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The battle for 2nd place in Group A will be between Mexico and Croatia. I can see that maybe going down to the wire. Croatia played excellently against Brazil, so I wouldn't rule them out just yet. Btw, Mandzukic will make his return against Cameroon.
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I'm sorry, but I had little to no confidence beforehand and now my fears have been confirmed. |
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Okay, the Chile-Australia match is underway right now so can't wait to see who scores that first goal. |
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5-1 for the Netherlands! Proud on my country! Beautiful goals, especially van Persie's dolphindive.
Did not expect this, I actually thought Spain was going to win with 3-1. |
I heard over the commentary that Australia's track record against Chile isn't all that great, so this may be very intense especially if Australia even manage to score. Still 0-0 at the time I was posting this.
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If you think Australia will get anywhere near getting through that group you're kidding yourself. Australia would probably get relegated from the Championship and they're up against 3 possible contenders.
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And Chile scores the first goal! It's 1-0 to the Chileans. |
Well it's 1-0 to Chile. The defense by Australia was terrible.
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I'll eat my own genitals if Australia get through that group #nochance
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Welp. The fight lasted 11 minutes XD |
It's 2-0 to Chile!
I do have a gut feeling they're gonna run away with this one now. |
Yeah, that's...a really nice back to back there, Chile are on fire.
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And now it's 2-0 Chile! The Australians look beaten already.
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Can Chile finish first in the group? Their next two matches will be interesting.
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P. S Chile for dark horse |
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I still say it'll be Spain and the Netherlands through to the second round, though I am curious as to how Chile will do against them in their matchups.
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Thing is, the Aussies have 2 players that play in League one and 1 that plays in the Championship. They are just outclassed here.
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Even if Spain crash out here, their next generation will be good too so there's a positive.
I bet Australia would be winning this if they had the glorious Rhys Williams. lol jk |
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Edit: Australia finally scores! And as I expected it was Cahill who scored. It's now 2-1 to Chile. |
And Australia have a goal! Chile 2-1 Australia!
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Straya showing some heart. Fantastic.
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Hahahaha. What's going on. How did that happen XD
Wow Cahill. Wow Chile. |
A sudden spark from Australia now. Things might actually get interesting. This is the spirit that Australia needs.
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Two great headers today. |
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Looks like Franjic for Australia might be injured. Might have to bring on a sub.
EDIT: AND A GOAL F-- oh damn.... disallowed. |
Cahill is still such a tank. This match is so fun.
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I can just feel the frustration with that most recent one.
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The amount cahill heads the ball I'm surprised he can still walk straight. He must have a head of steel.
Does he take penalties with his head too? I'd love to see it |
Oh my god. Oh my god. What is going on XD
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I kinda really wanna root for Australia right now, they're making some fantastic plays.
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Nice match we have here. Australia is basically Cahill and Bresciano, but they're fighting well.
EDIT: Vidal, he mad. |
Very nearly 3-1 to Chile. Cleared just off the line by Australia.
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Okay. So Australia is still most likely going to be unceremoniously dumped off in the group stages but this has been truly remarkable.
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Chile now leads 3-1, there's pretty much no chance of a comeback now.
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Welp.
It was a good effort from Australia, I actually think the teams were mostly even, but Chile did a better job at closing. |
Well, Chile have the 3 points. 3-1 Chile now. Fireworks were heard also.
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So nearly put a Sanchez 3-1 scorecast before the game, kicking myself now.
Good effort Aussies, but it can only get worse from here on in unfortunately. |
I think I have lost faith in the Australians now, guess I might lean my support towards the Netherlands from here on following their amazing thrashing of Spain. Australia's performance in the loss to Chile was so abysmal.
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The Aussies fought well there. Chile is a nice team and will be a challenge for both the Dutch and the Spaniards.
