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I wonder if Argentina's relatively easy path to this match was a factor in their dismal performance today. I had thought that Argentina was going to edge by just a little because they had at least established three players as major scoring threats. However, the other players just couldn't make Germany pay for sticking multiple defenders on Messi. Argentina just started to panic because they've never had to come back from behind that late in the game.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #907 on:** July 03, 2010, 12:42:49 PM »

Quote from: Smooth Groove on July 03, 2010, 12:40:38 PM

I wonder if Argentina's relatively easy path to this match was a factor in their dismal performance today. I had thought that Argentina was going to edge by just a little because they had at least established three players as major scoring threats. However, the other players just couldn't make Germany pay for sticking multiple defenders on Messi. Argentina just started to panic because they've never had to come back from behind that late in the game.

They were behind 3 min in.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #908 on:** July 03, 2010, 12:52:23 PM »

Quote from: WrikaWrek on July 03, 2010, 12:42:49 PM

Quote from: Smooth Groove on July 03, 2010, 12:40:38 PM
I wonder if Argentina's relatively easy path to this match was a factor in their dismal performance today. I had thought that Argentina was going to edge by just a little because they had at least established three players as major scoring threats. However, the other players just couldn't make Germany pay for sticking multiple defenders on Messi. Argentina just started to panic because they've never had to come back from behind that late in the game.

They were behind 3 min in.

I meant when they were still unable to equalize at ~60 mins. You could tell they were starting to play tight and forcing a bit too much.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #909 on:** July 03, 2010, 12:53:37 PM »

Quote from: Borys on July 03, 2010, 12:46:30 PM

Final will be:

URUGUAY : PARAGUAY

Whoever loses can just invade the other.

Skidmark · « **Reply #910 on:** July 03, 2010, 12:58:17 PM »

Quote from: Purple Filth on July 03, 2010, 12:16:26 PM

Stolen from GAF

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Oh man

T-Short · « **Reply #911 on:** July 03, 2010, 01:04:22 PM »

Quote from: Purple Filth on July 03, 2010, 11:57:17 AM

Quote from: Borys on July 03, 2010, 11:55:40 AM
What an ownage. Aren't all Germany players under 22? Total domination.

there are a few over but i think the limit is 25. Still crazy though

Klose

Third · « **Reply #912 on:** July 03, 2010, 01:21:30 PM »

4rgentina humiliated.

Bacchus7 · « **Reply #913 on:** July 03, 2010, 03:33:51 PM »

Ever since Germany's win, this boner just won't go away. I don't mind.

TripleA · « **Reply #914 on:** July 03, 2010, 03:47:39 PM »

Casillas

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #915 on:** July 03, 2010, 03:49:03 PM »

DRAMA

brawndolicious · « **Reply #916 on:** July 03, 2010, 03:51:51 PM »

paraguay got so lucky with that penalty. I hope they win.

TripleA · « **Reply #917 on:** July 03, 2010, 04:10:03 PM »

TripleA · « **Reply #918 on:** July 03, 2010, 04:23:16 PM »

Fantastic game.

Spain will REALLY need to step it up for their game with Germany, Casillas alone can't save them.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #919 on:** July 03, 2010, 05:59:56 PM »

Quote from: Kosma on July 03, 2010, 04:38:04 PM

Germany played good.

Final could be Holland - Germany.

If the Dutch can beat Uruguay with 3 key players missing.

Everybody says Germany is so good, but they already lost once this tournament, they are definately beatable.

So what you say is that a football team can be beat? OH MY GOD.

Fact is, they are great. Because unlike Holland, they play beautiful, fluid, and tactically firm football. Contrast it to the dirty, ugly, boring, lucky style of the dutch.

