout
Brasil as been saying has been lackadaisical.. Poor ball retrieval.
I’m with my better half sobbing here 🙁
Don’t worry lads. These games are like schadenfreude eliminators. Feel bad for Martinelli but the rest of them can go and fuck themselves. Especially Anthony who may as well have a tattoo on his forehead saying ‘bastard’ and that whopping cunt Neymar who declared himself a supporter of Jair Bolsonaro, the racist, pandemic denier who enabled his logging mates to destroy half the Brazilian rainforest. A man of colour supporting a racist president takes some beating. So fuck them! That dancing routine bullshit in the last round which seriously disrespected their opponents looks deeply stupid now.
Penalty shoot outs are massive fun aren’t they? I reckon you can tell whether someone is going to score in many cases by their demeanour and look on their faces which seldom beltray their level of nervousness. If you’re evidently shitting yourself before taking a pen, I reckon there’s a strong likelihood it’s gone to your legs and weakened you.
My claim to fame was scoring the winning 5th penalty in a shoot out between our visiting team from Nigeria playing our works based opposite numbers in this massive fucking military stadium in Accra. I passed it firmly into the corner knowing that the 5ft 8 goalie wouldn’t get anywhere near it.
Hi Ambarish
Great to hear that your wife is into football. My other half hates it unless the Welsh NT is playing.
Important question – is she also a Gooner or do you have plans to brainwash her?
Those Brazilian fuckers are out, for me the WC has already been a success, they will stay at 5. Germany or Italy to rebuild and match them in 2026. Neymar is a super cunt and Schadenfreude at its best with the Samba boys getting it up their Kazoo.
Antony looks like a showboating infantile wanker. Should have received a yellow for diving and I am glad we didn’t get near that wanker.
Good thing Gaby coming home uninjured, and the only thing left Saka coming home on Sunday hopefully also uninjured and we are back in business for the EPL if we sign a top attacking talent withing the first few games.
Great results last night. Good game’s, too.
On balance the results were merited even if penalties were the eventual deciders. Messi’s mob and robotic Croats edged it during play so deserved their semi places.
Portugal players are Overhitting passes. Morocco is playing a very disciplied JdeP so innacurate passes are intercepted. Surprising because quality of all Portugal players is high. Of course yPortugal coach is back Southgate clone slow in the uptake
Portugal is down 1-0 at half time.
Is this the end of hope of Messi v Ronaldo final?
Dalot is waste of space. Playing at his ManU level so Morocco giving ample rope on right side because Dalot is incapable of doing any harm.
This glaring deficiency is allowed to fester by Portugal manager
If Zyecth goes out injured, likely end of any more goals by Morocco. Portugal now should step up.
Goalkeeper Bono is superb shot stopper. Penalties is suicidal
This Jao Felix was probably the best chance. What a save!!
From the refereeing it appears there isva heavy backing by some syndicate or whatever to get Morocco to win
That wasn’t a card.
Fuck me what an unexpected result. Sad to see the last of CR7 on world stage.
Pepe was close, only by inches man
Ambarish
Ronaldo is a passenger brought in for a world record. Man is now a shadow. if his old self. Was a mistake to come to EPL. He list his edge. Pepe at 39 years jumps higher than CR7