Match ends. Ghana and Portugal are out. I'm SOOOOOO sorry for Cristiano Ronaldo and Pepe... (speaks a Barcelona fan, FORÇA BARÇA)
Good luck for USA and Germany from now on.
Edit: And Luis Suarez is out the World Cup. For once, good for FIFA. There must be some better solution for hunger than that.
Thomas Müller scored his 9th goal in his 9th world cup game
more than players like Maradona, Rivaldo or Völler (all 8)
from active players only David Villa (9 as well) and Klose (15) are near
otherplaery with 9 goals are
Roberto Baggio (16 games) italy
Eusebio (6 games!) portugal
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (19 games) germany
Paolo Rossi (14 games) italy
Uwe Seeler (21 games) germany
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Pele also scored nine goals in his first 9 WC games.
Ronaldo has arguably the best World Cup record: scored 8 goals in 7 games in 2002 and holds the record for most career WC goals.
His eight goals in the 2002 World Cup include two in the final against... Germany.
Damn, those Brazilians are good.
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And yet Muller isn't considered one of the top 25 players in the world.
For Bayern Munich I still easily put Robben, Ribery, Neuer, Lahm and (soon) Lewandowski all ahead of him. And on the German National team I add Ozil,
But my god he scores in World Cup games, yes?!
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Whew
USA
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The Luis Suarez sanction is correct. For this third offense, it is precisely what is appropriate.
Darn... I wanted the US to beat Germany. And double darn since I was not able to watch this game due to work scheduling. BUT Yes! We made it to the round of 16 just like I predicted.
Curiously, on South America many think that the Luis Suarez sanctions has been excesive, including... Maradona. That man can't keep his mouth closed.
Please, Barça, we don't want cannibals on practice on the team. Don´t contract Luis Suarez. Messi and Neymar should be enough. Barça even want to pay less for him, 50 millions instead of 60. That seems very low for a team like Barça.
If I have seen well the 1/8 encounters, there can be a France- Germany on quarter finals? That can be really interesting.
What chance the United States shocks Belgium and the world with a win?
I'd be more shocked if Belgium won.
Yep - I think the US will beat Belgium. I'm going to predict the USA over Belgium 2-0What chance the United States shocks Belgium and the world with a win?I'd be more shocked if Belgium won.
Belgium was not impressive so far, i think your chances are good
I think Belgium vs. US will be an even match. Belgium is not playing that well, but from what I've seen and read, their academic project to produce quality players is paying off in terms of results.
That said, the US team has more heart, so I predict a draw, with the US moving forward in the penalty shoot-outs.
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I think Belgium vs. US will be an even match. Belgium is not playing that well, but from what I've seen and read, their academic project to produce quality players is paying off in terms of results.
That said, the US team has more heart, so I predict a draw, with the US moving forward in the penalty shoot-outs.
Usually, the team which achieves a draw through extra 'heart' is spent at the end and lacks the essential quality to execute top skills while exhausted.
Given a penalty shoot out, I would expect Belgium to go through.
Usually, the team which achieves a draw through extra 'heart' is spent at the end and lacks the essential quality to execute top skills while exhausted.
Oh, if only football were an exact science... anyway, I stand by my guess. Penalty shoot-outs are quite emotional, anything can happen. Roberto Baggio was as skilled as it gets and look where he landed that ball back in '94.
It's landed already?
And Belgium should go through simply because they have a player (Fellaini) who looks like he's playing in the 1974 tournament.
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What chance the United States shocks Belgium and the world with a win?
I'd be more shocked if Belgium won.
(Me too)
Wow.
Now I'm shocked.
I do believe that the US has a chance to win. We play together as a team and fight for every minute.
But Belgium has plenty of rest having played, what, 7 or 8 backups in their game 3... And despite having had some problems playing together as a team of incredible individuals, I think they're more likely to get better as a team unit the further they go; they will not stagnate.
And less we forget... Romelu Lukaku... Eden Hazard... Kompany... Fellaini... etc... etc... etc... At every single position. Every. Single. Position. They are much better. Much better. Clint Dempsey is good. He sure as hell ain't Lukaku or Hazard (depending on where Dempsey is played). Michael Bradley is good. Jermaine Jones is solid and having a good Cup. Tim Howard is GREAT. But in every position Belgium is better.
I predicted US to upset the Group in December to advance. I also predicted US in December to lose to Belgium.
