FIFA World Cup Thread

[D.Turtle]

In further officiating news, Spain-Portugal saw yet another embarrassing dive. This one by Capedevilla, which "earned" a send-off for Ricardo Costa in the late minutes. Clearly it wouldn't have changed the match results, but why would he do this?

The only replay in that video which shows the situation is at 0:22. The replays at the beginning all start too late to see what happened.

In the longer replay, you can see the elbow of the Portuguese player go to the face of the Spanish guy, which is a clear red card.

[Wedge]

In further officiating news, Spain-Portugal saw yet another embarrassing dive. This one by Capedevilla, which "earned" a send-off for Ricardo Costa in the late minutes. Clearly it wouldn't have changed the match results, but why would he do this?

The only replay in that video which shows the situation is at 0:22. The replays at the beginning all start too late to see what happened.

In the longer replay, you can see the elbow of the Portuguese player go to the face of the Spanish guy, which is a clear red card.

Master of Ossus is clearly obsessed with finding dives, even if they aren't there.
Second time you show a video where everybody with two eyes except you, can see he is not diving. Do you need Crown to explain this one to you aswell or is Turtle's commentary sufficient?
Fuck man, do you have something against Spain? IMO only the players from DPRK have shown more fair-play in this World Cup.
The only embarrassing thing is your skill to see dives were there are none and post evidence against your own argument.

As for the matches tomorrow. I support Uruguay but frankly I see it a very even match against Ghana so 50-50 chance. As for NL against Brazil, I really hope NL wins, I don't think they will but it would be awesome. NL and Spain, I feel kind of sad that they never won a World Cup when they clearly deserved it.

[Lief]

Uruguay will win fairly easily I think, Ghana are not very good tbh

As for Netherland vs Brasil, well, this really could go either way, both teams have similar systems, and I think whoever scores first will win. As the other team will then chase, allowing the leading team to counter fairly easily.

But as I have said before in this thread, I think we will have a Netherlands vs Spain final

[Crown]

There was a time when the Dutch could run circles around the Brazilians;



^ Best team to never win anything hands down, and for the love of God, check out the fouls in that game (the rugby tackle on Johan Cruyff at 2.55 for example)!

Sadly I don't think today is gonna be that day, but I'm hopeful... Com'on Kuytinho!!!!!

[Lief]

Brasil used to be VERY dirty players, sly elbows, pinching, spitting, etc.

[Akkleptos]

Link

When will real football be rid of FIFA tyranny and nonsense!

Aaarrrggghh!

Still, respect for the Argentinians. They had a good team, they played well. But Mexico didn't deserve to go this way!

Then, again, neither did they deserve to go back in 86, in 98, etc.

Failing to complete attack moves, especially against a perceived-superior rival, has been the curse of the Mexican National Team.

Please, excuse my bad French, but... ¡FUCK!

[Thanas]

Brazil is playing a pretty nasty game, with their coach deserving the medal for faux outrage at the ref so far.

[D.Turtle]

Hah, 2-1 for the Netherlands so far.

Go! I want to see the Brazilians lose

Edit: Holy shit - now THAT is a red card.

[Siege]

Oh dear... I'm not even that big a fan of the game, but this is getting pretty exciting.

[Siege]

Haha, holy shit! We did it! Netherlands 2, Brazil 1! Brazil's out! So long, suckers!

[D.Turtle]

HA!HA!

So much for the supposed favorites.

Edit: Now Ghana has to kick out Uruguay, we defeat Argentina, and Spain kick out Paraguay, and that will be that with the South American dominance

[charlemagne]

Well done, Netherlands! It was fun to watch the Brazilians lose their cool

[Master of Ossus]

What a great game!

[salm]

A really cool game. Congrats to Oranje.

[Gil Hamilton]

Brilliant game! Sucks for Brazil, but they kind of lost their cool in there and never got it back, while Netherlands played amazingly. Grats to the Dutch!

[Enigma]

To make this a truly interesting World Cup series, Spain, Germany, Argentina must all lose.

[Crown]

To make this a truly interesting World Cup series, Spain, Germany, Argentina must all lose.

Fixed for you.

I don't have anything against Germany progressing, but I'm suspecting you're trying to eliminate the favorites and those that have won it before. Spain slot into the former (as do the Dutch) but not the later (as do the Dutch) so they stay!

[Thanas]

The Ghana game is a thriller.

[Master of Ossus]

Great as the early game was, Ghana-Uruguay is really entertaining, as well. No matter who wins, it may well be the craziest finish of the tournament.

[Thanas]

Uruguay won, but Ghana have nobody to blame but themselves.

[Havok]

Fucking A Netherlands!

[Havok]

Ugh... Ghana... SO CLOSE!!

I'm totally bummed.

[Thanas]

Serves Boateng right.

[Crown]

Heartbreaking for Ghana, absolutely devastating to go through all that and then not go through. Uruguay are on cloud nine now though. And that, is football.

[Gil Hamilton]

That was... ah! Ghana has no one to blame, since the Uruguayan player HANDED them that goal kick on a platter and Gyan messed it up. Ouch.