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[Road]

please watch el clasico later this year.

i guarantee you it can get much worse.

2013 performances don't count for the 2015 Oscar =P

This match has been the worst of this WC on this regard (disclaimer: I haven't seen every match).

 

[MrJustinius]

Italy playing for a 0-0 is the worst thing for an Aussie fighting sleep at 3 in the morning.

Game needs a goal. Or a red card. Or Balotelli or Suarez doing something really stupid (again, in Balo's case).

Hell, just about anything other than the constant stoppages right now would work.

Save us Pirlo.

 

[KillerMan91]

Sometimes I remember why I prefer to watch something like hockey from time to time. Grown men don't fall down from slightest of contact and cry like they are dying.

 

[gashikunFLCL]

He is one of the very few players who excel at free kicks.

I remember a time when each team has one of those.

Argentina: Requilme, Veron
Brazil: Joninho
England: Beckham
France: Zidane

And no, CR7 and Messi are average Free kick players.

Phirlo learned observing the master:

BOOK EXTRACT
By Andrea Pirlo

I strike those dead balls alla Pirlo. Each shot bears my name and they're all my children. They look like one another without being twins, even if they do boast the same South American roots. More precisely, they share a source of inspiration: Antonio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, a midfielder who's gone down in history as Juninho Pernambucano.

 

[Salsa]

I'm sorry, but we are the best soccer players in the world. Our legs cost millions of EUR/USD. We have to protect ourselves when we get hurt. We're not Uruguay - we can't afford to get hurt.




DEAL WITH IT.

lol, yeah. nothing to do with a tie doing you good. gg

 

[Acorn]

Don't think rugged throwbacks are meant to have Economics degrees to be fair

John Maynard Keynes was great on the left wing though.

 

[Skellig Gra]

So I guess the international careers of George Weah and George Best should imply that they're just overrated marketing creations? Paolo Maldini too?

I never said that. It was a comparison between Pirlo and Zlatan. There at least 5-10 other guys like Zlatan out there right now. Pirlo is in a class of his own at his position.

 

[gloomy]

All the major manufacturers try to outdo each other with more outrageous colours and designs and the players don't seem to have any taste so they lap it up.

Fluoro yellow, fluro orange and blue/pink. That's the choice.

 

[bud]

2013 performances don't count for the 2015 Oscar =P

This match has been the worst of this WC on this regard (disclaimer: I haven't seen every match).

i don't understand

el clasico's in late 2014

 

[perfectchaos007]

0-0 both games at halftime. exciting.

 

[Deku Tree]

Italy is playing terrible. Playing for 0-0 is like asking for an upset IMO.

 

[UrbanRats]

Italy playing for a 0-0 is the worst thing for an Aussie fighting sleep at 3 in the morning.

That's what they want you to believe... this is actually the best they can do!

 

[His Majesty]

Phirlo learned observing the master:

BOOK EXTRACT
By Andrea Pirlo

I strike those dead balls alla Pirlo. Each shot bears my name and they're all my children. They look like one another without being twins, even if they do boast the same South American roots. More precisely, they share a source of inspiration: Antonio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, a midfielder who's gone down in history as Juninho Pernambucano.

He forgot David Luiz.

 

[noal]

He's young and plays for a team that used to be big

I saw that!

 

[Brazil]

That's what they want you to believe... this is actually the best they can do!

Pretty much.

They're gonna get smashed in the round of 16 if they get through anyway.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Sometimes I remember why I prefer to watch something like hockey from time to time. Grown men don't fall down from slightest of contact and cry like they are dying.

Instead they're encouraged to fight eachother to make it seem like the sport is exciting

 

[norinrad]

Wenger is a huge c**t for sending Campbell to exile. He's easily better than half of Arsenals current line up.

 

[Overdoziz]

Video ref would instantly fix this... Shame FIFA is so backwards.

You think they're gonna use the video ref every time someone dives?

 

[Acorn]

Instead they're encouraged to fight eachother to make it seem like the sport is exciting

Lol

 

[Mohonky]

If you go down and start claiming your badly hurt, you should be removed from the pitch immediately for treatment. Not actually hurt? Stiff shit, not coming back on till the next dead ball.

Start cleaning the game up.

 

[Salsa]

Italy is playing terrible. Playing for 0-0 is like asking for an upset IMO.

it's embarrasing. I'd have nothing but respect if Italy played better than us and deserved the win, but advancing by stalling for a tie is just embarrasing. Specially after all the high and mighty talk.

 

[Ostinatto]

I'm sorry, but we are the best soccer players in the world. Our legs cost millions of EUR/USD. We have to protect ourselves when we get hurt. We're not Uruguay - we can't afford to get hurt.




DEAL WITH IT.

