Football World Cup 2006 in Germany

[Placebo]

league standings so far


Quote[/b] ]Pos Name Winner Po
1 Placebo
Czech Republic Winner: Brazil
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I think it's time to stop the competition now http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif

[klavan]

I think it's time to stop the competition now http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif
You're damned lucky: say thanks to the dutchs that sucks in their first match! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Klavan

[PainDealer]

I think it's time to stop the competition now http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif
You're damned lucky: say thanks to the dutchs that sucks in their first match! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Klavan
it was the Serbs who played a brilliant 2nd half. the equalizer was so damn close many times

[raedor]

I think it's time to stop the competition now http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif
You're damned lucky: say thanks to the dutchs that sucks in their first match! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Klavan
it was the Serbs who played a brilliant 2nd half. the equalizer was so damn close many times
I can't remember many good situations of the Serbs in the 2nd half... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif

[EddyBoy]

I remember two clear chances when I play ponsed around with 1-2's instead of just belting it into the goal Think those were the main chances.

[raedor]

I remember two clear chances when I play ponsed around with 1-2's instead of just belting it into the goal Think those were the main chances.
Yep, 2 chances, but it wasn't a brilliant 2nd half and they were most of the time quite uneffective... the defense was better than in the first half, but nothing more... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

Now Australia vs Japan... hmm... btw what about a final Australia vs CZ? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Albert Schweitzer]

Raedor, you are not embarassed to post here? You should come back when you have at least a few points! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

BTW: awesome match!

[blackjack[VS]]

just remember now that we have wc2006 thread on bis forums...so 1st of all, congrats to PORTUGAL, and their shy win against our comrades from angola. Figo made a great job, remembering why he was elected best fifa player some years ago. deco was injured so he couldnt play, and that was noticed on the field...simăo replaced him (dont we have a better attacking midefielder? ) and i really hated his performance...so now we have an easy match against iran, and then the last and hard one against mexico... i hope we can terminate mexico "salero", but even if we lost, we´ll guarantee our pass to next round.
congrats to germany to. plp complained about their absence of a key player (balack couldnt play), but i really disagree. they have a very solid team with really nice/solid passing lines. portugal has some 8 superstar players, but has a team they still have a lot to practise...
england...i think we gona meet in the quarter finals...if the match will end in penalties, my advice is to avoid beckam...wont ever forget ricardo taking his gloves out and defending beckam kick. (most intensive match i ever saw).

so in few hours we'll have cz against usa. i really like cz team for a long time. poborsky played in portugal for some years (xcelente player), but my favourite is pavel nedved. hope cz cleans usa asses (wont ever forget usa won portugal in wc2002), and i'm betting 20$ on cz at online betting site.
so u guys think cz will win to? hope so...
meanwhile good luck to all teams, specially Portugal...
FORÇA PORTUGAL!

[EddyBoy]

1-1, kmon the Aus http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif. Hehe been a good game so far

*2-1* even better http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Albert Schweitzer]

good for them! Not good for me, why dont I ever get the points right. I said 1-0 for Japan! Shait http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/pistols.gif

I DONT BELIEVE IT: PLACEBO IS SUCH A LUCKY BASTARD!!! THIS CANT BE TRUE! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif he always gets his extra point!

3-1! I guess Billybob was near but noone else guessed that result!

[EddyBoy]

3-1, hehe Japanese are finished http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif. Nice job Socceroos. What a day for Tims, first henman beats Agassi now Mr. Cahill buries 2.

[Ironsight]

What a match. Great game by Australia. The Japanese keeper must feel pretty fucked now he gave at least one goal away...

[raedor]

Raedor, you are not embarassed to post here? You should come back when you have at least a few points! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

BTW: awesome match!
Tsts http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

Hell now this was tension... the Aussies won well deserved.

/edit:
I DONT BELIEVE IT: PLACEBO IS SUCH A LUCKY BASTARD!!! THIS CANT BE TRUE! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif he always gets his extra point!
Next WC/EC I'll go and copy Placebo's predtictions... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif

[kavoven]

Just saw the last 15 minuts... great game http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

And I didn't see any fouls http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[Mr Burns]

Controversial at first but that spiced it up for me, normally i dont cheer at every goal, today i did. In the end a well deserved win for the team that played more fair
Fantastic game socceroos! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif

[Albert Schweitzer]

Just saw the last 15 minuts... great game http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

And I didn't see any fouls http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
there were 6 yellow cards! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[Postduifje]

I can't really agree that this was such a fantastic match, cause the football was pretty poor, but entertaining to watch anyway. Congrats to Australia, Hiddink is a guarantee to the semi-finals http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[raedor]

Just saw the last 15 minuts... great game http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

And I didn't see any fouls http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
there were 6 yellow cards! http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
But not in the last 15 minutes... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif There was a pretty rude foul from Cahill right after his goal, all things considered there were quite many fouls.

@<hidden>: Yep, the 2nd half again wasn&#39;t that interesting (excepting the last ten minutes), as in most of the matches of this WC so far.

[kavoven]

This WC is really full of surprises http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Makivelli]

I&#39;m by no means a soccer fan, but I am bouncing off the walls right now. AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE&#33; OI OI OI&#33;

[Pathy]

What is this "soccer" of which you speak? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif

[Acecombat]

Its safe to say that right now everyone at BIS will be taking time out from developing ArmA to watch the CZ vs US match http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif .

[klavan]

Australia 3 Japan 1&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
Damned Kangaroos&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; I was about to get 3 points &#39;till 6 minutes to the end&#33;
Well, at least there were some players with Italian origins in the team. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

@<hidden>
There&#39;s a motto here in Italy: "Hai piů culo che sentimento". Use your best on-line traslator to find the it&#39;s meaning. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

Klavan

[Espectro]

Its safe to say that right now everyone at BIS will be taking time out from developing ArmA to watch the CZ vs US match http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif .
I bet they are going out tonight to get som Urquell from Pilzen http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

0-3 to Czech Republic as we speak.

[Chops]

Yeeeeees&#33; You beauty&#33;&#33;

Having lived in Japan for three years, not despite, added a little extra spice to the sweetest of victories&#33; Those two clowns clattering into Schwartzer dont mean shit now http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif &#33;

I just got back from the local English bar, where I was told "Here is Japan. Don&#39;t celebration" by one of the locals, which prompted a solo rendition of Waltzing Matilda (Australia&#39;s unofficial and therefore more popular national anthem).

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/nener.gif

[PainDealer]

the USA - Czech Rep match isn&#39;t too surprising http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif but I wonder what the hell happened to Japan http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif total breakdown in the last 15min http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/band.gif the result really doesn&#39;t tell the real nature of that match.

[Ti0n3r]

Go CZ&#33;
http://files.upl.silentwhisper.net/upload3/cheersofp.jpg

[Postduifje]

Damn, those Czechs are really good. I thought the squad would have been over the top by now, but this is without a doubt the best team we&#39;ve seen so far. Besides that, not a very exciting match though http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[Espectro]

And thats the final whistle... very nice Czech...

Even though I didn&#39;t have any expectations to the US, they really disapointed me... Very lousy play http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

Weren&#39;t they pretty high on the FIFA-list?

I guess thats a trick to get a larger audience...

[PainDealer]

Damn, those Czechs are really good. I thought the squad would have been over the top by now, but this is without a doubt the best team we&#39;ve seen so far. Besides that, not a very exciting match though http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
they are always good. too bad Koller was injured http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

if USA keeps playing this way they&#39;ll end up 4th in the group...

[Postduifje]

Nah, you shouldn&#39;t take the rankings too seriously. US just plays a lot against very bad teams, so wins a lot of matches. I didn&#39;t thought there were that disappointing, they tried but were simply outclassed

[Berghoff]

Easy victory for Czech http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

[verbal]

Its safe to say that right now everyone at BIS will be taking time out from developing ArmA to watch the CZ vs US match http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif .
I bet they are going out tonight to get som Urquell from Pilzen http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

0-3 to Czech Republic as we speak.
hmm, radegast would be my choice. but ive already started with red wine, so i dont wanna mix it http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
i was hoping that usa could cause more trouble. the first goal came too fast. otherwise the czech would be more nervous. now, lets pray that we dont win the cup. it would cause massive celebretions and arma could be delayed http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[PainDealer]

Nah, you shouldn&#39;t take the rankings too seriously. US just plays a lot against very bad teams, so wins a lot of matches. I didn&#39;t thought there were that disappointing, they tried but were simply outclassed
besides the shot they got on the woodwork... nothing to mention about. they were just too lazy. and the passes didn&#39;t go anywhere.

[Postduifje]

Nah, you shouldn&#39;t take the rankings too seriously. US just plays a lot against very bad teams, so wins a lot of matches. I didn&#39;t thought there were that disappointing, they tried but were simply outclassed
besides the shot they got on the woodwork... nothing to mention about. they were just too lazy. and the passes didn&#39;t go anywhere.
I didn&#39;t think they were lazy at all. As always the US team tries to compensate a lack of quality with effort. All they tried was simply useless against a perfectly organised Czech team.

As for Koller, yeah, a great loss for the tournament I&#39;m afraid. Rosicky might be able to replace him, else only the lack of a pure striker can prevent Czech Republic from going very very far. (That, and Ronaldinho of course http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif)

[denoir]

Breaking news, Bush announces: Bin laden found in Czech Republic; Bombing starts in five minutes. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[Espectro]

Breaking news, Bush announces: Bin laden found in Czech Republic; Bombing starts in five minutes. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
lol

[raedor]

Nah, you shouldn&#39;t take the rankings too seriously. US just plays a lot against very bad teams, so wins a lot of matches. I didn&#39;t thought there were that disappointing, they tried but were simply outclassed
besides the shot they got on the woodwork... nothing to mention about. they were just too lazy. and the passes didn&#39;t go anywhere.
I didn&#39;t think they were lazy at all. As always the US team tries to compensate a lack of quality with effort. All they tried was simply useless against a perfectly organised Czech team.

As for Koller, yeah, a great loss for the tournament I&#39;m afraid. Rosicky might be able to replace him, else only the lack of a pure striker can prevent Czech Republic from going very very far. (That, and Ronaldinho of course http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif)
Well, they still have Milan Baros... he&#39;s a very good striker, too.

@<hidden>: LOL http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

@<hidden> (FIFA-List): That&#39;s because they don&#39;t have many good teams to play against them...

[Postduifje]

Well, they still have Milan Baros... he&#39;s a very good striker, too.
If it wasn&#39;t for him scoring over and over for the national team, I would have disagreed. I&#39;m not too keen on Baros, he is nothing compared to Koller. Besides that, he isn&#39;t fully fit either.

