Thiago Silva & Brasil '13: The Confederations Cup Thread

Group A: Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Japan

Group B: Spain, Uruguay, Tahiti, Nigeria

Disappointed by Japan in the opener, didn't have their usual pace or stamina. Neymar opened the scoring on a terrific volley; my 6 year old in the Japan shirt was calling for hand ball on Fred but I don't think you'd ever call that back. Brazil had most of the possession and the better chances, Japan's shots were from distance and right at the keeper. Brazil's second goal should've been stopped by Kawashima, who's made too many mistakes in recent months. Uchida did a good job keeping up with Neymar on the wing. Honda tried hard but couldn't beat the pressure, it didn't help that David Luiz kept shoving him without drawing a foul. Endo looked old and tired and couldn't complete any of his longer pass attempts, the team improved when he was replaced. Brazil were clearly the better team, despite the perception that they're not that good these days, which bodes badly for Japan fans like me

Hard to imagine Japan getting enough points from Italy and Mexico to advance, which means this afternoon's game in Rio could decide the non-Brazil team to come out of Group A.

Spain - Uruguay this afternoon should be fun to watch.

You could've had Sergio Ramos & Brasil '13, but maybe save that for next year, we might be able to get even closer

maybe Jordan Hendes, if England get there

Jesus!

Gio looking sharp, as usual.

Sickly child nets, 1-1. I just switched on, what was the blasphemy for?

Fabulous Pirlo free kick.

was just lolling at the possibility it might be the actual fan Jesus

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4568/piwl.jpg

That's a great goal from Balo, proper centre-forward shit

Amazing that someone who has such difficulties putting on a shirt takes it off so many times when he scores tbh

I can never see that Uruguay-Ghana penalty sequence often enough. Gorgeous.

ffs I won't be inviting Jonathan Pearce to any party I'm throwing

I want to put this Uruguayan XI in sharp suits and shoot Godfather III properly.

Spain looking amazing thus far. They've got a bit of knife-through-ham-sandwich about them in this incarnation.

feel like Spain ought to get all Corinthian about this and decline to accept any goal resulting from a deflection

'it's not like tropical rain, it's like a monsoon' - wth does that mean?

i like how spain's shirts make it look like they're all wearing gold medals

i do not like how lawrenson is allowed to be alive

totally predictable, totally lovely

Some goal

forearm smashes are a fine addition to the repertoire imo

Remind me how England beat this?

"we're actually inundated with ants here in the commentary position"

I quite liked that glimpse behind the curtain

that's twice Lawro's been on about the traffic infrastructure

i wonder what it's like actually living in uruguay day to day, do you just get elbowed in the face waiting in line at the post office and stuff

uncharacteristically poor ball from robert downey jr there

srsty you can train english yoof for a thousand years and never get an exchange as casually excellent as that between alba and pedro on the left just then

How much do Spain ever gain from the faceclutchy stuff? It's like whenever Robert Plant starts singing about Tolkein.

I bypassed Uruguay when I was down that part of the world xps and have always regretted it. I expect the border guards would've greeted me with a handshake and a rake down the shins.

Pffft refs need constant reminding that lesser team are kicking you

Pirlo

look at poyet the little monkey. his whole body alive with chimpy mischief

him and oatway is the ticket to victory for qpr i have decided

loving that Oceania Cup footage, 'til the scorer approached the camera doing the Gareth Bale hearty thing

i do not like how lawrenson is allowed to be alive

― r|t|c, Sunday, 16 June 2013 23:26 (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't worry, he doesn't take any pleasure in it either.

lol at this grilling of Poyet, when it kicked off refusing to identify what the issue was

really want to see some more of cavani this lonely night.... he's just so steamy

a real bonkbuster of a player bolo

Uruguay player off, tennis elbow perhaps

I've no idea why those bastards of Dutch public broadcasting decided to broadcast this tournament live in its entirety. It's not like I haven't better things to do, like word. Or sleep. [/blue saturday]

Also that Pirlo goal was nice and all but there was an odd touch of the grobelaars abt the goalie.

jesus some of those passes were laser guided

Lawro a bit hazy on the whereabouts of Isco

pearce giving the portuguese pronunciation a right good go tonight

that Uruguay left back's shorts are down to his calves, kids today.

soldado's looked pretty lumpen in this company

i hadnt noticed but those shorts really are absurd

belter

Commentary embarrassing

How the fuck didn't Soldado get a penalty there wtf

That passage just there - that was Lawro and Mowbray asking if Germany could cut it on a hot Tuesday night in Fortaleza, wasn't it?

