Copa America 2011

[Reece]

Lucas starts for Brazil

jonawils Jonathan Wilson
BRA team v VEN: Julio Cesar; Dani Alves, Lucio, Thiago Silva, Andre Santos; Ramires, LUcas, Ganso; Robinho, Pato, Neymar

[wavydavy]

His old Gremio boss is manager now and his is the first name on the teamsheet these days. There's a lot of humble pie to be eaten by an awful lot of people regarding this lad isn't there.

[Craig_H]

Or maybe he's just improved enormously?

[Mattimetal]

Maradona was a disaster as a manager, playing Messi way too deep and taking him away from goal and choosing VERON FFS over Cambiasso, who was coming off of bossing the midfield in the CL Final. The minute Argentina came up against a world class team, they went down in flames because they were exposed as having no steel in the midfield and a mess at the back.

No he wasn't a disaster at all, he was barely given enough time tbh.
He was thrown in at the deep end and had to battle to get them to qualify, but give him his due he achieved it in the end.

He played Messi in the same way he plays for Barca - he was aloud to roam - so don't sprout **** about him playing Mesi too deep, cos Messi did everything but score in the WC. How many times did he hit the bar or see the keeper parry his shot past the bar?

I rem watching the quarter final from the 4th row side of the pitch (where Veron didn't play btw) and noticing Mascher having to try contain 3 german midfielders all the time, because Di Maria, Tevez and Maxi were too lazy too track back. Arg strikers didn't have their shooting boots on that day (Messi hadn't train cos of the flu), and the goal after 3 mins allowed the Germans to pick them off on the counter attack. That was the way the Germans played in the WC on the counter, and they were blady good at it.

Oh and Samuel was out injured as well in that game leaving the youngster Otamendi horribly exposed at RB.

[Mostar]

Stream links for Brazil vs. Venezuela

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=121530&part=sports

Otherwise you can watch it on TV if you have any of these channels:

Al Jazeera Sports, Astro, Canal + Liga Espana, Canal 7, Canal Plus France, Canal+ Spain, ESPN Deportes Radio, ESPN HD Brasil, ESPN HD UK, ESPN UK, EuroWorld Sport, Fox Sports Latin America, GloboEsporte, Kolkata TV, Meridiano Television, Setanta Ireland, Setanta Sports Australia, Sky Italia, Sport.TV1, Sport.TVHD, Sport1 + Germany, SuperSport, TDN, The Score, TLN en Espanol, TVP Sport, TyC Sports Argentina, Univision, Univision Deportes

[red g]

Or maybe he's just improved enormously?

not rocket surgery is it. I love all this revisionism and how people have been proved alegedly right......but he had to play an awful lot of games to get where he is today and he really wasnt very good to start with.

[Reece]

Robinho's hair

[danperkins]

not rocket surgery is it. I love all this revisionism and how people have been proved alegedly right......but he had to play an awful lot of games to get where he is today and he really wasnt very good to start with.

[danperkins]

Neymar looks an absolutely outstanding player.

[Dan]

Robinho's hair

Jealous?

[Mostar]

Neymar looks an absolutely outstanding player.

Unbelievable player. Reminds me a lot of C. Ronaldo.

Wish we had money to sign him

[danperkins]

Unbelievable player. Reminds me a lot of C. Ronaldo.

Wish we had money to sign him

look pure quality alright, no wonder so many clubs after him, and yeah jaysus we're so far away from signing anyone like that

Although Lucas is having a stormer, which is good for us

[little dave hedgehog]

this on sky or what?

[Chris]

Hopefully the tournament gets a bit more exciting than the ****e served up so far!

[Reece]

Jealous?

Nope.




What the **** was that Old Spice advert all about?