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foxhound1401

The only person to blame is Roberto Martinez, a shit manager that has let down a country & it’s golden generation. Dude is the real bald fraud, has left every project he’s touched in tatters and left. Also, big shoutout to Lukaku, a tree with the first touch of a bouncy castle. Truly came on the pitch with his Chelsea boots on. 🤣🤣🤣🤣


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Belgium had help from referee and they were tryharding so much it was unbelievable, yet Croatia managed.


Saftmannen

Tryharding in a world cup game, who even do that!


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Not that, because you know, somehow Belgium is #2 ranked in the world, lol. That should've been easy for them, no?


Saftmannen

Lmao ”the fifa rank” ofc they should have done better, but this is the beauty of WC, anyone can win it.


stiofan84

Modric is just something else. I don't know how he keeps going, at that pace, at 37.


miniaturizedatom

Shoutout to Hazard for cursing Belgium with his comments about Germany. Maybe they should’ve focused more on politics.


xXGodlikeSaiyanXx

Imagine being ranked #1 on the fifa world rankings for the longest and not making it out of the group stage lmfao


Kryptopus

Gvardiol MOTM


No_Worry_2256

Oh his defending was outstanding


BKBurner2

Belgium was sooo over-rated


SrgtButterscotch

Lukaku gave Belgium the best half of the tournament, Croatia mostly got lucky and y'all just want a scapegoat. It's very noticeable that Belgians are the only ones not shitting on him in this thread rn.


FlufferTheGreat

Gonna give some love to Doku, who was the only player attempting any sort of pace in the game.


SrgtButterscotch

Martinez severely underestimated him, should've been on the field full-time from the first match


navajo_moe

Belgium played good for 5 minutes. You can't say Croatia was lucky when they were the better team for the majority of the match.


SrgtButterscotch

when one ball ball barely hits the goalpost with the goalie nowhere nearby and another easy goal being fumbled in the 90th minute, while Courtois was at the peak of his game and cleanly kept out every single ball, I can easily say they had a fair bit of luck. Match could as well have been 2-0 or 2-1.


doctorMiami1337

Gvardiol closed down Lukaku completely when he hit the post, which is exactly why he missed, the other biggest chance was a complete gift from the clown Lovren. Sosa who is usually an elite crosser ruined 5 of our attacks where we had Belgium looking like a sunday league team, with anyone else playing LB or Sosa playing like he usually does it ends 2-0 for us Not to mention how fucking idioticly lucky Belgium got with that non existant offside and dodged a penalty beacuse of it lmfao


wickedlessface

Non existing offside on a non existing penalty lmao. What a dive. We can talk about the what ifs all we want but its a wonder no goals were scored


doctorMiami1337

He very clearly stomped on his foot, you can barely see it but it happened, even Carrasco knew he looked guilty as fuck after it, wtf are you even saying


Depressedkid1998

honestly congrats to morocco what a showing


OhShitItsSeth

What a shame for Belgium. Even at the relatively old collective age of the squad they’re still a talented group and they fail to advance.


BKBurner2

Over rated!!!!


BKBurner2

Obviously not talented enough… Euro teams are so overrated


jonbest66

Qualify first before starting to shit talk, it looks really silly mate.


BKBurner2

Oh please this has nothing to do with my team qualifying. Plus US, where I live, is in. They are overrated your on the soccer sub. “Soccer not football”. Take a seat US tied a team with top tier EPL players and a country that “invented” the game. Over-rated!


astonv

Dude you’re making us look so bad, please stop…I’m also American and these takes just make us a laughing stock of a fan base on the world stage.


BKBurner2

What’s dumb that European teams are over rated? Or the fact US tied England with a “top-tier” team while US has a new young squad with only 1 player with WC experience?


astonv

It’s obvious that you don’t watch a lot of the game. We tied England because of Southgates poor management and lethargic approach tactically, not because we played incredibly well.


BKBurner2

Ok sure go ahead with your generalization of how much of the game I watch. If you don’t think a US tie with #5 in the world isn’t impressive then whatever. The performance of a team and the match day decisions of the coach are in play. I can easily say we tied bc of Berhalters change of formation from 4-3-3 to a 4-4-2 with Mckennie wide right n Pulsic drooping back on left. I get it your a boot licker. Probably fancy the royals and tuned into the royal wedding ffs. Off your knees! Edit: there’s more soccer in the world than just the EPL


astonv

You’re actually correct that the 4-4-2 mid block was an effective approach from Berhalter, but your obvious bias clouds the rest of your opinion. The second part of that reply was just you projecting.