[raedor]

Well, they still have Milan Baros... he&#39;s a very good striker, too.
If it wasn&#39;t for him scoring over and over for the national team, I would have disagreed. I&#39;m not too keen on Baros, he is nothing compared to Koller. Besides that, he isn&#39;t fully fit either.
I don&#39;t know too much about Baros, but when I saw him in 2004&#39;s EC, he was very good. I don&#39;t know why Liverpool sold him... but okay, that&#39;s two years ago.

[JdB]

There is little to compare between Baros and Koller, Baros is fast, good for counters, but not for the Czechs who depend on Koller&#39;s where Koller&#39;s length and strength to keep the ball in posession unstil Rosicky and Nedved can link up with him (more of a center forward role than an actual striker). Baros is more of the "I&#39;m going in...alone" type.

Why Baros failed at Liverpool....well, I don&#39;t watch every Liverpool match, but I think it had something to do with him being injury prone and he didn&#39;t score too many times. That combined with him being quite a limited striker makes a coach want to search for alternatives. Baros plays much better in the Czech national team then I saw him do for Liverpool, similar to Galasek, who impressed me much more during Euro 2004 and the first WC 2006 match then his play at AFC Ajax did http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

[PainDealer]

Well, they still have Milan Baros... he&#39;s a very good striker, too.
If it wasn&#39;t for him scoring over and over for the national team, I would have disagreed. I&#39;m not too keen on Baros, he is nothing compared to Koller. Besides that, he isn&#39;t fully fit either.
if they can get Baros on field in full health, the Czechs should go far

[klavan]

Italy 2 - 0 Ghana
Not too bad, at least for me. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Good and enjoyable first half, the second was a little boring.
Klavan

[kavoven]

Boring game...
I predicted 4:0 for italy.. damn... I feel I don&#39;t have the right touch for this preditcting XD

[Garcia]

There is little to compare between Baros and Koller, Baros is fast, good for counters, but not for the Czechs who depend on Koller&#39;s where Koller&#39;s length and strength to keep the ball in posession unstil Rosicky and Nedved can link up with him (more of a center forward role than an actual striker). Baros is more of the "I&#39;m going in...alone" type.
Errr, so Baros was the topscorer in EC 2004 because he doesn&#39;t fit the Czechs playingstyle? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif
IMO that plain BS. Czech Rep. is good enough to build up their game around both Baros or Koller, depending on who plays. Nedved and Rosicky are so good that if they got Baros on the pitch, they&#39;ll easily get him through on goal, and Baros is quite good at just that. Besides, Baros would fit much better into Czechs game if they play the way they did today. They didn&#39;t really use Koller much when he was on. They don&#39;t need a player like him to keep hold of the ball because Nedved and Rosicky can find their way through the oppositions defence/midfield with the ball.

[da12thMonkey]

I predicted 2-0. Finally I get 3 points&#33; Moves me up from 20th, to 8th&#33;

Pretty boring game, especially the 2nd half. Essien was good though.

I enjoyed the Czech game earlier. I hope they go far in the tournament. Hope Croatia do well against Brazil tomorrow too.

[PainDealer]

Boring game...
got that one right there. I&#39;m really disappointed with Ghanas effort. it seemed like they were seriously lacking intelligence. they had no idea of how to pass to ball from player to player and their movement in general wasn&#39;t done as a team.

can&#39;t wait for tomorrows Brazil - Croatia. should be an interesting match as Croatia has always been a tough team.

[raedor]

Italy 2 - 0 Ghana
Not too bad, at least for me. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Good and enjoyable first half, the second was a little boring.
Klavan
Heyoo, our new tab leader&#33;


Quote[/b] ]1 Klavan Italy Winner: BrazilSee full predictions 14
2 Placebo Czech Republic Winner: BrazilSee full predictions 13
3 JdB Holland Winner: BrazilSee full predictions 12
4 seagull sweden Winner: HollandSee full predictions 11
5 Stainer England Winner: EnglandSee full predictions 10
5 Morgan Sweden Winner: BrazilSee full predictions 10
5 DnA BIS HQ Winner: HollandSee full predictions 10
8 da12thMonkey Shropshire, England Winner: BrazilSee full predictions 9
8 Master Sietse Zwollywood Winner: HollandSee full predictions 9
8 ScouseJedi Liverpool, UK Winner: GermanySee full predictions 9
8 Garcia Tromsř Winner: Czech Rep. 9

@<hidden>: http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/thumbs-up.gif

[klavan]

can&#39;t wait for tomorrows Brazil - Croatia. should be an interesting match as Croatia has always been a tough team.
Me too: i&#39;m dying waiting to see Ronaldinho doing some magics with his foots. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif
I&#39;ve got great expectations from that match.

@<hidden>
It&#39;s only the result of serious application and studies. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif

Klavan

[billybob2002]

Breaking news, Bush announces: Bin laden found in Czech Republic; Bombing starts in five minutes.  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
The US squad will not lose again&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif

Billybob2002 did not watch the game due to classes and, therefore, the US loss the game. When the US plays Italy on Saturday, Billybob2002 will be watching&#33;

[PainDealer]

Breaking news, Bush announces: Bin laden found in Czech Republic; Bombing starts in five minutes. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
The US squad will not lose again&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
I think they&#39;ll need to spare a salvo for Italy too http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif tho they really didn&#39;t convince anyone in the match against Ghana

[raedor]

Breaking news, Bush announces: Bin laden found in Czech Republic; Bombing starts in five minutes. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
The US squad will not lose again&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
I think they&#39;ll need to spare a salvo for Italy too http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif tho they really didn&#39;t convince anyone in the match against Ghana
The US didn&#39;t either... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[klavan]

Breaking news, Bush announces: Bin laden found in Czech Republic; Bombing starts in five minutes. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
The US squad will not lose again&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
I think they&#39;ll need to spare a salvo for Italy too http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif tho they really didn&#39;t convince anyone in the match against Ghana
At this point I&#39;m going to start thinking we are risking something similar: we are withdrawing from Iraq, we refused to send reinforcements into A-stan.........If we will also beat the USA team we are going to be the next USAF&#39;s target. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Operation Enduring Footballing http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
Klavan

[raedor]

Breaking news, Bush announces: Bin laden found in Czech Republic; Bombing starts in five minutes. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
The US squad will not lose again&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
I think they&#39;ll need to spare a salvo for Italy too http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif tho they really didn&#39;t convince anyone in the match against Ghana
At this point I&#39;m going to start thinking we are risking something similar: we are withdrawing from Iraq, we refused to send reinforcements into A-stan.........If we will also beat the USA team we are going to be the next USAF&#39;s target. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Operation Enduring Footballing http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
Klavan
I guess you meant Operation Enduring (FIFA-Free-)Soccer&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/goodnight.gif

[kavoven]

I take back what I said at the beginning. ( I said I will gain as many points with no knowledge as those people how actually know the teams)

Last place... it&#39;s a shame ^^ http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/goodnight.gif

[klavan]

I guess you meant Operation Enduring (FIFA-Free-)Soccer&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/goodnight.gif
Lol
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7163/binladen9os.th.jpg (http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=binladen9os.jpg)
Osama bin Blatter
Klavan

[Shashman]

MAN did Ghana play dirty http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/pistols.gif

Boring game, good result. Lucky that Totti wasn&#39;t injured. Dirty diiirty tackle http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif

[Cozza]

Fuckin Aussie you bloody buety. Just when thing look down. Boom, 3 goals http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Placebo]

The US squad will not lose again&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
On yesterday&#39;s performance I see even Ghana beating you guys easily, can&#39;t believe how poor the US team were http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

[Garcia]

Czech Republic vs Brazil in finals http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

Just brilliant, I got oral exam in 2 days...nicely placed, just under the WC&#33; There&#39;s 2 weeks since the last time I was at school, but they manage to place the damn exam under the WC http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif Worst thing is, only subjects I can get for the exam now is math or chemistry...yay http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif This means, no more WC for me in the next 2 days http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif

[EddyBoy]

Quote[/b] ]
Czechs given Koller fitness boost
Czech star Jan Koller
Koller was carried off just before half-time against USA
Czech Republic striker Jan Koller hopes to be back in training by Friday after scans revealed his thigh injury is not as serious as was first feared.

From BBC sport, sounds good.

Oh well, even if Ghana are knocked out Samuel Kuffour can now sleep easy in his Ł5million new mansion in the Italian alps. But he was shocking that fellow. Deliberate trip(lucky man) and the backpass. Was he ever that bad when he played in england?

[raedor]

Quote[/b] ]
Czechs given Koller fitness boost
Czech star Jan Koller
Koller was carried off just before half-time against USA
Czech Republic striker Jan Koller hopes to be back in training by Friday after scans revealed his thigh injury is not as serious as was first feared.

From BBC sport, sounds good.

Oh well, even if Ghana are knocked out Samuel Kuffour can now sleep easy in his Ł5million new mansion in the Italian alps. But he was shocking that fellow. Deliberate trip(lucky man) and the backpass. Was he ever that bad when he played in england?
Did he ever play in England? He was in Munich before.

/edit: Korea strikes back&#33; (http://ofpc.de/screenshots/184/23228.jpg)

[EddyBoy]

yeh he played for munich for 10 seasons or something but he trained in some camp somewhere here. Doesn&#39;t matter anyway, poor old Togo, would have been nice to see them win.

Looking forward to seeing France play next. never really got the french, 1990,1994 didn&#39;t qualify, 98 they won it, 2002 didn&#39;t score 1 goal. When you look at zidane, makalele, henry, galla, viera and most importanly Jean-alain Boumsong you wonder how they did so terribly in 3/4 of the last ones http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif. Good luck to them, kinda.

[raedor]

yeh he played for munich for 10 seasons or something but he trained in some camp somewhere here. Doesn&#39;t matter anyway, poor old Togo, would have been nice to see them win.

Looking forward to seeing France play next. never really got the french, 1990,1994 didn&#39;t qualify, 98 they won it, 2002 didn&#39;t score 1 goal. When you look at zidane, makalele, henry, galla, viera and most importanly Jean-alain Boumsong you wonder how they did so terribly in 3/4 of the last ones http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif. Good luck to them, kinda.
I don&#39;t know, but they won&#39;t have already played back then, it&#39;s 12 years ago. And in 2002 they all seemed to be tired...

[Thunderbird]

Go France Go&#33;&#33;
Great first half and awesome Zidane, like during his first days with the french team...

&#39;Hope the second half would be better
http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif


Regards
TB84

[whisper]

We&#39;re extremely lucky
* kisses posts *
And unlucky
One don&#39;t stop goals with the hand if he&#39;s not goalkeeper&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

Too bad Henry can&#39;t get the last movement to put it in the net, cause everything else is rather good.

