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How many times has it happened in the second half that I thought "surely this is going in" and nope it just bounces off somehow, it was insane. It was like watching Lewa hit 5 but the exact opposite
Imagine if Martinez had chosen to play from the beginning as he did in the second half today. Doku probably made more sprints in 20 mins than everyone else in the WC combined.
That happens when the manager doesn't want to play the newer generation. Doku was so good for the 20 mins he played in the WC. Can't believe he was benched for Mertens, Hazard or Batshuayi
Yeah that was it for them. The entire squad right now has maybe 7 or 8 players that'll be under 30 by the time the next WC rolls around. It's going to be a rough transition period for them.
No disrespect to the other players, but I thought that he was their best player from an attacking perspective this whole tournament just from today's cameo alone. How hasn't he been featured more prominently is completely on Martinez.
Doku was so good!!! If Martinez had played him before we might have won. He created opportunities and had so much energy. Why Martinez picked Carrasco over him is beyond me. Carrasco keeps effing up
Eden Hazard a week ago: We are here to play football, not to send political messages. Other people are better placed for that. We want to be focussed on football.
Ranking is broken. They only got to the quarters in the EC and then lost to France, Italy and Netherlands (x2) in the two Nations Leagues. No clue how they still ranked as best European team somehow.
Belgium FA have to be one of the most inept in the world. Absolutely wasted the entire prime of their golden generation by refusing to move on from Roberto fucking Martinez.
Hopefully Martinez is gone now. Abismal performance vs Morocco and Canada. Hopefully Witsel played his last match for Belgium aswell. 85th minute and he just stand still. Does nothing
He just delivered tonight like no other belgian attacker did. Lack of luck, if he hit that goal that went to the post he would be considered the best belgian.
USA have had 4 knockout round appearances this millennium. The only countries with more are Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, England, and Spain/Germany (if they advance in a few hours). The countries that also have 4 (at the moment) are Spain/Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, France. Switzerland, Japan, and Uruguay can get to 4 if they qualify today or tomorrow.
The only USA match I watched was vs Iran and holy crap, you guys can play this game! I was actually impressed and am cheering for you guys moving forward, go give Netherlands some hell in the next round!
I mean atleast Courtois was exceptional for us that match and made some amazing saves. This game our own player, top scorer ever for our NT missed 4 tap ins in one half. I mean jesus christ he a +2 x/g by himself in 45 mins.
If I had a nickel for every time a Martinez's contract ended as soon as the referee blew the whistle, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
"Winning the Euro is even more gratifying than winning the World Cup, in view of the teams and the level shown. Winning the Euro Cup is like being world champion. The best teams and players are European. Except for Brazil, everything is in Europe"
Honestly Lukaku may have missed some goals but at least he was in a good postion to take the chances. It is a team failure since the first game not just his couple of missed oppprtunities. I feel for him becoming the scalegoat
Hopefully this is the end of the Martinez era, absolutely dreadful games, except the last one (or last half even...). Should have brought younger players much sooner, such as Trossard, Onana, Doku or Openda. Although I do think with a fit Lukaku we would have struggled through.
The end of another golden generation that failed to live up to expectations. Just like England between 2002-2008, they possessed a range of world-class talent, but were unable to translate that into tournament results. In hindsight, the 2016 Euros and 2018 WC were this team's best chance at victory.
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As a Chelsea fan who bought a Lukaku no.9 shirt on a whim cause its 30% off or whatever, we don't want him back. Inter can have him, he's worse than current CR7.
It was fucking pathetic, how can we have such offensive players and score 1 goal in 3 games? You can’t even point at our defender’s age, we conceded one goal from a set piece because of bad tactics and one when the game was already dead. We leave this World Cup as the team with arguably the most consistence in lame boring games in a group that was clearly not so difficult for us in theory. God I hope we get rid of Martinez, we don’t need a "better" manager, just one who doesn’t have an entire broom closet up his ass will do.
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Lukaku: in terms of finishing I have no finishing
Chelsea-Number-Nine-itis
I can’t remember a performance that felt so snakebitten.
How many times has it happened in the second half that I thought "surely this is going in" and nope it just bounces off somehow, it was insane. It was like watching Lewa hit 5 but the exact opposite
If he shot tupac he'd still be alive
in terms of professionalism i have no professionalism *
Lukaku least clutch player ever.
