The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => Just for Fun => Topic started by: ZeroVega on June 11, 2006, 10:01:46 AM
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Right so, the World Cup has been going on for THREE days already, and given the sheer magnitude of the event, it blows my mind that no one has made a thread about it! Probably half of our player base is from countries other than the US; and while the US isn't very gung-ho on soccer (football) I seem to recall the rest of the world being nuts about it. So let's recap.
Germany 4 - Costa Rica 2 England 1 - Paraguay 0 Trinadad and Tobago 0 - Sweeden 0 Argentina 2 - Ivory Coast 1 Netherlands 1 - Serbia-Montenegro 0 Ecuador 2 - Poland 0
Right so I think everyone expected Germany to win their first game, but what a high scoring game it was! Wowzer! (Thank you Doc.) Englad beat Paraguay, again I think it was expected but this one seemed to be a little LOW scoring. T&T tied Sweeden?! Sheesh, first the Cav's almost upset the Pistons and now this? Argentina wins over the Ivory Coast. Again, I think this was expected. Netherlands win over Serbia-Montenegro. I expected this only because I didn't know much about S&M, but to be honest I think the Netherlands sort of "stopped" playing hard after the first half. And last, Ecuador beats Poland. Can I say wow? Who expected this? Anyone? Not me!
So yeah, make your predictions on games! Start a poll! Criticize me analysis! One... two... three... go!
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Hey, I know a lot about S&M... Then again, I know nothing about World Football.
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Everywhere where I take a walk I see german flags *grins* Hmm, wonder why?
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Trinadad and Tobago 0 - Sweden 0
I'm not from Sweden! Nope! I don't even know that country!
*hides*
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Well I am Italian so I'm rooting for my home team, since Canada didn't qualify....GO ITALIA!
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I'm not really a soccer fan... more of a rugby fan, although I do play hockey, but that's boring to watch, and seeing as our soccer/football team is too horrible at the sport to qualify for the world cup, I'm rooting for trinadad and tobago! (and no, I don't have a clue where that is :) )
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To Mr. Schmack: It's in the Carribean... duuuur!
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Trinadad and Tobago is slightly Northeast of Venesuela, if my rememberance is proper.
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The German offense looked nice in the first match, but their defence was almost non-existing. That 4-line back-chain was in serious trouble. It is the host nation, so I expect them to get rather far - to the finals? We'll see... things will have to improve.
Sweden looks good. They somehow managed not to score even though they had ten 100% chances, but they'll get back on the track in the next game I think.
England - disappointing, I'll have to say.
Argentina looked terrifying in the qualifying matches, but that last match did not convince me.
I hope that the teams improve as we get further into the matches, or I think we'll have Brazil on the top of the podium again.
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Harlas is right - the German offense was surprising good - but they looked vulnerable in defense. They are not a patch on the German sides of former years.
England - well Gods own (:P) always start off slow. First half was OK, but a dire second half.
I still hope and pray that they can get it together. On paper England have one of the best teams there. That said you can never write of Brazil, they can always produce incredible flair on top of a rock solid performance.
Oh and Trinidad and Tobago are two small islands north of Venezuela. Lets just say they are more cricket than Rugby. Fabulous country with some of the best scuba diving in the world.
As a final note, and anyone on the Eastern side of the Atlantic may well laugh as hard I did when I found this out. FIFA currently ranks the USA as the worlds fifth best team - maybe they are worth watching, it will wipe some grins off faces if they start knocking European or southern american countries out.
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Of all those results the Swedish tie is by far the most entertaining and surprising. :)
Poland disappointed me a bit, I expected more.
Argentina.... no comment...
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"....As a final note, and anyone on the Eastern side of the Atlantic may well laugh as hard I did when I found this out. FIFA currently ranks the USA as the worlds fifth best team - maybe they are worth watching, it will wipe some grins off faces if they start knocking European or southern american countries out....."
Hey now! :)
Go USA!!
