Is anyone really bothered?
The fact is, we've come into this tournament with zero expectation. That's with our A team. Of course our B team wasn't going to be great. And despite that, we now have a reasonable chance of getting to the semi-final (less that 50%, but reasonable).
Not only is he a genius, but did you see the Oscar winning performances from our boys? Me, I'd have been crap and laughed as I pretended to be disappointed.
Belgium vs Brazil :lol:
Didn't you read the memo? It's all about momentum you know. Brazil drew against Switzerland, and couldn't score until after 90 minutes against Costa Rica. Spain drew with Portugal, only managed to win 1-0 again Iran, and failed to beat Morocco! Similarly Portugal couldn't beat Iran.
The only...
I remember it all too well. We might have beaten Senegal, we might not. But we probably would have, we were playing very well. If we had, we'd have been favourites against Turkey in an evening game. Instead we played Brazil in searing heat. We started well and Ronald saw his fluky cross go in...
It won't dispel anything if we beat a bunch of Belgian reserves. We've also beaten the big teams in the group stages before, just not in the knockout rounds.