World Cup South Africa 2010

Who will win?

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The Danes have been playing ultra defensively. It seems as if they aren't playing to win, but are playing not to lose to the Netherlands.

The Dutch haven't really been able capitalize...They cracked the Danish defense a few times but blew the opportunity. I wonder if there might've been more action had Robben been in the lineup rather than Van der Wiel.

The Danes have a very strong defense. It'll be tough for any team to crack it, especially at the wings. That's probably why they came in as number 1 in their qualifying group ahead of 2006 Semi-Finalists Portugal.

Hopefully the second half proves to be more exciting.

Thanks to a beautiful cross from Van Persie that one of the Danes wasn't expecting, the score is now 1-0. Thanks to an own goal!!
 
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Well, Holland just scored "again" :D. Not pretty but I like that goal a lot. It was a clincher, I thought it was going to be a goal the first part of the play, but it hit the post, and they Kuyt comes in out of nowhere and buries it.

The Dutch started getting into there groove in the last third of the match.

If Robben was playing and wasn't injured, the score would surely be 3-0 right now.

EDIT: Afellay from the Netherlands just almost scored but the guy who had the own goal just redeemed himself and did a crazy clearance. I so thought that it was going to be 3-0, even without Robben.
 
Was a fantastic clearance. Best part of the whole match for me.

It was an alright match, but pretty advantage. Holland do need Robben for that special finishing flare. However, Holland were the better team.
 
It's the first match for them in this World Cup so they were understandably more cautious and nervous. That would have been a GREAT disappointment if they lost to Denmark.

After the subs started cracking the Danish defense, the Netherlands quickly gained confidence, broke the ice, and started to man-handle Denmark.

Germany is the Netherlands' fiercest rival. That'd be an awesome world cup final. Netherlands vs. Germany...Imagine that..

But I think it's going to be Netherlands vs. Spain.
 
Denmark were disappointing both in attack and defence. They managed to get only a few shots on target. Netherlands were okay. Elia was awesome today. Nothing else...
Oh, I remembered that I had a bet with my friend D:
 
Goal from absolutely nowhere from Japan. The game's finally livened up a bit after a tediously dull start.
 
I think the Japan game is incredibly boring but during the netherlands game the netherlands won at least. that was not to boring.
 
Good old predictable Italy. Defend, defend, defend, counter, counter, counter. Fair play to them, it wins them games.
 
Captain Fabio said:
If something is not broken, then why fix?
It is effective and works very well.
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Precisely! Hence my "Fair play to them" comment.

And let's face it, it's better than England's philosophy of "If something's broken, ignore it and hope for the best".
 
What's changed?

We didn't have a world class no.1 keeper under Sven, we still don't. Gerrard and Lampard can't work effectively together in central midfield under Sven, they still can't. We didn't have a solid right back under Sven and we still don't, Johnson's our best right back and he's better at attacking than defending, which is worrying.

None of the issues that have plagued our past few World Cup campaigns have been addressed and it's frightening because our squad is ageing now and most of our key players will only have another campaign at most in them after this year.
 
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