Colombia V England World Cup 2018

Colombia V England

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Pregame bets:

I am bound to crack one of these 100/1 bets some day, so let today be that day! England all the way to victory.

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Colombia v England – England to Win; BTTS; 4+ corners for each team & 3+ cards for each team 100/1

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Actually it wasn’t that far off, thought the card thing might be tough to get, but no it was the corner count.

Beers: Round of 16 Beer World Cup:

England qualified second to Belgium in my Beer Group G, similar to what happened in the football. London Pride doing the business for them. While Poland, and Tyskie, won my Beer Group H.

England V Poland

England just lost out in their epic tussle with Belgium, both in the football and in my Beer World Cup. But they are still very much alive in this competition, coming second in Beer Group G. Poland also did well to come tops in Beer Group H.

London Pride Tyskie Gronie

Read who qualified for my Beer World Cup last 16 here

Close match-up, but in essence, London Pride is a far superior beer, in terms of taste and flavours, and more enjoyable,sorry Tyskie.

PreGame:

Looked at the first half of Colombia v Senegal, and I was not at all impressed with what I saw from Colombia.

Senegal wasted so many chances in the first half, with Mane, Balde and the rest of the forward line missing some decent scoring opportunities and generally messing up some attacking play. When its 3 v 2 a few times and you still lose the game, you can whinge all you want about yellow cards and unfairness, but the reality is your team weren’t that good at all. Senegal should have scored a few in the first half. End of!

Colombia on the other hand, were lucky. I don’t know how they managed to win this game, as in the first half they were simply awful and then to make matters worse they lost Rodríguez who had to go off with an injury. Cuadrado was simply brutal, couldn’t even manage a simply pass all game, and spent most of the game falling to the ground. If they dont get James Rod back in time, and its asking a lot with such a short turnaround, then I can’t see them causing England too many problems.

Saw the second half of England V Belgium:

Started off pretty slow. Januzaj though shaked it up, scoring with a cracker of a goal, a lovely long range effort that flew in for Belgium, with the English defence a little asleep.

England started playing a bit better after the goal went in, woke them up a bit, but I dont think they had the personal on the pitch to do much damage to Belgium, as the Belgian defence was holding up quite well.

Rashford though, got through, from a great ball by Vardy, and really should have scored, putting it wide. That was the chance to equalise.

Delph was on, showing his lack of skills, nearly hitting the corner flag from a shot on target, while at the opposite end, Mertens had a good strike saved well.

Basically this game was between the England second team V the Belgium second team, and showed us that the Belgians have good strength in depth, not so England, but if they played their first team then I’d imagine a completely different result.

England now go up against Colombia today, a very winnable game now that James Rodriguez is carrying an injury, and I expect Kane to be once again the man of the moment for the Three Lions.

England made heavy work of that. Leading for a long time, they let it nearly slip by letting Colombia equalise in injury time, and then just about got over the line in penalties.

As James Rodríguez wasn’t playing it was always going to be tough for Colombia, and they pretty much ceded the whole pitch to England for most of the game, defending in numbers with only one man up front, Falcao. They rarely threatened England at all. And then they got very cynical, constantly fouling and doing niggly kicks, surrounding the ref when they didn’t get a decision, the usual diving. They were a bloody disgrace really. Barrios should have got sent off for his headbutt, while the penalty was spot on from the man in black, its not like he warned them a few times, tsk!

Kane, Mr. Pressure, with ease, no problem, but the spot kick away, back of the net. Under all the whinging of the Colombians, he kept his calm to put England into the lead. And they deserved it, they played some good pressurizing football and were trying to play honestly.

For me, Maguire was man of the match. every opportunity he had, he pushed forward with the ball, and was calm and collected at the back. A brilliant World Cup from him so far.

Then just when you think England should close the game out, Colombia’s Uribe takes a crazy long range effort that was dipping fast that Pickford in the English goal’s superbly pushed over the bar. Fantastic save, I thought it was in! But from the resulting corner, an unmarked Mina scored with a free header. One a piece. Crazy for England to let Colombia back in.

Extra time came and went without incident, and then we were onto penalties. I said to my mate before they were taken that Henderson would miss. I was right. How so? Cause that is always the way when footballers do fuck all on the pitch in 90, what makes them think they have the ability then to take a penalty, clown. I thought, oh no, it is going to be the same old story for England here, but then Uribe hit the bar with his penalty, and Bacca’s was saved by Pickford. All eyes were then on Eric Dier with the deciding penalty, and he put it away very coolly, excellent. England have finally got that monkey off their back!

Music to get you in the mood

Aterciopelados – Play (Video Oficial) ft. Ana Tijoux (Colombia) V Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (England)