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Argentina got lucky but a couple of gorgeous goals.
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I was thinking that the quota of miracles for this WC was about over, until Argentina pulled the rabbit out of the hat!

Should be an interesting game, but I would not be surprised to see Argentina pull another rabbit and take France out Saturday!
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GERMANY OUT!!! Shocked
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SWEDEN IS INN
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If Germany is out...
If Sweden is in...

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Then...

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WHERE IS THE BALL??? Confused
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Damn, I love football. 
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How fantastic was that! I was watching both games at the same time on two big screens in the office. Mexican fans going through torment ignoring their own game and tracking Germany-South Korea on their phones. Germany shock and despair. Neuer thinking he's a center forward, Meuller looking all pouty at the end & we've still got 2 more games today!
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Germany...never saw that coming.
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Yeah... Gary Lineker has to alter his famous saying once again.
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Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Yeah... Gary Lineker has to alter his famous saying once again.


The way the whole tournament is drawn needs some serious re-examination methinks. The scenario for Belgium v England is that the losers may actually have an easier tie in the round of 16 i.e. the team that tops Group G could face the winner of Brazil v Mexico rather than Colombia, Japan or Senegal. It only goes to show that the group seeding has suffered a disastrous harvest and that the sooner they return to good ol' fashioned 'random' selection AFTER all the group qualifiers have been decided, the better. The whole point of sport is that you really don't need to incentivize winning ffs. Trying to engineer the 'big teams' being kept apart until the latter stages is the most insidious form of corruption and only benefits the respective federations, advertisers, sponsors and the cash whore that is FIFA itself. This World Cup has been exciting and enjoyable for the fans and viewers IN SPITE of everything the corporate stakeholders have striven to ensure DOES NOT happen.
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The trouble with randomized is you could end up with a team getting 5 days rest playing one with zero days rest.

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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

The trouble with randomized is you could end up with a team getting 5 days rest playing one with zero days rest.


'Zero days rest' is playing two games on one day? That's clearly a scheduling issue - not sure what you mean by this? - just wait till all the group games are completed and then draw the knockout phase with no seeding


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GERMANY OUT!!! Shocked



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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

The trouble with randomized is you could end up with a team getting 5 days rest playing one with zero days rest.


'Zero days rest' is playing two games on one day? That's clearly a scheduling issue - not sure what you mean by this? - just wait till all the group games are completed and then draw the knockout phase with no seeding

By zero days I mean they play the next day, i.e. no rest days between games. Let's look at the most extreme example from this WC. Last group game is today, first knock-out game is Saturday. So the worst would be one days rest. So lets assume Belgium draw Uruguay in the random knock-out round and are up in the first game. Belgium get one days rest Uruguay get 4 days rest. This is not fair on Belgium.


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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

The trouble with randomized is you could end up with a team getting 5 days rest playing one with zero days rest.


'Zero days rest' is playing two games on one day? That's clearly a scheduling issue - not sure what you mean by this? - just wait till all the group games are completed and then draw the knockout phase with no seeding

By zero days I mean they play the next day, i.e. no rest days between games. Let's look at the most extreme example from this WC. Last group game is today, first knock-out game is Saturday. So the worst would be one days rest. So lets assume Belgium draw Uruguay in the random knock-out round and are up in the first game. Belgium get one days rest Uruguay get 4 days rest. This is not fair on Belgium.


Like I stated before, it's a scheduling issue (solved by playing the last round of group games all on the same day). We both know the reason why FIFA don't want all the group fixtures rounds played on the same day. A 48 team WC will only camouflage this egregious expediency even more.


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With pretty much a full B' squad team for England & Belguim match today,  England were on the back foot here..  Though England will have the better draw in the knock out stages.  

Belgium 1 - 0 England 
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Originally posted by noni noni wrote:

With pretty much a full B' squad team for England & Belguim match today,  England were on the back foot here..  Though England will have the better draw in the knock out stages.  

Belgium 1 - 0 England 


I'm still haunted by the footage of Japan not even trying to equalise v Poland in their final group match (for fear of getting more yellow/red cards than Senegal) yet they progress under the fair play rules? The irony is hideous.
Colombia have not impressed me so far (they took 3 off a wretched Polish side) so I believe England have nothing to fear. Can't the Russians just deport Diego Maradona under the pretext of reducing their toxic emissions?
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Belgium 3 v 2 Japan

Orientals experiencing the sharp end of karma is somehow quite apt. However, you don't need spiritual cause and effect or Senegalese voodoo to tell you that pushing too many men forward for a corner kick is going to end badly.


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Fantastic finish by the Belgians, gorgeous team goal.
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