World Cup 2006

El Drey · Tue 13/06/2006 09:59:50

Yay, quite a satisfying day, yesterday.
Too bad for Jan Koller and Francesco Totti, getting injured though. But that group's going to be interesting, since the runner-up (Czech republic or Italy, probably) will face Brazil the next round...

I'll keep my fingers crossed (but I can't decide for who...)

Timosity · Tue 13/06/2006 10:36:13

Quote from: Andail on Tue 13/06/2006 09:59:08
Doesn't it strike you as odd that these tiny japanese players, pushing no more than 100 pounds in average, can viciously tackle and mangle down your majestic, tall, rugby-playing brutes as if they were made of paper and porcelain? Never have I see so frail a team!

Yeah, that's their secret, act like wussy little guys, to hide the secrets of the ninja power within

Andail · Wed 14/06/2006 00:23:37

the Czech got Nedved, who is just so ass-kickingly cool. I predict that he will win the world cup for his nation, and then go on and battle some alien invaders with a giant sword.

Gregjazz · Wed 14/06/2006 03:36:54

I got to watch a couple of games from the World Cup...

Sweden is awesome!!

big brother · Wed 14/06/2006 05:56:04

How about watching the French team struggle, unable to score on the up-and-coming Swiss team? They had that on the TV at my gym, and I nearly laughed out loud on several occasions. You could see how angry the Frenchies were getting, too. Stomping their tiny feet and yelling fairy-speak at each other.

Made my day.

Gregjazz · Wed 14/06/2006 07:00:02

Quote from: big brother on Wed 14/06/2006 05:56:04
How about watching the French team struggle, unable to score on the up-and-coming Swiss team? They had that on the TV at my gym, and I nearly laughed out loud on several occasions. You could see how angry the Frenchies were getting, too. Stomping their tiny feet and yelling fairy-speak at each other.

Made my day.

Whoo, I hope there aren't any French people here on the forums...

jaz · Wed 14/06/2006 09:06:08

Yay, cool World Cup so far.

I was quite surprised that the Americans were absolutely no match for our team. Rosicky showed a real world class and Nedvet seems to be back as we know him.

On the other hand, loss of Koller could have devastating impact on our performance, considering that other two main strikers are injured as well (Smicer and Baros), as it is now, our attack is in ruins.

As for other matches, Argentina impressed me, so has also Socerroo's comeback. Italy looks very strong.

French disappointed me a lot and Brazilians just lack their flair so far. Very good performance from Croatia though, they deserved an equaliser.

Sweeden vs TaT was a shocker, who could have guessed. I saw TaT on my very eyes playing a friendly against Czech republic last saturday and they looked totally hopeless, loosing 3:0 after 40 mins.

I am really looking forward to Germany vs Poland today as Poles just have to steal at least a point, but the most interesting match of the preliminary stage for me shall be ARG vs NED. Followed by CZE vs ITA and ENG vs SWE.

Vel · Wed 14/06/2006 11:01:18

Aw, Croatia lost

And they played quite well, especially in the second half, when they outplayed Brazil. Unfortunately, they wasted their opportunities. I hope that they qualify though. And Brazil isn't quite what everybody expect, they sort of play like Italy.

SSH · Wed 14/06/2006 16:07:32

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro!

Privateer Puddin' · Wed 14/06/2006 16:12:51

I should report you to moderator for not speaking english! Â¬Â¬

aussie · Wed 14/06/2006 17:54:07

Quote from: SSH on Wed 14/06/2006 16:07:32
Uno, dos, tres, cuatro!

Good to see a solid game by Spain, probably the best they've played in the last two or three years. So far they've been the most impressive team I've seen on the field, together with Argentina and the Czech Republic.

But Ukraine had nothing to throw at them, with Shervcheko half injured.

In any case, Spaniards have seen enough good first round performances. Their real challenge is to overcome the first and particularly the second knockout round, anything else is old news.

skw · Wed 14/06/2006 23:37:52

Hmm,

I would leave today`s GER : POL match without a comment. If you have seen it, you can`t say it was bad.

Great play, great struggle and a great luck, which, unfortunately, left us in the 91st minute. Anyway, Thank you, Poland!

A Janas to chuj!

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@ jaz: Congratulations Czech! Świetna gra, dobre gole i wspaniałe zwycięstwo! :-)

Khris · Thu 15/06/2006 00:37:38

Damn...
Winning only 1:0 would usually be rather disappointing, but not after a match like that.
Look out, Brazil

Privateer Puddin' · Thu 15/06/2006 18:52:24

Phew. Not great but two goals will do nicely. Good to see gerrard bring some of his liverpool form to england, good to see rooney back and good to see lennon brought on (thought neither did much, just encouraging)

Sam. · Thu 15/06/2006 19:19:30

Good result, if only Crouch's comprehension streched to his far away legs.

Rooney does seem to be a great inspiration to the team and lennon seems to be tireless.

DoorKnobHandle · Thu 15/06/2006 19:24:30

You call that game a "good result" for England? I don't want to offend you guys, the goals were well deserved, but overall it was quite an unsatisfying game considering your team called itself the "biggest favorite" before hand and most T&T-players come from the third and fourth english league.

Privateer Puddin' · Thu 15/06/2006 19:29:14

Yes dkh, you might notice there's a difference between 'result' and 'performance'. The result was good, 3 points in the bag, to quote the news

Quotejob done, but well done? not yet

The performance wasn't great, wasted too many good chances and let T&T get close a couple of times.

No one said we played well, just an important result, keeps us at the top of our table and we qualifed and we can win the group tonight.

So, in the end a good result but not a good performance.. kinda like Germany yesterday Â¬Â¬

Matt Frith · Thu 15/06/2006 20:30:18

Well to be honest, Trinidad played pretty defensivly throughout, without ever having the chance of a goal (apart from just before half time).Ã,Â England, although not playing their best football, pretty much dominated the game and scored some well deserved goals, if not a little late.Ã,Â Why criticise them,Ã,Â Germany did exactly the same yesterday.Ã,Â I thought it was a good positive perfomance from England,Ã,Â lets hope we can build on our strengths for the knock out stages!

DoorKnobHandle · Thu 15/06/2006 20:41:48

It was a misunderstanding. Me and Tom (Privateer Puddin') have sorted it out via MSN. In a very friendly manner.

I didn't realize that Zooty meant "result" as in the sense of result, but in the sense of performance.

And to compare the game with the last Germany game, although the situations were really close, I think England didn't really control their opponent quite as much as we did, but that's because Poland played way worse than T&T.

Andail · Thu 15/06/2006 22:15:32

Yayness. Sweden beat Paraguay after an exhausting game full of almost-situations. The final goal was very pretty and well deserved.
If we can avoid losing against England we will advance.