Sorry to say but you're spreading pure crap here. Belgium ran still their ass off and still had chances, it was still a highly intense game... AND BY NO MEANS Switzerland just came back because Belgium stopped playing hard or anything.naaba wrote:Complete off-day. At 0-2 Belgium started to play like players didn't know each others. Also a tactical error by Martinez who played with Mertens on front... It never worked in national team. Batshuayi benched although he scored twice a few days before. Nobody understood that. Tielemans and Chadli on Monaco level, the latter should never have started the game. He gets too much credit since his goal against Japan.mspm89 wrote:I was very aware of the possibility of a scrappy Swiss win like 1-0, but 5-2? Wow. How bad did Belgium play? Was it a case of Switzerland converting all their chances? I remember people complaining about Seferovic's target man status being a hindrance in the WC; today he makes 3.
De Bruyne and Lukaku missing too, they are key players.
And what's with that non-sense of how Belgium was missing players? What's about injured Lichtsteiner, Akanji, Schaer for defense or Embolo, Derdiyok for attack for team Switzerland?
Switzerland did not profit from belgian gifts - they did beat them in competition. Don't start whining loser's talk here plz.
Belgium has the higher overall quality in the team. But it's football, on a give day such team still might be outplayed by some opponent.
I am seriously disappointed by seeing honesty completely missing here in the comment. It's not like everything happening in such games only depend on one team alone. Respect has to be earned... but when people DO EARN IT, then have the guts to give it to them, too.