England vs Italy tomorrow, looking forward to it. England brought a lot of youngsters and I want to see how they will do in such a competition. But Andrea Pirlo makes me root for Italy. (Too bad Zlatan is not in the World Cup, but it was either us or him.) |
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We haven't done anything good against them for a long time and they have only been getting stronger in the last few years. As for the Dutch, we have beat them in our last matches and their defense doesn't seem half as good as Germany's to me. Also, I believe that the surprise this year will be Belgium. They have a really nice squad and will certainly do well, and I will have my attention on them. |
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Consider then a spat of injuries (Kruse, Rogic, Kennady), retirements, and a rather new coach (because ours was truly poor, kinda lucky we qualified tbh with him!) and a very young team... to not be embarrassed is really a good result for us, realistically speaking. While the end scoreline suggests that it was a comfortable win, it was a much closer match and we gave them a run for their money. Their third goal at the end was rather like Brazil's against Croatia - a late finisher helped by us pushing forward trying to find the equaliser, that's always a risk Poor start with the defense - personally not much we could do with the first, the second though our defense was shellshocked and both of our CBs went to their left leaving that player open. After that they did a better job - excellent scrambling by Wilkinson with that goalline clearance. We put pressure on them, had some nice crosses, and Cahill did what he does best. Our CDMs did decently as well. Oar was kinda disappointing for me, and Leckie was hot and cold. Pity about Franjic, I doubt he'll play in the next game and we only have the one other true RB player now. Anyways, I expected a loss, and disappointed we did, and the first part of the game was bad. But we got back into it, and I'd say we can hold our head high with how we played overall. Onto the next match, and more so the future of the team, it looks better than it did a year ago. |
Oar was terrible, Leckie seems like one of those players who have all the speed and dribbling ability he needs but no end product or decision making. Players like that are annoying to watch sometimes. I think the young generation is a bit of a worry with bresciano and cahill being the best players by far last night. But that's all based off one game so maybe I'm dooming them too soon.
Four games before I sleep again (since ivory coast play Japan at 2am so I can't really say today), it should be fun. |
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I'd agree with you on Leckie as well, needs to think more (although he had some neat runs and a great cross for our disallowed goal). Kruse probably would have started if fit though, and Rogic has potential but given his run this last year... hmm, he needs to stop being injured so much, he's a worry with that. Two CDMs have some years in them as well, one which is our captain, and I think we're golden with our goalkeeper too. I think we need some more talent up front most of all in terms of future, Cahill won't be around forever. Going to bed before the first match today at 2am here (sigh), but will wake up for at least the two latter matches. Always replays as well. |
I expect my will to stay up for the Ivory Coast vs Japan game will rely heavily on the England result. Well, I'll probably watch it whatever happens but I'd enjoy it a lot more if we haven't been beaten.
Leckie has a very good goal and assist return rate in the German second division, perhaps he was just a bit nervous. Well, nerves and the fact he was playing at a much higher level. Turns out the McCormack bid was from Derby, not Norwich. Could still see us being involved with this one though. |
Some of the sky reporters were saying Fulham were in for mccormack, I wouldn't be surprised if Norwich did bid eventually. Maybe send becchio back in part exchange.
Horrible goal to concede there. |
Good celebration though.
That could certainly happen as Becchio doesn't seem to be in Adams' plans. Bit of a shame hes career with us never took off, he wouldn't have done worse than our first team forwards last season I'm sure. Wonder where Samaras will end up, not in a bad shop window here. |
I could see Samaras going for a big payday at somewhere like QPR.
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Wow. We thought the appointment of Neil Adams was underwhelming. |
Well, Greece were poor this afternoon. Colombia 3-0 Greece, but Greece were unlucky not to get that header goal.
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I had similar thoughts about that wba appointment. To be fair though even though Sherwood would've seemed exciting, there'd be little guarantee he would be any better.
Uruguay haven't been great so far, fairly promising for us. |
Well, only 1 goal for Uruguay against Costa Rica. And it was from a penalty.
EDIT: A goal for Costa Rica!!! 2nd EDIT: COSTA RICA LEADING 2-1!!! YES!!! 3rd EDIT: THIS IS A BIG UPSET! COSTA RICA LEADING 3-1!!! |
Holy ♥♥♥♥, is this real life?
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Things really got away from Uruguay pretty fast there. I like some of the saves I'm seeing from Navas and Campbell's been making good decisions out there.
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Uruguay 1-3 Costa Rica. Spain 1-5 Netherlands.
