FIFA World Cup 2006!!

James will need loads of that . England is a poor team, maybe even poorer than the Dutch team.

erik neuteboom wrote: How easy the Germans can get it?   Well, a few examples:   - The weakest poule and no early afternoon hot sun games - A mediocre opponent in the second round with a blundering defence - After half an hour the Swedish were eliminated to 10 men (red cart) - Sweden missed a penalty - The Swedish top forward players from Juventus (Ibrahimovic) and Barcelona   (Larsson) played like tired old men   The real tests will be games against Argentina and (if they remain so lucky) Italy and in the final against Brasil. But, I repeat, I will eat my shoes if the Germans are able to defeat Argentina, I cannot imagine

The swedish, were a strong team, which became quite unstable. The Germans had an amzing tactic in the beginning, which simply destroyed the whole defence system, 2 goals must have fallen until the swedisch changed it.

Argentinia playes really bad at the moment and in their own half they can be defeated very easily. If the passes of the Mexicans have been better thought they probably would have shot more goals.

So Germany is a strong team, much better than before the world cup, with the ability to alienate their opponents and with a good tactic management, which is able to beat the opponents policy.

BebieM wrote: Wow, Erik. I can't imagine how much you must hate Germans to give such an opinion about (maybe) the strongest performance of any team in this world cup. Klose the best player of this world cup? Probably.

Not really, Klose sucks at passing over long distances and is yet a bit weaker in finish, the pass yesterday was nothing really amazing...he watched podolski running and played it to him with his heel.
    
    

Edited by W.Chuck - June 25 2006 at 06:34

I thought last night's game between Mexico & Argentina was one of the best games I've seen so far in this year's World Cup.  Yes, Argentina did not play as well as they perhaps should have, but the goal by Maxi in overtime was one of the most incredible I've ever seen.  It was a very exciting match indeed.

^ You forgot "We were sh*t!"

Oh,Tony,what passion. 

I want Ecuador to make a surprise today and a lesson of football.

Tony R wrote: Tony R wrote: We are hopeless. I prefer not to use bad language you evil Welsh.....

My bad. I missed that you'd already said that.




Edited by Snow Dog - June 25 2006 at 10:04

Tony R wrote: Ricochet wrote: I want Ecuador to make a surprise today and a lesson of football. Well I bloody well dont!

Speaking as a Welshman. I want Eng - er - land to..............























...win of course!

That's strange,don't think I know any Ecuadorian name on this forum. 

Maybe they know they'll win...

Logos wrote: mystic fred wrote: Very exciting game from Argentina and Mexico last night - Argentina  kept the Mexican goalkeeper very busy indeed - 26 shots at goal apparently! So you didn't watch the game? 26 shots?!? Official statistics say 5 shots on goal.

Edited by mystic fred - June 25 2006 at 10:28

Absolute rubbish-both teams!!!

Where's the skill,the art,the craft and guile?