by sussexpob » Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:30 am
The best team at this tournament with the ball so far, Spain, took 85 minutes last week in a friendly to break down Tunisia in a similar style of game. They were ranked 14 in the World before the Russia game started and people have jigged about, this wasnt a mickey mouse operation, it was the African continents apparent best team and one who Portugal also couldnt beat recently.
It seems so English to watch a match like this and question why we didnt steam roller them; what did Argentina do against the country with 300,000 people? Germany couldnt hit a barn door. France whimpered past Australia, as did Uruguay whimper past Australia. Brazil couldnt win.
Fact is, unless you play mouthwatering close quarters football through the middle of 4 man markers, which even Lionel Messi couldnt do, then you have to be patient with games like this and carve out chances where you can. We had chances, we won the game. Job done. A job done that over better teams couldnt manage against similar ranked teams playing the same way.
As Budget highlights, we won despite some questionable penalty calls both ends. Not sure we need to dwell much on how late the win was achieved, the key is we broke them down, we dominated possession, we reduced them to one worthwhile chance (a dubious one at that) and should have scored a bucket load in the first half.
Well played for me.
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And a hat and bra to you too, my good sirs!