Mandark · « **Reply #920 on:** July 03, 2010, 06:05:23 PM »

Soccer: Not actually a morality play, you know.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #921 on:** July 03, 2010, 06:08:05 PM »

It's a spectators sport, i'll root for a team playing like Germany than a team playing like Holland till the day i die. And hopefully, Holland loses with Uruguay so i don't even have to bother watching those fuckers play.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #922 on:** July 03, 2010, 06:27:18 PM »

Yeah, most likely the final will be Uruguay-Germany. In which case I would root for Uruguay because they would be the underdogs.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #923 on:** July 03, 2010, 06:51:01 PM »

Man, I'm happy no teams that heavily employ the turtle defense made it through

brawndolicious · « **Reply #924 on:** July 03, 2010, 07:14:05 PM »

* am nintenho throws shoe at Kosma.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #925 on:** July 03, 2010, 07:18:26 PM »

Kosma and Third have so much faith in their team that they only talk shit after the match.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #926 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:18:38 PM »

Not bitter that Portugal lost at all.

I was more upset at seeing Brazil lose, they way it did to shitty Holland than i was to see Portugal go out without a sound. I kinda hope Holland makes it to the finals and Germany embarrasses them, but i would prefer to be done with it as soon as possible.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #927 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:33:07 PM »

I don't understand why you keep comparing the two of them. As far as i know we knocked your teeth out the last two times we saw each other.

And yes, lucky own goals, refs that doesn't send Bommel to the mtfkin street for some supernatural reason, and when you fuck up in the defense the adversaries haven't been murdering.

If you can tell me with a straight face that Holland has been playing great...you don't know shit.

In the WC you only played against one great team, Brazil...and they outplayed the fuck out of you, and a decent Denmark. Both teams have one thing in common, half of the goals you scored against them, are theirs.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #928 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:38:50 PM »

Shit teams sometimes win stuff, that's football.

Holland is still a shit team. Or better, they play absolute shit football.

edit: It's sneijders, but it shouldn't have been, hence why i've heard commentated how ridiculous it is that Fifa didn't count it as an own goal. I'm sure dutch commentators said it was an amazing sneijder goal though!!!!

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #929 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:40:54 PM »

Seems to me you don't even watch the games. Why bother talking.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #930 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:45:14 PM »

Look dipshit, it was a cross. Had sneidjer actually shoot at the goal, but no, it was a cross.

Great victory lol

How come that whenever someone criticizes a team that wins, its bitterness? Specially, when the team didn't win against the team you support? How distinguished mentally-challenged is that.

I hope that if Holland loses you'll be here talking bitter tears about others too.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #931 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:56:26 PM »

Quote from: Kosma on July 03, 2010, 08:41:50 PM

I've met more sportmanlike Brazilians here yesterday that congratuled me on the great win.

aren't you a polish?

and imo, the dutch played as a more coordinated team but the brazilians had more individual skill. they may have had worse tactics but they didn't rely so much on simply fouling the other players.

bud · « **Reply #932 on:** July 03, 2010, 09:01:58 PM »

Quote from: WrikaWrek on July 03, 2010, 05:59:56 PM

Quote from: Kosma on July 03, 2010, 04:38:04 PM
Germany played good.

Final could be Holland - Germany.

If the Dutch can beat Uruguay with 3 key players missing.

Everybody says Germany is so good, but they already lost once this tournament, they are definately beatable.

So what you say is that a football team can be beat? OH MY GOD.

Fact is, they are great. Because unlike Holland, they play beautiful, fluid, and tactically firm football. Contrast it to the dirty, ugly, boring, lucky style of the dutch.

so what? you didn't seem to care about any of that a couple of months ago.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=21413903&postcount=1791

Quote from: WrikaWrek

You have such a wrong concept about football. Don't let your hate blind you!

Fans want to win, presidents want to win, players want to win. Wins move fans into seeing football matches at home.

Nobody wants to pay 40 euros to see their team play really well but lose. If Mourinho wins, the fans will love them, like the Porto/Chelsea/Inter fans before. And if he wins, the the President will love him too.

