Italy gets it with the cheap penalty kick call.
I will admit, Italy was more organized on the offensive, but Austrailia played excellent defence.
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I really fancy the Aussies, but Italy should have wrapped it up in the first half already.
I counted one decent chance for the Socceroos in the whole second...
I counted one decent chance for the Socceroos in the whole second...
Goalkeeper wrote:
I really fancy the Aussies, but Italy should have wrapped it up in the first half already.
I counted one decent chance for the Socceroos in the whole second...
I counted one decent chance for the Socceroos in the whole second...
Well, Switzerland haven't conceded a goal yet. They're kinda tough to break down, apparently.
Not like Italy has been taking the chances so far.
But yeah, the Aussies put up a decent fight.
Not like Italy has been taking the chances so far.
But yeah, the Aussies put up a decent fight.
Well, I never thought Ukraine would win. I hate penalty kicks... 
Edited, Jun 26th 2006 at 5:38pm EDT by Elderon
Edited, Jun 26th 2006 at 5:38pm EDT by Elderon
Poor Switzerland.
No goals conceded. Exit.
Harsh.
(yes, I just woke up. What an awfully boring one to watch)
No goals conceded. Exit.
Harsh.
(yes, I just woke up. What an awfully boring one to watch)
i think ukraine and switzerland both wanted to go home. no offensive chances and missing their first batch of pk's. comical in a boring way
Hah. Bye Spain....
New Fantasy 11 for the quarter finals:
ABBONDANZIERI Roberto (9.90M)
ZAMBROTTA Gianluca (16.65M)
GROSSO Fabio (12.00M)
CANNAVARO Fabio (C) (16.10M)
FERNANDO MEIRA (13.20M)
MANICHE (15.90M)
RIBERY Frank (10.65M)
ROTAN Ruslan (5.30M)
RIQUELME Juan (19.70M)
CRESPO Hernan (16.95M)
LUIS FIGO (17.75M)
Yes, I fancy Argentina, Portugal, Italy and France! Fk Brazil!
New Fantasy 11 for the quarter finals:
ABBONDANZIERI Roberto (9.90M)
ZAMBROTTA Gianluca (16.65M)
GROSSO Fabio (12.00M)
CANNAVARO Fabio (C) (16.10M)
FERNANDO MEIRA (13.20M)
MANICHE (15.90M)
RIBERY Frank (10.65M)
ROTAN Ruslan (5.30M)
RIQUELME Juan (19.70M)
CRESPO Hernan (16.95M)
LUIS FIGO (17.75M)
Yes, I fancy Argentina, Portugal, Italy and France! Fk Brazil!
From larva to butterfly. Thats how France's progrssion throguh teh tournament has felt like. Last night's game was exciting, tense and beautiful, and France was unrecognisable.
The negatives still exist, leaving Trezeguet out and persisting with teh hapless Malouda, Henry holding his face after a brush with Puyol's hair (which is scary, admitedly), and stupid mistakes from our most experienced defender Thuram, and of course the craziest and stupidest manager at the world cup.
But the positives far outweight them: Ribery explosion on the international scene, Vieira's resurgence, Zidane's goal at the 90th minute after running the whole pitch, and most of all, a sense of cohesion and team-spirit that seems to have returned. With a bit of luck, the whole Black-Blanc-Beur spirit will come back. For a couple of weeks, at least.
Brazil next, and France have the psychological edge. Last time we met, we won 3-0, and eventhough it was 8 years ago, both teams still have many players from that era.
I can't wait for a France-England semi-final, and some good old Nobby-baiting...
Having said that, I still think it'll be an Argentina-Brazil final.
The negatives still exist, leaving Trezeguet out and persisting with teh hapless Malouda, Henry holding his face after a brush with Puyol's hair (which is scary, admitedly), and stupid mistakes from our most experienced defender Thuram, and of course the craziest and stupidest manager at the world cup.
But the positives far outweight them: Ribery explosion on the international scene, Vieira's resurgence, Zidane's goal at the 90th minute after running the whole pitch, and most of all, a sense of cohesion and team-spirit that seems to have returned. With a bit of luck, the whole Black-Blanc-Beur spirit will come back. For a couple of weeks, at least.