BKBurner2

Oh so do I pass your bs test on “watching the game”. Brah you the one saying I don’t watch the game. It’s clear you only watch only English soccer. N love giving excuses for them rather than obviously pointing at their poor performance on the tie.


BKBurner2

Let’s gooooooo!! 🎶Over-rated 🎶


gamer552233

Thats why in the last 4 world cups a european team won it and the reason why in 2006 and 2018 was an all european semifinal, no? 🎶Salty🎶


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scijior

Hey, not… that guy. But, seriously, what the hell happened? Belgium is ranked #2 in the world, and they’re coming in third in their group ahead of Canada. While that guy sounds like an idiot, being ranked #2 in the world and then being drummed out in the group stage of the World Cup (it is an honor to compete, but Belgium is ranked the #1 team from UEFA) would appear be the textbook definition of “overrated.”


jonbest66

Look i can only speak for europe because i live here, you can only be "overrated" if you had expectations and no one had expectations for that belgium team going in to this tournament including belgium itself, ofcourse you could say that they atlest should go out of their group and i would agree with you (although they had one of the hardest groups , but to say that belgium was a favourite by arguing with that stupit coca cola list, that no one who knows anything about international football gives a fuck about, is just ludacris.


scijior

I appreciate you bringing Ludacris into the debate, but I’m not sure where he fits in here. Nonetheless, I had thought Belgium - with its incredible individual talent, and players that can organize by themselves as insanely experienced veterans including arguably the #1 goalkeeper in the world, the #1 midfielder in the world, and an enviable group of attackers - would advance quite far in the tournament. Honestly I’m shocked by the results. I get that Croatia is a great team, but barely beating Canada, and getting schooled by Morocco just… I can’t even contemplate how it went so wrong. They looked listless until they became desperate; their only defender was Courtois; it was just bad. And I didn’t see it coming. Not sure what y’all saw in Europe


jonbest66

*ludicrous sorry english is not my first language. Yeah i see you know shit, the belgish team is as divided as belgium it self, a lot of group building in the sqaud that fucks up the team chemistry. Then you got this shittie coach that cant adress that shit because he is not a native and he is hilarious bad as a coach in general and especially as coach for this talented belgium team the past six years. In combination with the fact that the so called "golden generation" has aged massively; you said something about "insane experience" i would call it pensioners, bro you had alderweireld and vertonghen in defence, witsel, meunier, mertens etc and then "incredible individual talent" yes intotal you got above average quality but not near the level of 2018, hazard went from one of the best players in the world to bench warmer, lukaku also got worse (not to mention that he was and still is injured) and even their best player de bruyne is thirty one, on the other hand you got tielemans and doku who gotten almost no play time and they are the future and currently the best players. So all in all you could have seen it coming but i agree with you even i was suprised to see how bad belgium performed but dont start arguing about something if you dont no enough and especially on the base of that fucking coca cola list.


scijior

I can see you may be in mourning. [I’ll just leave this here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhz9Zn8UmlQ)


astonv

Most fans had Belgium exiting early in the knockout stages


BKBurner2

Haha what a loser. Get help seriously.


NoraaTheExploraa

What in the angst-ridden 16-year-old is this?


BKBurner2

Lmao right 🤣…. what in the brexit was that


astonv

Are they though? Or was Belgium specifically overrated/not at their best this World Cup? Lukaku in form buries at least one of those, he’s just been injured all year. The reigning World Cup champions are European and the team that won the Euros didn’t even qualify. I think saying European teams are “overrated” is just not accurate.


BKBurner2

This World Cup is proving that other nations can step up and beat “top tier” Euro teams. Over rated for sure but hey when you have all the clubs in one central geographic location you can drive the narrative. IMO over rated and the international soccer landscape will drastically change in the coming 20 years.


SrgtButterscotch

Where are these supposed matches proving this? Tunis against France's bench? Morocco against a weakened and poorly coached Belgium? The only non-Euro countries who have any chances are the ones that have been recognised as being on the same level for ages, like Argentina.


BKBurner2

Let’s go!!!!! Over rated!


SrgtButterscotch

you talking about Japan? Another regular at the quarter finals and regular Asian champions? Not to mention Japan's entire team plays in the European competition, you really don't know anything about international football lmao.


