The REAL football thread.

[no country for old wainds]

what happened at the holland game? i only saw the first half. france seemed to dominate, not giving up an inch.
~gR~

france didn't dominate shit, they controlled like 10/15 minutes of the first half and started well in the second but they couldn't finish

i tipped france to win the tournament at the start so i guess i reluctantly have to back them against italy. italy have obviously been performing better but holy shit they can't shoot to save their lives, luca toni looks totally lost out there. grosso's service was immense today and he still couldn't put anything away.

holland are the only team in the tournament who look the complete outfit. obviously going forward they're superb, their forward line is the best in the world methinks, but they're also the only team who look fairly solid defensively, i have no idea whats happened to boulahrouz but i never saw him look this good for chelsea. van der sar is the man of course.

portugal can't deal with anything in the air and they still don't have a good striker, that'll be their downfall. spain look dodgy as hell at the back AND they're chokers so i'm still not expecting them to win it. germany have hardly set the world alight but i'm still expecting them to be there or thereabouts. obviously france and italy are struggling but those two always start slow, if either of them qualifies i reckon they'll be a huge threat. outside bet for croatia?

 

[rms]

That Del Peiro looked smooth as hell in the 2 italy games, made a huge difference offensively in the first game when he was subbed in

 

[cookiecutter]

I watched the end of that Netherlands-France game. Besides that one really nice goal by Henry, France just looked terrible

 

[False Joe]

Holllland.
I told you fuckers.
I also said Sweden but that was preference not expectation

 

[no country for old wainds]

yeah i'd be saying that too on the eve of the spain game

 

[sevag00]

What an unfair game for the Italians. If the referees are going to continue messing up games, by disallowing goals, then this year's Euro tournament will be utter shit and unfair.

 

[skeptik]

If you're talking about the one that actually went in, the guy was fucking offsides, and you're a god damn retard. If you're talking about the no-call in the box, I thought that one could have gone either way, unlike the no-call in the Spain game, even though they ended up winning (the bastards).

 

[entanglement]

Toni, the only player involved in the final finish was onside tbh.

 

[sevag00]

If you're talking about the one that actually went in, the guy was fucking offsides, and you're a god damn retard. If you're talking about the no-call in the box, I thought that one could have gone either way, unlike the no-call in the Spain game, even though they ended up winning (the bastards).

You have truly lost your mind. Go read the rules. Toni was clearly onside, and his goal was valid.

 

[Ze Boy]

Super I'm only 12 hours late on this but you'll have to forgive me it was on at 2'am in the mourning

Australia is through to the next stage of WC qualifying, last night we comprehensively beat Qatar 3-1 it was a superb effort all round Schwarzer (GK) was not challenged much and the rest did well to bounce back from last weeks loss to Iraq

Really should have been 4-1 or 4-2 after a goal was disallowed with no clear reason for us and a blatant penalty was not given to them neither however would have effected the match as the 'Roos Brett Emerton put away two goals 18' and 56' from there the Aussies took control of the match with late goals to Kewell 75' and Khalfan (Qatar) 90'

Joining Australia so far are Bahrain and Japan (Group 2); DPR Korea and Korea Republic (Group 3), Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia (Group 4) plus Iran from Group 5.

Group 1 standings

G W D L Pts
AUSTRALIA 5 3 1 1 10

QATAR 5 2 1 2 7

IRAQ 5 2 1 2 7

CHINA 5 0 3 1 3

You can see all the group standings here
http://www.the-afc.com/eng/competitions/fixtures/index.jsp_WC-2007-464.html

 

[skeptik]

Toni, the only player involved in the final finish was onside tbh.

You have truly lost your mind. Go read the rules. Toni was clearly onside, and his goal was valid.

I'm talking about the goal in the first half that they called back. I assumed that's what he was talking about.

 

[no country for old wainds]

What an unfair game for the Italians. If the referees are going to continue messing up games, by disallowing goals, then this year's Euro tournament will be utter shit and unfair.

unlike the world cup which they of course won fairly

 

[sevag00]

World Cup 2006 had consistent refs.

 

[False Joe]

Anyone watching the Turkey - Czech game? Wtf was the ref doing at the start
I don't like having two games on at once

 

[Killbot]

I hate the two games at once system, but I suppose it is fairer if one match isn't played under the knowledge of the completed result of the other.

 

[False Joe]

Bah.
But its gaaaay.
I was enjoying flicking on at 5. Watching the game, playing pes for 45 mins then watching the next game.

Edit: Ooooh. turks are back in it
EDITEDIT: They're DEFINATELY back in it. Cech made a mistake O_O
Editeditedit: Fucking
editediteditedit: FUCKING HELL This game is awesome.

 

[Killbot]

THAT. WAS. INSANE.

 

[False Joe]

Aw
I wanted the Czechs to score against Tuncay and for Tuncay to do a hilarious non-goalkeeper attempt at a save.

 

[no country for old wainds]

World Cup 2006 had consistent refs.

rofl are you fucking kidding me? consistently awful maybe, otherwise it was notoriously probably the worst most inconsistent and fucking dire collective refereeing performance in the history of major tournaments

i was laughing my ass off for the last 10 minutes of that turkey game, ahaha. i had volkan in my fantasy team though that cunt

 

[sevag00]

No kidding, they refs were way better than this year's Euro.