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Yeah i heard that.. How can a Team be the 5th best in the world when you only play with yourself and Canada. Well I guess FIFA knows what their doing.. * grins *
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Harlas Ravelkione - 6/11/2006 10:34 PM The German offense looked nice in the first match, but their defence was almost non-existing. That 4-line back-chain was in serious trouble. It is the host nation, so I expect them to get rather far - to the finals? We'll see... things will have to improve. Sweden looks good. They somehow managed not to score even though they had ten 100% chances, but they'll get back on the track in the next game I think. England - disappointing, I'll have to say. Argentina looked terrifying in the qualifying matches, but that last match did not convince me. I hope that the teams improve as we get further into the matches, or I think we'll have Brazil on the top of the podium again.
I dont agree with Sweden, 0-0 in that math was awfull. they had a million chances and their were superior i numbers and didnt score. Also they just played 0-0 again. I feel this is the end for sweden.
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My predictions:
[TABLE=head;sort=1a,2,3] Germany| 1| 1| Costa Rica|
Poland| 0| 1| Ecuador|
England| 2| 1| Paraguay|
Trinidad & Tobego| 1| 2| Sweden|
Argentina| 3| 1| Ivory Coast|
Servië & Montenegro| 2| 2| NETHERLANDS|
Mexico| 2| 0| Iran|
Angola| 0| 2| Portugal|
Australia| 1| 0| Japan|
USA| 0| 1| Czech Republic|
Italy| 3| 0| Ghana|
South Korea| 2| 0| Togo|
France| 2| 1| Switserland|
Brasil| 3| 0| Kroatië|
Spain| 2| 1| Ukraine|
Tunisia| 1| 1| Saudi Arabia|
Germany| 1| 0| Poland|
Ecuador| 1| 1| Costa Rica|
England| 3| 0| Trinidad & Tobego|
Sweden| 2| 0| Paraguay|
Argentina| 4| 0| Servië & Montenegro|
NETHERLANDS| 2| 1| Ivory Coast|
Mexico| 2| 0| Angola|
Portugal| 3| 1| Iran|
Czech Republic| 2| 0| Ghana|
Italy| 2| 1| USA|
Japan| 0| 2| Kroatië|
Brasil| 2| 1| Australia|
France| 2| 2| South Korea|
Togo| 0| 1| Switserland|
Saudi Arabia| 0| 1| Ukraine|
Spain| 3| 0| Tunisia|
Ecuador| 0| 2| Germany|
Costa Rica| 0| 2| Poland|
Sweden| 2| 2| England|
Paraguay| 2| 0| Trinidad & Tobego|
Portugal| 2| 1| Mexico|
Iran| 3| 3| Angola|
NETHERLANDS| 1| 3| Argentina|
Ivory Coast| 1| 2| Servië & Montenegro|
Czech Republic| 0| 1| Italy|
Ghana| 1| 4| USA|
Japan| 0| 3| Brasil|
Kroatië| 1| 1| Australia|
Saudi Arabia| 0| 2| Spain|
Ukraine| 2| 0| Tunisia|
Togo| 0| 3| France|
Switserland| 1| 2| South Korea|
[/TABLE]
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Heh ..best teams there are Brasil,England and Netherland.
Germany always grows in a tournament,seeing them win their first match may be the last thou *grins*
France will be hard to beat,so will be Spain and the Czech republic.
Dont have a clou why all think South-americans wont get far,Argentinia and Paraguay fought heroic battles in the Coppa libertador.(hope thats right=D)
All in all ...it's costing me playtime to watch it...so i wont...
AND THE WINNER IS.............LAYO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Portugal just won by 1 vs Angola... i must say i didn't really like the match, though :S
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The three best teams in the tourny are Brazil, then a distant second, Germany, and a close third Argentina. At least that's what all the experts are saying :P
Went to a bar where a whole bunch of Argentinians were gathered - thank goodness I happened to be wearing blue and white or I'd probably not be here to talk about it...heh
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Ive a feeling that Germany may surprise us all.
England 2 Sweden 2!
Are you insane! We will have Rooney by then.
LOL
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ED, Traitor! 3-1 for Argentine???
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Lord of the Forest - 6/11/2006 6:31 PM
Everywhere where I take a walk I see german flags *grins* Hmm, wonder why?
Your in Germany maybe? :)
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LordCove - 6/12/2006 12:08 AM
Ive a feeling that Germany may surprise us all.
England 2 Sweden 2!
Are you insane! We will have Rooney by then.
LOL
Will that be Mickey Roony then?