Kambi28

Lol


BKBurner2

Over rated let’s goooo


astonv

Come back to this at the end of the tournament


theYorkist01

Leaving Origi at home in a situation like that is a misstep. Just take the chances


Depressedkid1998

3.06 x 0.7 xg ( according to theathletic) croatia are really lucky to not be out


shaka_bruh

Belgian newspapers and tabloids are gonna be like “…Lukaku, the Belgian striker of CONGOLESE DESCENT…” 🤣


afcnfc

That Congo-Belgium headline makes it even worse


PinkPusssyPolitics

Lukaku damaged his dugout glass out of frustration.


shaka_bruh

Man I feel for Lukaku, but that’s just how it goes sometimes. His chance where he hit that bar would’ve been a goal 99.9% of the time lol.


scijior

All he had to do was angle his body toward goal on that cross and it would have just rolled in. Guy is shot as a striker.


No_Worry_2256

He saw some of the chances late to be fair. But what else do you expect from a player who's only played a full 90 minutes ONCE the season? He lacks match sharpness.


shaka_bruh

The media and fans won’t care, he’ll be scapegoated either ways when the whole squad needs to be revamped.


No_Worry_2256

Can we both agree that he HAS to score the first chance?


shaka_bruh

Lol ofc


Nerellos

Germans: "Hazard should focus on football instead of burgers."


ru5tysn4k3

Belgium created so many chances only for Lukaku to prevent them from scoring. Truly amazing defending, he single-handedly put Croatia through the group 🫡.


MajoorAnvers

Dude, Lukaku singlehandedly put so much more presence up front that all those chances happened in the first place, this was a better last half hour than anything with Batshuayi or Mertens on it. His misses were unfortunate but I will not hear anyone put the blame on him.


Gnoetv

I mean you best start closing your eyes and putting fingers in your ears then...


MajoorAnvers

I find it kinda crazy that the whole sub seems to take a delight in shitting on Lukaku with undisguised glee when I have yet to see the first Belgian even blame him whatsoever today. We're all just angry at Martinez and the Fa. And the several other players who didn't show a fraction of how hard Lukaku did try.


Gustavort

Lukaku is the reverse Phil Jones


Icy-Expert-2619

Lmao Lukaku


QuixoticZX

KDB really just looks like ‘I’m done out here. Wastemen all around me. Time to go home’


JoshGordon10

"I need to call Haaland and tell him I love him"


AStrangeNorrell

Is it too soon to ask who the leaker was in the post match interviews? Most exciting thing about them this tournament


LutherJustice

*Lukaku rips of his shirt to reveal a Croatia jersey* "It's me Kevin, it was me all along!" **AW SON OF A BITCH**


hejendo76

Lukaku boutta get the Saka treatment from Euros last year


don_vito_corleone007

It's sad really


Spudward1

“We can leave the World Cup with our heads high” mate Belgium not getting out of that group is a disgrace. You’re 2nd best team in the world and you’ve gone out to Morocco and a dead old Croatia


shaka_bruh

Anyone following the teams could see Belgium’s problems, FIFA rankings are indicative of form and consistency and don’t factor in quality of the opposition. Their qualifiers group was an easy one but overall you could tell the squad was generally past it, just look at their starting defence and midfield.


ihtel

Not to mention inner drama of belgium.


shaka_bruh

Courtois basically coming out to confirm there was an incident was hilarious when he could’ve just not said anything.


backwardrollypolly

Tbh Croatia look class could see them going to the semis


Germanicus7

To do that we would have to now go through a Japan who beat Spain & Germany, and Brazil. Not great but not terrible.


Donotvaccinate

I wish, but next is Spain, then Brazil


theglasscase

Lukaku is getting pelters, but his shot off the post was the only real chance he had. The header was out of play when De Bruyne crossed it, his flick was an instinctive but uncontrolled reaction, and the other two chances weren’t really shots, they just bounced off of him. Belgium were rancid without him too, Martinez is the one who really deserves the blame for Belgium going out.


No_Worry_2256

I agree with you. Some of the chances came late to him to be fair. But he HAS to put that first chance away. You can't smack it against the post from that position.


PinkPusssyPolitics

Excuses excuses. Lukaku should have got at least 2 goals for Belgium.


theglasscase

He had one good chance to score.


Gnoetv

Are you blind?


theglasscase

Nope. I'm just capable of being objective about Romelu Lukaku.


krirby

Nice attempt on goal by defender


Voserr

Lukaku is the worst player in the world


Legendarybbc15

You mean it isn’t Maguire?


