The Official Football/Soccer Thread: 2017-2018 Season
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Four red cards
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unclesox:
I think Portugal can take England easily. Holland, I'm not so sure.
No Deco, no Costinha, CRonaldo is injured... England, you lucky b*st****.
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Oh well Holland are out.
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Yeaaah!
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PREDICTIONS Portugal 1-0 Netherlands 4 Denny Wingman / Portugal - Netherlands 1:0 1 Rocío Record / Portugal 2 - Holanda 1 1 Svenn / Portugal 2 - Netherlands 1 1 unclesox / Portugal 2-0 Netherlands 0 superbet / Portugal - Netherlands 0-1 0 Andrea1 / Portugal 1- Netherlands 2 0 Daniel / Portugal 1-2 Netherlands 0 Here&Everywhere / Portugal - Netherlands: 1-2 0 Pawel / Portugal -v- Netherlands 2:3 0 Jackie / Portugal - Netherlands 0-2 0 Sergeant_Pepper / Portugal - Netherlands 0-2 0 silver moondog / Portugal - Netherlands 0:2 0 audrey / Portugal - Netherlands 1-3 0 Lonely Driver / Portugal 1 - Holanda 1 0 Love Sculpture / Portugal 1 - Holanda 1 (extra time 0 x0) (penalty kicks Portugal wins) UPDATED STANDINGS 8 Pawel 8 superbet 7 Denny Wingman 5 audrey 5 silver moondog 4 Rocío Record 4 Svenn 4 unclesox 3 Andrea1 3 Daniel 3 Jackie 3 Lonely Driver 3 Sergeant_Pepper 2 Here&Everywhere 2 marco76 1 Love Sculpture Monday's schedule: Italy - Australia Switzerland - Ukraine
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unclesox:
unclesox:
I think Portugal can take England easily. Holland, I'm not so sure.
No Deco, no Costinha, CRonaldo is injured... England, you lucky b*st****.
To beat England we don't need our best team!!!
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Ern:
unclesox:
unclesox:
I think Portugal can take England easily. Holland, I'm not so sure.
No Deco, no Costinha, CRonaldo is injured... England, you lucky b*st****.
To beat England we don't need our best team!!!
bravo portugal congrat
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This had nothing to do with soccer!!!! I said this about 10 years ago, please!!!!!!! use referees from Norway, Denmark, Chech Republic, Belgium, but this is pathethic!!!! Ok, The portugese won, but please plaese please this was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!! I´m not saying Holland should have won, but the Referee shall have to be send to Siberia! How can you give a yellow card to Figo, this was so darkred!
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Man, I´m so sick of it!!
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Elizondo rocks! (our referee)
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Lonely Driver:
This had nothing to do with soccer!!!! I said this about 10 years ago, please!!!!!!! use referees from Norway, Denmark, Chech Republic, Belgium, but this is pathethic!!!! Ok, The portugese won, but please plaese please this was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!! I´m not saying Holland should have won, but the Referee shall have to be send to Siberia! How can you give a yellow card to Figo, this was so darkred!
I actually rated Ivanov highly before tonight. One of my favorites along with Merk, who's come under the gun as well these past couple of weeks. But I don't just blame them because the whole tournament has seen a lot of cards that I felt could've just gone as strong verbal warnings. I think FIFA has told the refs to crack down on... well, on physical contact by the looks of things.
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As a Barcelona fan, this is my favorite image of the competition so far... Gio van Bronckhorst (Holland) and Deco (Portugal) Both sent off, yet friends enough to sit together and discuss the whole situation. They look like little kids almost. I hope they exchanged shirts afterwards.
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unclesox:
As a Barcelona fan, this is my favorite image of the competition so far... Gio van Bronckhorst (Holland) and Deco (Portugal) Both sent off, yet friends enough to sit together and discuss the whole situation. They look like little kids almost. I hope they exchanged shirts afterwards.
wow, boardies could actually learn something from soccer
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I'd like to switch my prediction for Switzerland - Ukraine around: 2-1 for Switzerland. The rest stays the same!