Brazil next, and France have the psychological edge. Last time we met, we won 3-0, and eventhough it was 8 years ago, both teams still have many players from that era.
I can't wait for a France-England semi-final, and some good old Nobby-baiting...
Having said that, I still think it'll be an Argentina-Brazil final.
I really hope France can pull it off.
As a raving Dutchman, I usually don't really fancy you cheesy croissants, but last night's display was impressive indeed. Ribery is a cheecky little fellow!
Would be nice if Brazil at the very least get a run for their money. It's time they got some serious opposition to put pressure on that sub-par line of defence. And it looks like they're gonna have it in truckloads.
Vive La France.
As a raving Dutchman, I usually don't really fancy you cheesy croissants, but last night's display was impressive indeed. Ribery is a cheecky little fellow!
Would be nice if Brazil at the very least get a run for their money. It's time they got some serious opposition to put pressure on that sub-par line of defence. And it looks like they're gonna have it in truckloads.
Vive La France.
Goalkeeper wrote:
As a raving Dutchman, I usually don't really fancy you cheesy croissants, but last night's display was impressive indeed. Ribery is a cheecky little fellow!
Would be nice if Brazil at the very least get a run for their money. It's time they got some serious opposition to put pressure on that sub-par line of defence. And it looks like they're gonna have it in truckloads.
Vive La France.
Would be nice if Brazil at the very least get a run for their money. It's time they got some serious opposition to put pressure on that sub-par line of defence. And it looks like they're gonna have it in truckloads.
Vive La France.
It's funny, as a cheesy croissant I really like you tulip-eating, windmill-wearing, wooden-shoes building, pot-smoking Dutchies. I was gutted you lost to the Portuguese. I really admire Van Basten and his young squad, only downside is all the diving from Robben, but what can you expect from the Chelsea scum...
Ribery has finally shown his class, and it was about time people stopped seeing him as an ugly freak, and finally saw him as a talented, gut-busting, creative ugly freak.
I think we'll give Brazil a run for their money. And I hope Ronaldinho doesnt choose this game to wake up from his sleepiness. If he doesnt, we've got a good chance.
Over here we're mainly baffled that Van Basten did not react in the second half. General opinion is he should have substituted Boulah and Van Bommel and should have reinforced our midfield instead of adding another striker.
Dutch have been renowed for playing attacking, dominant football, but sadly it wasn't to be. Cocu was brilliant in the past, but not fit enough to carry our 3-man midfield. Sneijder is young, Van Bommel has always been questioned openly by Van Basten himself.
For a coach who grew up playing in small spaces, finding the free player to pass to and being a creative genius, he was not able to inject that class in the current Dutch team.
Finally; I hope we learn from this and build a new team from scratch, like France did in the late nineties. We all know what that led to.
We didn't win the -21 title a month ago for nothing. The talent is there.
Dutch have been renowed for playing attacking, dominant football, but sadly it wasn't to be. Cocu was brilliant in the past, but not fit enough to carry our 3-man midfield. Sneijder is young, Van Bommel has always been questioned openly by Van Basten himself.
For a coach who grew up playing in small spaces, finding the free player to pass to and being a creative genius, he was not able to inject that class in the current Dutch team.
Finally; I hope we learn from this and build a new team from scratch, like France did in the late nineties. We all know what that led to.
We didn't win the -21 title a month ago for nothing. The talent is there.
Brazil is so talanted that when they play terrible they still look great. They're aboug due to beat a good team 9 nil.
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Brazil is so talanted that when they play terrible they still look great. They're aboug due to beat a good team 9 nil.
We dont do hockey scores in soccer.
They have the talent for sure, but their defense hasnt yet been properly tested. But that will come when they play Argentina in the final...
As for the Dutch, they could've used more experience against Portugal. The dirty tricks of the Portuguese got to them, and they did exactly what teh Portuguese wanted them to do, which was to lose concentration adn focus, and play petty mind games. And no one beats Portugal at petty mind games. I think the same will happen to England, unfortunately.
