@appiecule His ego hurt the team. They were down to 10 men defending for penalties and he stays on the field? A guy who walks around and doesn't press or help defend. He should have been substituted for defensive help. Selfish.
@FeedTheSpud@GeorgeElek Consensual sex isn't rape dude. Their stories lined up, interviewed separately he admitted she said no no we can't do this, while inserting him in teasing. She said she told him no we can't do this. In a hotel room full of other ppl........
@CFCMods He also has titles in england, Italy, and 1 more champions league, well 2 if you consider Messi wasn't a starter yet during the first champ league he won. Does that make CR7 better? Does Peles 2 WC make him better?
@hist_of_the_day England sat and parked the bus and brought on 3 center backs to defend for the final half hour? Terrible approach. U go for the KO punch, not allowing pressure and hoping to defend well
@appiecule Such a difficult path, playing 1 team ranked in the top 15 in the world to get to a world cup final. Barely squeaking by game after game, and fifa now wants to expand to 64 teams and weaken it even more.
@UncleMasila@pitch_aura@FabrizioRomano In euros you're facing the best European teams in the knockouts, its tougher to win. World cup top teams often get easy paths to the semis, see Argentina, England, France for example. Doesnt happen in the euros. Smaller tournament, better teams in knockouts.
@pitch_aura@FabrizioRomano World cup and eurors are the two biggest international tournaments. For a team that had never won either, winning the euros felt like winning the world championship. When your country hasn't ever won anything, it's harder to upset and win.
@tekn021@purrfectlytoxic@SaraFCBi You know damn well had egypt scored at the end and messi had his food tripped like Salah, VAR would have gone back and looked at it and called a foul and no goal. We know that.
@tekn021@purrfectlytoxic@SaraFCBi Not rigged, but with how much ppl love Messi, it's very easy to look back on a possible foul like when egypt scored and say hmmm yeah we can call that goal back. Whereas had that been argentina scoring, VAR likely doesn't look back to find that "foul"
@appiecule Out of the 5 penalties awarded in 2022, how many weren't soft, 1. And messi purposley hand ball vs Netherlands when he already had a yellow, by rule automatic yellow and red. Ref did not want to be known as the ref who gave him a red in WC