biggest letdowns on highly rated players so far

di maria
milner
rooney

do you have other calls

I don't think you can count Di Maria yet...most of Argentina's play came from the right or through the middle. It's not that he was poor, just that he didn't get involved by his teammates. Also, Nigeria's midfield was a bit lopsided so they tended to have more of their players drifting to their right flank, which reduced the space available to Di Maria.


One name I'd put here is Higuain. Not for his missed chances (otherwise we could put Messi here too), but I thought his overall play in attack was unimpressive, esp. compared to Milito who looked very sharp and combined better with Messi when he came on. I wouldn't be surprised if Maradona swapped them for the next game.

Luis Suarez n whole French team

Özil wrote:di maria
milner
rooney

do you have other calls

Bad timing to start this thread, Ozil, I suspect you will get a lot of posts here today

Milner, highly rated? By whom?

bluenine wrote:

Özil wrote:di maria
milner
rooney

do you have other calls

Bad timing to start this thread, Ozil, I suspect you will get a lot of posts here today

Milner, highly rated[/b[b]]? By whom?

Manchester City

bluenine wrote:

Özil wrote:di maria
milner
rooney

do you have other calls

Bad timing to start this thread, Ozil, I suspect you will get a lot of posts here today

Milner, highly rated? By whom?

yeah the complete aussie team

i think chelsea and man city hunting milner

Talk about knee jerk!

Come on Australia were shite!

USA are ranked 14th in the world and BEAT Spain last summer in a competitive game.

You're likely to face them in the last 16 - it'll be interesting to see how you compare against them.

we wont be that impressive against every side, we know that

i compare this to lyon vs bayern, inter was a different league, it will not be that easy against a top team

but we can create, and that fears enemys, so they will not much attack us

should we really fear usa, we punish them with a 2 goal difference next round, but i really hope we get england

With King out, so would I

Tweesus wrote:With King out, so would I

there nothing better then england-germany in a WC

, lets hope it becomes reality

I don't really want to jinx us deisler, but I expect us to win the group regardless of the result of the game against the US. We drew, yes, but we were the better team on the night and we'll have barry coming back who'll create a better balance to the midfield. I expect us to have better results against Algeria and Slovenia that the US do.

i know that, you were the better team and had a lot of chances

normally you should finish first

I think Ghana-Germany should be a great game mind. Their work-rate is highly impressive and it'll be more of a challenge to your stlye of football than Australia posed you last night. I expect Ghana to come 2nd in your group.

Tweesus wrote:I don't really want to jinx us deisler, but I expect us to win the group regardless of the result of the game against the US. We drew, yes, but we were the better team on the night and we'll have barry coming back who'll create a better balance to the midfield. I expect us to have better results against Algeria and Slovenia that the US do.

We really weren't.

Higuain and Rooney are the two who i have been disappointed in so far. They both came into the competition with reputations as being in the top bracket of international strikers, but both did nothing in their opening game. Its only early days yet so cannot make any real judgements yet.

Don't Panic wrote:

Tweesus wrote:I don't really want to jinx us deisler, but I expect us to win the group regardless of the result of the game against the US. We drew, yes, but we were the better team on the night and we'll have barry coming back who'll create a better balance to the midfield. I expect us to have better results against Algeria and Slovenia that the US do.

We really weren't.

Sure you were

RVP joins the club

RVP was *very* poor in his first match, Sneijder was poor (only one good pass : the through ball to Elia).

Axeslammer wrote:RVP was *very* poor in his first match, Sneijder was poor (only one good pass : the through ball to Elia).

Midget was MOTM

bluenine wrote:

Axeslammer wrote:RVP was *very* poor in his first match, Sneijder was poor (only one good pass : the through ball to Elia).

Midget was MOTM

Midget was poor.

I'm not a fan of this thread. How can we make judgements after one game?

Romford Pele wrote:I'm not a fan of this thread. How can we make judgements after one game?

It does say so far in the title

Midget and RVP were both plainly shite. Thank god for Kuyt covering all their flaws

I do see, but it'd make logical sense to have this after the group stages, or at least the second round of matches.

Has anyone mentioned Ribery yet? Thought he was France's worst player.

Also, Messi was a big disappointment. He didn't score a single wonder goal!

No, but the whole french squad were.

Ribery was the worst though. He's so ugly too.

Di Maria. Argentina played with 10 men.

Ribery

Lampard

Krasic was horrendous.

Pantelić was pretty poor as well..saying that, I dunno if he wasnt meant to be good.

He wasnt good though.

Özil wrote:di maria
milner
rooney

do you have other calls

Unfair on Milner, it was widely recognised he was ill before and during the game - this was Capello's error playing him instead of Joe Cole.

Rooney I definitely agree with, very disappointed by his performance. Looked tired and off the pace.

The entire French team deserve a mention. Talented individuals, but terrible performance