Lovely touch of sportsmanship there from Neymar to shake the refs hand before going off
How could the ref wave play on there when the Brazilian fouls the croatian player twice in front of the ref.
Pletikosa isn’t a good goalkeeper.
Robbery.
Fuck sake. Incredibly harsh on Croatia.
Brilliant goal by Oscar
Great save and an ever greater goal. Brazil, fucking hell
Surely a free kick to Croatia on the half way line in the lead up to that goal?
Oscar has been very good tonight.
Oscar MOTM easy
Who got paid more for this game; cunt of a ref or the croat keeper
That Fred is a fucking joke. The croatian keeper is shite.
Keeper will be disappointed with all three goals
That croation goalkeeper cant deal with the balls that go either side of him.
Lads this has been a cracking opener. Had pretty much everything.
Comparisons with Brazil 2014 and France 1998. Neither team had a striker.
Agreed but all 3 a lot tougher than perhaps they looked to the naked eye, 1st - accuracy, 2nd -Power, 3rd surprise and accuracy
Croatia rode by Homer ref
Brazil are shakey as fuck at the back, they’ll get caught out by someone with a better strike force
Good game, pity about the dreadful refereeing decision. Not giving something obvious can be frustrating. Giving something when there was no foul is unacceptable.
Oscar was superb and Neymar was very good for Brazil too. But they were poor in midfield and looked shaky at the back. Croatia showed that the template to beat them is to get their full backs on the back foot and whip in crosses when the centre backs have been dragged out.
People will be dissing Brazil after that but I expect they will improve 2fold for that game, the pressure on them tonight would have been almost unbearable and I note the boys are making the very same comment as I type