Belgium

Pajo said:

Hazard - De Bruyne - Januzaj

Kevin must be :fap: :fap:

Cheering for them in the WC. Hope they do great as underdogs as they have excellent young team.

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Fapuccino said:

I think he's def going. There is a reason announcement that he'd play for Belgium was made right before the provisional squad for World Cup list is sent out in a few days. Some backdoor "negotiating".

I think that means Nainggolan is out.

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monster09 said:

Or they can play 4-2-3-1 with Hazard, Mertens, Mirallas/Januzaj behind striker (which would be very attacking) or use Januzaj as impact sub as he can play as LW, RW or AM.

Btw in a year or 2 he will be first choice player IMO.

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Pajo said:

Hazard - De Bruyne - Januzaj

Kevin must be :fap: :fap:

Cheering for them in the WC. Hope they do great as underdogs as they have excellent young team.

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monster09 said:

And they have Witsel in the midfield. Fellaini also plays well for them and they have Dembele too.

Courtois, Mignolet are good GKs, Courtois is excellent and Mignolet is good back up keeper.

They don't have good full backs. They rely on Vertonghen as LB which IMO is wrong as it makes their CB weaker with Vermaelen.

Also they have Bakkali who is very highly rated by PSV.

Hazard, Mertens, Mirallas, Januzaj, Chadli as attacking players behind Lukaku.

That's a very good unit, just that they may choke as they lack experience.

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KevinB said:

Hazard, Mertens and Mirallas are certainties on the wings. Dembélé/Fellaini/De Bruyne will be the ones on 10, perhaps Januzaj as well

That's one amazing attack for creativity, although prefer Mertens over Januzaj tho. Mertens tha bawwwss

Witsel is with certainty along Kompany the most important guy in our selection. Dictates the game, creative force, defensive as well; class.
Fellaini's last games suck though, and Dembélé's been eating bench a lot at Tottenham..

Bakkali hasn't played a single full match since Ruiz came to PSV, he won't make the NT selection for the WC.

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monster09 said:

Yeah, Hazard, Kompany and Witsel are for sure starters, I'l also add Vertonghen to the list.

Playing Fellaini as #10 means Belgium can't keep the ball on the ground isn't it? Would love to see him playing in CM and a proper #10 playing behind striker. Not Dembele or Fellaini. Maybe Witsel, Fellaini and De Bruyne midfield with De Bruyne as advanced midfielder would be good too with Fellaini bombing forward everytime.

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R.Palacio8 said:

My friend and I will be cheering for them in the WC, seem such a nice, young team!! We don't know all of their players, but we did hear about a bunch of them, mostly for the BPL
What will be their starting team? Is Kevin De Bruyne that good? Where does he play, as an inside midfielder, a winger? Pardon my ignorance, but I don't watch many Bundesliga matches...

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KevinB said:

Key Figures

- Kompany : unreplaceable leader of defense and captain.
- Witsel : Wilmots uses him as defensive midfielder/dlp. Engine of the squad. Extremely important in defense as in offense
- De Bruyne : playmaker and connects to all players.
- Lukaku : only striker we have and also in lethal form. Scores all balls he gets in front of goal
Januzaj: GOD.

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monster09 said:

Fixed

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crzdcolombian said:

haha is Januzaj that good? I never watch Man U but got him in Fifa 14 and turns out to be awesome. Belgiums got a sick squad I can't wait for the cup to start. I want to see a new Champion this time around

I obviously want Colombia to win but as long as England, Spain or France don't win I'll be happy. FUCK those 3 countries !!

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Inter2010 said:

This belgium team will be the surprise packet, i'm not saying that they will win the world cup, but they remind me of holland ab bit.

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Inter2010 said:

This belgium team will be the surprise packet, i'm not saying that they will win the world cup, but they remind me of holland ab bit.

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KevinB said:

It all depends on how the group stage goes. We have excellent players. But they need to play with their heart, mind and focus on Belgium. We can't use a lazy Hazard.

But yeah, we believe we can reach semis with lots of luck

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monster09 said:

Excellent individual players but no team play at all.
Sort of England when they had big players like Rio, Terry, Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Cole.

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KevinB said:

That's not true though. Belgium is a team, we focus on that a lot. All players get along, wether they're Frenchspeaking or Dutchspeaking.

Wilmots made us an unit with as leader Kompany. But yeah, we'll see what happens

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monster09 said:

Excellent individual players but no team play at all.
Sort of England when they had big players like Rio, Terry, Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Cole.

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