<p>Ah…Zidane has faded…remember Cantona back in '92…he faded about the time Zidane was brought on. In past successful French teams they focused around one player…in '98 it was Zidane…'92 it was Cantona. No one to really focus on…you have two vets: Henry and Zidane…and then Trezequet, who has yet to prove himself.</p>
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<p>corrected.</p>
<p>Holy ****, now this is a world cup match! hahahahahah</p>
<p>but netherlands may be taking the whole:
“won’t go down without a fight” too seriously</p>
<p>*** is ruud doing on the BENCH! Did you see the chances they had? Off the posts, couldn’t toe that was pure bull. I want to see that head coach sacked. Goddamn it I now need to make a transfer on my fantasy team.</p>
<p>woohooo!!! go portugal!!!</p>
<p>^Yeah I had ruud in my fantasy too but I had ricardo also so I got a load of points with his saves haha</p>
<p>I got Totti instead of Ruud now. Totti and Shevchnko as strickers. Zidane, Riquelme, Beckham, Ballack in the midfield. Lahm, Cafu, Nesta, Roberto Carlos in defense and Robinson as the GK.</p>
<p>Germany 2-0 Sweden
[indent][indent][indent]Argentina 3-2 Germany[/indent][/indent][/indent]
Argentina 2-1 Mexico
[indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent]Argentina 2-1 Australia[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
Australia 2-1 Italy
[indent][indent][indent]Australia 2-0 Switzerland[/indent][/indent][/indent]
Switzerland 4-0 Ukraine
[indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent]Brazil 1-0 Argentina[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
England 1-0 Ecuador
[indent][indent][indent]Portugal 1-0 England[/indent][/indent][/indent]
Portugal 1-0 Holland
[indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent]Brazil 2-0 Portugal[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
Brazil 1-0 Ghana
[indent][indent][indent]Brazil 1-0 Spain[/indent][/indent][/indent]
Spain 3-1 France</p>
<p>kman1456 is wrong to think Australia will beat Italy, and how is it that you say that Brazil will bearly be able to beat Ghana by 1-0 and yet win the world cup.</p>
<p>I’m not sure Portugal will be able to beat England because they will be missing two starters from red cards against the Netherlands. But on the other hand, England hasn’t exactly played up to its potential yet.</p>
<p>haha, mahras…holland should sack van basten and use rijkard as the new coach in 2010…***en ridiculous. Benching Ruud, not selecting Huntelaar to the team. Kuyt is my boy and all…but he just doesnt fit into Hollands style.</p>
<p>I’m pulling for Germany from here on out…they’re solid.</p>
<p>What was with the benching of van Nistelrooy? He would’ve buried the chances that ugly git Kuyt shamefully missed in the last 10 minutes. Whatever. The Dutch were playing so dirty anyway so I’m glad they lost, though the Portuguese were no angels either.</p>
<p>And the Dutch didn’t return the ball after play was stopped to accomodate the fallen Portuguese player. Inexcusable.</p>
<p>Haha or when deco was stalling for a moment because he didn’t agree with a decision and cocu threw him down and deco was the only one to get booked</p>
<p>Wow intense game. I watched the first 30min, watched my poor ronaldo cry, and was forced to go to school. And then i heard about the best-match-ever match at school.</p>
<p>I’m glad Portugal won. Both teams were playing dirty but I’d say that Portugal was the more excusable team.
I think England will win against portugal. In addition to the 2 missing starters, England played pretty decently against ecuador. And I’m pretty sure that Lampard will SCORE next time lol. I kinda feel bad for the guy…
I’m not sure if Ronaldo’s injury will allow him to play or not…</p>
<p>Wow I just saw the italian match and that final penalty was sooo bogus though… that felt like hierarchy in action… “italy needs to win, grosso is in penalty box -> falls -> penalty for italy to win”…</p>
<p>AAHHHHHH</p>
<p>*<strong><em>ING ■■■■■ WEAK ITALIAN *</em></strong>S.</p>
<p>Lets all “trip” over a body and make a big fuss out of it. Did you guys notice how much howled in “pain” after purposely and weakly running into someone?</p>
<p>If you’re willing to cheat to win, no wonder there are all these random corruption and matchfixin scandals all the time.</p>
<p>Maybe we should all learn to cheat and dive and cry.</p>
<p>Where the hell is that baldie ref? The one who isn’t blind or clinically insane like the rest of them.</p>
<p>wow the Aussies got ROBBED…I hope Switzerland (or Ukraine) just thrashes Italy in the next round…piece of **** Italian pussies.</p>
<p>The bald Italian ref retired recently, he was approaching 50. It has been a disgraceful WC ref wise. But you know what? It won’t change till there’s empty seats in the stands. That’ll never happen. So we’re stuck with refs who can’t handle the level of play.</p>
<p>I blame it on that fat fifa guy. You know- that fat president guy- blabber isn’t it? All he cares about is power and money.</p>