 

[His Majesty]

it's embarrasing. I'd have nothing but respect if Italy played better than us and deserved the win, but advancing by stalling for a tie is just embarrasing.

To be fair Uruguay doesn't look like playing for a win either. And that's way more embarrassing.

 

[Esch]

Wenger is a huge c**t for sending Campbell to exile. He's easily better than half of Arsenals current line up.

dont disrespect the gawd

 

[KillerMan91]

Instead they're encouraged to fight eachother to make it seem like the sport is exciting

Eh. You don't have that many fights nowadays in hockey. Especially in European leagues. In international hockey fightning prohibited.

 

[QuicheFontaine]

Just got home from work. WHATDIDIMISS?

 

[D4Danger]

You think they're gonna use the video ref every time someone dives?

Think of all the adverts you could sell

It would make the NFL look fast

 

[Kandinsky]

I'm sorry, but we are the best soccer players in the world. Our legs cost millions of EUR/USD. We have to protect ourselves when we get hurt. We're not Uruguay - we can't afford to get hurt.




DEAL WITH IT.

lol wait, are you serious?.

 

[MrJustinius]

That's what they want you to believe... this is actually the best they can do!

Uruguay have been even worse though

 

[Sanjay]

lol

 

[Salsa]

To be fair Uruguay doesn't look like playing for a win either. And that's way more embarrassing.

uruguay =/= ball possession. nothing new there. we just need the one

 

[UrbanRats]

it's embarrasing. I'd have nothing but respect if Italy played better than us and deserved the win, but advancing by stalling for a tie is just embarrasing. Specially after all the high and mighty talk.

There's the whole second half to bites us in the ass.

I would love for Italy to play well, i think we played really well in the Euro cup two years ago (got to the final), but like this? To me it isn't even worth advancing, as i said before.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Wenger is a huge c**t for sending Campbell to exile. He's easily better than half of Arsenals current line up.

He couldn't get a work permit

 

[SargerusBR]

Just got home from work. WHATDIDIMISS?

besides Balotelli's cosplay as Sagat, nothing

 

[Akiller]

Uff, it seems nobody is able to dribble except Verratti (the only time when we he did it we
were a bit dangerous).

An immobile target is an easy target.

I see what you did là.

 

[KxoZz]

lol

lol
was waiting for someone to post this

 

[Buzzati]

lol wait, are you serious?.

I'm as serious as dick cancer, bro.

 

[Mohonky]

Just got home from work. WHATDIDIMISS?

lots of Italians and Uruguayans on the floor in tears.

 

[Vampirolol]

I don't think that Italy is playing for a 0-0. It's just playing it safe, let's see what happens now.

 

[Road]

i don't understand

el clasico's in late 2014

Oops, I misread it "late last year" (thinking of a match that had already happened).

Anyway, I'm talking about this WC.

lol

He can share his sorrow with Prince Harry, who got here only in time for this last game (well, except for the whole paying thing =P).

 

[kamorra]

it's embarrasing. I'd have nothing but respect if Italy played better than us and deserved the win, but advancing by stalling for a tie is just embarrasing.

You guys could start attacking our goal you know. That's what we try. We're just not good enough at it right now. Still we are at least trying.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Wenger is a huge c**t for sending Campbell to exile. He's easily better than half of Arsenals current line up.

Wenger is a cunt.

But Campbell couldn't get a work permit lol

 

[John Dunbar]

Pretty much.

They're gonna get smashed in the round of 16 if they get through anyway.

the thing about the world cup is that you don't always have to play well to win it.

 

[UrbanRats]

Uruguay have been even worse though

Yeah, they aren't doing that great either, maybe they'll get one in eventually, but so far it's a painful game to watch.

 

[Acorn]

lol

Hahaha poor guy

 

[Salsa]

You guys could start attacking our goal you know. That's what we try.

that buffon save was the closest anyone got. And it wasnt a goal cause the dude aced it.

 

[Sickboy007]

it's embarrasing. I'd have nothing but respect if Italy played better than us and deserved the win, but advancing by stalling for a tie is just embarrasing. Specially after all the high and mighty talk.

It's not like Uruguay deserves to pass. At least Italy is doing what they're supposed to, Uruguay on the other hand should be desperate for a goal and they're just reciprocating the fauls.

 

[Haunted]

I'm sorry, but we are the best soccer players in the world. Our legs cost millions of EUR/USD. We have to protect ourselves when we get hurt. We're not Uruguay - we can't afford to get hurt.




DEAL WITH IT.

 

[figadapaura]

lol

hahaha got to keep your sense of humour

 

[The_Hitcher89]

@Salsa, Italy have no reason to even be attacking as much as they are. The onus is on Uruguay to win this game, and they're doing fuck all to achieve that.