Vieira on top. Abidal same. DCs doing fine, Zidane giving nice balls. Just, we&#39;re unable to get the ball inside http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

A bit disapointed by Sagnol, he used to pass better, his long passes are 1+m off :P (nitpick nitpick&#33http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[whisper]

Boring match on the whole

[EddyBoy]

Wasn&#39;t exciting, swiss had most of the chances in the 2nd half. Wonder if they&#39;ll ever score in the world cup finals http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[deanosbeano]

Brasil v Croatia and so it begins .....
nice fisrt half , took Brasil a while to get going tho, Ronaldinho looking v dangerous tho http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[PainDealer]

Croatia had such bad luck there. they were so much better on the field in general. ronaldinho and ronaldo weren&#39;t really that convincing. I saw ronaldo 2 times in action, second time being when they took him out.

france - switzerland

no words... cept the swiss really would have deserved a victory.

[kavoven]

Both, France vs Switzerland and Brasil vs Croatia very boing games... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

[JdB]

Great first half and awesome Zidane, like during his first days with the french team...
I think you may have been watching a re-run on Eurosport or some other channel of a match from 1998... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

Match 1: Messy
Match 2: Worst I&#39;ve seen so far
Match 3: Doing as much as what is needed and not a thing more...unfortunatly http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

Dissappointing day overall http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

[Thunderbird]

Quote[/b] ]no words... cept the swiss really would have deserved a victory.
The same goes to France, we got much more opportunities than swiss, but overall, both teams played quite well IMHO.

The brazilian match wasn&#39;t that bad, though, as far as I know, brazilians always played like that during their first matches, they would certainly play better within the next incoming days.



Regards
TB84

[raedor]

Dissappointing day overall http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif
Good to read that, did only watch the last match, didn&#39;t have time for more...

The last match was pretty boring, but at least a draw would&#39;ve been fair... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

[Garcia]

Swiss had bigger chances, deserved to win if some of them was gonna win...

[Sanctuary]

I began to watch France - Swiss, it was so interesting that i fell asleep. The french play was nearly as interesting as their level of football in Korea 4 years ago.
At least they have not lost this time... yet.

Can someone direct me to the day of the interesting matches , so i can skip the frankly boring ones ? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[raedor]

I began to watch France - Swiss, it was so interesting that i fell asleep. The french play was nearly as interesting as their level of football in Korea 4 years ago.
At least they have not lost this time... yet.

Can someone direct me to the day of the interesting matches , so i can skip the frankly boring ones ? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
Wait for NL vs Ivory Coast, that&#39;s gonna be cool&#33;

[JdB]

14/6 Tunisia - Saudi-Arabia
14/6 Germany - Poland
14/6 Spain - Ukraine
15/6 England - Trinidad & Tobago
15/6 Sweden - Paraguay
15/6 Ecuador - Costa Rica

Spain vs Ukraine and Sweden - Paraguay could be interesting. Also if Ecuador and Costa Rica can perform at the same level as their first matches then they are pretty evenly matched.

Trinidad did good in their first match ever at the WC, but I think England is just a little too big for them, even with England not exactly playing like they are capable of.

[raedor]

... even with England not exactly playing like they are capable of.
At the very beginning of this WC I was hoping that the "better teams" would not play as boring as they did in 2002, but soon I saw that this hope was not legitimated and after the last two days... there were not many good matches and even less good matches of the "better teams" (or a match was good, but not because of them). Let&#39;s hope this changes soon... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif


http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/goodnight.gif

[Sanctuary]

usually , in each world cup i ever watched in TV , for my spectator pleasures the most enjoyable matches have always been the non favorites teams.

Some exceptions of course like in 1982 and 1986 , as it was in those years my favorites french players played together i was always delighted by their matches (but in both those world cups the West Germany burried all my hopes http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif )

And maybe 1998 too, but that is because the french team won http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[CameronMcDonald]

Oh yeah, 3-1, Australia vs Japan <does a little dance>

And Schwarzer was fouled - keeper to keeper, I know exactly how he feels. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Placebo]

Quote[/b] ]DOMENECH REFUSES TO BLAME REF


France coach Raymond Domenech refused to blame Russian referee Valentin Ivanov for the error that helped cost his side victory with Switzerland in their opening World Cup Group G match.

Ivanov, tipped by many to handle the final, waved away appeals for a penalty after Thierry Henry&#39;s goalbound shot struck Patrick Muller on the arm during the goalless draw at the Gottlieb Daimler stadium.

How gallant, not blaming the ref for not giving a penalty that in no way was a penalty (IMO), it was clearly ball to hand, not hand to ball and the ball was travelling very fast, no way the defender had chance to move his hand away, they should have won on their own merits, Henry was very quiet for most of the game, Switzerland probably deserved to win overall http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[Garcia]

Quote[/b] ]DOMENECH REFUSES TO BLAME REF


France coach Raymond Domenech refused to blame Russian referee Valentin Ivanov for the error that helped cost his side victory with Switzerland in their opening World Cup Group G match.

Ivanov, tipped by many to handle the final, waved away appeals for a penalty after Thierry Henry&#39;s goalbound shot struck Patrick Muller on the arm during the goalless draw at the Gottlieb Daimler stadium.

How gallant, not blaming the ref for not giving a penalty that in no way was a penalty (IMO), it was clearly ball to hand, not hand to ball and the ball was travelling very fast, no way the defender had chance to move his hand away, they should have won on their own merits, Henry was very quiet for most of the game, Switzerland probably deserved to win overall http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
Problem is, nobody in football seems to know the rules. Too many thinks it&#39;s penalty if the ball hit the hand, no matter where the hand actually is and no matter if it&#39;s the ball seeking the hand or the other way around. Every football "expert" on the telly means it was a penalty, but that just shows how "experts" they are http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

[Sanctuary]

It is not a problem of rule, but like a very lot of sport it is a matter of subjectivity.

If you are a supporter of the french team, of course there was a penalty, it is obvious, just look at the video &#33;&#33;

If you are not a supporter of the french team, of course there was no penalty at all, it is obvious, just look at the video &#33;&#33;

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[Placebo]

If the exact same situation happens on Thursday and England don&#39;t get a penalty I guarantee I&#39;ll have the same attitude http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

At least in the English Premiership ball to hand = no penalty. There has to be clear movement of the arm/hand towards the ball for it to be deemed deliberate http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

Edit: Here&#39;s the YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....zerland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XNiJlp86Hc&search=france%20switzerland) , penalty or not? No way I say http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[whisper]

I can point you to situations where this have have led to penalty shot.
In fact it happened (long time ago) to one of our french (national team) defensive who inadvertendly touched the ball with hand while falling. Exact same case, tbh, and different result. It&#39;s just ref judgement at this exact moment, nothing to complain about. Well, too bad for us, but bleh, we had many other occasions and were unable to score, so...

But that&#39;s not why this ref was crap, he was crap cause he gave way too many cards (I can&#39;t count the number of undeserved yellows swiss team recieved) and stop the game, basically. If this guy manages the final game, wow... everytime you touch an opposing player, he stops the action.

[Placebo]

But that&#39;s not why this ref was crap, he was crap cause he gave way too many cards (I can&#39;t count the number of undeserved yellows swiss team recieved) and stop the game, basically. If this guy manages the final game, wow... everytime you touch an opposing player, he stops the action.
I agree 100% with that, Graham Poll would be good for the final, but as England will be there he can&#39;t referee it http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[J W]

penalty or not? No way I say http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
No way.


I agree 100% with that, Graham Poll would be good for the final, but as England will be there he can&#39;t referee it http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
Too bad Anders Frisk* ended with his referee-career. He was a good referee IMO.
Damn supporters threatening him http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif


(*I think that was his name http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif)

[whisper]

penalty or not? No way I say http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
No way.
There is no "no way". It&#39;s ref personnal judgement.
You can&#39;t say "no way" just because "hey it&#39;s ball to hand&#33;". It would be all to easy to defend with your arms wide open without actively trying putting hand to ball, but just maximising your chance of "inadvertandly" stop the ball with forbidden parts of your body. "Hey it&#39;s ball to hand&#33;" http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif
Ref judged the def kept is arms reasonably under control and was truely unlucky to touch the ball. Other ref could have judge otherwise (and it happened).

Just pissed off at Henry. Why oh why in these kind of games does he seem completely unable to deliver correct shots? It&#39;s not like he&#39;s not striking correctly at every occasion when playing for Arsenal, but in France team, as soon as he has a bit of pressure and 1 or 2 missed attempts, it&#39;s over (well, it looks like that).
Or maybe, unlike in Arsenal, no one in France team is able to deliver him correct ball to be in position for a truely good shot... Strange, cause Zidane found nice passes yesterday, so it shouldn&#39;t be that of an issue

[EddyBoy]

Gerrard has the same problem as Henry, some reason he never performs like he does at his club. Whether its because he&#39;s completly shagged out after 5,000 games or whatever i don&#39;t know. Has anyone else noticed that no matter how badly Gerrard plays every single pundit then describes him as "magnificent"? Seems like its a popularity contest as to how well your rated.

[PainDealer]

Some exceptions of course like in 1982 and 1986 , as it was in those years my favorites french players played together i was always delighted by their matches (but in both those world cups the West Germany burried all my hopes http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif )
well, in -82 the West German keeper (Schumacher was it?) knocked one french player cold with flying knee kick with no intention to play the ball and got away with it. if I remember correctly, a scored penalty (and a red card, and the keeper jailed for his actions http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif) there would have taken the match to a new direction.

[Garcia]

I can point you to situations where this have have led to penalty shot.
In fact it happened (long time ago) to one of our french (national team) defensive who inadvertendly touched the ball with hand while falling. Exact same case, tbh, and different result. It&#39;s just ref judgement at this exact moment, nothing to complain about. Well, too bad for us, but bleh, we had many other occasions and were unable to score, so...
Well, IIRC the rules say that the hand has to seek the ball if you&#39;re gonna give a penalty. That&#39;s the rules. But of course it all depends on how the ref sees it. It&#39;s not easy to make such a decision out on the pitch without any review or anything.


Quote[/b] ]It is not a problem of rule, but like a very lot of sport it is a matter of subjectivity.

