World Cup - Friday's QF match thread

[RP]

Heading towards a Germany v Brazil semi?

[Ramón Benítez Hernández]

I reckon Colombia will give Brazil a scare.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

reckon Colombia will beat them

[£440,000]

I hope Colombia beat them.

[Cam]

reckon Colombia will beat them

Agree. Unless it goes to penalties.

[Ramón Benítez Hernández]

reckon Colombia will beat them

 

They certainly can. Though I'm sure the ref will get Brazil over the line.

[Nebraska Red]

They certainly can. Though I'm sure the ref will get Brazil over the line.

Said exactly this to a mate of mine. It all depends on how desperate that FIFA are to get Brazil to the final. In the other half, how much help will Messi get in his quest for immortality?

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

good point, sure Blatter's sorting that out now with his takings of the Cameroon bung

[Cobs]

Ref shafted them in Rd 2

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Is it Friday yet?

[RP]

Two days without football.

 

Crap World Cup this.

[The Hitman]

So I found some money in a Paddy Power account following a bet I won in 2013!

 

Slapped it on both sides to score at 5/6.

[yellow jumper]

brazil haven't lost to colombia since 91. last 4 have been low or none scoring draws though.

Edited July 3, 2014 by yellow jumper

[Cobs]

Brazil haven't lost a competitive game at home since 1975

[yellow jumper]

mental innit. do think colombia have chance here if they turn up anything like we've seen, particularly with gustavo missing in the area rodriguez will look to exploit, and marcelo not convincing defensively up against cuadrado. also fred suits their centre halves. worry would be all about neymar getting at them. that right side of colombia going to be key in fact.

Edited July 3, 2014 by yellow jumper

[Benitez]

Heading towards a Germany v Brazil semi?

 

 

hoping for a France - Colombia semi final! But I'd take a France - Brazil semi too. C'mon France!

[The Hitman]

mental innit. do think colombia have chance here if they turn up anything like we've seen, particularly with gustavo missing in the area rodriguez will look to exploit, and marcelo not convincing defensively up against cuadrado. also fred suits their centre halves. worry would be all about neymar getting at them. that right side of colombia going to be key in fact.

At the risk of sounding like "Lawro", which centre half does Fred not suit?

[Cheesecake]

At the risk of sounding like "Lawro", which centre half does Fred not suit?

 

If anyone asked Fred about this, chances are he would have just said 'Right'

[surf]

Brazil haven't lost a competitive game at home since 1975

 

penalties then

[Stevie H]

hoping for a France - Colombia semi final! But I'd take a France - Brazil semi too. C'mon France!

yup. i still like deschamps and have been loving sakho this tournament. he should be back in to start today.

[yellow jumper]

At the risk of sounding like "Lawro", which centre half does Fred not suit?

 

true enough. he's been poor. thought he might trouble chile a bit more given how small they are at the back, but he was pretty anonymous and the quality into him wasn't great either. been disappointing how easily brazil have resorted to that fairly hopeful long ball. you'd think they'd want to get it into feet a bit more tonight and have likes of neymar and hulk running at yepes.

[The_Adder]

Sakho is starting for France

[Earl Hafler]

Might watch this in the pub. Could be a classic

[Hassony]

annoying that I'm going to miss the first half of this

 

f*** you M25

[McBain]

Winner of this wins it all I reckon