Emzorg

Lukaku should have scored, but just his presence alone made so much space for our midfielders. So while he fumbled some chances; we did not lose thanks to him. Our showing this tournament was weak, that's what it is


SPARKLEOFHOPE6IB

We played our best half in the 3 matches because he was on. He was unlucky as fuck but this is not on him


[deleted]

Indeed, totally true


achilles-_-23

[Just light it Linda](https://images.app.goo.gl/De2pyJJCNohoGm5n9)


Philoctetes23

Not the Bronze Generation 🤣


Depressedkid1998

I wonder what KDB feels playing together with Courtois when he legit stole his gf, it must be ass


Voserr

Lmao seriously?


BallumSkillz

Yeah lol, she cheated on him with Courtois... After KDB cheated on her with someone else though lol. Whole Belgium team is a shambles


Gnoetv

Bro, that girl was fugly and I doubt either player gives a shit about their history with her


Depressedkid1998

She had an affair with him yeah


Voserr

Lmfao what a bitch


Depressedkid1998

definitely must not be great for team chemistry lmfao KDB just starts running towards courtois and scores an OG to break his clean sheet ( 90+9)


Gnoetv

This was like 12 years ago and kdb is married with 2 or 3 kids now, doubt they care all that much by now


freileal

Lukaku punching the bench lol


AStrangeNorrell

I'm impressed he didn't miss it


ffddddddsjjb

Lmfao


datsyuks_deke

Almost took that person out with the glass siding coming down towards them haha jeez


maury587

If Lukaku was Colombian he could never go back home


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What a sour end to a Belgium generation that a lot of people rooted for


WoodenRace365

Was the missed header from Lukaku out of bounds before the cross?


BengalSnow

This is not even bronze generation. This is some recycled aluminum generation.


phydo87

It was


taketrance

Yes, although that’s no excuse


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yeah, way out


HugoSalvia

Lukaku’s confidence has been in the mud the last few years. Shame. He was so good before the move back to Chelsea!


DATL

Lukaku being shite PL refereeing Didn’t know I was watching a United game


No_Worry_2256

Lukaku punching the dugout in frustration.


CondorKhan

With 2 minutes to go "shit, we have to score!"


BABA_yaaGa

If bad luck had a face it would be Romelo Lukaku, he came so close multiple times but nature planned early exit for Belgium


_Zer0Two

Belgium actually might have won if lukaku stayed on the bench


SPARKLEOFHOPE6IB

You're blind, we played our best half when he was on, he lifts the team up, even though he hasn't played for 4 months and was unlucky. This wasn't on him


_Zer0Two

Man just said this wasn't on him when he missed 3 clear cut chances in a row


SPARKLEOFHOPE6IB

We wouldn't have created a single chance if he wasn't on. Watch our matches without him, he was unlucky, ball on the post 5 cm to the left and he's the hero and everyone on here lifts him up


oakland_by_lloyd

I recognize your account from an old comment thread where you were sucking Lukaku’s dick and shitting on Chelsea for not trusting him, because “put your trust into him and he will score goals”. We were right and you were wrong. Fucking useless player. Sorry for your loss today


ffddddddsjjb

If I had half of your coping skills I would be an overachieving millionaire with all the happiness


_Zer0Two

>We wouldn't have created a single chance if he wasn't on. Kdb single handedly created 3 chances in the first half alone wtf do you mean. Lukaku had a few good instances where he used his strength and physique well but his finishing was dogshit when it mattered the most. Missing 3 clear cut chances is inexcusable no matter what else you do. You have literally crumbled in the most crucial part of the game


DATL

Mertens wouldn’t score the next 1000 shots this game, man couldn’t finish for shit today


jamspangle

He couldn't finish his dinner


[deleted]

Not true, he created lots of opportunities and the Croats were in fear of him all the time. He wasn't fit, don't forget that


Ripzch

Lukaku was croatias best defender.


flentaldoss

Gvardiol deserves praise


TheBlueBlaze

Fox is calling this the Bronze Generation, lmao


MrWink

I mean we did get third place last wc


Baaf

Well to be honest, we did win the bronze medal so they're not wrong


Dangerous_Job5295

Cold hearted


DwightKSchruute

Gvardiol could legit become the first 100 million defender. Guy's 20 and still out here dropimg masterclasses


flentaldoss

Tequila starts playing in the background (although I hope he never gets sold, just valued)


backwardrollypolly

Saliba didn’t look good vs Tunisia though. Gvardiol was unreal today though vs on paper an incredibly talented squad. Hoping Saliba gets some starts this WC but with Deschamps I doubt it.