Interesting line up for the quarter-finals..
England are probably not as good as Portugal on form, but the last round ripped out the heart of thier team and could well be enough to put Englands finest into the Semi's.
England 2-0 Portugal
Italy also haven't played to thier potential but have been handed a easy route to the Semi's since Ukraine are the worst team in the Quarters by a country mile.
Italy 1-0 Ukraine
Argentina are the best team in the tournement but it's tough to play the hosts as Italy found out four years ago, the result may well depend on how much the outside forces want Germany to get to the final. Thier are people within FIFA with agendas, hopefully the Ref has more integrity than Mr Moreno.
Argentina 3-1 Germany
The last match is a doosy... the underperforming but deadly Brazil team who haven't faced a top side yet Vs an Aged French team that the winning against all the odds. I can't pick a winner, lottery of penalties await.
France 1-1 Brazil
England are probably not as good as Portugal on form, but the last round ripped out the heart of thier team and could well be enough to put Englands finest into the Semi's.
England 2-0 Portugal
Italy also haven't played to thier potential but have been handed a easy route to the Semi's since Ukraine are the worst team in the Quarters by a country mile.
Italy 1-0 Ukraine
Argentina are the best team in the tournement but it's tough to play the hosts as Italy found out four years ago, the result may well depend on how much the outside forces want Germany to get to the final. Thier are people within FIFA with agendas, hopefully the Ref has more integrity than Mr Moreno.
Argentina 3-1 Germany
The last match is a doosy... the underperforming but deadly Brazil team who haven't faced a top side yet Vs an Aged French team that the winning against all the odds. I can't pick a winner, lottery of penalties await.
France 1-1 Brazil
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On a related note, does anyone else feel that favored teams have calls going their way? (Particularly in the early rounds). As already noted, I am no expert on football. (Could it be certain players get the benefit of the doubt on calls due to their personal fame? Or could it be that the underdog team tries harder to feign injury?)
good call there. just look at the gift italy got against australia. the ref that did the por/hol game stated that he was surprised at the amount of cheap shots the dutch tried againt portugal. he stated that portugal is usually the team that tries cheap shots or wasting time. seems like a bit of prejudice right off the start against one team, and i dont doubt that other refs might have those same predjudices also.
Like Figo's cheap shot, you mean? :)
The last match is a doosy... the underperforming but deadly Brazil team who haven't faced a top side yet Vs an Aged French team that the winning against all the odds. I can't pick a winner, lottery of penalties await.
France 1-1 Brazil
Hahahahaahahha.
Put the crack pipe down. France will be lucky to make it 1-4.
I was happy to see Zedane score and all, but don't mistake Brazil playing down to the oppoistion as underperfroming.
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First of all, it's Zidane!!
Second, we are not that bad. No one gave us a chance against the mighty Spain, and bam!
Third, last time we met the Brazillians, we won 3-0. True, it was 8 years ago, but there are 4 frenchies from that team in our starting XI, and 3 in Brazil's. Soooooo, we have the psychological edge.
All we need to do now is poison Gronaldo's* cofee, like we did last time, and it should all be rosy.
Having said that, I'm not really that confident. But 4-1 would be a nasty humiliation. I'd take a 1-1 draw and us winning on penalties.
* "Gros" means "fat" in French. Hence the hilarious play on word.
[i]Edited, Jun 29th 2006 at 10:12am EDT by RedPhoenixxxxxx
Second, we are not that bad. No one gave us a chance against the mighty Spain, and bam!
Third, last time we met the Brazillians, we won 3-0. True, it was 8 years ago, but there are 4 frenchies from that team in our starting XI, and 3 in Brazil's. Soooooo, we have the psychological edge.
All we need to do now is poison Gronaldo's* cofee, like we did last time, and it should all be rosy.
Having said that, I'm not really that confident. But 4-1 would be a nasty humiliation. I'd take a 1-1 draw and us winning on penalties.
* "Gros" means "fat" in French. Hence the hilarious play on word.
