Poland V Colombia World Cup 2018

Poland V Colombia

(Synopsis in red)

Pregame bets:

James should be fully fit for the game and rearing to get a goal to start his World Cup in earnest.

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Poland v Colombia – Anytime Goalscorer James Rodriguez 12/5

Going for Colombia who have slightly more skill to beat a Poland who lack any creativity.

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Colombia 5/4

Full betting review here>https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/top-bets-of-the-world-cup-2018/

A nice handy win, James didn’t score but what a game he played, brilliant.

Beers: Group H of Beer World Cup:

Club Colombia up against Polish heavy hitter Tyskie. Might be a battle royale, or perhaps just a damn squid. Let see.

World Cup of Beer Group H

Was hard to separate Club Colombia and Tyskie. Both came cold from the fridge, and both were enjoyable in the hot breezy summers evening, while the football was on. Since I quite liked the two beers, I decided a draw would be the fairest result.

PreGame:

Against Senegal Poland didn’t do very much. The game started off end to end but without any clear cut chances, fairly even, but after a while it was Senegal who were doing all the pressing. On the box the commentators were not impressed with both teams, but I thought Senegal played some good football. They passed it well, were pacey and lively, showed some great ball control and pressed high up the field. They also created some decent chances, Niang in particular missing an easy opportunity to get on the score sheet.

The goal that did come was a bit of good fortune, getting a bad deflection off Cionek who diverted a shot into his own net. Was a lucky goal, but no more than Senegal deserved as Poland did nothing in the first half.

Senegal did drop the tempo a bit in the second half, but Poland didn’t react at all. And after Senegal poxed another goal from a comedy goal they kind of gave up. The goal was a mix up between midfielder Krychowiak who booted an aimless back pass towards his goalkeeper Szczesny, who wasn’t expecting it and came off his line to intercept, but he missed it and Niang got the bounce and scored into an empty net to make it two nil.

If Poland were dead before that then they were well buried after that goal. With 20 minutes to go they looked out for the count. Eventually they did get a goal back with a good header by Krychowiak, but with 4 minutes left it was too little too late.

This result, and the Japanese one in the first game, sets up a mouth watering tie today between Poland and Colombia where the loser exits the World Cup, possibly earlier than expected.

Colombia: In the Colombia V Japan match, I knew Japan would score goals, but I never guessed they would come out as victors. Excellent win, and fully deserved as they totally had Colombia in their pockets all through the second half. Well done Japan.

Was surprised to see Honda not starting then I see Rodríguez is also not playing. What kind of crazy shenanigans is this from the managers!

A fast break at the start rattled Colombia and ended up with C Sánchez touching the ball in the box with his hands. That’s a big no no and so he was sent off and gave away the penalty, a peno that Kagawa dispatched with no bother. Great start from Japan.

It took Colombia along time to get back into the game after that shock to the system. And they did. It resulted in an open ended game with both teams running at each other, hell for leather. A great contest to see. The Japanese defence holding up very well though.

Cuadrado was surprisingly taking off by José Pékerman after half an hour, which was kind of strange but I did say in my preview he is a donut of a manager, so what gives. They could have done with him in the second half as Colombia had no pace by then.

Colombia did come back from a free kick. It was never a free kick but well done to Quintero for fooling everyone and kicking it under the wall. Very clever goal. Also funny to see the Japanese goalkeeper protest, was the sun in his eyes or what?!

In the second half Japan came out all guns ablazing and pretty much that’s what the whole second half was all about. Relentless attack after attack from Japan, intricate shot passing to get behind the Colombian defence there pressure played dividends when in 73rd minute, Osako, who had a fine game, scored with a power header, from a lovely out swinging cross by Honda (who eventually came on!).

Japan held on to record a famous win, and totally unexpected result, and another shock in this years World Cup. Japan now know probably one more point might be enough to get them through, while Colombia know that a loss today against Poland and they are out early.

A more detailed review on Poland here and on Colombia here

Well well well, that result has certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. Colombia have shown that they might be a dark horse in this years world cup, a team that can play good football, pass it on the deck and can score goals. Plus in James Rodríguez the have a truly world class star and play maker.

It was a big game for both teams, a win was needed, lose and you are out of the World Cup. The atmosphere was electric (mostly thanks to the Colombian fans) and the tension high. Poland started livelier but as the game went on there was really only one team in this game, Colombia!

Mojica from banging long balls up from defense, causing all sorts of problems on both wings, Barrios working hard as a defensive midfielder, while James Rod was doing his thing in the centre of the park. It was all Colombia and Poland had nothing to stop them.

From a short well worked corner, Mina headed home the first goal, put on a plate for him by Rodríguez, excellent. The second came from Falcao, on the 70th minute, just when I thought he was not doing much he pops up to score a real strikers goal, placing coolly beyond the Polish goalie, brilliant. Not even 5 minutes later we got the third, another great pass by Rodríguez to this time set up Cuadrado, who capped off a fine performance with a well taken goal, scoring with little difficulty. It is so easy for these Colombian fellas.

Colombia looked great today and you would imagine they should have too much in the arsenal to beat a limited enough Senegal, while Poland have only respect to play for against a decent Japanese team. This World Cup keeps getting better and better.

Music to get you in the mood

KAMIL BEDNAREK Feat MATHEO – TALIZMAN (Poland) V Ekhymosis – Solo (Colombia)