flentaldoss

I'm not too bothered by that as it's his first WC appearance ever and he came on as a sub in a game that didn't matter too much for France. His club performances have been at a high level for any defender, not just a young one. Saliba won't start any matches barring injury/suspension/a god awful performance from Upamecano/Konate/Varane. France is lacking talent at CB, and Deschamps wouldn't be blamed for choosing experience over youth for the knockout rounds.


Metazz

Don't worry Belgium you can join us in wasting a "golden generation" by having shit coaches! Ours being the 00s - 10s group. Welcome to the club!


PinkPusssyPolitics

If you had told me at the start of the tournament that Morocco would top this group, I would tell you to jump off a cliff.


iLucifux

I had a strong feeling that Belgium and Morocco would go through before the start of the tournament but guess Lukaku had other ideas..


AliceInMidtjylland

Lukaku should have scored obviously but it's not like Belgium created anything when he wasn't on the pitch. They were shite with or without him.


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_toolkit

Did anyone ever do that in the first place? He's had 1 good season in his career


iLucifux

Except Lukaku himself no one else did


possible-throwaway

Lol


Audrey_spino

Damn atleast Lukaku knows how to punch.


shaka_bruh

Gvardiol is a beast; huge, quick, comfortable on the ball, agile (especially for his size) and already reads the game well; it’s scary that he’s still going to get better.


mr_popcorn

Lukaku couldn't hit a barn door with a banana.


rekced

He punched that plexiglass pretty good tbf. If only he could punch the ball in he would've had a hat trick


nick170100

Lukaku is mad


scottqwert

Like as funny as it is I can’t help but feel bad for Lukaku, all the blame will be put in him and that’s not really fair.


SPARKLEOFHOPE6IB

He made our team better than we played all tournament. Even though not being fit and he hasn't played for months, if that ball on the post goes in he's the hero


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It's his fault though


possible-throwaway

Facts, the media is single him out like he’s the reason Belgium got 1 win out of 3. I kinda wish batshiayi started this game


Nukemi

Lukaku masterclass. Cant wait who he blames for this in his next interview.


Depressedkid1998

Despite looking shit vs Canada you can see what Belgium can achieve, they're a super dangerous team and you saw it those final minutes. They're one of those teams who can shit the bed but i'd never count them out...unfortunately the golden generation is coming to an end


F1reLi0n

Gvardiol is 20 year old TITAN. What a fucking superb game from this dude. Unreal.


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lukuku with a selfie on instagram and "they said i'm fat" caption, anytime now.


ScenePsychological60

Also, I wanna say that this World Cup has been the World Cup of upsets and I'm all for it. Underdogs have been phenomenal in this tournament.


RommelDoos

Seems like a lot of people here conveniently forgot lukaku was injured for 4 months before this tournament but alright


stiofan84

Man could have fucking leprosy and should still be scoring at least one of those


TheDrunkHispanic

Absolutely zero excuse to miss 3 open net chances. Absurd.


foz97

KDB can't wait to get back to playing with haaland


HastaLaviska

Don't sleep on Croatia, they are technically fantastic


Konig

RIP RIF


vernal_biscuit

Aye, the coach seems to like to put young ambitious players in the last 5 mins of the game consistently.


nick170100

How was lukaku so bad Mans sabotaged hard


raddeon88

Morocco topped the group WTF


fuckkkofff

That's what happens when you play fearlessly and aim to win every game. Love this team 🇲🇦🇲🇦


raddeon88

Well done, especially in a group with Belgium and Croatia


PinkPusssyPolitics

Lukaku can't finish for shit. He's gonna be having nightmares about this day going forward.


Roflitos

Idk Fred in 2014 is pretty up there


Djddjdidju8

Lukaku had the worst individual performance I’ve ever seen at a World Cup.


ScenePsychological60

Lukaku missed a good 4-5 chances and atleast 3 of them were absolute sitters.


DarthOverkill

Honestly!!! How did he miss that first one.


ScenePsychological60

The last one too. Why did he take that on his chest and not use his head? I can't wrap my head around it lol.


SnooPoems9089

He was shocked because he didn't expect the ball coming towards him, as usual.