Football 2014 FIFA World Cup - Part 1

[Leoat12]

Exactly like that.
Switzerland was not that different though. Shaqiri played and the rest watched.

Except that Chile actually deserved it

Like you guys played very well in this match.

 

[Nuno]

Messi to miss a penalty in the shootout, resulting in Argentina's loss. You heard it here first.

Well rather lackluster and boring game. In Argentina's defense Switz almost laid back the entire game and played the complete defense game. Still not good to see Argentina struggle this much creating REAL chances vs established buss defenses. Incredibly boring game. Glad it didn't went to penalty as Argentina DID deserve the win.

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That pic lies, poor illustration, Di Maria did a lot of work that game

 

[Hardy]

That pic lies, poor illustration, Di Maria did a lot of work that game

He lost like 37 balls in 90 minutes and 51 considering extra time. He was pretty bad except for the last play. All he did was: winning a 1 on 1, doing a terrible cross with his right foot, run. Repeat the entire match.

 

[Nuno]

Switzerland was unlucky, that ball on the post...

Yea just like Chile in 118th minute.

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He lost like 37 balls in 90 minutes and 51 considering extra time. He was pretty bad except for the last play. All he did was: winning a 1 on 1, doing a terrible cross with his right foot, run.

Even so he ran a lot!

Just due to his reputation people are forced to run after him. I can say with ease Di Maria is in poor form. He has an extremely weird and special style of play, and when he's not in form his style results in more than usual "on and off play", which is a type of player he is. When in form he looks brilliant, has amazing duels, amazing ability to possess the ball, amazing passes and finishes, but in this game it was blindly obvious he's nowhere near top shape in terms of his play. A lot of great plays (like the couple of shots he had on goal that were rather good, not counting the goal, duels, passes etc), but equal amount of horrendous plays. It's Di Maria in a nut shell when he's not in shape. Still I'll give him credit for working a lot and having some pretty good attempts and plays that resulted in good plays. He attracts a lot of attention, and in the 115th minute he was the only one that really ran hard on the pitch apart Messi. His physical shape is at least somewhat good still, even though his football isn't.

 

[zelllogan]

A little tribute to El Loco:
http://9gag.tv/p/aKjNlv/rene-higuit...aziest-goalkeeper-in-football-history?ref=tcl

 

[FrostyMouse]

I heard his brother passed away some hours ago :/

Yeah, I heard the same last night.

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So, 2-1 Belgium is my pick. I'm amused that Romelu "I'm a complete striker" Lukaku is still on the bench.

 

[Hardy]

Belgium has no chance against a powerful team like USA. I expect the latter to win without much trouble.

 

[FrostyMouse]

Origi nearly opens the scoring.

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Ooh, a fan running on the pitch.

 

[scav]

i changed my mind, i want USA to win this game. kinda fun seeing the underdog winning

 

[Hardy]

i changed my mind, i want USA to win this game. kinda fun seeing the underdog winning

But Belgium is the underdog here.

 

[xi0]

Shaky early but we've look better since Yedlin came on. Kind of confused as to why Beckerman didn't start though.

 

[Leoat12]

Good match, Belgium has more ball possession and shots, but USA has been very dangerous as well. Quite even as I expected.

 

[zelllogan]

Good match, Belgium has more ball possession and shots, but USA has been very dangerous as well. Quite even as I expected.

It s not that even. We were superior in the first half. Most occasions were for belgium and usa only played a few counters. I would even say that we were more dominant than france germany argentina or brasil in the first half of this round of 16

 

[xi0]

It s not that even. We were superior in the first half. Most occasions were for belgium and usa only played a few counters. I would even say that we were more dominant than france germany argentina or brasil in the first half of this round of 16

While I won't say it was completely even, I think you're overrating the half as a whole.

 

[FrostyMouse]

The bus is strong with the US in the second half. Belgium's shots aren't even coming close to the goal, though.

 

[zelllogan]

10 shots on target vs 1. And the last action... i don t know how origi missed it.
And now origi touch metal ... if it s 2-0, there is nothing to say.

But it s good for usa, it s the typical good game - loss that we are always doing at this level of the competition.

Origi will be replaced by lukaku. The young one is starting to break under pressure.

 

[Nuno]

Belgium deserves to score, and to win. USA looking too tired, parking the bus but somewhat dangerous with the few attacks they have. I believe Belgium can challenge Argentina with how the teams have looked.

 

[zelllogan]

15 shots on target, it s getting ridiculous. I will be pissed off if we lose this. Usa doesn t even deserve overtime

 

[xi0]

Tim Howard carrying this team

 

[Nuno]

Tim Howard so fucking OP.