[i]Edited, Jun 29th 2006 at 10:12am EDT by RedPhoenixxxxxx
Some funny stuff from the World Cup:
When the penalty was awarded for Italy in the Australia game:
When the penalty was scored:
That was from a rather over-excited Chinese commentator called Huang "The Chinese John Motson" Jianxiang.
In other news:
And finally:
Thats scouser baboons for you...
Edited, Jun 30th 2006 at 7:07am EDT by RedPhoenixxxxxx
When the penalty was awarded for Italy in the Australia game:
Quote:
Penalty! Penalty! Penalty! Grosso's done it, Grosso's done it! The great Italian left back! He succeeded in the glorious traditions of Italy! Facchetti, Cabrini and Maldini, their souls are infused in him at this moment! Grosso represents the long history and traditions of Italian soccer, he's not fighting alone at this moment! He's not alone!
When the penalty was scored:
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"Goooooal! Game over! Italy win! Beat the Australians! They do not fall in front of Hiddink again! Italy the great! Left back the great! Happy birthday to Maldini! Forza Italia! The victory belongs to Italy, to Grosso, to Cannavaro, to Zambrotta, to Buffon, to Maldini, to everyone who loves Italian soccer! Hiddink ... lost all his courage faced with Italian history and traditions ... He finally reaped fruits which he had sown! They should go home. They don't need to go as far away as Australia as most of them are living in Europe. Farewell!"
That was from a rather over-excited Chinese commentator called Huang "The Chinese John Motson" Jianxiang.
In other news:
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Equally daft were a trio of Argentinean fans who came up with the idea of pretending to be disabled so that they could get in to see their team play Holland. They bought wheelchairs and everything seemed to be going smoothly when they were allowed into the stadium.
However, when things started to get exciting, it was too much for one of them, who jumped up from his wheelchair. Surrounding fans began thinking that a miracle was taking place, but security guards were rather less impressed, and they threw the three of them out. One of them, called Claudio, admitted: "We are embarrassed by what we did, but we had no alternative. We did not have the money to pay for a ticket."
However, when things started to get exciting, it was too much for one of them, who jumped up from his wheelchair. Surrounding fans began thinking that a miracle was taking place, but security guards were rather less impressed, and they threw the three of them out. One of them, called Claudio, admitted: "We are embarrassed by what we did, but we had no alternative. We did not have the money to pay for a ticket."
And finally:
Quote:
A group of baboons at Knowsley Safari Park in Merseyside are busy collecting England flags, no doubt for some kind of mass patriotic display. Whenever a hapless visitor drives past in a car decked with these little flags, the cheeky baboons go and nick them. Safari Park general manager David Ross told the Liverpool Echo: "Many people are wisely removing the flags before they set off on the safari drive. But if they forget, the baboons usually take them and they've now built up quite a collection."
Thats scouser baboons for you...
Edited, Jun 30th 2006 at 7:07am EDT by RedPhoenixxxxxx
I'm hoping for a France stunt against Brazil!
Go Ribery, embarass those flocky Brazil defenders. Raaah!
Go Ribery, embarass those flocky Brazil defenders. Raaah!
the man behind the **** wrote:
I'm hoping for a France stunt against Brazil!
as much as I hope to see Germany win, even more I hope the frenchies will get their butt kicked... don't want to have another 1998, or?
funny though, a US colleague is here, and we just got him (legally, via the official website) a ticket for the Game today here in Hamburg (Ukr-Ita). he couldn't believe his luck :)
don't cry for me, Argentina...
Still a noob. :-P
Characters on Drinal, Povar, EMarr, Firiona Vie.
Characters on Drinal, Povar, EMarr, Firiona Vie.
We will teach those Brazillians a lesson, no worries.
I'm hoping for a France - Germany final.
And s France win, of course. Revenge for Harald Shumacher and all that ;)
I'm hoping for a France - Germany final.
And s France win, of course. Revenge for Harald Shumacher and all that ;)
I just swapped Riquelme, Saviola and Crespo for Klose, Podolski and Schweinsteiger.
Never thought I'd say this, but COME ON GERMANY!
Never thought I'd say this, but COME ON GERMANY!
Not looking good for em
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