If you are a supporter of the french team, of course there was a penalty, it is obvious, just look at the video &#33;&#33;

If you are not a supporter of the french team, of course there was no penalty at all, it is obvious, just look at the video &#33;&#33;

Indeed, the annoying thing isn&#39;t french supporters yelling for penalty, what is, is the so called experts that&#39;s supposed to be objective that actually means it is a penalty. Ref may have a hard time seeing if it is ball to hand or hand to ball, but a damn football "expert" guy should have a easy time seeing it is ball to hand when he can watch the damn thing hundreds of times over and over. So when they actually manage to say it is penalty even though it clearly is ball to hand, they&#39;re either french supporters, and their opinion is based on that, or they should really read the rules a bit better... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

[PainDealer]

I can point you to situations where this have have led to penalty shot.
In fact it happened (long time ago) to one of our french (national team) defensive who inadvertendly touched the ball with hand while falling. Exact same case, tbh, and different result. It&#39;s just ref judgement at this exact moment, nothing to complain about. Well, too bad for us, but bleh, we had many other occasions and were unable to score, so...
Well, IIRC the rules say that the hand has to seek the ball if you&#39;re gonna give a penalty. That&#39;s the rules. But of course it all depends on how the ref sees it. It&#39;s not easy to make such a decision out on the pitch without any review or anything.


Quote[/b] ]It is not a problem of rule, but like a very lot of sport it is a matter of subjectivity.

If you are a supporter of the french team, of course there was a penalty, it is obvious, just look at the video &#33;&#33;

If you are not a supporter of the french team, of course there was no penalty at all, it is obvious, just look at the video &#33;&#33;

Indeed, the annoying thing isn&#39;t french supporters yelling for penalty, what is, is the so called experts that&#39;s supposed to be objective that actually means it is a penalty. Ref may have a hard time seeing if it is ball to hand or hand to ball, but a damn football "expert" guy should have a easy time seeing it is ball to hand when he can watch the damn thing hundreds of times over and over. So when they actually manage to say it is penalty even though it clearly is ball to hand, they&#39;re either french supporters, and their opinion is based on that, or they should really read the rules a bit better... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif
I&#39;m still very bitter about the Portugal - France semi-final in 2000 http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif it WAS a ball to hand situation. and the equalizer on the 2nd half WAS off-side... sometimes it feels the ref&#39;s the key element in someone&#39;s victory but they&#39;re just doing their job and it&#39;s not our thing to tell them how to flip burgers. so I&#39;d suggest getting some better refs http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif or do it the "hockey way" and check the video.

[Placebo]

Gerrard has the same problem as Henry, some reason he never performs like he does at his club. Whether its because he&#39;s completly shagged out after 5,000 games or whatever i don&#39;t know. Has anyone else noticed that no matter how badly Gerrard plays every single pundit then describes him as "magnificent"? Seems like its a popularity contest as to how well your rated.
Gerrard&#39;s main problem is he has little freedom in his England role, for Liverpool even if he&#39;s in central midfield he knows he can bomb forward and Alonso/Sissoko/Hamann will be back protecting the defence. For England he has to constantly work out if Lampard is also making a run forward or staying back to cover and it stunts his attacking ability.

IMO it&#39;d be better to switch Beckham and Gerrard, let Gerrard float from the right as he does so well for Liverpool and let Beckham predominantly play a withdrawn role in the centre as he has quite often for Real Madrid, he really can&#39;t run much any more but his passing really can open up play and being in the centre he&#39;d have much more scope for passing.

Edit: Also switching Gerrard to the right would give us a more natural balance in terms of pace in wide areas, on the left we have Cole and Cole who both have pace to burn, on the right we have Neville and Beckham who run slower than Flashpoint on very high terrain detail.

[raedor]

on the right we have Neville and Beckham who run slower than Flashpoint on very high terrain detail.
http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif

quote from Eddy:

Quote[/b] ]Has anyone else noticed that no matter how badly Gerrard plays every single pundit then describes him as "magnificent"? Seems like its a popularity contest as to how well your rated.It&#39;s the same here with Ballack... even after his worst match he&#39;ll be announced as "most valuable player" or whatever. I&#39;d like to know what the Brazilian reporters told about Ronaldo yesterday.

[Acecombat]

Spain vs Ukraine on now.

I hope Spain wins and beats ukraine convincingly.

[Placebo]

on the right we have Neville and Beckham who run slower than Flashpoint on very high terrain detail.
http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif

I&#39;d like to know what the Brazilian reporters told about Ronaldo yesterday.
Ele estava mais devagar que operaçăo flashpoint com terrain detail em very high, view distance em 10,000M e AA em 16x http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif

[raedor]

Spain vs Ukraine on now.

I hope Spain wins and beats ukraine convincingly.
They do&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

@<hidden>: http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wow_o.gif And what does that mean? The only thing babelfish translates correctly is Operation Flashpoin... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Garcia]

I&#39;m still very bitter about the Portugal - France semi-final in 2000 http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif it WAS a ball to hand situation. and the equalizer on the 2nd half WAS off-side... sometimes it feels the ref&#39;s the key element in someone&#39;s victory but they&#39;re just doing their job and it&#39;s not our thing to tell them how to flip burgers. so I&#39;d suggest getting some better refs http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif or do it the "hockey way" and check the video.
Indeed, that was very poor by the ref.

1: It was ball to hand...
2: The hand was fairly close to the body (IIRC)
3: He tried to move the hand out of the balls way (at least that&#39;s what it looked like to me)

It was a big letdown. I was watching the match with my football coach and 3 other guys from my team, the clock was past midnight and we were gonna drive to Sweden to play a tournament there. I was cheering on Portugal, and then the bloody ref ruined our night since we were hoping for penalties and a win for Portugal http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif

[Placebo]

@<hidden>: http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wow_o.gif And what does that mean? The only thing babelfish translates correctly is Operation Flashpoin... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
It&#39;s Brazilian Portuguese for:


Quote[/b] ]He ran slower than operation flashpoint on very high terrain detail, view distance at 10,000m and AA set to 16x

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[raedor]

@<hidden>: http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wow_o.gif And what does that mean? The only thing babelfish translates correctly is Operation Flashpoin... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
It&#39;s Brazilian Portuguese for:


Quote[/b] ]He ran slower than operation flashpoint on very high terrain detail, view distance at 10,000m and AA set to 16x

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
Ah, thanks http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[Acecombat]

Spain vs Ukraine on now.

I hope Spain wins and beats ukraine convincingly.
They do&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

@<hidden>: http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wow_o.gif And what does that mean? The only thing babelfish translates correctly is Operation Flashpoin... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
OMG yessssss http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

4 - 0

Ukraine is being owned.

[JdB]

Too bad the quality of the refs seems to be going down by the day. If that was a penalty then Placebo is really Tony Blair, and not the BIS PR bozo http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif

It was clearly visible that the striker shot the ball, then landed on his right foot out of balance and slipped.

Not to mention Ivanovs "Deck of Unexplainable Cards" yesterday, I thought he had a sunstroke or something.

Too bad refs like that always get to do the semi-finals and final because their homecountries are no longer(/never were) in the tournament http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

[deanosbeano]

spain looking good http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif. i was calling the ref , until i saw the shorts being pulled http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif.

Quote[/b] ]I&#39;d like to know what the Brazilian reporters told about Ronaldo yesterday.
baleia http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif hes put some weight on huh.

[Albert Schweitzer]

Jesus christ, and I dont like people constantly blaming everything except the players. On my soccer board there are like hundreds of threads about "the terrible ball" and "terrible organisation" and "terrible grass" and "weather being too hot" and "bad refs"... cant hear it anymore. Of course there are bad decisions but who lets not destroy the good athmosphere with nitpicking&#33; I am getting so tired of listening to whining&#33;

[whisper]

Not to mention Ivanovs "Deck of Unexplainable Cards" yesterday, I thought he had a sunstroke or something.
The best one was the one on swiss def for "hurting" Henry, given nearly 2 minutes after the actual action (and the ball at the other side of the terrain) had happened http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

I mean, if there is foul, then there&#39;s a free kick. No free kick, then why on earth put a yellow looooong after all this is over?
And when you see the ... errr.. well, slight touch? caress? the def does to Henry, you go through all kind of facial expressions, like http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif , http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif , http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif , http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif , http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif , in that order http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Garcia]

I mean, if there is foul, then there&#39;s a free kick. No free kick, then why on earth put a yellow looooong after all this is over?
Lets see. Lets just say Owen comes running towards the Swedish defence, Owen passes the ball to Lampard, and then Mellberg kicks Owen in his nuts quite some time after the ball was player. Now, the pass was so good that it put Lampard through on goal. The kick in Owens nuts certainly is a free-kick, and sure as hell a yellow card. Do you really mean the ref then got to choose between giving england a free-kick on the midfield and Mellberg a yellow card or let Lampard challenge the keeper one on one and give a shit in the yellow card? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif

Surely, there is no reason why he shouldn&#39;t let Lampard get the one on one with the keeper, but still punish Mellbergs attack on Owens manhood... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif Even though he may have to wait 2 or 5 mins to pull out the yellow card...

[whisper]

I mean, if there is foul, then there&#39;s a free kick. No free kick, then why on earth put a yellow looooong after all this is over?
Lets see. Lets just say Owen comes running towards the Swedish defence, Owen passes the ball to Lampard, and then Mellberg kicks Owen in his nuts quite some time after the ball was player. Now, the pass was so good that it put Lampard through on goal. The kick in Owens nuts certainly is a free-kick, and sure as hell a yellow card. Do you really mean the ref then got to choose between giving england a free-kick on the midfield and Mellberg a yellow card or let Lampard challenge the keeper one on one and give a shit in the yellow card? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif

Surely, there is no reason why he shouldn&#39;t let Lampard get the one on one with the keeper, but still punish Mellbergs attack on Owens manhood... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif Even though he may have to wait 2 or 5 mins to pull out the yellow card...
The situation was really different http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
Henry was trying to go around the def in the right corner, got touched, stopped running, letting the ball go out. Swiss GK take the ball, and action continues (swiss attack, etc...). few moments later, during a play stop, and seeing Henry still rubbing his leg where he had been touched, ref gives a yellow to the swiss guy http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif Why not have stopped the action before ball goes out and give France a free kick? Because there was no foul. Why then give a yellow?

[EddyBoy]

Never thought i&#39;d say this but Kmon Saudi Arabia&#33; 2-1

2-2, great finish http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[Garcia]

woohoo, got my first 3 points in the prediction thingy&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif About damn time, I keep getting the right winner, but I always fuck up on the result http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif

[Acecombat]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif

That bloody last minute goal ruined the whole match.

It sucks to lose a match in injury time http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif . But then again the defense is to be blamed leaving the tunisian guy all open even though they should have been marking him. That was simply a goal stolen at the last minute http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif .

[scousejedi]

OMG I dont belive it. Spain have under achieved in every tournament since beofre the last ice age....

And then I decide they are going to draw with Ukraine. Not only that but its a Liverpool player that scores as well and stabs me in the back - and I was a season ticket holder in Rush&#39;s last season before going to Turin. I feel dirty.

