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Originally Posted by EZM
Really good game this morning between Senegal and Japan. Both teams went end to end and played very well. Both teams were better than expected for me.
Just finished watching the Poland vs. Columbia game - Unfortunately the result is what I expected to see. Have a few polish co-workers devastated and shocked .....
An exit was a high probability in the first round despite Poland's FIFA #8 in the world ranking. These rankings, as usual have serious flaws quite often. Don't get me wrong - Poland is a decent and competitive team - they aren't better than Spain, Mexico, Denmark, Netherlands, England or Italy as the rankings would have you believe.
Colombia was just that much stronger and when the game had to "open up" the inevitable just came quicker.
Heartbreaking for them .... they will come back stronger and learn from this.
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Senegal vs Japan was indeed a very good game. The Senegalese were lucky to not to have lost the game. Going forward they are very good, they created few chances and they were lucky to covert just two, but I think there is a lot for them to do defensively. They were leading Japan at 70th min and yet they went on to concede a goal they could have prevented. They need to work on their defensive line if they want to qualify in that group.