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Looks like England finally have decided to take this tournament seriously. They send their top youth Talent and Hammer Mighty Argentina 3-0 in their first game. 4 Nigerian blood players on the team

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Mexico barely got by Vanuatu... last gasp win
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Korea beat Guinea earlier 3 - 0.
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Solowe wrote:Looks like England finally have decided to take this tournament seriously. They send their top youth Talent and Hammer Mighty Argentina 3-0 in their first game. 4 Nigerian blood players on the team

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The scoreline was quite flattering for England.
2-0 up against the run of play and then an Argie was sent off for a deliberate elbow on Tomori with about 20mis to go.
Even then, Arg dominated but couldn't finish.
Solanke slotted in a third goal from the penalty spot just before full time.
Tomori, Onomah, Solanke and Seyi Ojo all played.

I'm really looking forward to seeing that exciting Zambian team v Portugal.
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Korea beat Guinea ... What a useless team Guinea has.. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Clueless coaching, players shooting from 30 yards.
Korea on the other hand look like they have an incredible future for their football.. tall skillful players, very technical..2 Play for Barcelona.


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balo wrote:Korea beat Guinea earlier 3 - 0.
Venezuela hammer Germany 2-0
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Apparently they're experimenting with live video evidence in this tournament.
The red card came as a result of the ref going over to a video viewing unit manned by 3 officials by the sideline.
After reviewing the video evidence with them he went back, called the Argentina player, made a sign of a video screen and gave him the red.

Looks like this is going to be introduced universally pretty soon.
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Damunk wrote:
Solowe wrote:Looks like England finally have decided to take this tournament seriously. They send their top youth Talent and Hammer Mighty Argentina 3-0 in their first game. 4 Nigerian blood players on the team

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The scoreline was quite flattering for England.
2-0 up against the run of play and then an Argie was sent off for a deliberate elbow on Tomori with about 20mis to go.
Even then, Arg dominated but couldn't finish.
Solanke slotted in a third goal from the penalty spot just before full time.
Tomori, Onomah, Solanke and Seyi Ojo all played.

I'm really looking forward to seeing that exciting Zambian team v Portugal.
I dont trust African teams other than Nigeria /Ghana in these International Tournaments... The rest always seem overwhelmed when they get outside of Africa.
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Damunk wrote:Apparently they're experimenting with live video evidence in this tournament.
The red card came as a result of the ref going over to a video viewing unit manned by 3 officials by the sideline.
After reviewing the video evidence with them he went back, called the Argentina player, made a sign of a video screen and gave him the red.

Looks like this is going to be introduced universally pretty soon.
Its a good addition to the game.... It only covers like 4 situations though... everything else is fair game and you know teams will take advantage of the loophole ..
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Solowe wrote:
Damunk wrote:
Solowe wrote:Looks like England finally have decided to take this tournament seriously. They send their top youth Talent and Hammer Mighty Argentina 3-0 in their first game. 4 Nigerian blood players on the team

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The scoreline was quite flattering for England.
2-0 up against the run of play and then an Argie was sent off for a deliberate elbow on Tomori with about 20mis to go.
Even then, Arg dominated but couldn't finish.
Solanke slotted in a third goal from the penalty spot just before full time.
Tomori, Onomah, Solanke and Seyi Ojo all played.

I'm really looking forward to seeing that exciting Zambian team v Portugal.
I dont trust African teams other than Nigeria /Ghana in these International Tournaments... The rest always seem overwhelmed when they get outside of Africa.
This is true and I've always wondered why.
Even Cameroun seem to have lost their mojo in recent years. Meanwhile na dem first open road for us....
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The only African team that may do well is Zambia and maybe Senegal. Guinea and South Africa are pants. Its a shame Oshemen and co failed to make it.
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NFF really messed up with the shoddy 2nd leg vs Sudan.

The boys should be in this tournament
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Damunk wrote:
Solowe wrote:Looks like England finally have decided to take this tournament seriously. They send their top youth Talent and Hammer Mighty Argentina 3-0 in their first game. 4 Nigerian blood players on the team

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The scoreline was quite flattering for England.
2-0 up against the run of play and then an Argie was sent off for a deliberate elbow on Tomori with about 20mis to go.
Even then, Arg dominated but couldn't finish.
Solanke slotted in a third goal from the penalty spot just before full time.
Tomori, Onomah, Solanke and Seyi Ojo all played.

I'm really looking forward to seeing that exciting Zambian team v Portugal.
...is 'against run of play' illegal? Anyway, watch those Argies go on to bigger things in their pro careers.
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Zambia playing Portugalright now. The game is at zero all and quite evenly balanced.
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Goal Zambia after some nice play in the box by their no 19 whose shot was pushed out only as far as another Zambian who tapped home.
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Zambia just scored again. Fashion Sakala scores after brilliant individual play by racing past two Portuguese players before beating the goalie with a left footed shot
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Portugal pulled one back in min 90
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Portugal scores, but time almost up.
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They throw everything forward but Zambia hold out for a famous victory. Well done
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FT

The young bullets & the Teranga Cubs might yet spare Africa's blushes in this tournament.
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watching Italy v Uruguay

what a shot, goal from a FK by Uruguay

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:shock: 1, 4 and 7am games. Ouch. nah to do tape delay for dis one.
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Damunk wrote:
Solowe wrote:Looks like England finally have decided to take this tournament seriously. They send their top youth Talent and Hammer Mighty Argentina 3-0 in their first game. 4 Nigerian blood players on the team

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The scoreline was quite flattering for England.
2-0 up against the run of play and then an Argie was sent off for a deliberate elbow on Tomori with about 20mis to go.
Even then, Arg dominated but couldn't finish.
Solanke slotted in a third goal from the penalty spot just before full time.
Tomori, Onomah, Solanke and Seyi Ojo all played.

I'm really looking forward to seeing that exciting Zambian team v Portugal.
I dont exactly agree with your assessment of the game. Bath teams played to their traditional strengths. Agries played their usual tiki-taka possession style, while England played their direct approach coupled with true grit defending. They played their expected styles. Argentina was going to enjoy majority of the possession no matter what.

England for the first time came to the championship with very little excuses, brought their best youth players..becuase they now see the value in how these championships help in the development of players. And I think we are going to see these crop of players struggle less on the international stage at the senior level. These guys rarely get to play outside of Europe.

The Argies on the other knew they didnt have the best team. This team struggled in the qualifiers and they had been panned at home as a terrible team and not in the class of their predecessors. While they had the possession they really had nothing inside the 18. Nearly all the crosses in the first half just kept going horrible wayward. England on the other hand brought some really good forwards who converted half chances into gold. The English defence, starting with their center backs, played according to English defending philosophy which has served them credibly well for a century.

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