At least Im confident that Saudi cannot live with the Tunisians http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif especially after watching the first half. DOH&#33;

I&#39;ve got Germany 2 Poland 1 if people want to place money on a Poland win.

[Placebo]

I was seconds away from 3 points, had it predicted Saudi Arabia would win 2-1 http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

Talking of whinging about referees, the Ukrainian goalkeeper was doing the "pretending to waggle a yellow card" underneath the ref&#39;s nose for about 10 seconds towards the end of the match, and he wasn&#39;t booked for it. What the hell happened to consistent refereeing, the rule about that is absolutely clear, if a player simulates that a player from the opposing team should be booked then he himself receives the yellow card for "ungentlemanly conduct", it&#39;s already happened in this tournament previously so why didn&#39;t it happen this game?

Another whinge, going back to the first game, late on a German player goes down in the Costa Rican box under challenge, the referee mimes with his hands he thought the German player dived and didn&#39;t give a penalty, instead he let the Costa Rican goalkeeper take the goalkick and carry on with play. If he thinks it&#39;s a dive he has to book the player, yet he didn&#39;t http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

If two of the most clear cut and easily recognisable rule infringements cannot be dealt with consistently what hope is there for the more controversial rules such as handball, professional fouls, lunging etc. etc.?

This time the refereeing was supposed to be a massive improvement over 2002, I&#39;m not seeing it.

[Thunderbird]

Nice first half, wasn&#39;t expecting such a defense from Poland, they even got several opportunities but their attackers haven&#39;t been very efficient.

Looking forward the second half,
http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

Regards
TB84

[Acecombat]

Quote[/b] ]I was seconds away from 3 points, had it predicted Saudi Arabia would win 2-1

Exactly the scoreline i had in mind aswell http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif .
Oh well gotta move on , ukraine needs to be beaten if we have to go to the next round and heres to hoping that their moral will be low considering the thrashing Spain gave them.

As for the Germany Poland match i think germans might lose this one. They are getting frustrated and not converting the chances to scores IN to scores. I say 1-0 or maybe 1-1.

[Garcia]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif

That bloody last minute goal ruined the whole match.

It sucks to lose a match in injury time  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif . But then again the defense is to be blamed leaving the tunisian guy all open even though they should have been marking him. That was simply a goal stolen at the last minute  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif .

Quote[/b] ]I was seconds away from 3 points, had it predicted Saudi Arabia would win 2-1 http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

Ah, that last goal tasted good http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif If just Germany manages to get that god damn ball in the goal. Wtf is wrong with them? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif 2 goals, and no more...then I&#39;m happy http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Jakerod]

Wow

Germany 1 - 0 Poland

Goal in the 91st Minute

[Acecombat]

God its like a replay of the Saudi Arabia Tunisia match.

Deja vu http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif .

Poor Poland , this sucked. Their keeper really worked hard he made some incredible saved. A man down they were working hard , and to get a goal in the 92nd minute .... oh cruel fate http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif .

[Espectro]

I think the battle for gold will be between the following teams:

Czech Republic
Spain
Sweden

Maybe Brazil

[PainDealer]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif

That bloody last minute goal ruined the whole match.

heh last minute goals seem to be in http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[JdB]

heh last minute goals seem to be in http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Where they ever out for Germany? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[raedor]

Wow

Germany 1 - 0 Poland

Goal in the 91st Minute
They are a bunch of damn lucky bastards. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif Okay, it was deserverd... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif

[Chris Death]

I think the battle for gold will be between the following teams:

Czech Republic
Spain
Sweden

Maybe Brazil
Espectro - nice guess, just there&#39;s that one thing that those
usually don&#39;t last a whole tournament.

My guess&#39;es are Italy/Germany to challenge in final one of:
Brazil/Argentinia/maybe Czech&#39;s/Netherlands/and luckily Spain

~S~ CD

[FCOPZ-Illuminator]

http://www.fcopz.net/temp/sieg.jpg

Any questions ? They had many more than one chance.

Good job "german elf" &#33;

[Postduifje]

I think the battle for gold will be between the following teams:

Czech Republic
Spain
Sweden

Maybe Brazil
Sweden http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif. Their first game was really poor imo. Spain and Czech Republic are the strongest up till now, but when things really start to matter you&#39;ll see Brazil, Italy and Germany pulling it off somehow.

Spain always underperforms in big tournaments, France and England are just too weak, and Czech republic, Portugal and Netherlands will once again die fighting in some thrilling match. Argentina might have a shot though.

But then again, you never know... (most of all me, see my place in the ranking http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif)

[solomeo_paredes]

vamos argentina a ganar&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif

[Blackblood]

I think the battle for gold will be between the following teams:

Czech Republic
Spain
Sweden

Maybe Brazil
You have more faith in swedes than swedes themselves. Me included. No harm meant towards Trinidad but i really hoped we could at least score a point or two in that first game...

Tonight we&#39;re meeting Paraguay.
*Loading up on booze to tackle the outcome - good or bad*

The "ball" is spool shaped and you hold it in your arms - let&#39;s call it "Football" shall we? (unknown genius)

[Ti0n3r]

Sweden will never make it to the final, they&#39;re too modest as far as I know http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[raedor]

Sweden will never make it to the final, they&#39;re too modest as far as I know http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
If they again fail to score some goals, they definitley won&#39;t. But Ljunberg for example was very well in shape last match...

[PainDealer]

Sweden will never make it to the final, they&#39;re too modest as far as I know http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
If they again fail to score some goals, they definitley won&#39;t. But Ljunberg for example was very well in shape last match...
if they stop fighting each other they might get things going. I really hope they woke up after the match against Trinidad

[Hellfish6]

Ecuador&#39;s about to kick some ass. Anyone got a link to a live broadcast/feed?

[GoOB]

Tonight we&#39;re meeting Paraguay.
*Loading up on booze to tackle the outcome - good or bad*
Hehe - My mate went out to buy beer yesterday at Systembolaget, they were all out. The WC means some serious business for the liqour monopoly http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif


Anyways - Lets hope for better results from Sweden today... I don&#39;t want to pull more of my hair out because the players constantly miss crucial shots.

[whisper]

Tonight we&#39;re meeting Paraguay.
*Loading up on booze to tackle the outcome - good or bad*
Hehe - My mate went out to buy beer yesterday at Systembolaget, they were all out. The WC means some serious business for the liqour monopoly http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif


Anyways - Lets hope for better results from Sweden today... I don&#39;t want to pull more of my hair out because the players constantly miss crucial shots.
As France supporter, I feel your pain http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
Can&#39;t see why such a great team as yours would fail, though, but it&#39;s WC, so everything is possible.

[MattXR]

-+- England ENGLAND England -+-

[we will win tonight]

[PainDealer]

good show by Ecuador. germany needs a win if they want to win their group http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/thumbs-up.gif

England and Sweden really gotta show some effort tonight or it&#39;s all over for them when the knock-out begins.

[deanosbeano]

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4788/winndb0qx.jpg
Come on England Heres hoping for a more convincing win tonight:)

[Pathy]

"England" and "convincing win" in the same sentence? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif

[Hellfish6]

3:0 to my adoptive country. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/nener.gif

[deanosbeano]

Quote[/b] ]"England" and "convincing win" in the same sentence?typical British statement :P.
we can hope cant we ? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[Daddl]

Anyone got a link to a live broadcast/feed?
Try:
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">telnet ascii-wm.net 2006[/QUOTE]

They broadcast all games live - although it&#39;s b&w only&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[deanosbeano]

wwitv free tv (http://wwitv.com/)

if its not there i dont know where it could be, sorry cant search i am watching game.which by the way as gone all pete tong(wrong)

summary of first 3/4http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3728/englandvtrinidad2iv.gif summary of last 1/4 http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/9342/soccgoal2nn.gif

[PainDealer]

summary of first half [img]http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3728/englandvtrinidad2iv.gif[img]
absolutely right. and I&#39;d say the second half was very equal to it. I wouldn&#39;t call that performance even football. I really thought England would play well but... it&#39;s gonna be bye bye in the first knock out round if they keep going that way http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Postduifje]

Damn, this English team is so.... mediocre. I can&#39;t believe so many English people actually believe they have a shot at winning this tournament. This would be just as crazy as Greece winning the European Cup...  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif

[kavoven]

damn damn damn damn damn http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

The Trinis deserved the vitory... England had just too much luck http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

[PainDealer]

Damn, this English team is so.... mediocre. I can&#39;t believe so many English people actually believe they have a shot at winning this tournament. This would be just as crazy as Greece winning the European Cup... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
crazy is a bit too weak word for that in this case. and there&#39;s this slight difference: greece actually played well

[deanosbeano]

Damn, this English team is so.... mediocre. I can&#39;t believe so many English people actually believe they have a shot at winning this tournament. This would be just as crazy as Greece winning the European Cup... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
allthough i agree it was very mediorcre, if we was to follow your way of thinking , then whats the point of Brasilians believeing, there performance was poor as was a few others http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif.Steady now these are nations cheering not club fans http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[kavoven]

At least Germany will have an easy second round http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Postduifje]

With the crazy and Greece part I tried to cover my ass in case England does turn out to be something, as anything can happen in football as we have seen in 1994.

@<hidden>: no it doesn&#39;t, there&#39;s quite a difference. I think Brazil played a poor match, I think England has a poor team. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[tankieboy]

But we just won again...

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif

[da12thMonkey]

First half&#39;s play was just too slow, we needed the break to start a fresh. Thank God for John Terry in that half too. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif

I think we played really well at times during second half, thanks largely to Lennon, and Ashley Cole bringing the pace up IMO. Cole was neglecting his defending duties a bit though.

Still leaves a lot to be desired.

Another 3 points for me&#33; 2nd in the league with JdB now&#33;

[martinovic]

damn damn damn damn damn http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

The Trinis deserved the victory... England had just too much luck http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif
Well not really, i mean sure everyone expected more from the english but they still moped the floor with tnt. They had the ball a lot more and shot a lot lot LOT more on the goal, Crouch had a lot of very good chances.

England controlled the game (they didn&#39;t control it as well as one would&#39;ve expected but they still ruled the game).

[deanosbeano]

With the crazy and Greece part I tried to cover my ass in case England does turn out to be something, as anything can happen in football as we have seen in 1994.

@<hidden>: no it doesn&#39;t, there&#39;s quite a difference. I think Brazil played a poor match, I think England has a poor team. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
only one answer to that http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gifhttp://img268.imageshack.us/img268/599/standings6fs.jpg

[Shadders]

Umm I dont think many of you watched that game, England did not play fantastically, but did not play bad either, the two goals that did finally happen were on the cards for 30 minutes almost as soon as Lennon and Rooney came on. Easy Chances were missed by Lampard and Crouch which would have made it look easy. Many people would think England played amazing if Crouch scored before half time and at full time it was 3-0, the pressure made the result look a lot worse than it was.

