World Cup 2006

[geoffgulley]

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all and all it was enjoyable... nice to see poland start to play in the 86th minute.... when is the last time they actually scored a goal in world cup?.... pretty obvious that germany and ecuador will move on.

[Steve Graham]

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^^ i dont know.. costa rica keeps playing it through to Wanchope the way they did today, and defences keep playing the offside trap (yeah that second goal was offsides, but it only takes one ref screw up) Germany surely out classed them, but they must have some confidence now.. and poland was awful.. and ecuador didnt look THAT strong.. could be Germany and CRC

[arielus]

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Teams with agile goalkeepers and good mid/long range shooters will benefit a lot.

like Riquelme

[TomTom]

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I think whole Germany goes bonkers and I LUV IT. It's insane what happens now in our streets...several 100.000 people in all big cities watching the Games in public viewing points making a hell of a Party together with the "opponents".

[algy]

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Nothing like having the "12th Man" around.

Anyways.. what the hell was up with Poland? Did not have it together at all yesterday. In fact it was one of the few cup matches that can put you to sleep.

On my way out to get coffee beans and get caffeinated for the 9am England match.

[speciale]

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all and all it was enjoyable... nice to see poland start to play in the 86th minute.... when is the last time they actually scored a goal in world cup?.... pretty obvious that germany and ecuador will move on.

last world cup they beat the US 3 - 0

I was dissapointed with Poland's play. they looked very clumsy.

[speciale]

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^^ i dont know.. costa rica keeps playing it through to Wanchope the way they did today, and defences keep playing the offside trap (yeah that second goal was offsides, but it only takes one ref screw up) Germany surely out classed them, but they must have some confidence now.. and poland was awful.. and ecuador didnt look THAT strong.. could be Germany and CRC

Germany didn't outclass them. They were a lot better. Lehmann sucks IMO, so it will be interesting to see them play a good team. 2 awesome goals in that game too.

After the 1st half of England, I can't believe it is only 1 - 0. England is outplaying Paraguay hands down.

[Steve Graham]

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^^ they didnt? what match were you watching..

england sneaks through in a typical uneventful match.. what the hell happened to the Paraguay keeper? i think his pride was hurt more than anything.. he wasnt even limping coming off the pitch crying like a girl

[Kinetic]

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Germany didn't outclass them. They were a lot better. Lehmann sucks IMO, so it will be interesting to see them play a good team. 2 awesome goals in that game too.

After the 1st half of England, I can't believe it is only 1 - 0. England is outplaying Paraguay hands down.

Outplaying Paraguay?

I think England didn?t play for shit. Luckily Paraguy were very inneficient in attack, because for most of the 2nd alf england could barely create any chances or even build up a decent play after the midfield line.

England have a very strong defense, but, despite having also excellent players in the midfield, they need to solve this duplicity between Lampard and Gerrard. They are too similar and it?s a crime to have one playing 2nd fiddle to the other. so they need someone behind them (even if it is shitty Hargreaves, but maybe Carragher would be a better choice), to free them to construct a triangle on the midfield. Then you have Beckham and Cole who supposedly play on the wings, but they always fall back to the middle. So you have 4 players in the midfiled and none of them are particularly good at recovering the ball, and even when they do, there?s no one open on the wings. So they?re left to play long balls for that brick Crouch to bounce back balls to a midfielder coming from the back...not very good strategy against stronger teams in the latter stages...

That said, the Chelsea players (say what you will of Chelski) were, IMO, the best players in the English team today.

[algy]

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what the hell happened to the Paraguay keeper?

Dude, I think he had a mental breakdown being scored on so quickly. Though England won and some may say Paraguay is a force to be dealt with, England by far played a lax and reserve game. It was the 1st game and they were risking no injury and they still did well against Paraguay’s bunkered defense by dumping some amazing shots on goal.

Also, WTF is up with Crouch? That bean pole needs to earn Yellow cards by game play, not mouthing off to the official.

In addition… the commentator and HD for ABC “Amateur Broadcast Corporation” was fucking atrocious. I thought I was listening to the commentation of a fucking baseball game. HD also was flaking out every 10 minutes or so + ABC kept starting the match in without HD enabled… ugh!!

Good Match All!

[Steve Graham]

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yeah, the commentators for the England match, Balboa and that other wanker were dreadful.. just talking about useless shite.. calling Beckham, Michael Beckham.. and calling England Germany at one point.. also how about Paraguays captain talking about England being the 3rd best team in that group, and then putting the ball in his own net, lol.. nice one!


anyway.. how about this Sweden - TnT match.. not bad at all, best match so far IMO

[Steve Graham]

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wow, well done TnT.. 10 men totally unexpected result.. great match!

[speciale]

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^^ I only said the 1st half. England played horrible in the 2nd half.

As for the commentators, Univision is the way to go. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
The world cup is where I catch up on my Spanish. Not to mention to women on the pregame shows. Where to they find such hotties?

ABC commentators suck...... Univision!!!!!!!

Now lets go Argentina and don't fuck things up like last word cup.

[remoh]

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i thought they were going to have the games on HD ..well i guess its espn2 HD and cox here in vegas doesnt carry it ....

any way argentina just scored...F argentina , sorry arielius....

[speciale]

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Aregentina got lucky. I'll take the win. They played lazy. Good thing Ivory Coast couldn't score. They were a lot better than I thought.

Why did they take out Crespo? That Placio dude sucked. And why isn't Tevez playing?