Just in case, relying too much on one player might come back to bite later on.
Not saying superstars don't make a difference, but they can have their flukes ...
IIRC, against Croatia the man of the match was
Of course we played better, Nigeria didn't defend with 10 people. And yeah, our defense was shit today.
Huh? That many players are in form and have the obvious ability to score goals is very positive for the team.
Neymar was barely mentioned in the comments btw.
Who made the goal was just that person who kicked the ball and put it into the goal, the easy part of the entire play most of the time. That's why, most of the time, it is not the goal that is beautiful, it is the entire play, what was made and how it was made to reach the goal.
ROFL, I didn't mean people here xD But I'm not going to go back and read old posts so let's say people here found Neymar average that game. Guess I forgot how impressive Oscar was that game but I found Neymar great as well.
Yeah thanks I know all this. I'm often one of the ones not praising the easy goal putting but the play. But try telling that to the average watcher. There's a reason you see things like this being hyped "MESSI with hattrick for Barcelona", and all the praise of "the little magician does it again" etc when 1 goal was a penalty, another was an easy put from 2 meter in open goal from beautiful foreplay by Xavi, Iniesta or whoever, and perhaps a nice goal as a third. Still people hype the goals often more than the actual foreplay. That's also what people remember afterwards. People don't remember who set the goals up, or if they came from huge mistakes by the opponent team. They remember the goals and who scored them xD
Sure, but you said that France made 5 goals with 5 different players as if it was better than 5 goals by one player only. It is not true, goals are goals, it doesn't matter who made them. That's the point. It matters more the entire team having the ability to reach the goal together in a play than who put the ball inside.
Yeah I agree with that. Should've worded that differently. The point was they looked good as a team in the previous match <-- Better and quick one I guess.
The decision will be made by next Uruguay match.Still nothing official for him ??
Collective is all that matters. Look at Portugal, has the best player of the world, but that's it.
So many are too focused on him as an individual sadly. While he has underperformed he doesn't have remotely the same team of the necessary level to play like he does "normally". 
Well, Portugal was pretty damn awful this WC. If not for Michael Bradley giving the ball away for no reason at the end of the match, Ronaldo wouldn't have even had the chance to swing in the cross. That one cross was better than anything the rest of his team did combined over two matches.Yeah, I always say that too
Amanhã vamos ganhar! Or not
Btw tomorrow you gonna see some more media slaughter of individual vs collective if Cristiano doesn't score. "Ronaldo goes home from WC without having scored ONCE! SCANDAL!!" Media I swear
I wasn't really worried before the WC. The logical conclusion was: Germany will be hard, likely a loss but possibly a small chance for upset or at least draw, but likely loss. Other two matches should be wins. In football anything can happen and you can't underestimate teams, but I wasn't really taking the thought seriously of US or Ghana advancing over Portugal. A slim chance at best, but very unlikely. In the end both teams performed way above the level I expected, especially US, and Portugal performed way below what anyone and I expected. To be fair the reason US dominated Portugal and was thus allowed to look so great is because Portugal vastly underperformed in the WC. At a standard (even normal slump) form no one would really think US would dominate Portugal. It will be interesting to see how US performs vs Germany honestly.