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| Shonak |
Posted on 07-06-2014 12:07
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cio93 wrote:
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Good game by Germany against Armenia. Though the opponent is average, it was a game for the team to get some motivation boost and for them to demeonstrate their strong combination play. In the second half, they really showed some mighty fine football. In the first half it was good too, but they hugely lacked in terms of efficieny and especially stumbled quite a bit in front of the goal... . Podolski real strong. And Kroos in total control - Toni will rock the World Championships. 
COMPLETELY irrelevant.
Losing Reus is - by position - one of the easiest fates to get over, but still a major blow.
I don't know what you refer to at excatly with "completely irrelevant", but if you mean that Armenia is not a good enough opposing side, to really give a prediction for the World Championships then I agree. Still I liked what I saw, although at around 70 minutes Armenia was so exhausted, they hardly were an opposition at that point, and that's when the goals were scored.
Losing Reuis is quite a blow for the team. The completely out of form Draxler may become a true substitute now. 
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 08-06-2014 00:36
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I've watched the England vs Honduras and it was the most horrendous piece of shite I have ever watched. Even worse than watching Stoke.
Even against 10 England was clueless
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| cio93 |
Posted on 08-06-2014 00:40
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Shonak wrote:
cio93 wrote:
Shonak wrote:
Good game by Germany against Armenia. Though the opponent is average, it was a game for the team to get some motivation boost and for them to demeonstrate their strong combination play. In the second half, they really showed some mighty fine football. In the first half it was good too, but they hugely lacked in terms of efficieny and especially stumbled quite a bit in front of the goal... . Podolski real strong. And Kroos in total control - Toni will rock the World Championships.
COMPLETELY irrelevant.
Losing Reus is - by position - one of the easiest fates to get over, but still a major blow.
I don't know what you refer to at excatly with "completely irrelevant", but if you mean that Armenia is not a good enough opposing side, to really give a prediction for the World Championships then I agree. Still I liked what I saw, although at around 70 minutes Armenia was so exhausted, they hardly were an opposition at that point, and that's when the goals were scored.
Losing Reuis is quite a blow for the team. The completely out of form Draxler may become a true substitute now.
Nope, I'm saying every possible conclusion from this game is irrelevant compared to the fact we lost a possibly important piece of the team during the game.
But you're right, if you do want any halfway decent comparable conclusion to draw from this game, you have to only take the first 70 mins into consideration. Everything past that point has no relevance even from a sporting viewpoint.
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| weirdskyfan64 |
Posted on 08-06-2014 07:02
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Realised that if the US and Germany beat Portugal, the US could play Russia in the round of 16...
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| Rin |
Posted on 08-06-2014 08:05
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Alakagom wrote:
I've watched the England vs Honduras and it was the most horrendous piece of shite I have ever watched. Even worse than watching Stoke.
Even against 10 England was clueless
These friendlies are never great to watch:
- No one wants to injure someone before the World Cup
- Play more easier/relaxed because of first
- With so many tests the manager is very likely to test something unusual than the normal starting 11
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 08-06-2014 10:58
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But England is different. They wanted to win the match badly. There were also 6 yellow cards and one red, very dirty match and few really bad tackles. It was very intense match lol just really bad.
Really it didn't look at friendly at all, which made it so weird.
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| roturn |
Posted on 08-06-2014 11:10
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Dippofix wrote:
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Reus out of World Cup.
I know, really bad news for Germany. What's worse, Mustafi was called up in his place. This is a defender, with 1 cap to his name. If Löw wanted a defender, he should have called up Schmelzer, or if he wanted somebody with one cap, or in general somebody to take Reus' place, he should have called up Volland.
Disagree.
There are enough options for Reus.
Podolski showed great form recently. Schürrle as well.
Then there are still Götze and Draxler, who both can play his position.
Also Kroos & Özil could play there.
So nominating Volland just to sit on the bench then would make as much sense as nominating Mustafi, who most likely also will sit on the bench.
That said the German team has more or less 0 real wing defenders here as Schmelzer is not at 100% after his injury, so no need to nominate him. And with Höwedes, Boateng being planned as wing defenders it`s a logical step to take another central defender in case one gets injured.
In the end the whole discussion that is in the German media at the moment is totally senseless imo as the replacement for Reus will most likely play 0 minutes, no matter who. The actual replacement was already in the former 23 player squad and could give nice minutes to those mentioned above. Even now I don`t see Draxler playing any minute, which makes a nomination of Volland useless anyway. |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 08-06-2014 11:21
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Alakagom wrote:
But England is different. They wanted to win the match badly. There were also 6 yellow cards and one red, very dirty match and few really bad tackles. It was very intense match lol just really bad.
Really it didn't look at friendly at all, which made it so weird.
In the 20 minutes before the storm caused the stoppage, England seemed to be growing into the game. After that, Honduras just started kicking anything that moved and England couldn't seem to find any rhythm. Although they're pretty bad anyway  |
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 08-06-2014 13:26
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Has anyone seen the Road to Brazil series, that's about every country in the WC?
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| mede33 |
Posted on 08-06-2014 22:11
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France 8 - Jamaica 0
See you at the World Cup guys ! We are ready ! 
