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2014 FIFA World Cup |OT| Spa1n v The Netherland5
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SporeCrawler
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wow drogba
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They won't be able to keep it, someone will steal it again and melt it.
Bubble Metropolis
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The ESPN anchor lady's pronunciation of Honda's first name has changed and gotten worse with each time she's said it.
Kurt Angle
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Ivory Coast needs to advance for this guy
R10Neymarfan
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This guy wins
Zaccheroni transformed Japanese soccer.
PandaPedinte
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Deserved victory for Ivory Coast
He was good the end of last year, and at times this year, especially in the Champion's league, but yeah, nowhere near his Dortmund form.
Best thing about this match.
FootballFan
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Just kidding m8. Everyone else would've missed there
immortal-joe
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The three in the front are all incredibly funny for different reasons
ColossalLazy
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Only Brazil.
Roland1979
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Time to commit Sudoku?
You know a match was garbage when the highlights are in the audience.
Shame, would've been nice to have a new one, like ending an era
john whiteguy84
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Imo not Brazil
One of the best things in WC so far :lol
Aye, the entire offense was shit.
Kagawa on the wing wasn't working, what a suprise....
Honda made some horrible passes and apart from the goal, he was nearly invisible.
Osako and Okazaki didn't help either and no one was creating decent situations.
They've got so much potential, but Ivory Coast deserved that win by miles.
ShinRPGamer
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And thus concludes a busy day of football.
Tomorrow I won't be able to watch the games it in the morning due to father's day. On the plus side it's Group E I'll be missing.
Tomorrow I won't be able to watch the games it in the morning due to father's day. On the plus side it's Group E I'll be missing.
Nice gif for that "lol white people" thread
Won't deny the flops, but I would say they still played better than Croatia.
KidA Seven
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Zaccheroni was horrible today.
-Hasebe should have never started. Japan's passing game suffered with him starting over Endo. What makes it more baffling is that he's not that fit.
-He corrected the mistake by subbing Endo in, but fucked up with his next two subs. Kakitani should have been subbed in for Osako. No idea why Okubo was subbed in. Okubo is bigger than Osako and Kakitani, but is far weaker on the ball than both of them. Kakitani is the best player on the ball.
-When Japan could not create anything, he decided to sub off Kagawa. Putting in another striker in Kakitani isn't going to do anything if Japan can't create. Kiyotake should have been subbed in for Kagawa or he should have been brought in for Okazaki.
The entire Japanese team today was horrible. Honda was good in the first half, but was shit in the 2nd half.
-Hasebe should have never started. Japan's passing game suffered with him starting over Endo. What makes it more baffling is that he's not that fit.
-He corrected the mistake by subbing Endo in, but fucked up with his next two subs. Kakitani should have been subbed in for Osako. No idea why Okubo was subbed in. Okubo is bigger than Osako and Kakitani, but is far weaker on the ball than both of them. Kakitani is the best player on the ball.
-When Japan could not create anything, he decided to sub off Kagawa. Putting in another striker in Kakitani isn't going to do anything if Japan can't create. Kiyotake should have been subbed in for Kagawa or he should have been brought in for Okazaki.
The entire Japanese team today was horrible. Honda was good in the first half, but was shit in the 2nd half.
StriKeVillain
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That Croatian keeper deserved to lose. Bum.
BAKA GAIJIN!!
On a more serious note, Japan gassed heavily after the first goal. I think the heat and humidity combo fucked them up - they seemed exhausted and their overall play decayed quite a bit. Drogba's appearance while controversial (king of time wasting, indeed), also livened up CIV. He's their talismanic leader.
I also believe my fellow countryman Osses (the referee) did well. The only controversial decision was that penalty call and I don't think it was a pen (and while some point towards Spain's pen yesterday, I also thought that one WASN'T and the ref was wrong to concede it), the rest was smooth sailing. Maybe he should've been harder on CIV's time wasting, but I don't think Japan had the fuel in their tanks to go for it one last time.
All in all, a damn good day. Matches ranged from good to great, some dull moments eclipsed out by the awesome.
On a more serious note, Japan gassed heavily after the first goal. I think the heat and humidity combo fucked them up - they seemed exhausted and their overall play decayed quite a bit. Drogba's appearance while controversial (king of time wasting, indeed), also livened up CIV. He's their talismanic leader.
I also believe my fellow countryman Osses (the referee) did well. The only controversial decision was that penalty call and I don't think it was a pen (and while some point towards Spain's pen yesterday, I also thought that one WASN'T and the ref was wrong to concede it), the rest was smooth sailing. Maybe he should've been harder on CIV's time wasting, but I don't think Japan had the fuel in their tanks to go for it one last time.
All in all, a damn good day. Matches ranged from good to great, some dull moments eclipsed out by the awesome.
Amazing
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Today was a good day, entertaining matches all day, some more than others but overall it was positive.
Mr.Marston
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Knew Ivory Coast were going to win, despite Gaf trying to convince me otherwise. Japan are overrated.
PandaPedinte
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Every team all rooted for lost their matches:
- Croatia
- Uruguay
- England
- Japan
I'm becoming Mick Jagger ;___;
- Croatia
- Uruguay
- England
- Japan
I'm becoming Mick Jagger ;___;
well they will have to after 2030 if Wikipedia is to be believed.. the current trophy has 4 places left to engrave the name of the nation that wins it. So after 2030 they either find a new trophy or new space on the current one.
gutter_trash
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I'm glad that counter-attack turtle Guile style lost
your previous avatar was better.
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