Absolute waste defence.
― oppet, Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
Obv
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
http://hugelolcdn.com/i/129381.gif
Dzeko was robbed
Oh dear me that attempted foul by the Bosnia number 4 was pathetic.
I think conditions must be having an effect here, there's so little running off the ball - both sides' lines are really static, with anyone not on the ball seemingly moving at walking pace.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it leaves Dzeko looking completely isolated cos nobody is moving anywhere to help out.
― oppet, Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
three shockin decisions so far, Nigerian dive after taking it down early on, offside call, bos left back
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Been impressed with Eminike
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
if dzeko's shooting accuracy keeps up this progression he's gonna put one in the parking lot by full time
― pandemic, Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
yo that ghana/germany 2nd half was the best game so far i was feelin that game super hard
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
couple ghanaian guys in the bar losing their shit helped too
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
i missed the overturned dzeko goal in the first half, just saw the replay
WTF
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 June 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Germany Ghana was just insane, probably the most outright enjoyable game I've seen so far.
Genuinely no idea who's going to win this. France are probably the only team to have been 100% impressive and they've only played crap up until now.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Genuine lol at Klose's ponderous flip btw.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
argentina is going to win 1-0 everytime all messi goals
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
spahic getting brutalised out there
― pandemic, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
cmon bosnia, dont go home yet
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Nigeria fully in control here. Would be nice to see an African team getting a good result this WC.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
(There was Ghana obv)
Bosnia just generally look done, and there's still about half-an-hour left to go. I don't know what work they did to prepare for this kind of weather, but it definitely doesn't seem to have worked. Really feeling for Begovic, he's getting worked over quite badly.
Ameobi replaces Musa. Which... yeah. This is gonna be a long rest of the game.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
i really want bosnia to stay in the fight but they look so beaten down & exhausted, hate to see them go out this way
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
I think the q-finals on are gonna see teams really really suffering from the conditions, especially if they played 2 or 3 group games in the most tropical of the venues. Italy were outplayed y'day but in the 2nd half when they should be still chasing the game they looked dead, no midfield runners at all.
― pandemic, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Begovic physically dragging an injured Babatunde off the pitch. Bloody hell.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
I don't care what temperature it is, carrying one tenth of Dzeko each is gonna tire you out
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
xp begovic otm tho
Bosnians getting away with horrible fouls
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
Nigeria keeping them in the match
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
wtf bosnia
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
POST
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
not his day today
― xelab, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
woeful from Bosnia. kickin lumps outta them by the end.
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
loving it, Nigeria have a great chance of going through after that abysmal performance in their first match
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
bosnia played like zombies in that 2nd half
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
You'd think Nigeria will go through after that, Bosnia will surely want some kind of redemption against Iran.
It's the second series final of Robot Wars on Challenge, btw, pretty much the peak of the series.
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
According to Rio, Robben was the one who got away for ManU
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
And if Nigeria do make it through, then they're almost certainly getting France in the second round, meaning France won't actually have any difficult games until the quarter-finals. That quarter-final will probably be against Germany, though, so that'll be fun.
― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
xxpDon't rule out Iran. They really want it and they were really impressive today, so if they can do it again against Bosnia and Nigeria lose to Argentina...
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Bosnia were so inept..
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
They never said they were ept!
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
Bosnia inept at governing ya
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
Somewhere between the robbed goal, Bosnian odd quasi-performance, Spahic's behaviour during goal/ongoing defense mishaps/ca 100 crazy passes/covering his mouth with his hand while talking to the linesman after conceding (seriously, what was that about?), Nigeria being the Nigeria from 'Nigeria vs. Scotland' and Sepp Blatter visiting _this_ game in person, this game has some cool manipulation conspiracy potential...
― livin' el Vidal loco (grauschleier), Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
covering the mouth is the new thing after lipreading controversies of yore
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
Why then?
― livin' el Vidal loco (grauschleier), Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:56 (nine years ago) link
I mean, sure, at free kicks it has maybe some far-fetched relevance, but in this situation...?
― livin' el Vidal loco (grauschleier), Sunday, 22 June 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
idk but I'd guess he was calling the official ten types of gowl
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link
More defenders is meaning more goals: football undergoes a major tactical shift
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 22 June 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty sure there's an interesting argument to be made about why 5 at the back is leading to more goals but that article really isn't making it and the bits about David Luiz are just bizarre.
Five defenders necessitates ceding control of midfield especially if you play two upfront, but is also means breaking quickly, more end to end football and more goals. But the teams playing five at the back have been harder to break down nobetheless.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 June 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
Poor balance of midfields is more of an issue -most teams either too stodgy (Brazil, Holland) or too lightweight (Croatia, England, arguably Spain now) and teams who can really press in that bit of the park are doing well.
Brazil don't even play five at the back and doing so would probably play to David Luiz's strengths (athleticism, dynamism, bringing the ball forward out of defence) rather than exposing his weaknesses (being really quite stupid) but still, Brazil couldn't break down Mexico's back five.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 June 2014 10:14 (nine years ago) link
that article is really weird.
the 5 at the back style seems a lot more mobile than other tactics of recent years, with two holding midfielders you have fluidity around a stable base, tiki-taka maximises ball movement but not really player movement, but this kind of post-bielsa wing back thing is maybe trying to maximise movement in every respect. but i dunno that that's necessarily a more attacking way of going about things.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 22 June 2014 10:19 (nine years ago) link
Strange this morning watching the highlights of Italia 90 and although it feels like another age - there are people still in shirt and tie in the crowd, and it was still WEST Germany at that point - it also feels like the start of the modern era in a lot of ways. Pressuring referees into giving cards and surrounding him following fouls is in full swing, and going down around the box looking for a free kick was pretty much how the final was played. The interesting thing was how the crowd reacted; whistles and jeers saw the players off at half time, with the crowd feeling they'd been denied a 'proper' match.
― Rabona not glue (aldo), Sunday, 22 June 2014 10:26 (nine years ago) link
Also there are a lot of great attacking players in this World Cup and, unlike 2002 and 2010 and arguably 06 as well, most of them have come through the end of a domestic season largely unscathed and not struggling for form or fitness. Abiding memory of recent World Cups has been watching big names looking jaded and only Argentina and Spain really seem to be suffering there.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 June 2014 10:30 (nine years ago) link