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Lonely Driver:
This had nothing to do with soccer!!!! I said this about 10 years ago, please!!!!!!! use referees from Norway, Denmark, Chech Republic, Belgium, but this is pathethic!!!! Ok, The portugese won, but please plaese please this was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!! I´m not saying Holland should have won, but the Referee shall have to be send to Siberia! How can you give a yellow card to Figo, this was so darkred!
Yeah, and I ask you how on earth the twat that injured Ronaldo stayed on the pitch? He should have been sent off!
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STANDINGS:
8 Pawel 8 superbet 7 Denny Wingman 5 audrey 5 silver moondog 4 Rocío Record 4 Svenn 4 unclesox 3 Andrea1 3 Daniel 3 Jackie 3 Lonely Driver 3 Sergeant_Pepper 2 Here&Everywhere 2 marco76 1 Love Sculpture Monday's schedule: Italy - Australia Switzerland - Ukraine
From those I've listed in the standings, only missing Monday predictions from: marco76 Pawel (need Suisse-Ukraine) Svenn Invitation still open to anyone who'd like in. Also want to let everyone know that we'll also predict the dreaded consolation game as well (playoff for 3rd place between semi-final losers ).
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Italy 1 - 0 Australia Switzerland 2 - 0 Ukraine
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Here are the remaining predictions for Pawel for today's and tomorrow's games:
Pawel:
My preds for 1/8 Finals 26 Jun 17:00 in Kaiserslautern Italy -v- Australia 3:1
Switzerland - Ukraine 0:2
Pawel:
------------------------------------------- 27 Jun 17:00 in Dortmund Brazil -v- Ghana 2:1
Spain - France 3-1
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unclesox:
Lonely Driver:
This had nothing to do with soccer!!!! I said this about 10 years ago, please!!!!!!! use referees from Norway, Denmark, Chech Republic, Belgium, but this is pathethic!!!! Ok, The portugese won, but please plaese please this was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!! I´m not saying Holland should have won, but the Referee shall have to be send to Siberia! How can you give a yellow card to Figo, this was so darkred!
I actually rated Ivanov highly before tonight. One of my favorites along with Merk, who's come under the gun as well these past couple of weeks. But I don't just blame them because the whole tournament has seen a lot of cards that I felt could've just gone as strong verbal warnings. I think FIFA has told the refs to crack down on... well, on physical contact by the looks of things.
I watched the full match again, this time without the distractions of the internet. ops: I feel that the ref was at fault for not issuing a red card to Boulahrouz for his high foul on Ronaldo, which ultimately forced him to be subbed. From the point of that foul, which only received a yellow, and even more so when Ronaldo went off, the Portuguese were out for revenge. Another play that provided a spark happened in the second half. With Ricardo down injured, Deco continued to advance the ball forward. Whether he did this intentionally to take advantage of the Dutch team, many of whom relaxed, I can't say, but Ivanov eventually whistled play dead, which is custom whenever a keeper is down injured. Once Ricardo was tended to, play restarted with a drop ball, and I think it was van Persie (not sure) who won the ball and the Dutch attacked while the Portuguese defense were relaxed. Why were they relaxed? They were probably waiting for the Dutch to give the ball back to them since they had possession when play was initially halted. What Holland did went against the unwritten rules of "fair play", so Portugal likely figured that if this was how Holland wanted to play, then game on. We can sit here and blame the ref for all the cards, but it's the players who are ultimately responsible for their conduct on the pitch. And if they can't control themselves, the ref has a job to do. And looking at all the cards issued, I really don't have much argument in any of them. Ricardo's booking for timewasting is tough to judge because the international feed was replaying an earlier incident when the card was issued. But I don't fault Ivanov as much as I did yesterday apart from not sending off Boulahrouz early on, which I, again, felt started the whole mess. A red would've told the players right away that no nonsense would be accepted. Instead, all hell broke loose. In the end, thank goodness extra-time wasn't required because the match probably would've been abandoned due to lack of required number of players on the pitch. (8 the minimum allowed)
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Go Australia! Gotta admire players who don't make a career of whining like babies every time they fall over - but rather gets up and keeps going as quickly as possible.