balls of steel is rong, picking fresh v good players instead of maybe less fresh v good players isn't exactly a shocker
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, June 22, 2012 7:50 PM (6 minutes ago)
yeah but this isn't like ferguson fielding the kids for a home game vs west brom in between cl ties, can you remember a managing swapping an entire frontline for an international knockout tie?
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
this team looks better already
― Number None, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
oz somewhere here you should find something http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=159973&part=sports
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Reus had a goal in the home game and an assist in the away game vs Schalke.
xxp
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
nakh - no, usually they do it for the third game of the group. it is rare a country has so many good interchangable players tho, how many teams in the past ten years could do this confidently? spain. brazil... maybe? argentina have lots of good strikers i guess.
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Samaras hardmanning his way through the German team <3
― onimo, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
i guess brazil 02-04 and maybe france 00-02 would be able to do it.
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
noted pandemic
a hoy yeah it requires a rare level of depth but probably a few of the top teams could have done it -- i think 'interchangeable' is key tho
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
crap finish great footbll
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Almost beautiful, but he shouldn't miss that
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
blimey that would have been the goal of the century
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Good save. Can the commentators not see deflections? It makes the keeper's job murderous, but all they get is 'he's made a mess of that'
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
shit. c'mon.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
ooof.
ok yeah interchangable maybe not the right word, although it totally applies here w/ lots of v good technique, smart attacking athletic types
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Punish Them!
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
It won't be 0-0 much longer. You'd rather be building up this pressure at 25 mins than 85.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
If Germany can score before half-time they should get 3 or 4.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
at this rate they should be disappointed if they don't get 6 or 7
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
Samaras immediately abandoning the runner who'd come to relieve him
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Beglin hates this goalie
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
OOOH LAHM!!
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
FINALLY
<3 horseboy
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Beautiful.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Nice
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Like south africa 2010
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
great swerve on that
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 20:11 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no i meant interchangeable is the right word, it's rly neat how schurrle and reus duplicate the qualities of poldi and muller
thank fuck for lahm
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
why not just say fuhrer clive
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Or was it Germany 06?
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
merkel there celebrating is like kicking them when they are down
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah nakh i meant the reason why jogi can do it is because they are similar in a way that say robinho for kaka or cassano for luca toni might not have worked idk
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Need to keep kicking imo, this is the team that will. not. die.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
greece STILL all 30 yrds from their own goal
That stripe up Klose's back is pretty retro
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
hate games like this
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Greece have been better in the 2nd half of all their 3 games so far but it's gonna take some miraculous improvement to salvage this.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
In a way it's a pity, because an England-Greece semi would've been an unusual spectacle.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
as in cruel and unusual
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
I'm imagining something like that legendary Austria-Germany carve-up in 82, except more rudimentary.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
greece need to have their spirit broken, 1-0 still a counter attack/cock up away from a win on pens.
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
I love this German team. Never thought I'd ever type that and mean it.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
merkel claps like a spastic puppet
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
mookie's clap clinic
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
not enough one-twos
― Number None, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
he's probably right
82% possession that half.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
sall about the triangles these days
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
We may be denied a Spain-Greece Final with a 95%-5% possession rate.
― pandemic, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
not sure if ive even seen barcelona getting 82%
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link