Brazil 2014. The World Cup thread

😯 <<<< scored so I’m off to bed.

Heh.

Oops.

Or can I….

Özil’s goal more important than we thought.

Woo. France Germany should be a cracker.

Germany could have scored many more goals if not for the goalie on the other team.

Go Deutschland go! You can beat France. 😆

#neverforget

Arse! Feel sorry for the Algerian keeper. Another one of those games where the losers didn’t really deserve to lose

This World Cup is rubbish so far! Not remotely entertaining at all

Cracking game…I’d be very proud if I was Algerian.

I am sure one of Warnock’s teams had a free kick routine with someone falling over on purpose – the Germans over-elaborated.

If Algeria had had any composure in front of goal they’d have scored a hatful.

In light of what i said about Neuer earlier, did you see the post match review? Something like 30 touches outside his penalty area; OK many were backpasses but half a dozen times he smothered a breakaway and avoided the need to make a save. Hats off; he played bloody well too, without appearing to have much to do.

I still hope he cocks one up and wipes the smugness off his face.

If Algeria had had any composure in front of goal they’d have scored a hatful.

Indeed. If they’d had their shooting boots on, they could have had the whole thing done and dusted in the first half

dont think the algerians knew what to do having so much freedom.. I guess maybe nerves got the better of them. That said germany’s back four were poor early on and algeria looked likely to capitalise. Luck for them the boots had been swapped for the algerians and neuer had gone to specsavers!

Was a great game that’s for sure and was rooting for the underdog again.

There’s been a few near misses so far, Brazil,Holland, France & Germany could all have been beaten, so whats the chance either Belgium or the Argies suffer a shock defeat?

Predictions:

Cuckoo Clock v Messi: 2-1
USA! USA! USA! v Waffles: 1-2

can I have

argies 3 :1 suisse
U S and A 2 : 3 choccie factory

Argie game should be fun.. The world cup isnt like the fa cup ..expect all the top teams to get there in the end with no suprises ( although wouldnt mind columbia to win it!).

I reckon a red card in the argie game and et in the US and A game

I would prefer this to being pelted with eggs

Also…

Is this why they were so rubbish then?

Ah. So that’s why Everton have no South Korean players.

Congratulations to Algeria, I thought they looked a very decent and confident side and the Germans never looked that comfortable. Their goalkeeper is going to get found out sooner or later with the kamakazi outside the box stuff, red card waiting to happen as the last “defender”. I think the Germans will be too good for France who seemed to have lost their way a bit now they are past the cannon fodder in their group.

Interesting piece on Switzerland on the BBC website, team is mostly Eastern European origin with two of them tweeting in Albanian.

Their goalkeeper is going to get found out sooner or later with the kamakazi outside the box stuff,

Are you kidding? He was their man of the match, and had to be so to make up for his teams poor defending. He never looked in trouble when he did have to come out.

Their goalkeeper is going to get found out sooner or later with the kamakazi outside the box stuff, red card waiting to happen as the last “defender”.

Don’t see it as kamikaze. He knows exactly what he is doing.

…most the time.

…and even then he makes it look like he meant it.

As I said above; it’s not kamikaze, it’s bloody good goalkeeping. I reckon he averted half a dozen dangerous situations by coming off his line the way he did. If they’d turned into goal threats, and Al-jazeera had managed to convert half of them he wouldn’t be blamed for poor anticipation or for being beaten in one-on-one situations. It’s a ‘risky’ strategy for perception but it’s a very calculated risk if you look at it.

It’s like Grobbelaar in the 80’s, he’d come 12 or 15 yards for crosses, catch 90% of them, and turn 10 dangerous situations into 1 calamitous **** up. It’s just that you always remember the **** up, not the 9 chances that never happened as a result.

It’s the trouble with being a goalkeeper; you start with zero, the ‘for’ tally never goes up but make a mistake and the ‘against’ usually does.

Their goalkeeper is going to get found out sooner or later with the kamakazi outside the box stuff

He does have a touch of the Barthez about him. Who was a bloody liability with his constant legging it up to the half way line!

But Neuerlooks like theres some purpose to his forays forward, as opposed to Fabian, who just fancied a bit of a jog about, as he was bored. Then forgot where he was and got all disorientated

Neuer was Ze Germin’s main attacking force last night. 🙂

Oh and a little 😆 when I recall Hoddle’s “…the thing about Al Jazeera…” and his rescue attempt.

Seriously though, I thought Neuer was the reason Germany won last night. They may well have been dead and buried at the end of the first half without him. Perhaps the two best players last night were the keepers. I’ll miss the Al Jazeera keeper and his facial expressions after yet another close call. He was fantastic.

Agreed Bravissimo. Both keepers had a blinder last night. When you looked at the shots on goal, it was absolutely bloody amazing that the score stayed 0 -0 for as long as it did.

With 2 less able keepers, god knows what the score would have been. The Al Jazeera keeper made some unreal reflex saves!

one could say that if al jezeera had better strikers they would’ve scored.

oooo..its a bit spicy over at swiss camp…hmm the argies havent woken up yet

On the one hand it would be funny for Swiss to win, on the other, I really want to see Arg v Bra.

That should have been 1-0 to the Swiss.

arghhh own up who swapped his boots????

the swiss have started with purpose again.. i suspect the argie keeper is trying to impress with his nba skills

So I missed the first half – did I miss much?

I thought the first half was alright, but Alan Hansen said it was rubbish.

At some point Messi will win it for Argentina.

Di Maria has indicated he would like to leave Real Madrid.

After this game, I’m not sure anyone will want him, as he is in the process of being broken.

At some point Messi will win it for Argentina.

88 minute 35 yard left foot strike in the top corner.

Interesting that the Argentinian swears at the Swiss in English.

i reckon a penalty for argies as maria falls over his left boot

While we are waiting for Messi to score, here is some light entertainment in the form of the current FIFA rankings…

Anyone else that’d be a red card…