2014 World Cup Finals - Part Two

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The Dutch Goalie stepped up. Congrats. Not digging the huge amount of african subs on the bench for the Dutch. I would have been cool with Costa Rica advancing tho.
 
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Krul for the Dutch. Just plain cruel for the Costa Ricans.:icon_grin:
 
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Whew! Too close for comfort! But now we have 3/4 of teams that we can root for, the WC is looking good as long as Brazil don't win.
 
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Germany only have 3 Third Worlders in the whole squad, the Dutch have loads. I'm hoping Germany v Holland in the final with the Germans winning with Oezil sent off in the semi-final and Khedira and Boateng injured against the Brazilians...
 
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foobar75 said:
Whew! Too close for comfort! But now we have 3/4 of teams that we can root for, the WC is looking good as long as Brazil don't win.
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ENDSIEG said:
Germany only 3 Third Worlders in the whole squad, the Dutch have loads. I'm hoping Germany v Holland in the final with the Germans winning with Oezil sent off in the semi-final and Khedira and Boateng injured against the Brazilians...
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I'd actually quite like Brazil to advance to the final and be dismembered by Argentina in the 'Maracanazo part II'.
 
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ENDSIEG said:
Germany only have 3 Third Worlders in the whole squad, the Dutch have loads. I'm hoping Germany v Holland in the final with the Germans winning with Oezil sent off in the semi-final and Khedira and Boateng injured against the Brazilians...
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why holland with their 3 non white starters and half black squad?
 
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Idk good for the Dutch keeper but both shots he blocked were obvious. Both were to the lower right corner. C'mon costa Rica get creative. Either way took what 2 hours to score? That is why soccer will never be big in USA. Heck half the people here can't go 15mins without being entertained by phones,tv,etc.
 
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If Jogi Low did the right thing and started 11 natives as he should, we wouldn't be having this conversation. He'll stick to his quotas and the 3-fake Germans, but still they are clearly to team to root for against Brazil.

Yes, Germany vs Argentina in a rematch of the 1990 final would be great. Right now, Argentina is my pick by a small margin to win it all. I believe the 4 best teams in the tournament have made the semi-finals, with very few negroes in the mix.
 
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ENDSIEG said:
Germany only have 3 Third Worlders in the whole squad, the Dutch have loads. I'm hoping Germany v Holland in the final with the Germans winning with Oezil sent off in the semi-final and Khedira and Boateng injured against the Brazilians...
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That's my line of thinking. As I've said, the Dutch subs would be mostly white if Strootman and Van der Vaart didn't get hurt. Even if the Germans start with three non-whites Ozil and/or Khedira are usually subbed off. I'll be wanting Argentina to beat the Dutch, but it won't be disastrous if the Netherlands win.

Also, a look at the Dutch and German U 21 teams say different stories about the direction of the two teams as well.

In their last matches, the Netherland's U21 team started: 4 whites, 1 Arab, and 5 blacks.

Germany's U21 started: 9 whites, 1 black and 1 Turk.

Here are the breakdowns of the rosters: Out of 18 listed players, Germany had 3 non-whites total, so right where they are right now.

With 23 players, the "Dutch" had 11-12 non-whites.
 
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But I am happy the amount of traffic this world cup has generated,always nice to see new posters!
 
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about brazil's last game:

"The key statistic is 41:07 – that’s the ‘ball-in-play’ time. From 96 minutes of play, well under half that time was actually spent playing football, such was the extent of this stop-start battle, based around set-pieces. For purposes of comparison, that’s around 10 minutes less than for the Germany v France game earlier in the day, and it was extremely noticeable. Some free-kicks in shooting positions took over two minutes to take, and there were 54 fouls in the match."

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2014/07/05/brazil-2-1-colombia-brazil-prevail-in-a-very-aggressive-game/

brazil did a lot of time wasting, and every time colombia was trying to get forward there was a foul
incredible that the referee didn't give more yellow cards
 
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The star for Netherlands yesterday was without a doubt 'The Flying Dutchman',Arjen Robben.The Costa Ricans tried to make to capitalize on his reputation on diving,and boy did it backfire:



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Robben won eight freekicks,all in dangerous positions.


And this has to be the 'touch' of the tournament:



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Here are the dashboards of the useless Origi and his replacement after 60 minutes,Lukaku:



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60 minutes for that^^SIXTY MINUTES!!!:smash:




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