I still cant believe it!
Its now up to the team to celebrate, but not get arrogant! I trust Löw to be the one to bring them down again and bring all their concentration to the next match!
<s>Argentina</s>
<s>Australia</s>
<s>Brazil</s>
<s>Côte d'Ivoire</s>
<s>Japan</s>
<s>England</s>
<s>Ghana</s>
<s>Germany</s>
North Korea
<s>Slovakia</s>
<s>Mexico</s>
<s>Netherlands</s>
<s>New Zealand</s>
<s>Paraguay</s>
<s>Portugal</s>
<s>Uruguay</s>
<s>Spain</s>
<s>Chile</s>
<s>I'm American and I don't understand this sport. Therefore U-S-A! U-S-A!</s>
<s>Obligatory some other team joke option</s>
I still cant believe it!
Its now up to the team to celebrate, but not get arrogant! I trust Löw to be the one to bring them down again and bring all their concentration to the next match!
Last edited by Croyles; 07-03-2010 at 05:45 PM.
Blimey Germany, I got the outcome right but I never saw that result coming. We clearly should have trusted the psychic octopus who called it correct again. Efficient Holland/Brazil, Germany scoring for fun, welcome to the Bizarro World Cup!
And comparing Suarez's handball to the Hand of God (even Suarez himself doesn't seem to mind the comparison) is ridiculous, I don't think every footballer would have done a Hand of God, but there isn't a footballer around who wouldn't have done what Suarez did (not least because it's a pretty instinctive thing to do).
Last edited by charliepanayi; 07-03-2010 at 07:49 PM.
"Excuse me Miss, do you like pineapple?"
I like the Shakira theme song.
The games themselves have been terribly boring though. :[
Originally Posted by charliepanayi
there was a picture here
Spain: Are you England in disguise?
What the??
Well this game suddenly flared into life!
"Excuse me Miss, do you like pineapple?"
Just what I was hoping for, Germany v Spain!
Ugh, Spain are going to win this at a canter. No offence to Germany (and although I thought Germany had the potential to beat Argentina, I never expected it to happen), but the Spanish defence (especially) and midfield are way better than the Argentineans, so don't see the Germans scoring.
Holland - Spain will probably be closer, but the Dutch defence still looks slightly dodgy and the moment the Barcelona 3 + Torres get in the groove, it's tickets for the Dutch.
Based on results so far, I'm not sure how you can say that Spain are going to beat Germany at a canter, even with their defence. Spain might well win (the game looks evenly matched to me) but I'm not sure it will be an easy win either way.
"Excuse me Miss, do you like pineapple?"
Huh? The Spanish played pretty poorly tonight...
Apart from some of the match against Chile, Spain have played against teams that have played very defensively. Spain play pass-and-move football and if there are 10 men behind the ball, then it makes the passing game very hard.
Germany on the other hand have played teams that gave it a go and were probably too attacking (Argentina had a goalkeeper, four average defenders, a defensive midfielder, and attacking midfielders and strikers - not balanced), apart from Serbia, who actually beat them.
Spain are probably the team most balanced between attack and defence and they are used to teams attacking them on the counter - German's biggest weapon. Hence why I think they should dispatch Germany.
Form counts for more than one might think. I'm hoping Spain win this (mostly due to having drawn them in my work's sweepstake thing) but my head says that Germany will win the World Cup at the moment.
EDIT: Although I agree with the idea that Spain will play better against a team that doesn't live to defend and not much more. I've been thinking this for a long time, although I would back Germany to defend far better than Argentina (obviously) and would probably rather it was Argentina that went through for my money's sake.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
I agree it will be a much tighter match, but remember against Serbia we were 1 man down for most of the game and still looked like winning throughout (obviously we didnt, so emm, yeah), Ghana was also very defensive which was our lowest win, but we still pulled through. Even Paraguay had quite a few good chances against Spain.
To be fair, England had a good number of chances against Germany, too, but yeah. Either way it will be a game that either side can win, absolutely. I hope Spain do for my money's sake, but wouldn't be shocked no matter what the result.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
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