sorindafabico
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Better 2nd half for Brazil...Scolari will make changes for saturday's match, IMO.
2014 World Cup
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insanity
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We didn't deserve the win against Ghana, either. Football is fickle man, but we're in a really good place right now.
I don't know about that. The draw didn't take us out of the cup and we still control our own destiny.
It was great to see the team I grew up supporting (before the US had a soccer team worth mentioning) looking sharp against Chile today. Hopefully het Oranje can keep a good looking Mexican side in-check and get through to the quarterfinals.
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Maybe it's just sports karma, eh?
The result is fine, but it just sucks to have one stupid mistake take away what might've been the biggest US soccer victory in decades.
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Great article to put things in perspective.
http://www.espnfc.com/blog/men-in-blazers/95/post/1904962/us-very-much-alive-in-the-world-cup
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Sports karma. Getting into the knockout rounds two World Cups in a row against good opposition would be a HUGE step for the USMNT, especially considering that most of our players are still playing for a domestic league that is a long-ways off from being competitive with most of the European leagues.
Hell, the only reason Portugal could get points out of the game is that one of the best players in the world finally got space in the dying seconds of the game and put in one of the most perfect balls into the box.
And if we get through, every game will be bigger than the one before it. Think about a chance to play Belgium with a chance to go into the quarterfinals.
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90 minutes between life and death between Italy and Uruguay is about to start..... :hmm:
I think Uruguay will win - but only just.
I think Uruguay will win - but only just.
Suarez is not a football player and probably he isn't a sportsman. By the way, Italy deserved to lose. Medium level player, bad phisical condition and a middle-championship gaming... I hope for Russia 2018 an improvement.
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90 minutes between life and death between Italy and Uruguay is about to start..... :hmm:
I think Uruguay will win - but only just.
Errrr I did not call for the referee to push Uruguay through! That red card was puzzling and of course why oh why Suraez wasn't sent off!? This is the third time he bites someone on the pitch - did he got rabies for years? :facepalm: Time to ban him for more than 10 matches (that he got he bite someone last time against Chelsea)! :dry:
ty group stage. We want to play against England, Italy and Spain in the knockout stage and not Russia, Costa Rica or Chile.
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Come on Japan! Greece is leading to your favor - one more goal and you are going through! :hail:
Time to film another Jaw film with Suarez as the main antagonist :facepalm:
It was quite a strange match. Italy really didn't play well, but given the red card and hungry Suarez I would prefer to see them through instead.
It was quite a strange match. Italy really didn't play well, but given the red card and hungry Suarez I would prefer to see them through instead.
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Aaaand Greece goes to the next phase. Never doubted for a second. 
Cosmic Penguin
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Aaaand Greece goes to the next phase. Never doubted for a second.
Really!? That last minute penalty isn't even really surely a correct decision! :blink:
Aaaand Greece goes to the next phase. Never doubted for a second.
Greece against Costa Rica, one of them gets into the Quarter Finals. I feel like in a decade we'll look back at this and go like: "How the hell did that happen?"
dgatsoulis
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I probably needed sarcasm tags.
The only good thing of that match was that after the tie goal we were forced to play a non-destructive style for a change.
3 shots at the goalpost and a nice rythm on the second half. And I agree, it wasn't a penalty.
Same thing happened a decade ago at the Euro. But I really don't see anything more for this team. The underdog role suits them; no one expects anything from them.
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sorindafabico
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Until now, five South American teams qualified (and Ecuador can be the sixth). At least one (Brazil, Chile, Colombia or Uruguay) will be in the top four. Two from Concacaf (Mexico and Costa Rica...and waiting for USA). I bet for five European (Netherlands, Greece, Germany, France and Belgium), the other two being Algeria and Nigeria.
I think one of the quarter finals will be Netherlands vs. Costa Rica (despite my support for Mexico). The 4th July quarterfinal in Fortaleza (with two of the aforementioned SA teams) is unpredictable.
I think one of the quarter finals will be Netherlands vs. Costa Rica (despite my support for Mexico). The 4th July quarterfinal in Fortaleza (with two of the aforementioned SA teams) is unpredictable.
Goal line technology helped in Suarez case as well, check it out
Is it part of the joke that he has the teeth of a child?
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If Germany and the US tie both advance to the knockout stage. How Germany solved such a situation before: Gijon, 1982 vs Austria
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