Here's hoping I'm wrong!
Go USA!
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So what will happen in the Round of 16 everybody?...
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Will Holland beat Mexico 7-0?
Or will Holland beat Mexico 8-0?
Or maybe 9-0.
Which one?
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Brasil vs Chile is a tough choice -- I barely predict Chile to win.
Columbia vs Uruguay is also tough -- Uruguay will play furiously. Columbia will win. (My toughest choice this round)
Switzerland will give Argentina everything they can handle but will still lose; Messi shall score a brace, at least.
Belgium will win (god I hope not and we Americans do, at least, have a shot -- unlike Mexico, Nigeria and Algeria -- who will be humiliated in their games.)
Costa Rica will beat Greece. Wait, I mean, England will beat Italy. Wait, I mean ... Are you sure Costa Rica and Greece are playing each other?!?
wow, what a first half from Brazil and Chile
I'm working and can't see the match :(
Ok, now that we had to defeat both Chile AND Howard Webb, we redeemed ourselves from that penalty against Croatia.
Ok, now that we had to defeat both Chile AND Howard Webb, we redeemed ourselves from that penalty against Croatia.
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Webb did a very good job, every decision except for one yellow card was correct
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Webb did a very good job, every decision except for one yellow card was correct
From FIFA' "Rules of the Game" document:
Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with his hand or arm.
The ball touched Hulk's right shoulder but not his upper arm, which is legit. Every news site has described this as a controversial decision, but Webb ruled against Brazil in every controversial decision (including the time Hulk was touched from behind inside the area, in the first half). Overall, he was terrible at awarding free kicks and fell for every dive Chile took (and a few from Brazil, too). Advantage? Forget about it. He stopped the game every 30 seconds. Silva and Vidal ganging up on Neymar? Not even a direct free kick. And then, there's the absolutely ridiculous yellow card awarded to Dani Alves.
Anyway, despite my opinions about the refereeeing, Brazil was awful, Chile played very well despite being exhausted at the end of the match, Julio Cesar saved the day and we'll definetely need to draft the rest of the Avengers for the next game. :P
Webb did a very good job, every decision except for one yellow card was correctFrom FIFA' "Rules of the Game" document:
Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with his hand or arm.The ball touched Hulk's right shoulder but not his upper arm, which is legit. Every news site has described this as a controversial decision, but Webb ruled against Brazil in every controversial decision (including the time Hulk was touched from behind inside the area, in the first half). Overall, he was terrible at awarding free kicks and fell for every dive Chile took (and a few from Brazil, too). Advantage? Forget about it. He stopped the game every 30 seconds. Silva and Vidal ganging up on Neymar? Not even a direct free kick. And then, there's the absolutely ridiculous yellow card awarded to Dani Alves.
Anyway, despite my opinions about the refereeeing, Brazil was awful, Chile played very well despite being exhausted at the end of the match, Julio Cesar saved the day and we'll definetely need to draft the rest of the Avengers for the next game. :P
yeah I gotta agree.
Disastrous referee. The goal was legit.
Webb did a very good job, every decision except for one yellow card was correctFrom FIFA' "Rules of the Game" document:
Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with his hand or arm.The ball touched Hulk's right shoulder but not his upper arm, which is legit. Every news site has described this as a controversial decision, but Webb ruled against Brazil in every controversial decision (including the time Hulk was touched from behind inside the area, in the first half). Overall, he was terrible at awarding free kicks and fell for every dive Chile took (and a few from Brazil, too). Advantage? Forget about it. He stopped the game every 30 seconds. Silva and Vidal ganging up on Neymar? Not even a direct free kick. And then, there's the absolutely ridiculous yellow card awarded to Dani Alves.
Anyway, despite my opinions about the refereeeing, Brazil was awful, Chile played very well despite being exhausted at the end of the match, Julio Cesar saved the day and we'll definetely need to draft the rest of the Avengers for the next game. :P
well I agree on Dani Alves and he could have protected Neymar a bit more with some cards
but I just watched the Hulk goal some more times on YouTube, the ref was right, it was upper arm, the ball would have gotten away without his arm
strangly, all german news sites agree with me and share my opinion that he was a very good referee while englis speaking sites seem to agree with you
Blimey, that Colombia goal was very special. Loved it!
