Belgium V Japan World Cup 2018

Belgium V Japan

Synopsis in red

Beers: Round of 16 Beer World Cup:

Just as in the football, Croatia were strong on the beer front too, coming top in a relatively strong group, Beer Group D. On the other side, Australia (and not Denmark) came second in my Beer Group C. So today we have a match up between the Croatian pairing of Ožujsko and Bura Brew against Fosters of Australia.

Belgium V Colombia

Belgium had a tough close encounter with England to come top of Beer Group G, but just got there in the end as group winners. Colombia came close with Poland in their group, Beer Group H, but qualified in second place.

Jessenhofke Kamil

Club Colombia

Wow, here we go, still reeling, still fucked from it. Jessenhofke TRPL of Belgium had a lovely fruity bier, that was at 8% ,perhaps a it too much to take on Club Colombia, which was off to a slow start, one nil to Belgium.

Was able for another beer, but when a Belgian BRWN was lining up, it was time to take break! The Black tasty beer was always going to beat Club Colombia lager, no contest!

2 nil to the Belgians:

Next up it was Kamil, and by that stage I was phished. Wasn’t from the Club Colombia, I tell you. Kamil a beer that was very appetizing and hit the spot, 3-0 whitewash to Belgium, and they head to the last 8 of my Beer World Cup.

Read who qualified for my Beer World Cup last 16 here

PreGame:

Oh my word, Japan were so lucky, so, so lucky in their game against Poland. Lucky that Lewandowski was muck and that he couldn’t put the game to bed when he should have scored. Tsk, tsk. If he had scored Japan would be home and their clown of a manager would have had egg on his face.

Leaving out Inui was crazy, relying on the score of the other game was a big decision and a really foolish one at that.

Game was not great, and Poland did enough to get the victory. Poland got the goal from a lovely weighted cross from a free kick that was smashed home by Bednarek, nice and simple really.

With news coming through that Colombia were beating Senegal, Japan knew they were through by virtue of having less yellow cards, and Poland were happy to get the three points, so the last ten minutes was played at a walking pace with both teams mutually deciding to stop playing football. A bit surreal but there you go.

Japan were lucky,, and I think they will be beaten easily by Belgium today.

Saw the second half of Belgium V England:

Started off pretty slow. Januzaj though shaked it up, scoring with a cracker of a goal, a lovely long range effort that flew in.

England started playing a bit better after the goal went in, woke them up a bit, but I dont think they had the personal on the pitch to do much damage to Belgium, as the Belgian defence was holding up quite well.

Rashford though, got through, from a great ball by Vardy, and really should have scored, putting it wide. That was the chance to equalise.

Delph was on, showing his lack of skills, nearly hitting the corner flag from a shot on target, while at the opposite end, Mertens had a good strike saved well.

Basically this game was between the England second team V the Belgium second team, and showed us that the Belgians have good strength in depth, not so England, but if they played their first team then I’d imagine a completely different result.

Belgium should have no problem disposing of Japan today considering the personal in their squad.

Japan did well early doors, and they even had the temerity to go and score two goals, cheeky fuckers. Haraguchi got one in the 48th from a lovely counter attack , and just when we were getting our head round that goal, they only just went up and scored another one, lol. Inui got one in the 52 minute, I have to say I thought Courtois could have did better with both goals, I feel he was in a poor positional place for both goals.

No problems, nothing to worry about here, Belgium got one back, Vertonghen got a goal with a looping header that beat everybody. Still the Japanese goalkeeper should have hard his eyes on it, clown. Once that went in, it was obvious that Belgium would get a second. And sure enough Fellaini got the equalizer with a simple header, two all. Game on.

A quick break instigated from Kevin de Bruyne,led to Chadli scoring to win the game for Belgium. I don’t honesty think it was ever in doubt. That’s the difference between top teams and the rest. Sorry Japan, you should have closed the game out with 30 minutes to go, but you jizzed in your pants, by bye.

Music to get you in the mood

Ça Plane Pour Moi – Plastic Bertrand (Belgium) V P-Model – 2D or not 2D (Japan)