You may have played some tough friendly games, but I'd say they were played mostly in America. The reality is most big teams don't try as hard in friendlies when playing lesser competitors. Even Brazil didn't play their hardest against Australia in the world cup (while we tried so hard and still lost). America is a good team though, and off the top of my head I can think of only maybe 17-18 teams they're weaker than. Have no doubt though, they are improving. You were a bit unlucky to have such a tough group.
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Yeah, Italy, Ghana, Czech Republic, I looked into the group and it was quite a murderer's row.
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00:00 - Start England versus Ecuador.
00:25 - Offside Ecuador. 00:41 - Offside England. 01:26 - Free kick England. 03:36 - Free kick England. 04:43 - Offside Ecuador. 04:45 - on-goal shot England. Over. 04:49 - Free kick England. 05:59 - Free kick Ecuador. 07:00 - Offside Ecuador. 09:21 - on-goal shot England, Keeper catch. 10:33 - English defense failure, on-goal shot Ecuador, Touches goal top. 11:03 - Free kick England. 11:54 - Free kick Ecuador. 12:24 - Offside Ecuador, Big chance Ecuador. 13:47 - on-goal shot England, Keeper catch. 14:53 - On-goal shot England, Keeper catch. 17:14 - on-goal shot England, Over. 17:59 - Yellow card John Terry (England). 17:59 - Free kick Ecuador. 20:33 - Free kick England. 20:33 - Big chance England, Ball kicked away. 21:36 - Corner England, Kicked away. 22:17 - Corner England, Kicked away. 23:04 - Yellow card valencia (Ecuador). 23:04 - Free kick England. 23:48 - Free kick England. 24:22 - Free kick Ecuador. 25:09 - Free kick Ecuador, Chance. 25:09 - On-goal shot Ecuador, Keeper catch. 26:15 - Free kick England. 27:00 - On-goal shot England, Keeper catch. 29:17 - Corner Ecuador. 29:40 - Free kick Ecuador, chance, Kicked away. 31:25 - Corner Ecuador, Kicked away. 34:01 - Free kick England, Chance. 36:02 - Yellow card Tenorio (Ecuador). 36:02 - Free kick England. 37:54 - Free kick Ecuador. 38:12 - On-goal shot Ecuador, Keeper catch. 39:13 - Free kick England. 39:59 - Free kick England. 41:01 - Free kick Ecuador. 41:47 - Free kick England. 42:02 - On-goal shot England. 43:12 - On-goal shot Ecuador. 44:09 - Corner Ecuador. 44:46 - Corner Ecuador. 45:00 - 2 Minutes extra time. +47:00 - End extra time. +47:00 - England 0 - 0 Ecuador UPDATE ENGLAND SCORED IN THE SECOND HALF. I have to go now. |
call me gay but i hate football
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gay!
joking, but what is the idea behind u're post? WOOT ENGLAND JUST WON :D:D |
Well, we're out. Twas fun.
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We had a lousy referee. I mean come on, those Portugeese played dirty, and stalled, and that schwalbe of Figo was waaaaaaaaay too bad... Then some Portugese dude kicked one of our players to the shoulder, but noooo, that Russian biased ref "saw" another foul.
And come on. Almost 20 yellow cards and 4 red ones? That's a record! But not one to be proud of! I'm off to bed now... |
Havoc and Alphascrab, Didn't you had the idea of W*F
16 yellow cards 4 red cards That is just weird... |
It's a World Championship record! And we have it! YAY! :P
But yea, they played dirty as hell. And even though there is no rule that says you can't do it, it's cowardly IMO. The referee was card happy though. 4 red cards, hilarious! :P |
Is that four just for one team? So a team was playing with four less players than the other one?!
But I've not heard anything good about the refs in any game so far. Even to the point of the ref in the Australia v Japan game apologising afterwards for his incompetence. |
No, each team got two reds.
Portugal went first, then to compensate Figo (I think it was) did a nice piece of acting to fool the referee in thinking that one of our players hit him in the face during a struggle for the ball. That player already had yellow, so now he had red and the teams were even again. Dirty bastards. |
I think it likely that Brazil will win, but Nostradamus did say that Spain might win so.....
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He said Spain would win the 2006 world championships? lol
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Australia got jobbed. I mean damn!
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man that was so dissapointing, but what can you do? Looks like that's the last time i'll be at fed square for a while
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*yelling and cursing*
*even more yelling and cursing* *yet more yelling and cursing* England's out :(:(:( Penalty's is NOT an way to win an WC match. |
Boy, that Ukraine game was a big letdown. I was looking forward to that match all week.
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Portugal are ****ing wankers. A disgrace to the game, ****ing cheaters. I hope Rooney kicks the shit out of Ronaldo back in Manchester, that ****ing cunt.
I'm proud of England, they played real football, not diving to get free kicks and fouls, I'd rather have lost this gracefully than go on through being a bunch of cheats. I'll welcome the heroes home with open arms. The Netherlands should've beat the cunts. |
soccer sucks it really sucks, soccer sucks oh yes it does.
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How about you just get out of this damn thread then sonny?
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WOOT :d Germany just lost :)
*Sorry all germans on the forums ;) |
France Vs Italy In the Finals.
Italy will win. And the second place Germany. Down with Portugal! |
So Italy plays France in the final. Who do you think will win? I'm hoping that Italy wins just so that I can say that we (Australia) just lost to the World Champions. It sounds much better than “We lost to the team that lost to the World Champions”
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I think the entire world wants to see Italy win. Seriously, is there any non-French speaker who is actually fond of France and (more importantly) Frenchmen?
I've even heard French-Canadians hoping Italy would win... |
All the England fans want France to win. :p
And for Germany to beat Portugal. (Actually, anyone who faces Portugal in the future will be backed by England fans to beat them for a long time following their exploits and antics in this world cup.) Plus, the French just rock, they have some almightily cool players like Henry, Sagnol and Zidane, who deserves to win the world cup again in his last game before retirement. |
even before the world-cup started i was hoping England would win.
i watched england v Paraguay and they played very,very badly i lost faith in england so my grandad said england wont win the world-cup he said Brazil would win the cup and i said I'll bet five £ that FRANCE would win i just said it ..... weird aint it!! |
Since when has britain supported france in anything?:confused:
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Since we wanted them to thrash Portugal in the semi. The boos every time Ronaldo touched the ball could only come from a sense of sporting unity between the French, German and English fans in the stadium.
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I can't believe it!
Last year an old man came into my work. He told me Australia would make second round, Brazil would not go past the quarter finals, Italy would win the world cup. He said he guranteed it and told me to put money on it. Did I? Of course not. But now I'm sure regretting I didn't... |
Friggin' Italy. Only good things they gave us were the food and mobster movies, and the mobster movies are negated by, oh, I don't know, VICIOUS MAFIA CRIME FAMILIES! I hate shoot out victories, too. Its like years of effort and over 2 hours of game time is negated in 7 minutes. It blows.
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I generally cant stand soccer, but that was one hell of a headbutt. :D Talk about ruining your last game buddy.
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Well, thats the end of it. Italy won the world cup. Congrats to them!
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