World Cup 2010 South Africa

Sicblades said:
Hasn't the octopus only been wrong once or {"Sumthin" has dialectized me into moron-speek! HELP!}'?
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Twice, but only if you include the Euro 2008 tournament, where it wrongly predicted the group-stage match against Croatia and the final game against Spain.

Actually, its predilection for choosing Germany could mean there's an inherent bias to the experiment.

GreyViper said:
Maybe redeem is strong word, but if I were in their shoes id want to prove that I can play better that that game went. There is a lot of mention that Spain played a good game. Yes they did, but I didnt think it was fantastic. But what I found bit baffling was how Germans couldnt get the game running, yes there was this one shorth period but that was it. And germany did theyr backround check they would know that Spain exceld in the type of game that was played.
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The Germans were playing a counter-attacking tactic, which probably would've worked had they had a bit more luck or Muller for this match. Even though as you say the Spanish are really good at the type of game they played, Spain still scored only once, and from a corner no less, not from open play. Germany's tactic was to prevent Spain from scoring and then hit them on the counter-attack, and there were quite a few moments where they looked like breaking away. Had they had one such moment, this game could've turned out very differently.
 
Does anyone really care who comes 3rd or 4th in the world cup…why does FIFA even bother. Who remembers the 3rd place getter in 1958 – it was France by the way… and Jesus the modern trophy looks like shit – who designed it…the original design, though rather small was nevertheless beautiful.

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.Pixote. said:
Does anyone really care who comes 3rd or 4th in the world cup…
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those who like soccer ?

anyway. Its over soon enough anyway. I think it was with many teams a weak cup. But we have seen a few very nice games as well.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZcxER8qDig[/youtube]
 
Holy shit that was a terrible game. Shitty defense all over the place, disinterested play was the rule

Typical 3rd place match

All-European Podium!
Again!
UEFA dominates the World Cup!
AGAIN!
 
Brother None said:
Holy shit that was a terrible game. Shitty defense all over the place, disinterested play was the rule
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It was a very open game but i didn't find it terrible nor disinterested. :shrug:

Brother None said:
UEFA dominates the World Cup!
AGAIN!
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Yeah, football it's a matter of Europe and South America, and given that there are double the top-tier teams in one than in the other in every world cup, well...
 
well thats where most of the money is.

Also what do you want. The Neverlands are in the finals. And there is a good chance that they will get the second place :D
 
The first match that i decided to watch in this world cup and what do you know..... Spain wins.....

I just hate Spain! Not because of reasonable cause, i'm just envious of their success on Basketball and Football courts. They are seeing too many medals in the past 10 years, somebody should put them down :twisted:
 
@AskWazzup

It was their first podium ever, up to today Spain was "cursed" in the world cup, 4th place ~50 years ago being their greatest trophy. Now they have the best generation of Spanish players so IMO they won deservedly
 
Spain owns soccer now. To get the euro cup and then the next world cup is just bad ass. The game was pretty ugly though.
 
maximaz said:
Spain owns soccer now. To get the euro cup and then the next world cup is just bad ass. The game was pretty ugly though.
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So what... we did the same in '72 and '74. :mrgreen:
 
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