Personally I was happy with the performance, Stevie Gerrard was solid, Lampard had his momements (fantastic movement), Beckham was sublime, Lennon played very well, Terry was solid and we finallly got Rooney on the pitch.

All in all a lot of positives to take into the Sweeden game. I do think people forget this is the world cup and we were playing a team which held Sweeden to a 0-0 which showed their defensive prowess (and the importance of Dwight Yorke).

[MattXR]

2-0 wow

[PainDealer]

the pressure made the result look a lot worse than it was.
umm the what? I didn&#39;t see any pressure there. making connecting passes in the mid-field to get good posession rate doesn&#39;t mean pressure actually http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

but what the hell just happened with Sweden? first 15min they had an awesome momentum and after that barely anything http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif putting a bit more effort than England did in their match tho...

[stainer]

Dwight Yorke taking a shot to the bollocks made that match for me http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[EddyBoy]

Curious as to how holding them will help. However, cursed sweden scored. We could have won the group tonight *angry face*. Hope england beat Sweden and Trini beat paraguay http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[PainDealer]

horrible match&#33; totally horrible&#33; no signs of football after the first 15 minutes http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif

[GoOB]

Oweehaahaha&#33; WOOO&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif


Finally some points&#33; Yes, yes and YES&#33; Feels great... Ehem... Great win, although the goals should have come alot earlier for Sweden I can&#39;t help to be excited about this win. A shite match from Sweden, but still they won it, which makes me happy.

Freddie + Me = http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/inlove.gif

[Acecombat]

Damn are last minute goals the latest fashion for WC matches now?

Sweden struck one goal in finally in the 89th minute , poor Paraguay out now. A draw would have made the final matches a LOT interesting.

[MattXR]

oh how lucky are sweden http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[Albert Schweitzer]

an entire group playing old fashioned football. I realy like the swedish team for their fighting spirit but in front of the goal they play without inspiration&#33; They have a chance against Germany but not against dangerous strikers. They&#39;ll rip them apart

[Shadders]

I think Sweeden would suit a game against Germany, Germany&#39;s horrific leaky defence would let in goals, and with players like Ibrahamovich and Ljungberg they &#39;should&#39; take advantage of it.

Although Sweedens Defence is equally shaky, and Podloski and Klose arent too bad http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

And to whoever questioned England were under pressure, of course they were, they were being held by Trinidad and Tobago, not physical pressure but mental.

[JdB]

an entire group playing old fashioned football.
Funny also to see Mellberg and Ljungberg fighting about it http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif

[GoOB]

Germany&#39;s horrific leaky defence would let in goals, and with players like Ibrahamovich and Ljungberg they &#39;should&#39; take advantage of it.
The problem is Sweden wouldn&#39;t do any proper finishing, atleast judging from the games Iv&#39;e seen with them so far this year. And I wonder if Zlatan will be playing in the next match... In this one he supposedly had a problem with his groin, and overlooking that he&#39;s in pretty "bad" shape compared to the one he&#39;s usually in.

[kavoven]

The German defence was really got in the last match http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

Anyway, I fall asleep during the game... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif
The first 15 minuts where really promising and Sweden did a great job, but that was all.

[solomeo_paredes]

i hope we win tomorrow... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
that match betwen england and t&t was horrible and ecuador vs c.r too http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif
i also hope taht we can see some real football matches

[Albert Schweitzer]

I think Sweeden would suit a game against Germany, Germany&#39;s horrific leaky defence would let in goals, and with players like Ibrahamovich and Ljungberg they &#39;should&#39; take advantage of it.

Although Sweedens Defence is equally shaky, and Podloski and Klose arent too bad  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

And to whoever questioned England were under pressure, of course they were, they were being held by Trinidad and Tobago, not physical pressure but mental.
excuse me`? did you watch the last match? Did you see a lack of defense? I didnt&#33; And sweden doesnt have good strikers right now, they were lacking creativity today&#33;

[Postduifje]

I agree, I think Germany would kick Sweden&#39;s ass based on the games so far. And although Sweden has a lot of potential quality in their front line, they managed to score only once in 180 minutes of football in which they were pretty dominant in the midfield. Nevertheless I am not totally convinced yet by Germany, they would have had a lot of problems if their poul wasn&#39;t so damn easy.

[Albert Schweitzer]

thats for sure.. right now they wouldnt make it very far&#33;

[JdB]

did you watch the last match? Did you see a lack of defense? I didnt&#33; And sweden doesnt have good strikers right now, they were lacking creativity today&#33;
I didn&#39;t see any Polish "strikers" worthy of that title either http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/nener.gif

Contrary to Poland and Costa Rica, Sweden has good strikers, they just aren&#39;t showing their full potential right now. Even Costa Rica managed to score twice against Germany, and they are quite possibly one of the weakest teams in the entire WC...

Of course, the better the opponent, the better Germany plays. Even this weakest German team in (possibly) decades still has that quality.

[Garcia]

did you watch the last match? Did you see a lack of defense? I didnt&#33; And sweden doesnt have good strikers right now, they were lacking creativity today&#33;
I didn&#39;t see any Polish "strikers" worthy of that title either http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/nener.gif

Contrary to Poland and Costa Rica, Sweden has good strikers, they just aren&#39;t showing their full potential right now. Even Costa Rica managed to score twice against Germany, and they are quite possibly one of the weakest teams in the entire WC...

Of course, the better the opponent, the better Germany plays. Even this weakest German team in (possibly) decades still has that quality.
Costa Rica scored 2 goal in 0 attacks http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif

I just hope T&T beats Paraguay and England beats Sweden, and then T&T gets second place on goals or something http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif

[Jakerod]

did you watch the last match? Did you see a lack of defense? I didnt&#33; And sweden doesnt have good strikers right now, they were lacking creativity today&#33;
I didn&#39;t see any Polish "strikers" worthy of that title either http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/nener.gif

Contrary to Poland and Costa Rica, Sweden has good strikers, they just aren&#39;t showing their full potential right now. Even Costa Rica managed to score twice against Germany, and they are quite possibly one of the weakest teams in the entire WC...

Of course, the better the opponent, the better Germany plays. Even this weakest German team in (possibly) decades still has that quality.
Costa Rica scored 2 goal in 0 attacks http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif

I just hope T&T beats Paraguay and England beats Sweden, and then T&T gets second place on goals or something http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif
Im also hoping that T&T gets 2nd place through goals.

[raedor]

2-0 against T&T was not very much, remember that most players of T&T play in the 3rd league in England... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

@<hidden>: the German defense never really was under pressure against Poland... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[Albert Schweitzer]

did you watch the last match? Did you see a lack of defense? I didnt&#33; And sweden doesnt have good strikers right now, they were lacking creativity today&#33;
I didn&#39;t see any Polish "strikers" worthy of that title either http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/nener.gif

Contrary to Poland and Costa Rica, Sweden has good strikers, they just aren&#39;t showing their full potential right now. Even Costa Rica managed to score twice against Germany, and they are quite possibly one of the weakest teams in the entire WC...

Of course, the better the opponent, the better Germany plays. Even this weakest German team in (possibly) decades still has that quality.
lets wait and see&#33; How many goals did sweden score yet again? I guess Togo and Costa Rica are about same same&#33;
And concering Poland, be careful with your judgement. They had a bad start but the game against Germany was more than just a yoke&#33;

but no reason to rush with our judgmement, on the 24th we will know better&#33; But I am confident&#33;

Anyhow, against sweden you dont need a good defense&#33; the qualification games are over and now the teams show a whole different performance&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[Garcia]

2-0 against T&T was not very much, remember that most players of T&T play in the 3rd league in England... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

@<hidden>: the German defense never really was under pressure against Poland... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif
It wasn&#39;t very convincing by England to win 2-0 , mostly because both goals came late, and T&T was soooooooo close to getting the first goal themself.

I think Lampard is trying to show that he needs a bigger bonus...he&#39;s missing the goal from everywhere so he can say "Oi, if I don&#39;t get that bonus, I&#39;ll do like that in the next game&#33;" http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif That guys accuracy is shitty on england compared to what it is in chelski...

[Placebo]

I was pretty happy last night, nobody can look great against an opponenet who keeps 8 players constantly in the box, and the only moments of danger for us were both caused by Robinson going for 2 balls he shouldn&#39;t have. T&T at times had 4 sweepers, 3 CB&#39;s, 3DM&#39;s, how do you look good against that? They were so deep we couldn&#39;t get around them with pace, only chance was to play through them and that takes patience. Substitutions we made were spot on, Rooney didn&#39;t need to do anything but coming on lifted the team and the crowd, Lennon as RM with Beckham moving to RWB played to both their strengths. Cracking goal by Gerrard and I was delighted to see Crouch get his first world cup goal, although if the referee was more observant it really should have been no goal + 2nd yellow card of the tournament (and thus banned for the Sweden game) for this.......

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UJrHkMc5_J8&search=crouch%20hair
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H2WxxwYBvrk&search=crouch%20hair

[Pathy]

Even with Crouch scoring for England, i don&#39;t see why Owen was taken off for Rooney, should have been Crouch, he had a pretty terrible match IMO, and he really doesnt have the ability to be playing on the international level. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

[JdB]

I was thinking also "why didn&#39;t that Swedish meatball substitute Crouch for Rooney instead of Owen"....then Crouch scored less then 30 seconds later.... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

"Good" old kick & rush football against a fermly entrenched opponent, now that is smart, considering that all England players play modern football at their respective teams, and have little experience in that kind of play. If it hadn&#39;t been for Crouch&#39;s length and the fact that he pulled the T&T player by the hair to prevent him from challenging Crouch England wouldn&#39;t have won at all.

[Postduifje]

I agree, what is that guy doing there on that level? Even I have a better ballfeeling than him... I&#39;m not as tall though http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[Espectro]

2-0 to argentina, played 31 minutes..

Man, they are really upping their play since last match... This team will be able to cause some serious damage against any team&#33;

[Acecombat]

Argentina are tearing apart Serbias defense at the moment. 2 - 0 to them. They way they are playing is very impressive and full of conviction. Like Spain they are looking one of the &#39;better&#39; teams.

[Postduifje]

Actually, right before the 2-0 I would have said they could do much better, but that second goal was just a magnificent show of teamplay, if they are able to show more of that we&#39;ve got a potential world champion here.

[Acecombat]

3-0

I want a Spain vs Argentina Final now http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif .

The way they are finishing the moves inside the box (one of the major difference here b/w them and any other good team) the finesse and the exquisite passing , theres no stopping them. And consider this , that some of their best players still arent playing right now ... Messi and Aimar are on the bench.

[Thunderbird]

Very impressive Argentinian team, sounds like every argentinian player&#39;s a &#39;Maradonna&#39;, they play fast and they are very effective.

It&#39;s a real pleasure to watch such matches&#33;
Hope the 2nd Half would have the same level of quality...
http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif



Regards
Thunderbird84

[whisper]

yup yup, very impressive, but it could have been guessed from 1st match.
Definitely a high potential for final, I like this team a lot

[raedor]

3-0

I want a Spain vs Argentina Final now http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif .

The way they are finishing the moves inside the box (one of the major difference here b/w them and any other good team) the finesse and the exquisite passing , theres no stopping them. And consider this , that some of their best players still arent playing right now ... Messi and Aimar are on the bench.
Yep, they&#39;re well in shape. And that against the former best defense of Europe (Serbia had only 1 goal against in the whole qualification)... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/thumbs-up.gif

[whisper]

ouch
Tennis score. It hurts. Serbia showed dedication to attack even in the worst scenario, awesome spirit.
But... well, Argentina rawks :P

[raedor]

Messi&#33; Messi&#33; Messi&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Acecombat]

SIX - ZERO

OWNAGE&#33;

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif

Holland better watch out.

[whisper]

SIX - ZERO

OWNAGE&#33;

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif

Holland better watch out.
Holland better watch out for their upcoming match now instead, cause it won&#39;t probably be an easy run either http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[colt]

Man... It&#39;s like Argentina&#39;s coach enabled God Mode before the kick off.  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wow_o.gif

[Acecombat]

Halftime:
Holland 2 - 1 Cote D`voir

Well the dutch have shown good offensive skills but not up to par to what argentina showed. And the dutch defense is lacking somewhat , they look shaky. Absence of Edgar davids and Jaap Stam i guess just showing up.

[solomeo_paredes]

i realy enjoy the match butt there is one goal missing it wasnt off-side yuo blind referi&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/pistols.gif
still we will keep this up&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;


vamos argentina&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif

[FriketMonkey]

We won&#33; Holland 2 - 1 Cote &#39;d voir. Both teams played well, but the Dutch were playing a bit poor at the end. Overall nice and exciting game&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

Hup Holland Hup&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif

[KEVBAZ]

yay good result for me, thats 3 points in the bag and i jump from 19th to 11th http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[Blackblood]

What&#39;s with the swedes this and swedes that and always in a negative tone. Svennis? Meatball? Ok..&#33;?When things go well for England the word is:it&#39;s the players efforts only. When things go bad it&#39;s the swedish meatball&#39;s fault only. Make up your mind, people. Besides, ask the players and see what they really think about "that swedish meatball". Bets are high they actually...wait for it...like and respect the guy because he lets them do what their supposed to do?&#33;  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wow_o.gif
I love the UK but i don&#39;t have to love their tabloid womens gossip magazines.
Whiny little...
*waiting for the "baah, Blackblood yelled at me, mom&#33;"*

[deanosbeano]

lol BB , why would you get a ban for pointing the obvious.we have a saying here ,todays Newspaper is tomorrows ,chip paper http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif.
back OT that mexican game was the worst yet, good on angola tho for puting up a fight http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif.
OH and "Get Grace Out"

[whisper]

So sad for poor Ivory Coast http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif Argentina + Netherland proved to be too tough, bad luck with the group they got in, cause they were here for a fight.
Well played, but each time, they were in the game too late, allready 2 goals behind. Too long to wake up http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif

[Pathy]

Actually BB, most of the people in the UK whine about the overpayed players not pulling thier weight, as well as the Swedish meatball being an overpayed idiot... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[Radnik]

i realy enjoy the match butt there is one goal missing it wasnt off-side yuo blind referi&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/banghead.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/pistols.gif
still we will keep this up&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;


vamos argentina&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif

My team including coach should be sent to Rusian Sybir for 3 months of free iron mine and coal-mine work&#33;&#33;&#33; ...

Congratulations to Argetina, yet again they wouldn&#39;t play that good if we didn&#39;t alowed them to, and I agree, it should be 7:0 at least.
We don&#39;t lack in players quality but motivation and team spirit and we have competition between players and thinking they are all stars and that all others will be afraid of them, and not having respect to other teams in meaning of playing equaly good against weaker teams and better teams ....

[raedor]

NL won lucky&#33; It was the match with the most exciting last 5 minutes... god, IC had more chances in the last minutes than Serbia in the whole match against NL&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

[solomeo_paredes]

even thoug 7:0 i think taht serbia&montenegro was a wordy rivall i realy was afraid of a serbian victory their players dont need more habilities just more motivation i think in my team tere is a lot of motivation and habilities so serbia good luck for the next time&#33;

[Espectro]

Nice, now Czech just have to win tonight&#33;

I bet 100 DKR (around 18&#036http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif on that sweden would win, I won (they luckily scored in the 89th minute).

I won 173 DKR on that, and bet them on all Argentina, I won and my money were then 250 DKR.

I bet all these on Holland yesterday, and won... My money were then 480

The I bet in the 60th minute 100 dkr that mexico-angola was gonna draw, i won 180 dkr on that.

Sadlty... I was drunk yesterday, and instead of withdrawing all these money, I bet on tonights game. Czech vs ghana.

I bet 558 dkr that Czech will win (which I think they will). Let us hope.

If I win, i will get 958 Dkr (150&#036http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif. Thats okay, isnt it? From 18&#036; to 150&#036;?

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Blackblood]

Actually BB, most of the people in the UK whine about the overpayed players not pulling thier weight, as well as the Swedish meatball being an overpayed idiot... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif
Cute. For an idiot he&#39;s had quite a good run in the industry. Getting a Star Wars vibe here:
"Who&#39;s more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/inlove.gif

[Pathy]

Yeah, he&#39;s managed to make himself quite a good few million off the English FA. I still think he&#39;s a crap manager, but he certainly knows how to get his own interests sorted out http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

I think maybe thats his problem. He&#39;s sat on the bench planning how he can prise another Ł5 mil out of the FA, and which office girl to bed next, instead of concentrating on the match. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[JdB]

The problem with Holland is that they attack, they get into the lead pretty quickly (both times around the 20th minute), but then they fall back and defend their lead instead of totally annihilating the opponent. Defense is what they are worst at.

Also of course the team consisting of 3rd rate AZ Alkmaar players doesn&#39;t help.

At least the coach is good, the defence sure isn&#39;t, if Argentina plays at half the accuracy as they did against S&M then Holland might be able to keep it at 2-0 down or less http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/help.gif

[raedor]

I urgently need more points&#33; So today&#39;s results are Portugal 2 - 0 Iran, Italy 2 - 0 USA and Czech Rep. 4 - 1 Ghana (Oh well, then BI is gonna stop working on ArmA again)&#33;

[Espectro]

hehe, just found this on boreme.com

Now Placebo, look past you patrioism and avoid banning me http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif


Q: Why aren&#39;t the England football team allowed to own a dog?
A: Because they can&#39;t hold on to a lead.

Q: What&#39;s the difference between the England team and a tea-bag?
A: The tea-bag stays in the cup longer.

Q: Why do the English make better lovers than the Portuguese/Germans?
A: Because English are the only one&#39;s who can stay on top for 45 minutes and still come second&#33;

Q: What is common between a 3-pin plug and the England football team?
A: They are both useless in Europe&#33;

Q: What&#39;s the difference between O J Simpson and England?
A: O J Simpson had a more credible defence

Q. What&#39;s the difference between the English and a jet engine?
A. A jet engine eventually stops whining.

Q. You&#39;re trapped in a room with a tiger, a rattlesnake and Jimmy Hill. You have a gun with two bullets. What do you do?
A. Shoot Jimmy Hill - twice.

Q. What&#39;s the difference between a dead dog on the road and a dead English football fan on the road?
A. There are skid marks in front of the dog.

Q. What do English football fans and sperm have in common?
A. One in 3,000,000 has a chance of becoming a human being.

Q. If you see an English football fan on a bicycle, why should you never swerve to hit him?
A. It could be your bicycle.

Q. What do you have when 100 English football fans are buried up to their necks in sand?
A. Not enough sand.

[Placebo]

Half of those are lawyer jokes and the other half are Scotland jokes http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

[raedor]

Damn referee, now stop this match&#33; 2-0&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[klavan]

Damn referee, now stop this match&#33; 2-0&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Just and only another goal for me, please&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Klavan

[raedor]

Damn referee, now stop this match&#33; 2-0&#33;&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Just and only another goal for me, please&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif
Klavan
F***&#33; Goal&#33;&#33;?&#33;?&#33;?&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/sad_o.gif


Offside&#33;&#33;&#33; Yaaaa&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/rofl.gif http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/notworthy.gif


http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif


This match at least wasn&#39;t as boring as the last match of Portugal...

[deanosbeano]

espectro said

Quote[/b] ]hehe, just found this on boreme.com

well i just found this at photoshop.deanos

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9495/espectrod9wi.gif
i prefer danish bacon http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif

[klavan]

Portugal 2-0 Iran. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif
Oh well i&#39;m still the leader of the league. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif
Klavan

[Acecombat]

Hmm Ghana are frustrating the Czechs for now. Admittedly full credit to ghana they have been playing well. 1 - 0 going in to halftime. If the czechs lose then this could be good for the US.

[raedor]

Hmm Ghana are frustrating the Czechs for now. Admittedly full credit to ghana they have been playing well. 1 - 0 going in to halftime. If the czechs lose then this could be good for the US.
I predicted a 4-1 for CZ and that&#39;s gonna happen&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

Right now CZ isn&#39;t really close to score a goal, but it&#39;ll happen in the 2nd half&#33;

[Acecombat]

Hmm Ghana are frustrating the Czechs for now. Admittedly full credit to ghana they have been playing well. 1 - 0 going in to halftime. If the czechs lose then this could be good for the US.
I predicted a 4-1 for CZ and that&#39;s gonna happen&#33; http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

Right now CZ isn&#39;t really close to score a goal, but it&#39;ll happen in the 2nd half&#33;
Hehe i doubt a 4-1 will happen but who knows , they might drink some Gatorade and score 4 (atleast thats the way it goes in the tv ads http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif ).

[EddyBoy]

2-0 http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif bye bye points. Good to see Cech couldn&#39;t save everything.

[Garcia]

Bah...best thing now would be if Ghana and Czech gets first and second in their group. Italy plays boring football...Damn shame if one of them goes out so Italy can make some matches boring http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif

[Acecombat]

Now the US have got some whiff of a chance , lets see if they show some grit and hunger in their game against italy.

