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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
hey! i saw that a couple of hours ago. i thought it was a dull match mainly because the japanese team was so inept. did kakawa even touch the ball once?
anyway, about neymar: he was good i thought but he's not "the next messi" as people claim. hells no. oscar was more important i thought. and hulk! what a great name.
anyway hm er i did miss the first half hour though ha ha ha. ooops!
a couple of interesting matches tomorrow!
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Yeah, it wasn't a classic but better than nothing. I suppose with Neymar, we'll only know for sure when we see him at Barcelona and even then it'll likely take a couple of seasons before he beds in. Anyone suggesting he'll be up their with Messi is setting standards almost impossibly high but I see no reason why he couldn't end up at the level of someone like CRonaldo - especially given that his current age and experience means he's only likely to get even better.
EDIT: Oh, and an interesting 'Team of 2012/13' thing based on players playing in Europe from our man at Zonalmarking:
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2013/06/...season-201213/
The Zonalmarking XI:
GK: Neuer (Bayern Munich)
DF: Lahm (Bayern Munich); Chiellini (Juventus); Dante (Bayern Munich); Alba (Barcelona)
MF: Martinez (Bayern Munich); Vidal (Juventus); Mata (Chelsea); Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
FW: Messi (Barcelona); Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund)
Difficult to argue with anything there (although the comments seem to saying Weidenfeller over Neuer). Either way, it's amazing (even if entirely reasonable) that not a single Barcelona player makes the midfield.