Posted on 07/01/2018 1:08:15 PM PDT by xp38
It started as one of Spain’s typical grand passing rondos, it grew over 90 minutes and then 120 into one of the biggest mountains of possession amassed since World Cup records began, and by the end it felt like this great generation of players had run out of fresh ideas.
This was the remnants of the great world champions of 2010 passing the ball 1,114 times in a match but unable to score more goals than a Russia team who refused to be passed to death in the way that so many opponents have in the past. By the end Andres Iniesta looked close to tears, Gerard Pique and Sergio Ramos had been beaten again and the masterplan that had seen Spain dominate the first decade of the century looked more than a little tired.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Sounds like a really exciting game.
Awesome !!!!
One more thing for Muelller to investigate for Trump’s fingerprints.
Wow! I’m totally impressed! The Spanish are - to put it mildly - really good at this and it’s amazing that the Russians could do this.
Exactly. There has to have been some kind of collusion.
“...and by the end it felt like this great generation of players had run out of fresh ideas.”
Sounds more like the Democrat Party.
Is "Russia" a plural? What's the singular? Russius?
I don’t know...It’s the english Telegraph. Maybe they don’t know their own language.
Now Croatia and Denmark are competing for most boring.
Oh, that’s right. That’s how Britons speak.
I would have added Russians stun Spain myself but they frown on that sort of thing here at FR.
Many countries consider a word representating a group as plural. I hear it on foreign sports announcing a lot. It is very awkward to my ear and incorrect in USA standard English. They would say “The team are... “.
I know what you mean. It’s kind of the same way when we use the name of a team, let’s say the Dallas Cowboys. The correct way to say it would be, “the Dallas Cowboys is in the NFC East”, but we would say, “The Dallas Cowboys are in the NFC East.”
That's British English. If something comprises a collection of things, even if the word itself is singular, it's treated as a plural. Which, to an American, is singular.
Soccer sucks...but I do enjoy the “sudden death” duel with the goalkeeper.
Most of the world including the English speaking part does not have American English subject verb agreement.
but they had a he-she win the Miss Thing contest so they got that going for them... they should be real proud that the judges think a GUY is better looking that ALL the women in the world
Spain is really good at passing.....scoring...not so much.
First Germany, then Portugal and now Spain...the NATO alliance is crumbling.
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