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[Acorn]

-Costa Rica got an early (great) goal on the first half...
-Italy made some crappy subs and then started to get tired. CR almost got a second and third goal.
-Mountains of saltpictures in GAF

Ftfy

 

[AkuMifune]

Lmao is this for real? I'm not at home and won't be for around 2 days (at a festival). Summary of the game anyone?

Enjoy watching the underdogs win while it lasts, I'll definitely skip their shitty round of 16 matches. Costa Rica vs Cote d'Ivoir/Greece will definitely be a bummer to watch.
Yeah they fight with heart and run till they fall over dead, but you see nothing great in terms of strategy/tactics with those teams.

Long balls up front and through passes to the sides followed by crosses. Even Brazil played creatively bankrupt, with Oscar whipping in cross after cross. The fuck am I watching here? Is this Brazil?! South American football used to be flamboyant, it had style, it had great dribblings and precises passes and runs. I've seen nothing of that so far.

So I say fuck this world cup so far. You fucking event mugs, who come out like rats during the WC, talking about salt and piss off again when it's over and the league starts and just have some interest for the sport when the Classico is on again can suck a big fat dick. Fucking cunts.

Something like that.

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DerZusälter

 

[Kraftwerk]

You know Switzerland sucks when a garbage team like France is beasting.

 

[FootballFan]

Mehmedi is the only swiss player looking to make combinations and trying things. The lack of awareness is crazy from Switzerland here.

 

[ghst]

Joe Hart is a ad whore

this is the most sour part of any international tournament, the following month of having to see your national failures preen around trying to sell you haemorrhoid cream telling you how much the moment counts.

fuck off.

 

[dallow_bg]

Someone requested some pics from the Costa Rican local celebration, so here:

That is heartwarming stuff.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

 

[Uzzy]

Is there a better way for UEFA to have qualifying?

I was wondering why Switzerland were ranked so high, and I saw the reason, they had a shit qualifying group. How do you prevent that shit of a group happening again?

I've heard suggestions that the microstates should be put into a special pre-qualification group, with only one or two of them going into qualification proper. That would help somewhat.

 

[Jb]

0% GDP growth
10% unemployment

Tonight zero fucks were given.

 

[cripterion]

Deserving of a yellow here

 

[SymbiantXenos]

France not as sharp as first half so far.

They don't need to be 3-0 up and all that.

 

[Windom Earle]

lol, yeah, I admit that I hate seeing them win.

 

[justjohn]

Read the past few pages...

So everyone hates CONCACAF now? Heh.

If African teams had won all their games, we'd probably see the same thing.

Nope. Everyone loves African teams. It's only concatwats we can't stand.

 

[Hystzen]

France going into cruise mode for 2nd half seems

 

[snaffles]

Fire your proofreader.

 

[Matush]

Something like that.

Lmao this is amazing, thanks guys for info. Can't wait to read some salty comments.

 

[Meier]

If the Swiss want to even exercise the idea of scoring, they need to have Rodriguez get further forward and more involved.

 

[TCRS]

 

[jimbobsmells]

Holy shit lol. I feel bad for laughing at that though.

 

[The perfect Dark]

 

[Disagree Guy]

I've heard suggestions that the microstates should be put into a special pre-qualification group, with only one or two of them going into qualification proper. That would help somewhat.

Happens in African and Asian qualification. Lowest ranked teams in the world like Somalia and Bangladesh n stuff hav to compete in play-off matches to enter the group stages proper.

 

[Fisticuffs]

Too many players are sporting a variation of a mohawk this world cup. They all look stupid.

 

[FDC1]

France going into cruise mode for 2nd half seems

Yep, that's going to be a looong 45mn

 

[Kraftwerk]

shaqiri pls

 

[Acorn]

Osborne has emotions?

 

[jimbobsmells]

Osborne has emotions?

It's just brake fluid.

 

[xbhaskarx]

Where are these player valuations from?

 

[figadapaura]

Read the past few pages...

So everyone hates CONCACAF now? Heh.

If African teams had won all their games, we'd probably see the same thing.

Yep. You are exactly right.

Fuck UEFA too.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Depends if there are any rivalries between the teams within conferences / divisions.
For NFL, you would never root for a team within the same division such as AFC North, etc.
I don't think a lot of us (Americans) would root for the Mexican team.

Well I agree with that but now we're talking about something that has to do with fan loyalty to their team. I wanted the Seahawks to lose the Super Bowl but I knew better than to think it could happen, there's nobody that the Seahawks and the Niners couldn't whup in the AFC.

And yeah, we would want Mexico to lose against us. They're in another group right now though so I don't have a problem with them winning as I don't particularly care what they do when they aren't up against us.

 

[dr3upmushroom]

Guys, I think France might win this one.

 

[Dr_Biscuit]

Guys, I think France might win this one.

This game ? Yeah.

 

[Akai__]

Are you making fun of somebody who was ~6 months in a coma? Pretty uncool...

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Number 23 Swiss is also tiny as fuck.

 

[Disagree Guy]

Osborne has emotions?

Skynet

 

[figadapaura]

Guys, I think France might win this one.

Nah, I'm gonna put a cheeky bet on the Swiss.

 

[Empty]

Osborne has emotions?

his friend was telling him about the £300,000 reduction in his recent bonus and it was just too tragic

 

[cripterion]

Number 23 Swiss is also tiny as fuck.

He looks ridiculous on the pitch lol
Dude is way too bulky for a football player.

 

[Mory Dunz]

That's a weird conclusion after so many people were cheering for Costa Rica...

It was more that people got mad about about it. If Asian teams had won all their games and people were going crazy for their confederation, I wouldn't care.

 

[norinrad]

Guys, I think France might win this one.

ahahahahaha

 

[Meier]

Where are these player valuations from?

This thing popped up a few weeks back. I'm guessing probably from transfermarkt which is a decent guide although obviously not gospel. Some players are vastly undervalued (€45m for Aguero.. no way he'd go for less than €80-100, €52m for Suarez.. again, a similar figure as Aguero) in the current market but it's a fairly good resource.

 

[zruben]

Are you making fun of somebody who was ~6 months in a coma? Pretty uncool...

he's not making fun of Schumager, he's making fun of the world cup situation.

 

[Tugatrix]

this is bad but so funny

 

[Ostinatto]

dat aiming !! wtf switzerland---

 

[Chuckie]

Are you making fun of somebody who was ~6 months in a coma? Pretty uncool...

No he's making fun of Uruguay, Spain and Portugal.

 

[silver.tongue]

I still think most here are "sleeping" on France... this team is dangerous.

 

[FootballFan]

That was a good shot from Dzemaili. Almost. Good sub, has changed the game for the better.

 

[Dre3001]

France doing all of this without Ribery and Nasri too

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

Read the past few pages...

So everyone hates CONCACAF now? Heh.

If African teams had won all their games, we'd probably see the same thing.

Nah. At least Costa Rica got a lot of love here today.

 

[figadapaura]

Allez Patrice <3

 

[Juz]

Lovely play from France