Guy created 4 xgoals by himself and scored none. Being completely invisible would have been better for his image lmao
The Belgian Michael Ricketts
Just when i thought it couldnt get worse.... that last chance fucking hell.
"Yea unfortunately I couldn't score today. But at Inter, I scored many goals"
Did KdB Witch-Doctor him? He looked genuinely cursed.
Belgian social media:
👖🥾------------------------------------⚽
LAKAKA
Bye Martinez
Imagine if Martinez had chosen to play from the beginning as he did in the second half today. Doku probably made more sprints in 20 mins than everyone else in the WC combined.
I think Belgium reached their peak in 2018. This team looks done.
That happens when the manager doesn't want to play the newer generation. Doku was so good for the 20 mins he played in the WC. Can't believe he was benched for Mertens, Hazard or Batshuayi
We would have peaked so much higher if this generation had managers besides Wilmots and Martinez. Our FA should be criminally charged or something.
Yup, the team sure needs a rebuild.
As mentioned before this happened before many times when the squad gets old.
Euro 2016 was a huge flop from them
They went down fighting today at least.
Yeah that was it for them. The entire squad right now has maybe 7 or 8 players that'll be under 30 by the time the next WC rolls around. It's going to be a rough transition period for them.
Why didn’t they play this Doku guy before. He is the best winger they’ve got
It's what everyone except martinez said. Drop hazard, Mertens, carrasco, Meunier, bats, and play youngsters like trossard, openda, Doku and onana.
No disrespect to the other players, but I thought that he was their best player from an attacking perspective this whole tournament just from today's cameo alone. How hasn't he been featured more prominently is completely on Martinez.
Doku was so good!!! If Martinez had played him before we might have won. He created opportunities and had so much energy. Why Martinez picked Carrasco over him is beyond me. Carrasco keeps effing up
He did the same in the euros, Doku was the best man against Italy but Martinez forgot about that
The genius that is Roberto Martinez. I'm su fucking frustrated and i don't even care for Belgium other than wanting KDB to win
Every Brazilian with a sixth grader sense of humor would love to see this guy getting more playtime.
Croatia should thank Lukaku
And the Croatian wingbacks
📂World Cup
needs to be wearing an inter jersey underneath
Chelsea:
Of all the people, Lukaku to miss so many chances specially 2 tap ins. This was incredibly hilarious.
He wanted to go the 2018 Giroud way, guess he missed
My guy is an interview merchant
And they still need to sell this moron
Once again proving FIFA rankings mean squat
└📁 Missers
I miss this meme from 2018!!!!
So proud of my country! They refused to play football as a protest against Qatar 👍
Eden Hazard a week ago: We are here to play football, not to send political messages. Other people are better placed for that. We want to be focussed on football.
Hahaha best take so far 🤣🤣🤣
In before FIFA still rank Belgium 2nd in the world when the next big tournament comes round.
2nd? Try first, above whoever wins the world cup.
I'm pretty sure this team could drop all the way to 8th by the time this tournament is over.
If you look at the ranking criteria, it hugely overvalues world Cup results. Belguim are going bottom of the top 10 for the next 4 years.
Ranking is broken. They only got to the quarters in the EC and then lost to France, Italy and Netherlands (x2) in the two Nations Leagues. No clue how they still ranked as best European team somehow.
Definitely makes no sense to see them in that spot.
https://imgur.com/a/SjKIDzR
Roberto Martinez has somehow failed upwards into the Belgium job, ruined a generation of stars, and kept it for so long.
Well they got 3rd place in last WC, that's something
Belgium FA have to be one of the most inept in the world. Absolutely wasted the entire prime of their golden generation by refusing to move on from Roberto fucking Martinez.
Never understood why they hold on onto him for so long. The team never looked like they improved/got even worse. I hope he is FINALLY fired already
This has to be higher up. What a waste.
#2 in the world, #3 in the group 🇧🇪🤏
so basically morocco is the best team in the world
Third in 2018, Third in 2022 (Group Stage Edition)
Lmao 🤣
FINALLY IT IS OVER
The suffering is over
The silver lining is that I won't have to watch Belgium play anymore for a while.
I'm just so fucking sad
praying for Martinez to get sacked
Maybe Lukaku can go cry about this to an Italian journalist
Gvardiol MotM Lukaku DotM (Donkey of the Match)
I’m scared to see how big Gvardiol’s transfer fee will be
That last challenge by Gvardiol was an all-time WC tackle
4 maybe 5 missed chances. Incredible
He was obviously brought on too early in his recovery. Such a wasteful performance.