The Czech defense was poor and that guy who got sent off was a total idiot. He let the first goal in becauseof his foolhardy antics in intercepting the ball and then gave away the penalty and got the red card http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif .

[Garcia]

Czech defence wasn&#39;t poor until they got a man sent off...though Ujfalusi fucked up twice, and his fuckups lead to Ghanas win.

[Thunderbird]

Glad to see the first african team beating a big team like the czech one, &#39;Hope they will beat the USA within the next incoming days too.
:-D


Edit: Great first half between US and italians, americans are doing very well thus far...



Regards
Thunderbird84

[raedor]

1-1 & half time, 2 red cards&#33;

[RalphWiggum]

Who was that? De Gassi? That was just a poor sportsmanship. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif

[raedor]

Who was that? De Gassi? That was just a poor sportsmanship. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif
de Rossi http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif That wasn&#39;t exactly fair, yes. The foul by Mastroeni wasn&#39;t either.

[denoir]

I&#39;m actually starting to hope the Americans will win. As bad as Italy is playing they don&#39;t deserve to win.

I&#39;m guessing we won&#39;t be seeing a repeat of the Italy-US 1948 game (9-0)  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

Ralph, it was De Rossi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniele_De_Rossi). It was a bit dramatic with the blood, but using the elbow that way isn&#39;t all that uncommon. It was very stupid though, with the ref being 10m away.

Edit: Another red card  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif  http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/crazy_o.gif. Tough luck for the US.. it will be very difficult now.

[RalphWiggum]

Pope is out. Red card. Guess he should learn the lesson that you can only push too far. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/whistle.gif

9 and 10 men team...ouch.&#33;

[RalphWiggum]

Who was that? De Gassi? That was just a poor sportsmanship. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/mad_o.gif
de Rossi http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif That wasn&#39;t exactly fair, yes. The foul by Mastroeni wasn&#39;t either.
yup. but the guys at ABC news think it was a make up call. whatever.

[deanosbeano]

jesus its madness.
summary of match so farhttp://img408.imageshack.us/img408/338/redcard6md.gif

[Chipper]

USA ties Italy 1-1 YESSSS

Go USA&#33;&#33;

[Ironsight]

Lol 1-1. What are the odds to that http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[denoir]

Well, this certainly was the most bizarre game so far.

Congrats to the US who played very well relative their own league. Italy on the other hand played very bad and if they keep this up, they won&#39;t be staying in Germany for long.

[EddyBoy]

Should be named "Battle of Kaiserslautern" was just odd. Makes the group far more interesting now, come on Ghana.

[IsthatyouJohnWayne]

Full marks to the USA for hanging in there even a man down, i only really saw the second half, which got pretty tense as i was cheering for the USA. The Italians were weak. What the hell happened in the first half? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/huh.gif [goes off to read about it]

[martinovic]

Refrees in that game were pretty bad, calling alteast 3 offsides that weren&#39;t offside for the Italians, missed one 11 m shot for the US, countless little errors, that refree shouldn&#39;t be in the world cup.

And when that own goal happened i wanted to puke. This day so far was horrible for me... Ghana won 2-0 bleh and now this.

[Thunderbird]

Great match, wasn&#39;t expecting such a game from US, they even scored a second goal (Beasley) that has been cancelled.
And Ghana did a great job as well, &#39;looking forward the match between USA & Ghana.
http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif


Regards
Thunderbird84

[Shadders]

USA just need some consistency, they were poor against Czech Reupublic but showed their real character in the opening 20 minutes against Italy, before the havoc started. In my eyes the only justified sending off was that of De Rossi and Pope which would have left 10 on 10, a much fairer contest.

Have to say I was very impressed by the USA.

[raedor]

Refrees in that game were pretty bad, calling alteast 3 offsides that weren&#39;t offside for the Italians, missed one 11 m shot for the US, countless little errors, that refree shouldn&#39;t be in the world cup.

And when that own goal happened i wanted to puke. This day so far was horrible for me... Ghana won 2-0 bleh and now this.
What?&#33; That referee had a very good match, he (and his team) was correct in the most important and the most decisions.

The Italians were too defensive in the 2nd half, nobody knows why, they played 3/4 against 1/2 in defense and 6/5 against 8/7 in the US half...

[Garcia]

weeee...3 points for me...had actually predicted a 1-1 draw http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/yay.gif

Ghana and Czech wins next round and finishes on top of table http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[Acecombat]

Refrees in that game were pretty bad, calling alteast 3 offsides that weren&#39;t offside for the Italians, missed one 11 m shot for the US, countless little errors, that refree shouldn&#39;t be in the world cup.

And when that own goal happened i wanted to puke. This day so far was horrible for me... Ghana won 2-0 bleh and now this.
What?&#33; That referee had a very good match, he (and his team) was correct in the most important and the most decisions.

The Italians were too defensive in the 2nd half, nobody knows why, they played 3/4 against 1/2 in defense and 6/5 against 8/7 in the US half...
Are you sure you saw the same match?

The refeering was abysmal , he got the red cards against the US all wrong. Then the linesman were crap calling offisdes when they werent and not calling when they truly were ... wtf is that??? I expect better officiating in a tournament of such calibure but so far i&#39;ve been totally disappointed. with all the gadegtry around you&#39;d think the refeeres are better informed but nooo http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/icon_rolleyes.gif .

[EddyBoy]

1st red car was correct, 2 footed studs first into the ankle. Naturally if I was american i&#39;d be saying the opposite. What i&#39;m curious is why when Drogba brushes a blade of grass he collapses in complete agony yet when someone else gets an elbow to the face they just get on with it(sort of). Fascinating game football :P

[Acecombat]

1st red car was correct, 2 footed studs first into the ankle. Naturally if I was american i&#39;d be saying the opposite. What i&#39;m curious is why when Drogba brushes a blade of grass he collapses in complete agony yet when someone else gets an elbow to the face they just get on with it(sort of). Fascinating game football :P
Drogba is a sissy and whining little ..... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif .

[raedor]

Are you sure you saw the same match?
Yes, definitely... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif


The refeering was abysmal , he got the red cards against the US all wrong.The first one was a red card, that&#39;s the normal way of punishment. I don&#39;t know if you ever played football, but if I&#39;d get fouled this way, I don&#39;t know if the guy who fouled me would live one day longer... http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/pistols.gif Such fouls can end great careers.

The second red card wasn&#39;t a full red card, it was yellow-red (or how do you call yellow + yellow card in English?). I can&#39;t remember his first red card, so I can&#39;t say if that one was wrong, but the second yellow card was okay, it was a "tactical" foul (again: what&#39;s the correct expression for it?) and usually you get a yellow card for that.

Maybe not all offsides were some (I can&#39;t say that, as I had some stuff to do while watching, so I didn&#39;t see everything), but the most were and also the "critical" ones (like the US goal).

http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/wink_o.gif

/edit: Just checked through the net: All German pages I checked said that all red cards were okay. ard.de & zdf.de (both are broadcasting the WC), kicker.de (serious German football newspaper), sport1.de (a German sports broadcast station), sportbild.de (a less serious German newspaper) ... to be continued

/edit2: ard.de regarding the red cards:
Quote[/b] ]Der beste Mann in diesem Spiel war eindeutig der Schiedsrichter: Alle Entscheidungen des Uruguayers waren korrekt. "The best man in this match clearly was the referee: all decisions of the Uruguayan were correct."

[JdB]

Yeah, the 1st and 2nd red cards were just ridiciolous attempts at removing people from the game, using your elbows to hit the opponent is always an instant red card (when the ref notices it of course). The 2nd red card (first for the USA) was a shameless attempt at crippeling someone.

Two stretched legs is also an instant red card, especially when the foul is made from the side or rear of the target. The 3rd red card was a bordercase of a yellow card and instant red (orange card I suppose http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif ).

A tackle from behind that was more aimed at the legs then at the ball. Since Pope already had a yellow card he would have been sent off even if that action had just cost him a yellow card.

[raedor]

The 3rd red card was a bordercase of a yellow card and instant red (orange card I suppose http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif ).

A tackle from behind that was more aimed at the legs then at the ball. Since Pope already had a yellow card he would have been sent off even if that action had just cost him a yellow card.
Actually he got a yellow card, wasn&#39;t it? Is it not yet on youtube.com? http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif

[blackjack[VS]]

today the Portuguese team had an important step on the wc. i couldnt see the 2nd half because i had to go for a weding party, but from what i just saw on the news we did a superb goal from Deco "the magician", and a no doubts penalty kick converted by Cristiano Ronaldo (Figo had some free and uncensored beating today...shame on that stupid referee team, i hope the iranian guy gets banned.a kick like that in the face can cause severe injurie)

so 40 years later after the great Eusébio portuguese team, we did survived the group stage of a worldcup. i sincerely hope this team can get the final (like euro2004) against brazil.

about the other matches...i was chocked with cz&#33;&#33; italy didnt surprised me that much doh...
cz is my "favourite" team (except my PORTUGAL off course) on the wc. karel poborsky was a great player that i had the chance to see playing live by the time he played by benfica(u still remember that supergoal against portugal in the euro96? ). he was the best on that time. nedved is just magnificent (how was he today?),check is the best goalkeeper alive (coached by the special one http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/smile_o.gif ), milan barros its not my style...but i know he&#39;s good. i prefer the 2.00m and 100kg buldozer u checzs have(injured now for badluck).

cya next week by the time we beat mexicans (i&#39;m 99%sure we&#39;ll wipe their asses), and good luck for everyone from any nation&#33;
really hope the next stage of the wc qualifies only the really good nations, and not the lucky ones.

[klavan]

My thoughts about Italy-USA.
All the red cards were right, the second red card is a consequence of a murdering attempt by the USA player: he targeted Pirlo&#39;s legs with the intention to give him a lot of pain (I wouldn&#39;t mind if he wasn&#39;t a player of Milan AC http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/biggrin_o.gif) .
The second USA goal was irregular, there was an USA player in front of the goalkeeper, in offside position and attempted to deviate the ball, the rules about such cases are clear: it&#39;s an active offside case.
There were dozen of errors by the referees, they stops our attacks with non existant offsides.
All in all an horrible match with too much violence and tension that ruined the game. Looking forward to Italy vs Czech.
Klavan

[somebloke]

Personally i think the USA needs to be shoved down the list of Top international teams. All they did was play a few really bad teams, won them all, and got a 4th ranking.

But yesterday&#39;s game was pretty poor in terms of referee mistakes.

[Pathy]

The sendings off were spot on, both sides were an absolute disgrace to the tournament with thier conduct, and they deserved every card they got.