Feel sorry for this Jadson dude, somehow his late arrival leaves a stain of failure

feel that Lawrenson will struggle to top his 'cocoa as metaphor for sex with Shakira' bit in the remaining fifteen minutes.

Neymar's shite.

It was Neymar's dummy, course it was

That fucking ipad.

haha

save by the QPR lad

are brazil allowed to have an ipad wanker? gonna go with a tentative 'no'

"cunt with an iPad" is the new vuvuzela for 2014

punters

that's stoke city isn't it

Well this tourney was an unexpected treat. Can't wait for the World Cup now.

stoke city, brazil

brazil, stoke city

how the fuck did mowbray just pronounce 'maracana' :'D

Hyundai: "THANK YOU FANS"

I hope they have a drunk & lairy Fernando Duarte on Football Weekly tomorrow

blow up ref, julio's gotta be in for preseason in 8 hours

"in many ways by winning this competition they've just ratcheted up the pressure to win next year", sez smilin' mark l.

THEY WANTED IT MORE

every moment of pleasure only augurs a darker future.

How much grace does this buy Neymar before the 'he's shit' meme resurfaces?

Thought Shearer was going to plough back in there for a second

Torres receiving the golden boot: priceless

Torres has become the Chance the Gardener of football hasn't he.

This is the most elaborate prize ceremony I've ever seen.

Bronze ball for Paulinho now. Lol.

Xp yes he has. He can score some mean goals against Tahiti though

portugal are pretty much the fake brazil anyway, big phil and deco, it's clever brand continuity. i'd quite like owen's wooden face in there to balance it out, or maybe rooney thieving in the car park instead of van nisty. ronan so bang otm about the hell ad tho

― prima fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 22:54 (9 years ago)

this is the first ilx reference to 'big phil' that isnt constituent of 'big phil collins fan'

would have expected england prop forward turned celebrity chef phil vickery in there somewhere

mwah otm

(i discovered he was a celebrity chef tonight when his name appeared on a poster for some ridiculous hyde park comedy and cookery festival)

'prop forward turned celebrity chef' conveys so much of why i wish most english people would just die

you kidding? we need more of that sort. good stolid trenchermen, not like pansy neymar and his merrie men

blokes

national salvation as a cornish pasty being flung from hand to hand before a giant ogre can crush the life from your lungs. but who eats the pasty?

god i remember reading this daily telegraph article where they asked an esteemed chef to do a menu of 'blokes food' which was like veal roasted in ale and other tryhard dogshit, god forbid blokes would deign to consume anything that a homosexual or a woman might eat

a whole grouse, roasted in veal

a bottle of Famous Grouse, smashed over the head of a bullock and then drunk from the resulting puddle of cowshit and blood

lawl

followed by a brisk bout of welly-wanging and an fhm photoshoot with some nubile patriots

anyway, brazil are right good eh blokes. let's go down maryon park and practice our rabonas

I hope they have a drunk & lairy Fernando Duarte on Football Weekly tomorrow

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 30 June 2013 23:49 (Yesterday)

Football Weekly delivers

'prop forward turned celebrity chef'

lols. borrowing this.

Vickery left school age 16 and worked as a herdsman on his parents' farm. He remains a qualified cattle inseminator.[4]

Vickery has an Oriental tattoo on his left shoulder which roughly translates to "I'll fight you to the death", and a bulldog tattoo on his right.

not sure exactly how one becomes a nonpractising, defrocked, emeritus cattle inseminator

wrong hole, maybe

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I didn't see the anthems last night. Fuck me, that Brazilian rendition was emotional.

Massive strategic error by the Spanish, going with an instrumental.

reminds me of this magic moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXfGAlc4i4w