Already a better world cup than the 2010 edition. |
Ouch! Pereira makes a silly mistake and gets himself and his team into some big trouble.
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What a game this was. I really love seeing the underdog beat the better team.
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Okay to expand on my half term impression - very promising for us now.
Of course we now have to do a job against Italy which I'm pessimistic about. Two inexperienced defenders though. |
I would have picked Lallana ahead of Sterling because I like the balance when he's in the side but I guess we're going to be going for the counter punch.
That Gerrard in the BBC titles gets me every time. |
Well the England vs Italy match is the first one I am interested in watching. Course am undecided who I want to win since I will be rooting for both sides. I figure it will be a good match.
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Such a tense half, not good for the blood pressure.
Bit more defensively solid and we can take this. |
Andrea Pirlo = Pure class. What a great player.
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Well that was a nice match. Italy did quite well. Course England also did well. Final score Italy 2 England 1. Next match I will be watching will be on Monday. The match I will watch on Monday will be the US vs. Ghana match since I will be unable to watch the Germany vs Portugal match earlier that day.
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I can't believe Hodgson's substitutes. Lambert would've done well against Paletta who seemed weak on crosses. No we bring on Wilshere who has always flattered to deceive for club and country.
Oh well we always expected 0 points here so on to the next one. |
This was the match I've enjoyed the most so far. Well played by both teams and great effort. I was impressed by the English's youth (mainly Sterling. Sturridge and Barkley did a nice match too) and Italy, aside from an always-amazing-Pirlo-that-just-did-whatever-he-wanted-through-the-whole-match, had a really good performance from both Candreva and Darmian. I knew almost nothing about those two, and was surprised.
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I might see Costa Rica play well against both Italy and England. These could be the REAL surprise package, given the upset earlier.
England were abysmal. Rooney seems good for Man United, but terrible for England. I could see them beat Uruguay, but I can't see them beating Costa Rica, sorry. |
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Narrowly lost to an Italy side that would not have complained if it were a 2 - 2 draw. Rooney is good for United because he plays in his best positions (number 10 and number 9), not on the wing. Going forward we looked pretty good. From these two games I think England will go through. |
We were good in the first half, just not good enough with the end product in the second. Roy's fault for taking Welbeck off when he had been great and not putting Lambert on later on.
The same team will work in the other two games as long as Sterling isn't found out. |
I dunno what it is but Rooney has a reputation of doing poor in the World Cup and the Euros. I'll leave it at that.
Anyway, Ivory Coast v Japan this morning. Gonna watch this one before I sleep. EDIT: Japan has scored! Ivory Coast 0-1 Japan! |
All (if not almost) the matches in this WC has been good. Come on Ivory Coast.
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Spain v Netherlands has been the best game so far, and I hope there is more great games to come. I wonder if Honduras may pull off an upset against France tomorrow?
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Always possible, even in that group France are always susceptible to upsets these days.
Ivory coast can feel a bit hard done by so far. |
Japan needs a second goal to ease tensions.
Edit: Ivory Coast score 2 goals in 3 minutes. Cruel but CIV has been better this half. |
According to a text I got yesterday from my older sister was that one possible factor as to why Ivory Coast beat Japan was because Ivory Coast had their own "12th Man." For those that don't get the term, it means that Ivory Coast had really loud fans.
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Switzerland win their match against Ecuador with a goal from Seferovic in the final seconds of the game, right after Ecuador failed to make a goal on a great opportunity. I see no reason they couldn't have at least attempted something there, I'm not sure Switzerland would have been able to come back from that.
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Even the not so great games at this World Cup have good moments, another there with that last 30 seconds.
Next up France vs Honduras then. Not expecting any shocks here. |
There go my dark horse expectations for Ecuador.
Honduras are a dirty team, only time I've decided not to support the underdogs as a neutral. Palacios probably earned three reds in that half. |
I felt lucky that Switzerland won that game. Ecuador could have EASILY won the game there, but made a big mistake which cost them. I'm looking forward to the Argentina-Bosnia/Herz game.
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You can take Palacios out of Stoke, but you can't take the Stoke out of Palacios.
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I don't think the France-Honduras game was any good here. It was quite boring to be honest.
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I enjoyed watching the French get kicked.
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