2014 FIFA World Cup |OT3| Saturday 21st: ARG v IRN // GER v GHA // NGA v BIH

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B-Dubs said:
To be fair in SA you guys had a goal disallowed that would have changed the dynamic of that game, that loss wasn't really your fault. This time though, totally your fault. Rooney even broke his curse and finally scored but you guys still couldn't win. You guys need to go back to basics and start from scratch.



Hey! The US is getting better, not worse.
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We have started from scratch to some extent. Our kids are no longer encouraged to play on full size pitches and tight 5 a side pitches are encouraged along with a focus on the short passing game instead of a long game.

Going to be a good few years before we fully see the fruit of that although it's already created some youth who are quick with their feet by the looks. Short passing and flair is much harder to defend against over long 40 yard passes, no matter how good the pass is.
 
I'm looking forward to the Argentina game especially. I think if they ramp up a gear or two they have a real shot of winning the World Cup.
 
Not the most interesting day today, I think. At least on paper. Argentine and Germany should have little problems beating their opponents.
 
kitch9 said:
We have started from scratch to some extent. Our kids are no longer encouraged to play on full size pitches and tight 5 a side pitches are encouraged along with a focus on the short passing game instead of a long game.

Going to be a good few years before we fully see the fruit of that although it's already created some youth who are quick with their feet by the looks. Short passing and flair is much harder to defend against over long 40 yard passes, no matter how good the pass is.
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Agreed, England's FA is changing a lot in the way that we develop new talent. And I think Hodgson's tactics were largely inline with that, but It's obviously difficult to get some of the older players to adapt. Now there's 0 pressure the costa rica game could be fun, Hopefully neither Rooney or Gerrard get played.
 
Subliminal said:
Agreed, England's FA is changing a lot in the way that we develop new talent. And I think Hodgson's tactics were largely inline with that, but It's obviously difficult to get some of the older players to adapt. Now there's 0 pressure the costa rica game could be fun, Hopefully neither Rooney or Gerrard get played.
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Not going happen Roy has zero balls to remove Rooney or gerrard no matter how shit they play
 
Ostinatto said:
I saw the future, a vision after a few beers.

http://i.minus.com/ilqpbJ8nKsQjd.png[IMG]

[SPOILER]do it yourself here [url]http://www.ole.com.ar/pronostico-mundial/[/url][/SPOILER][/QUOTE]

Thank you for your faith in Belgium. If we somehow get to the semi's, this country will go bonkers
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Hystzen said:
Not going happen Roy has zero balls to remove Rooney or gerrard no matter how shit they play
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Eventually time removes us all.

Gerrard will probably retire from internationals after this year (He's fucked up too hard). Rooney is eventually gonna be worn out too. I can easily see Euro 2016 being Rooney's last tournament.
 
Ostinatto said:
I saw the future, a vision after a few beers.

ilqpbJ8nKsQjd.png


do it yourself here http://www.ole.com.ar/pronostico-mundial/
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italy will advance and beat colombia and brazil (oh wait i mean netherlands)
id say france beats germany
france will beat italy and then whatever comes from the other bracket (and no way belgium is going to go that far lol).

VIVE LA FRANCE!
 
Toothpick said:
Missed the Costa Rica v Italy match but I just revisited the pages in the thread to read the live responses and post match discussion.

my god, the meltdowns :lol
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I wish you could quote some of these meltdowns. I felt it was quite the opposite. There was one guy after the match who everyone quoted in oblivion.

artist said:
Rewatching the Italy game, should've lost 0-2.
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This is.... true. ;(
 
SporeCrawler said:
italy will advance and beat colombia and brazil (oh wait i mean netherlands)
id say france beats germany
france will beat italy and then whatever comes from the other bracket (and no way belgium is going to go that far lol).

VIVE LA FRANCE!
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I'm not sure on France/Germany. France definately has the flair that has a potential to undo Germany but France so far has coasted in an easy group. Not to say they haven't played well but they've played as expected. It's gonna be a great match to watch. I'd probably favour france over germany tho cause dam those french men are hot.
 
Predictionsss

ARG 3 - 0 IRA (Argentine will focus more on the attack, your time to shine Messi!)
GER 3 - 1 GHA (Germany shouldn't have much trouble here, Muller will get 2 more goals)
NIG 1 - 0 BOS (idk)

Let's do thisss
 
Delta Assault said:
Oh, okay. It's always hard to tell with the Brits. Sometimes they decide to merge their forces together and form Megazord, like for the Olympics.
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To be fair a team GB football team would have been something to behold over the years. When you've had the likes of Giggs and Bale not getting tournament football it seems a bit of a travesty.
 
kitch9 said:
To be fair a team GB football team would have been something to behold over the years. When you've had the likes of Giggs and Bale not getting tournament football it seems a bit of a travesty.
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Yeah, It's really stupid that we haven't done it more often and it's looking like Team GB at 2012 was a one off. Maybe if Scotland sods off we can work with the Welsh.
 
kamorra said:
I wish you could quote some of these meltdowns. I felt it was quite the opposite. There was one guy after the match who everyone quoted in oblivion.
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Meltdown Dude didn't even have an Italian username/avatar lol. Sounded German to me and yet he took it worse than Italia-GAF who took the loss with dignity and congratulated their Costa Rican opponents on their win.

Italia-GAF wasn't the salty one from the loss, they accepted it from the get go.
 
Delta Assault said:
Oh, okay. It's always hard to tell with the Brits. Sometimes they decide to merge their forces together and form Megazord, like for the Olympics.
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Well the Olympics was started as an international event, with the first games in Athens and started by a Frenchman. Football, meanwhile, was formalised in Britain before any other nation played it, so we needed someone to play against.. hence individual football associations for each of our constituent nations.
 
kamorra said:
I wish you could quote some of these meltdowns. I felt it was quite the opposite. There was one guy after the match who everyone quoted in oblivion.
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Genuine meltdowns, while absolutely delicious when they do occur, are extremely rare. Such is the nature of the World Cup and this thread, everyone is so desperate for a proper meltdown to occur that they likely to jump on anything that could even be suggested as meltdownish, no matter how mild it is.

After all, when the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they believe that the fish are about to be thrown into the sea. Or whatever.
 
I didn't get a chance to watch the Honduras v. Ecuador game. How did Honduras look this game? Hopefully they didn't look as horrendous as they did against the french?
 
Delta Assault said:
North Ireland is.
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Ireland has two teams actually. Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.

We have 1 team for rugby though, which I think is better.
The Chosen One said:
I didn't get a chance to watch the Honduras v. Ecuador game. How did Honduras look this game? Hopefully they didn't look as horrendous as they did against the french?
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They played well in parts, but both teams went in for some really crunching tackles. They also had 2 disallowed goals so they were at least trying to score.
 
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