:)
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What ever anyone say , If ENGLAND plays well we will the the world cup .... My predicitions were going all the way this time
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Thats all the hype over here. Waiting for Mickey Rooney to come back from injury. I mean, what the hell do they think I man can do. Lets wait and see huh.
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Filatus - 6/12/2006 1:28 AM ED, Traitor! 3-1 for Argentine???
I'm afraid so.
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Just heard on the radio this morning, australia beat japan 3-1, I guess I can support them... they're kind of close to us... as long as we beat them in the rugby :D
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*sighs* I've lost all hope in United States international sports teams.
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It took you this long, ZV? America sucks.
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Hey! *starts singing "I'm Proud to Be an American"* We don't suck, as a matter of fact we have some of the best athletes in the world, we simply suck in international team sports. We're fine in single events though.
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*Pats ZV's head* Don't take it hard, it is only a game.
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Well, I don't think there are many countries who will be able to beat the Czech Republic, if they keep playing like this. The injury of Koller might set them back a bit though.
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Yeah, they've played really good.
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Dont forget! AUSTRALIA 3 JAPAN 1
GO AUSSIES! WORLD CUP DOMINATION!!!!!!!!!!
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Hehehe ...We dutch have four ways to win now ...three trainers with other countries and a national team of "superstars"
Not surpriced Ausies doing well ..got a dutch trainer ^_^
GoGoGoGo DUTCH!!!!!!
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Brazil vs Australia,
I expect this will be a high scoring game next week. With Brazil with most of the score. Australia will try to keep the ball in Brazils half while attacking the goal. While Brazil will have a lighting counter attack. Expect to see about 3 Brazilian goals from the counter attack and individual sprints of brilliance. Australia is also likely to score a goal from their set plays and offensive pressure, as the Brazillians are more about offense then defence.
Tip for Australia to do well. Need a perfect passing and coordinate offense, with no mistakes.
Realist tip:
Brazil 4 - 1
Ideal:
Brazil 0 - 1 (this ain't gonna happen)
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Luis Felipe Scolari, won the world cup with Brazil at 2002 (im Brazilian =D), now, we are out (thank you parrera, now you are the #1 enemy of the Brazilian people), well if 2002, we won with "Felipão" why cant Portugal win?! GOGOGO Portugal! =D
Until 2010, maybe Brazil champion 6 times =D
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Naw, it's gonna be Germany and France in the final. *sighs*
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Actually I'd like to see Germany in the finals, but I have a feeling that Italy might have a thing to say about that. They are very good and they do play more offensive this world cup.
But everything else than France as world champion. It must not happen!
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Well, now we really want to face Italy and beat them up, bit like payback right now ;)
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bah! all the interesting teams are out like Switzerland, Korea, Australia and all the other teams from small or unexperienced countries. And Denmark didnt even make it to the world cup! Anyway I did like to see Portugal win, though I doubt they will.
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I'd rather see Portugal leave the World Cup today than tomorrow.
Germany vs France is the perfect final. Who wins, I don't really care?
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When's the next game? Sry, I know I live in Germany but I don't care about soccer at all :P
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*coughs* Your country Lord of the Forest, plays Italy in three hours and 45 minutes. ;)
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Hmm nice, guess I will activate the live-ticker instead of watching ;)
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Portugal may yet surprise everyone and win vs France, they totally deserve it.
I didn't expect to see Brazil losing versus France, and the same when Germany won vs Argentina.
Oh and Ricardo rocks! GO PORTUGAL!
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Portugal may yet surprise everyone and win vs France, they totally deserve it.
Hardly :)
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I guess we'll see what happens today, then. :P
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....that last game was the most messed up catastophe I have ever seen... two goals in three minutes... the LAST three minutes of the game. *shakes his head* When your defense just gives up like that and puts it all on the goalie (keeper) they deserve to lose... GO FRANCE! (Never thought I'd say that.)
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ZeroVega - 7/5/2006 3:05 AM
....that last game was the most messed up catastophe I have ever seen... two goals in three minutes... the LAST three minutes of the game. *shakes his head* When your defense just gives up like that and puts it all on the goalie (keeper) they deserve to lose... GO FRANCE! (Never thought I'd say that.)
When you got 3 min to make a goal its everything or nothing simply.