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[–] No-Habit988@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Never seen so many complaints about some rough defending. Especially by an 80m player facing actual amateurs. You'd think they'd broken both of his legs

[–] Pek-Man@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Especially by an 80m player facing actual amateurs

Lol, it's very telling that you can't see how that only makes it fucking worse. It's his livelihood, his job, that they were deliberately trying to sabotage by injuring him. They, on the other hand, have very little at stake.

[–] Duffer44@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If you didn't watch the match, what is even the point of your take on it? It wasn't "rough" defending. They literally talked about wanting to injure him on the pitch among themselves in Italian.

[–] Studwik@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both Højlund and Kjær speak italian, and they could hear the SM defenders say that they were going to “smash Højlund” and “go for his knees”.

[–] No-Habit988@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Have you ever played football at any level? Defenders say this shit all the time and Højlund was fine after the game.

[–] DHillMU7@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Defending implies an attempt to play the ball. Driving a knee into someone’s back with zero attempt to play the ball and a team threatening him with aiming for his knees isn’t defending.

[–] Paapa-Yaw@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Bro masvidal'd his back. And they allegedly tried to go after his knees.

[–] LDQQXDJ@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This guy wouldn’t survive the 1980s

[–] VirtuosoLoki@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

we are not playing in the 80s now are we?

[–] WarDemonZ@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good job that was nearly 45 years ago then isn't it

[–] Turtyturd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The 80’s wasn’t just 1980.

[–] WarDemonZ@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Does that make his point any less asenine?

[–] LowSnow2500@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The "Nearly 45 years ago" wasn't just 45 years ago.

[–] FloppedYaYa@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How dare they try to injury him

[–] teemuselanteenvene@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How dare a non-native english speaker make a tiny error in their spelling

[–] FloppedYaYa@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's a joke

[–] empiresk@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is quite the significant accusation. How can he prove it?

[–] WarDemonZ@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

There are a few accounts of several of the Danish players saying they overheard the defenders talking in Italian about aiming for Hojlund's knees etc, because they weren't aware that several of the Danes speak fluent italian

[–] rtz_senpai@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

San marino’s player(i forget his name) posted on instagram that 80m professional players should be able to handle the physical contact like this. They are not even trying to hide it.

[–] empiresk@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That is still not proof. There is being rough, going hard etc and then there is purposefully going out to injure someone.

[–] shn6@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Injury can't be buy.

For everything else, there's Mastercard.

[–] Perat1987@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, that's rough. San Marino needs to chill with the dirty plays. Stay strong and keep grinding, Rasmus!

[–] interfan1999@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I didn't see the match but according to the stats San Marino fouled 14 times and Denmark fouled 10 times.

Apart from that Di Maio cunt going with the knee on the back, was the match really a man hunting from San Marino?

Either the ref was shit or the Danes are exaggerating a bit here.

[–] istasan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The ref allowed a lot. There were also some free kicks made by the Danish defenders he did not give.

The San Marino players did not do brutal attacks. It was more constant like jabs concentrated on Højbjerg. Later in the match he also contributed because he was annoyed. He shushed them. Which was not classy. Or popular. He does not normally do these things though…

[–] Blue------@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Ref was shit, lot of calls did not get made.

[–] nick5168@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The worst one the refs missed was Højlund getting intentionally hit in the head in the penalty area, which should have been a red and a sending off, but VAR didn't intervene because the REF waved it off.

Other than that there were several attempted kicks at Højlund that wasn't called, in one instance he was kicked 3 times befor finally getting a freekick because the ball was lost.

In all honesty it started because Højlund hit a defender with his elbow and fell on him afterwards, which seemed to make San Marino's players see red. It didn't look intentional, but things turned ugly after that, and that was around the 30 minute mark.

For reference Eriksen argued with the San Marino players several times, Kjær too, and those are probably some of the calmest player I've ever seen in football, especially Eriksen. I don't think I've ever seen him argue this much with opponents.

[–] tinkertoy78@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Both Eriksen and Kjær speak Italian, I'm sure they heard what the SM players were planning to do to Højlund.

[–] Kingkamehameha11@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Looking at the number of fouls in isolation can't tell you much. What was there nature of the fouls? Did San Marino commit fouls that went unpunished by the referee?

What reason do Danes have to make this up about San Marino of all teams?

[–] Varja22@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone please make compilation about San Marino's fouls, would be interesting to see

[–] anal_og_player@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except for the knee in the back at the end, it all looked pretty standard

[–] Crab-Professional@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why højlund talking so much? Just put your head down and get on with it

[–] Krogholm2@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Cause his career is on the line? If this is okay. More teams will do it. And he won't last 10 games?

[–] dcroopev@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The worst part is that such behaviour and tackles are result of some rotten understanding of what a battle and a fight in football should be. The next thing is that the same player will fall down grimacing in agony on the smallest of contacts simulating in order to send an opposition player off. This is not and shouldn’t be part of the game. The whole refereeing needs a total revamp and such episodes must cease to exist.

[–] nicepoliteyoungman@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly this is really fu**ed up.

[–] Kak1314@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

A player will probably have to lose his career due to this kind of "rough defending" before they take actions against this shit.

[–] Squidonge@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I guess we just blindly believe him on this? Why are people so happy to lap this up?

[–] jH1214@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Little does he know he’s just being prepared for the premier league

[–] markusninja@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Ain't no way bro is getting rattled by the worst footballing nation to ever exist 😤

[–] MrAchilles@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

What even happened?

[–] Pryapuss@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Sunday league sorta bullshit

[–] realdes1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The knee in the back was nasty, the rest was pretty standard. But yeah a Manchester United star played complaints about the toughness of freaking San Marino. They never get a break

[–] SapphireLucina@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Oh so...San Marino is bad yes, but they're also bad at being decent human beings on the pitch. Their winless streak is completely deserved