"Mourinho football", cry some moar

talk about having ''a wrong concept about football''

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #933 on:** July 03, 2010, 09:03:50 PM »

There's a difference between playing tactically sound football, with great defense (Inter and Germany are not so unlike each other), and playing dirty and ugly football.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #934 on:** July 04, 2010, 03:09:09 AM »

In the case of the netherlands, they played ~~football~~ soccer more conservatively than they treat immigrants. I mean, I don't watch a sports game just to see somebody with legs like a clydesdale run really fast and dribble a ball well. I watch it to see one group of motherfuckers humiliate another group of motherfuckers so bad that half the stadium is depressed. that is the moment that I anticipate for 90 minutes of every game. In this case, brazil humiliated themselves.

Third · « **Reply #935 on:** July 04, 2010, 06:03:56 AM »

HOLLAND

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Purple Filth · « **Reply #936 on:** July 04, 2010, 08:40:20 PM »

Dunga got annihilated as expected.

Reb · « **Reply #937 on:** July 05, 2010, 07:03:41 AM »

Yeah, good times for us.

Tristam · « **Reply #938 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:29:05 AM »

For once I partially agree with Wrika. Yeah, the Brazilians fouled a lot too, but the Dutch fouled nearly as much (courtesy of Van Bommel who should have been sent off) and dived a lot more. The worst are the Gaffot Dutchmen who, in their post-victory high, completely denied that Robben ever dived AT ALL IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING GAME. I said, no, he was a swan out there, but then came the "LOL AMERICAN FLAG By UR NAME U DONT KNOW FOOTBALL" posts.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #939 on:** July 05, 2010, 03:24:06 PM »

Quote from: Stringfellow Hawke on July 05, 2010, 06:19:26 AM

So the remaining world cup games are all at 3:30 a.m. Japan Time. GOOD GAME, SOUTH AFRICA.
I guess most of the remaining countries are European, so it's only fair.

11:30 am here in Seattle.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #940 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:00:45 PM »

Go Netherlands!!! Woooo!!!

Skidmark · « **Reply #941 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:08:25 PM »

Let's do this.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #942 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:09:23 PM »

Huge upset if Uruguay wins. I don't think they'll pull it off though.

TripleA · « **Reply #943 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:34:48 PM »

Quote from: Skidmark on July 06, 2010, 02:08:25 PM

Let's do this.

Third · « **Reply #944 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:38:54 PM »

HOLLAND

~~Urugay~~

cubicle47b · « **Reply #945 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:40:11 PM »

The Dutch will win. I don't think they are particularly fun to watch, though (although they've been interesting enough this game).

TripleA · « **Reply #946 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:48:12 PM »

Skidmark · « **Reply #947 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:48:17 PM »

Nice

cubicle47b · « **Reply #948 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:49:00 PM »

Perfect placement.

Third · « **Reply #949 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:49:17 PM »

AHUAHAHAHAH

cubicle47b · « **Reply #950 on:** July 06, 2010, 02:55:18 PM »

Why are the announcers talking about horse placenta?

cubicle47b · « **Reply #951 on:** July 06, 2010, 03:10:35 PM »

TripleA · « **Reply #952 on:** July 06, 2010, 03:10:58 PM »

URUGUAY not backing down, I love this game

Bacchus7 · « **Reply #953 on:** July 06, 2010, 03:11:17 PM »

GODLIKE FORLAN

TripleA · « **Reply #954 on:** July 06, 2010, 03:18:45 PM »

Very good first half

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #955 on:** July 06, 2010, 03:23:16 PM »

Even with the girl hair, Forlan is a bad ass.

TripleA · « **Reply #956 on:** July 06, 2010, 03:58:34 PM »

Lazy goalkeeping

Skidmark · « **Reply #957 on:** July 06, 2010, 04:01:29 PM »

I just have to comment on that one

cubicle47b · « **Reply #958 on:** July 06, 2010, 04:02:26 PM »

Goalkeeper was just watching.

TripleA · « **Reply #959 on:** July 06, 2010, 04:02:30 PM »

Looks like it's Netherlands

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