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Sloppy game, but fun to watch.
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Chimpy
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Fucking Silva can't be that big of a moron can he?
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Cyrrex
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That is how you kick a ball. Holy shit.
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Jeff Kelly
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That should have been a clear red card not a yellow.
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Tale
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Gonna be a lot of extra time.
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Jeff Kelly
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the ref completely lost control of that game early on.
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Tale
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Crazy statistic: Brazil hasn't lost a competitive game on home soil since 1975. Pele was still playing football.
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Tale
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James Rodríguez at this World Cup:
5 games
6 goals
2 assists
22 years old
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Teleku
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In post official 4th of July party drunken bliss, we went out too some bars to drink and watch the last part of the game. Man, Columbia looked like they really got screwed by some of those calls. Also, I can safely say that if not Columbia, Poland is rooting very hard for "not Brazil" this year.
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Nebu
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Will be tough for Brazil to win if half of their team is lying on the ground faking an injury. Lots of flopping at the end of that match.
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Nevermore
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Over and out.
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Abagadro
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Ouch.
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Nebu
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Damn. It didn't look like he got hit that hard. Pointy knees are more deadly than I thought. So Brazil will be missing Neymar and Silva for Germany? Double ouch. |
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Chimpy
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They should have pulled him to protect him from a potential second yellow at least 15 minutes earlier with how chippy the game was getting and how many fouls were being called.
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lamaros
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the ref completely lost control of that game early on.
Yep. Was a disgraceful performance. Had Brazil players running past the ball into James from the 7th min. When he didn't yellow that it turned into a foul free for all, and it ruined the game in my view. |
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Hoax
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Yeah American viewers will assume that was all down to latin teams suck blahblah but that was as disgraceful a display as we had seen since those horrible early group games. I have literally no clue what the fuck that ref was doing.
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Abagadro
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Was good end-to-end action for about 20 minutes then devolved into chaos.
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Jeff Kelly
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The refs abysmal performance is indirectly responsible for Neymar's injury and his broken vertebrae. If he hadn't lost control of the match Neymar most likely wouldn't have gotten kneed in the spine in the first place.
If FIFA considers disciplinary action against the Colombian player for that foul they should also do something about the ref who let the game degenerate to a point where this could happen.
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Khaldun
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My wife doesn't watch soccer much but she's gotten into the World Cup this year. She kept asking during the match, "Wait, so I thought that was a foul, isn't that a foul, and hey, that's what you said a foul was."
I was like, "Yeah, normally it would be. Really." That ref might as well have handed everybody brass knuckles at the start of the game.
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01101010
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Red cards became yellow cards and yellow cards became fouls and fouls became tackles. My take anyway.
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Amarr HM
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If FIFA considers disciplinary action against the Colombian player for that foul they should also do something about the ref who let the game degenerate to a point where this could happen.
Lot of truth here, it was a bit of a debacle. I did enjoy the tempo of the game and the atmosphere but really it could have been so much better with a referee who wasn't a bottler. |
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Cyrrex
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This is shaping up to be a stinker if Costa Rica doesn't actually go into attack mode. No way they can win by turtling up from the first whistle. They seem too scared to put anyone in the box in the rare chances they get down the field. Holland is being tentative too, but I expect they will get more chances simply because they pass the ball better.
12 minutes later edit: okay, they appear to be attacking a little more now. Still, I think they need to bring more people up when they attack.
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Abagadro
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Entertaining extra time for sure.
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01101010
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So how many saves did the post have for Costa Rica that match? I saw at least four.
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Abagadro
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Some weak-ass penalty kicks there.
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Surlyboi
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Khaldun
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Reminded me of the US-Belgium game, except in this case it was either swarm defense or dumb luck that saved the Costa Ricans rather than the goalie. Same thing, though--the overwhelmingly better side just kept shooting and shooting and shooting and getting unlucky. Could easily have been 5-nil in regulation as much as 0-0.
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Nebu
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Best 4 teams advanced. Should be interesting going forward.
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Khaldun
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It was interesting to see the games with people who don't know the game--they could all see, even in a game like Costa Rica-Netherlands, which side was better and why. The kind of depressing thing is that it *is* so consistently certain national teams.
Hoping for a Brazil-Argentina final. That has some psychic energy behind it. Something like Germany-Netherlands just feels worthy but dull to me.
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Nebu
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Hoping for a Brazil-Argentina final. That has some psychic energy behind it. Something like Germany-Netherlands just feels worthy but dull to me.
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Best 4 teams advanced. Should be interesting going forward.
It is pretty amazing how consistently this happens in soccer. Probably not enough random events for underdogs to win too often. |
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HaemishM
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the ref completely lost control of that game early on.
Absolutely. I blame that for Neymar's injury. The challenge itself was fuckstupid but had the ref started handing out some yellows towards the end of the first half, there wouldn't have been nearly so many bad challenges in the second. And that Silva yellow? That was the HEIGHT of stupidity. Now they have to face Germany without their best goal scorer and best defender. And it isn't like Brazil has looked anything like world beaters this tournament. They started playing Stoke ball at some point in this game.  The Germans may have been playing boring but Hoax is right in that Osil has just not been himself. He's almost completely invisible. I hope they sit him for the semi. Speaking of boring, the Netherlands have been supremely boring to watch since that first game. Effective but boring. I really feel for Colombia and Costa Rica. Both teams played their asses off. Argentina has not played nearly as well as their placement suggests either. I expect a Germany/Netherlands final! |
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Chimpy
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Argentina figured out how to play defense and still let Messi create offensively against Belgium. I think they are the team to beat now.
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Abagadro
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Was shocked he didn't convert on that last breakaway. If Di Maria is good to go I think they have the inside track. Otherwise I think Germany will win with their precision/boring play.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Jeff Kelly
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Whatever happens, please no Brazil vs. Argentina final. There will be riots and it will be fucking chaos on the pitch.
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