Lukaku will (probably fairly) get clowned for those misses, but Belgium were shocking without him.
(•_•)👍
Gvardiol is so fucking good
Lukaku was peak Lukaku today
Did anyone catch when he broke the glass on the bench?
Golden era nah Old man era is now
Hopefully Martinez is gone now. Abismal performance vs Morocco and Canada. Hopefully Witsel played his last match for Belgium aswell. 85th minute and he just stand still. Does nothing
Never understood the Martinez hire lol
Witsel was shockingly bad
Lukaku, what are you doing man
Number 1 FIFA ranking coming up
You can laugh all you want but I genuinely feel for Lukaku. This game will haunt him for years.
Well he would get more sympathies if he didn't have the habit of blaming everything on others and also the poorly timed interview.
As it should. You wanna be a big man and have big mouth? Then you should show it on the pitch as well.
Guess he can go back to being a vaccine expert :)
He just delivered tonight like no other belgian attacker did. Lack of luck, if he hit that goal that went to the post he would be considered the best belgian.
De Bruyne gets some rest for the back half of the Premier League season I guess.
Yeah. On one hand I feel bad for him. On the other hand I feel good for me
He's probably glad he's fucked off from that team with the way he's been talking about them
Romelu Abraham sends his regards.
All Belgium did this WC was making us believe Canada were a decent team with their first game.
The fucking USA has more knockout round appearances than Belgium this millennium. Damn.
USA have had 4 knockout round appearances this millennium. The only countries with more are Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, England, and Spain/Germany (if they advance in a few hours). The countries that also have 4 (at the moment) are Spain/Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, France. Switzerland, Japan, and Uruguay can get to 4 if they qualify today or tomorrow.
They had an entire generation of players that would have been our GOATs.
The only USA match I watched was vs Iran and holy crap, you guys can play this game! I was actually impressed and am cheering for you guys moving forward, go give Netherlands some hell in the next round!
Especially crazy when you consider that this is the US's first world cup appearance in 8 years.
The worse performance by a striker I've ever seen. Mother of God 😶
Have you heard the tragedy of Darth Higuaín The Blind?
Give him what ever the opposite of the golden boot is.
Alot of talented individuals but wasted at the hands of an incompetent manager
Belgians might now feel the intensity and desperation that Brazilians felt 4 years earlier - when NOTHING seemed to go in.
Dude I feel nothing.
I mean atleast Courtois was exceptional for us that match and made some amazing saves. This game our own player, top scorer ever for our NT missed 4 tap ins in one half. I mean jesus christ he a +2 x/g by himself in 45 mins.
RIP BOZO
Next time leave the grandpa home
Grandpa Ronaldo or Grandpa Pepe?
Which one?
Belgium is overrated. How do they consistently rank top 3 without having actual results in tournaments? (Barring 3rd place in 2018)
Belgians were moving with zero sense of urgency for 90% of the match. 80th minute, they pass the ball to each in the centre. Major Denmark vibes.
All 3 of their games were like this. Even the match they won it was ridiculous how uninspiring they looked.
Good job Lukaku
Golden Generation
Lost Generation
More like goalless
[удалено]
If I had a nickel for every time a Martinez's contract ended as soon as the referee blew the whistle, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Lukaku was poor today, but this whole Belgian squad has had an awful tournament.
Lukaku basically eliminated them on his own!
fool's gold generation
Actually there are 2 more of these, both with France:
Lukaku has had an absolute nightmare in this match
Eden Hazard better focus on doing something else than playing football again
Gvardiol is so good man. He went to Chelsea in my fm save and became a top player.
Hazard’s karma for that stupid focus on football comment. Knocked out in the group stage. Feels good
Yeah he had it coming lol
Just as we all expected, Belgium go out and Australia go through
Courtois: We have to find the LEAKER
Belgium without Origi is nothing
What was Lukaku thinking taking a touch 3 cm away from the goal?!?!?!
Belgium deserved to get knocked out for those Guy Fieri inspired kits alone, never mind that they played like shit.
So that means that these "golden generation" fuckers biggest achievement is knockin Brazil out in 2018's WC?
If they don't change the rankings lmao.