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 08-06-2014 22:38
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There's a reason Jamaica aren't in the World Cup 
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| mede33 |
Posted on 08-06-2014 23:19
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Cycleman123 wrote:
There's a reason Jamaica aren't in the World Cup
Last week, they lost only 1-0 against Switzerland and made a draw 2-2 against Egypt. So it's not a bad team...
Nobody is waiting for France this year. But we have really good young players like Pogba, Varane, Griezmann... I'm sure we can do really well this year, and create a big surprise !
I will up this post when we'll be World Champions 
I think we can go in semi finals. More would be wonderful.
We're only here to prepare the Euro 2016, i think that in 2 years, we'll be really strongs !
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| weirdskyfan64 |
Posted on 09-06-2014 07:18
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rogvi97 wrote:
Has anyone seen the Road to Brazil series, that's about every country in the WC?
I have. Why?
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| Shonak |
Posted on 09-06-2014 08:46
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roturn wrote:
That said the German team has more or less 0 real wing defenders here as Schmelzer is not at 100% after his injury, so no need to nominate him. And with Höwedes, Boateng being planned as wing defenders it`s a logical step to take another central defender in case one gets injured.
Indeed, true. But I think Durm still has a good chance of playing left back and not Höwedes. He has been very convincing in the CL as well as in his one national appearance. It's a good thing Germany plays against Portugal first, presumably one of the teams with the best offense in the tournament. Testing the "new" system quite a bit already and allow to see if it may work throughout the tournament or if it won't.
France played very good against Jamaica according to my brother. Since when is the opponent particularly important in a test match? It's also a match for confidence, to try out new systems. Definitely one of the more exciting teams at the WC, maybe it's becaus Ribery (  ) and Nasri are missing? Looking forward to see Griezmann.
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| roturn |
Posted on 09-06-2014 09:10
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Shonak wrote:
roturn wrote:
That said the German team has more or less 0 real wing defenders here as Schmelzer is not at 100% after his injury, so no need to nominate him. And with Höwedes, Boateng being planned as wing defenders it`s a logical step to take another central defender in case one gets injured.
Indeed, true. But I think Durm still has a good chance of playing left back and not Höwedes. He has been very convincing in the CL as well as in his one national appearance. It's a good thing Germany plays against Portugal first, presumably one of the teams with the best offense in the tournament. Testing the "new" system quite a bit already and allow to see if it may work throughout the tournament or if it won't.
France played very good against Jamaica according to my brother. Since when is the opponent particularly important in a test match? It's also a match for confidence, to try out new systems. Definitely one of the more exciting teams at the WC, maybe it's becaus Ribery ( ) and Nasri are missing? Looking forward to see Griezmann.
I hope so, too and until the Armenia game I was convinced. There Höwedes played pretty well though.
What I meant was, that two central defenders are planned to be starter or backup for wing defender positions. That`s why I did not list Durm there.
In the end no matter if Durm, Höwedes and Schmelzer. For a World Cup all of them probably have not the best quality or experience. So will be interesting to see how Germany can solve the wing defender "problem". In especially as more or less all central midfielders are not at 100% as well. Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Khedira were injured. Kroos not with best form recently. Kramer not experienced enough. |
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 09-06-2014 09:29
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You can hardly judge the French Team on a game against Jamaica. Same with Germany beating Armenia. It was interesting however to watch quite a bit of Brazil vs Serbia. Serbia did not play well but were in the game most of the match. If there attacking and finishing was slightly better they would have probably beaten Brazil. Brazil was absolutely horrible but I think there was once they would have acored but a really bad offside was given. 1-0 against a team not even in the World Cup is truly poor, its not like it was a second string Brazilian side.
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 09-06-2014 10:26
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mede33 wrote:
Cycleman123 wrote:
There's a reason Jamaica aren't in the World Cup
Last week, they lost only 1-0 against Switzerland and made a draw 2-2 against Egypt. So it's not a bad team...
Nobody is waiting for France this year. But we have really good young players like Pogba, Varane, Griezmann... I'm sure we can do really well this year, and create a big surprise !
I will up this post when we'll be World Champions
I think we can go in semi finals. More would be wonderful.
We're only here to prepare the Euro 2016, i think that in 2 years, we'll be really strongs !
you remember what happend last time you said sometime similiar right?
oh yeah, Bjørndalen won
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Tomorrow, first gold medal for Martin Fourcade, i will quote this post at 3pm (french time !) after his victory ! Beginning of a razzia ! He will alone do better than all Italy 
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 09-06-2014 13:48
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German Defense discussion: I think Boateng is a real liability at the back, and has been so all season long for Bayern. The perfect 4 would really be Lahm-Mertesacker-Hummels-Durm, with Höwedes as replacement.
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 09-06-2014 15:58
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weirdskyfan64 wrote:
rogvi97 wrote:
Has anyone seen the Road to Brazil series, that's about every country in the WC?
I have. Why?
It's interesting to see. how good the countries are, with so many young future stars and old stars I remember from WC2002. 
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 11-06-2014 01:08
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30 to 35k portuguese in New York to see national team on national holiday. Hope the team can satisfy them with Ronaldo on the starting 11, despite the most important thing is no injury occur imo.
(2 minutes 1-0 that is a good start!)
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