Originally Posted by Stilton Cheesew:
“No it isn't don't be so silly. They have excellent players and if they don't gel that is the fault of the guy picking the team. If you score 25 league goals or are the player of the year or are the main player in one of the worlds richest teams then only a fool would judge your talent based on an international game. Exactly the same as fools who buy players no one had heard of based on tournament performance and are surprised when the turn out to be less than average over a season.”
I'm not judging them on just one match. They were extremely ordinary in the last WC and never look anything more than a very ordinary team.
I don't care if Lukaku scores league goals. His first touch is shockingly bad, he's lazy and imobile and against quality he has always looked way short of top class. He's OK at a certain level where he looks like a big fish in a small pond, but no way would o want a lump like that leading my team.
What they have is a lot of players of Fellaini's level. He's a very average player in a very average UTD team. The two players of higher quality - Hazard and KDB - just don't or can't cut it at the highest level.
If we are talking about a small nation who really did produce a quality team then go back to the Danish side. They always looked well balanced and played a really smooth, flowing style of football from back to front. They looked quality and produced the goods. This Begium team don't look quality and don't produce.