"Winning the Euro is even more gratifying than winning the World Cup, in view of the teams and the level shown. Winning the Euro Cup is like being world champion. The best teams and players are European. Except for Brazil, everything is in Europe"
Honestly Lukaku may have missed some goals but at least he was in a good postion to take the chances. It is a team failure since the first game not just his couple of missed oppprtunities. I feel for him becoming the scalegoat
2nd in FIFA rankings
I want a Lukaku compilation of the game.
Joke of a tournament from Belgium
But hey maybe they found who the mole is.
Sacked in the morning, Martinez’s getting sacked in the morning, sacked in the mooorning, Martinez’s getting sacked in the moooorning
Gotta applaud Belgium for protesting against Qatar by removing themselves from the tournament
Blame is on the Entire Team not just Lukaku. It's unbelievable this is their golden generation and they absolutely sucked at world cup
Hopefully this is the end of the Martinez era, absolutely dreadful games, except the last one (or last half even...). Should have brought younger players much sooner, such as Trossard, Onana, Doku or Openda. Although I do think with a fit Lukaku we would have struggled through.
FRAUD ALERT, MAJOR FRAUD ALERT
Golden generation my ass.
Can't wait for them to be the secret favorite of the tournament to win it all for the 5th time in a row in 2024.
The end of another golden generation that failed to live up to expectations. Just like England between 2002-2008, they possessed a range of world-class talent, but were unable to translate that into tournament results. In hindsight, the 2016 Euros and 2018 WC were this team's best chance at victory.
Why do national teams persist with horrible managers for a tournament as big as the world cup that comes around only twice a decade.
Is Lukaku cursed or what?
Ask Chelsea. He got the Chelsea No.9 curse. Current Chelsea no. 9 is Aubameyang, who has been so-so in whatever little time he gets on the field.
He is just not that good.
No one predicted this at the start
Lukaku was awful wow
Called it!
Maybe Hazard should have focused more on playing than criticizing the players protesting the world cup
Somehow they are still going to be top 3 in the world on the FIFA list
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Wtf Lukaku that was infuriating
End of an era
Chelsea looking to see if the Inter loan had an obligation to buy
As a Chelsea fan who bought a Lukaku no.9 shirt on a whim cause its 30% off or whatever, we don't want him back. Inter can have him, he's worse than current CR7.
Worst top two FIFA ranked side in history. Won nothing, abysmal play.
Lakaka strikes again (or rather doesn't)
What a sad end for Belgium golden generation…
If only they focused on the football
Feel really bad for the golden generation of Belgium
I mean this team let Canada dominate them. They were this close to losing, but luckily for them we can't finish for shit.
Lukaku masterclass
Maybe should have focused on football and not commenting on what the Germans were saying?
This Belgium team crashed and burned like the 2010 French team
THE WORLD CUP IS NOTHING WITHOUT ORIGI
congratz Morocco and croatie. We played a terrible WC and deserved to go out. best of luck to you guys
Copper Generation
I genuinely don’t see Belgium being a major tournament contender for many years.
it's ok not everyone can be kangaroo
There goes our last hope of selling Hazard
Username checks out
Good riddance to bad rubbish
I wonder if Belgium’s Moroccan community will be tasteful in celebrating their progression tonight.
Frauds
At least they were honest about their chances
Well it was nice while it lasted boys, back to football irrelevance for a few decades. Fade me.
Came in #2. Left looking like a #2.
Even australia made the round of 16…..Belgium trash as now lol
brb i’m going to neck myself
Lukaku: “today I feel like not finishing”
I feel a bit sad for Belgium. What a disappointment. Thank you for the memories, sad the golden generation wasnt able to win a bit more.
Doesnt anyone have link to domě article diving into the broken relationships in Belgium locker?
I dont care were 2nd this was so stressful
Is this Roberto Martinez taking his revenge against King Leopold?
Out of all the “golden generations” over the years, this one hurts the most to see come up short 😞
It was fucking pathetic, how can we have such offensive players and score 1 goal in 3 games? You can’t even point at our defender’s age, we conceded one goal from a set piece because of bad tactics and one when the game was already dead. We leave this World Cup as the team with arguably the most consistence in lame boring games in a group that was clearly not so difficult for us in theory. God I hope we get rid of Martinez, we don’t need a "better" manager, just one who doesn’t have an entire broom closet up his ass will do.
Lakaku sent his regards.
Correction: Belgium is knocked out of the World Cup, but wins the war because Martinez is now going to be fired.