Colombia's goal (both of them) were classy... What a strong team!
looks like he even uses the inside of his ellbow
Are you kidding me? The ball was nowhere near his elbow! The video you have linked clearly shows that. It hit him between his right shoulder and right biceps. Which is legal!
And that is a very unfavorable POV!To me its very clear that the referee was just too far away from the play to see what happened, so he decided to not risk giving Brazil an advantage.
Hopefully, this may be MR. Webb's last match in the World Cup.
In any event, GO Colombia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
looks like he even uses the inside of his ellbowAre you kidding me? The ball was nowhere near his elbow! The video you have linked clearly shows that. It hit him between his right shoulder and right biceps. Which is legal!
And that is a very unfavorable POV!To me its very clear that the referee was just too far away from the play to see what happened, so he decided to not risk giving Brazil an advantage.
Hopefully, this may be MR. Webb's last match in the World Cup.
In any event, GO Colombia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the pic in your link is clearly taken right before the ball hits the arm
even the article in your link does not say it was wrong, non of the twitter comments in the link say it was wrongThe Sun calls Webbs performance "excellent"
the Mirrors main article on the match says it was hand
all important german sites: "bild" "spiegel" "kicker" and "sport1" agree it was hand and praise Webbs performance
only the english Guardian is of the opinion it was not hand and a bad performance by Webb
I dunno, looks like he uses his upper arm to me. When the ball is coming across your front like that usually you have to pop it with your chest to control it which means your arms come back. It looks like his stays in front of him the whole time in a cupping motion which would suggest it's intentional as well. Just my 2 cents.
Wow, no one is talking about the Dutch-Mexico game, that's odd.
the little bit I could see between cooking dinner and bringing the boy to bed, it was a very boring tactical match
Wow, no one is talking about the Dutch-Mexico game, that's odd.
Hey you guys already guilted me into adding Germany to my watched games list right after team USA. I don't have any interest in those teams...
One of the few good things of not having Spain there is that I can take a neutral position on the rest of the World Cup, something I really like. But I can't see the Mexico/ Holland from where I am, only some comments on the web. From that, seems that Mexico is playing better than the oranges-specialists-on-losing-finals ones.
Edit: Mexico scores will I'm writing. Netherlands can be in real problems right now.
We're waiting for Mexico-Netherlands to end so we can stream it (no cable).
Chile played well, might have lost but with that quality of play, they can hold their heads high. And oh, James Rodríguez's goals were lovely! And so many years of playing still ahead of him, hopefully 3 more World Cups!
looks like he even uses the inside of his ellbowAre you kidding me? The ball was nowhere near his elbow! The video you have linked clearly shows that. It hit him between his right shoulder and right biceps. Which is legal!
And that is a very unfavorable POV!To me its very clear that the referee was just too far away from the play to see what happened, so he decided to not risk giving Brazil an advantage.
Hopefully, this may be MR. Webb's last match in the World Cup.
In any event, GO Colombia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the pic in your link is clearly taken right before the ball hits the arm
even the article in your link does not say it was wrong, non of the twitter comments in the link say it was wrongThe Sun calls Webbs performance "excellent"
the Mirrors main article on the match says it was hand
all important german sites: "bild" "spiegel" "kicker" and "sport1" agree it was hand and praise Webbs performanceonly the english Guardian is of the opinion it was not hand and a bad performance by Webb
South American papers disagree though. To me it seems more of a case of European papers protecting an European referee.
There is a video that was aired on cable tv here from the same POV of the picture above. It clearly shows that the ball did not touch either his arm or elbow, but I can't find it online yet.
Webb's performance was atrocious and I really hope he does not advance in the competition, but I guess we will have to disagree on that.
Edit: Mexico scores will I'm writing. Netherlands can be in real problems right now.
I feel bad for Mexico. So close!
So.. I really like Holland, but Robben is one of the biggest cheats at that level of te game.
Oh, there is no such thing as "European papers protecting an European referee". Here on Europe (Spain for sure, and for what I now, rest of Europe too) we love to attack our referees.
Ends the match Netherlands - Mexico. Poor, poor Mexico. How many times they go out on 1/8 with good games? Winning 1-0 an losing 1-2 on the lasts 5 minutes really hurts.
Mexico gave up the match in the end.
They should have kept attacking like they did the whole game.
In the end, by adopting a more defensive formation, they pretty much invited netherlands to attack. Not a wise choice IMO.
poor Mexico
that sould not have been a penalty, Robben used a small touch to dive