Cybereagles

You can find similar pictures of the entire team following Pele. :biggrin: :biggrin: Yet Pele was able to score. If the entire team is following you, pass off the ball. :biggrin: Even assist Messi no fit get. :lol: Too many excuses from Messi fan boys. Messi had world class players on the Argie tea...

Tapinho Penaldo don suffer.

You missed the memo that Messi tends to fade in key games where he is not surrounded by the World Class players he had at Barcelona. You missed the memo that Messi was lousy in that 2014 final, and was also very lousy against that same German team that knocked Argentina out in 2010. Why can't the &...

Back in the day before the internet and videos, my Dad bought me this book and I was mesmerised by Pele and the yellow shirt of Brazil. Rest in power O Rei.

He has played in the Norwegian, Austrian and German league. Yet, he couldn't destroy those leagues as much as he is destroying the english league. He was fantastic in those leagues, but the defenses in those leagues seem to be better prepared to defend against him. How poor is the english league? :...

Scipio Africanus wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 8:07 pm

It is indeed a feat to score 4 goals from 5 penalties awarded throughout the WC

Another guy that measures performance on just goals.

Of course. He wins in an opinion vote (something regularly and uncritically dashed to him every year :biggrin: ) as opposed to actually winning the tournament :rotf: . He was a total dud in the 2014 final, stamping aimlessly around the pitch like a lost little boy. :lol: By the way, the "Playe...

:biggrin: We no want make you follow. Keep loving your racist country and its midget "hero" who could only win a World Cup in his 5th effort after 4 ignominious failures :lol: , and could not even beat a 3rd string French team in extra time. :lol: Forever there will be an asterisk against...

:biggrin: Don't mind cic with his sophistry. He is talking as if experience does not count in a player's growth, and confidently playing like a veteran at 17 is not astonishing (not to mention like a super-human veteran), but is the same as a 35 year old veteran playing like the veteran he is :lol:...

cic old boy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:10 pm I can't hate on a country that produced Maradona and Messi.

I tell una say I no follow.

Mbappe's last pen shouldn't have been given.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20799269 ... -handball/

This is why they have been mocking Mbappe.

This isn't shifting goalposts; these were some of the gateways that Messi had to pass through in order for him to be in the conversation for GOAT status. I think Messi's achievements are remarkable. I've preferred watching Maradona and I don't think there was anyone more talented than Diego, but I ...

Bigpokey24 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 12:54 am
CIC is so daft kai

Mr Follow Follow and the daftest person on the forum puts mouth in the matter without understanding the subject.

So? What has a breathless, neither here nor there opinion have to do with anything? :biggrin: Four penaritis out of seven so only three "real" goals :rotf:, and one penarity miss. :rotf: Given the eagerness of refs to "help" Messi, who is surprised that the Argies got so many pe...

Antonio Cassano makes some of my points. https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/320878453_905542370820596_7943878469683586461_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=U9leC7BaNmcAX8odLPy&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=00_AfDioXH1zUbL0jtmMau6jd1-wzi54etpIfgxMRQc0...

All the greats can be kept quiet in games. Leo Messi has had several bad WC games, where he had little effect including his last WC finals appearance. He just scored his first knockout goal in his 5th WC and didn't he have back to back poor Copa finals at some point? I don't think Mbappe can be shu...

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/qu75QwZC17rrMDUpxpofzw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYwMDtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_telegraph_258/df343ffa7023dd54fb5b8f547a4bb1aa :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: This reminds me of when Bowe won the heavyweight title. In the post-fight interview he ju...

Many people proclaiming Pele (who Maradona said belongs in a museum) as the GOAT, including me, only saw highlights. I once watched the full 1970 WC final and it was soooo slow! The argument of Pele winning 3 WCs comes with caveats. In 1958, he wasn't the star of the team. That was Garrincha, suppor...

Are we talking about the same Mbappe that went missing against England, Morocco and for 80 mins of the final? The key guy in the final was Kolo Muani.

Mbappe is good, but is easily shut out by a guy who is fast. Let's assess him when he is 30 and no longer a speedster.

^Dont think creativity in midfield is the issue. The game has moved on from the days of Magicians with no. 10 emblazoned on their jerseys. Fastest route to goal, Allardyconomics aside, remains down the flanks. Brazil were not eliminated for lack of creation rather absolute naivety with regard to ga...

Brazil's problem is down to not producing enough creative midfielders, which may be related to emphasis at home to become more "European" in style. When they got a shellacking from Germany in the semi in WC2014, one Brazilian pundit said the Germans came to the Maracana and taught them how...