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The 2017-2018 Football Thread
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Yes, one can get footballed out; I chose not to watch the matches yesterday afternoon, and was out last night, and so missed the evening matches.
Actually, a welcome break from football for a day.
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Germany Out!
They've been a shadow of their formaer selves, but this is still a surprise. Classic counterattacking performance by South Korea against a team that had to take risks.
Highly disappointed that Mexico are going on, but credit to the Swedes for giving them a solid thumping, They've earned their place.
They've been a shadow of their formaer selves, but this is still a surprise. Classic counterattacking performance by South Korea against a team that had to take risks.
Highly disappointed that Mexico are going on, but credit to the Swedes for giving them a solid thumping, They've earned their place.
That was a disastrous performance by us. Congratulations to Sweden and Mexico. Both played better and are thus deserving of moving forward.
Thank you. Thank you so much South Korea. In the last three World Cups (2006; 2010; 2014) Argentina was beaten - and therefore taken out because none of the matches were in the initial phase - by Germany. I can happily say that won't happen this time.
And all Swedes see justice done
Yes, Germany are out, and it is entirely their own fault. They can blame nobody but themselves for their lacklustre and lethargic performances, redeemed, fleetingly, by a few minutes of frenetic activity against Sweden.
Sweden qualify for the next stage, as so do Mexico, an unexpected outcome, but not undeserved, in fact, merited in the circumstances.
I saw this come up on my phone and punched my desk with glee lol.
What a shocker and not something we are used to seeing!
What a shocker and not something we are used to seeing!
What do you mean?
PS: Oh, you mean that it has gone down since September 2017, from over 80 percent and is now a mere 75 percent?
Ah, okay. All good.
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Yep. This match was rough and hard to watch. This is not the kind of football I want to see.
I'll be rooting for any nation that shows passion and thirst for the sport and really wants to win the cup from hereon out!
I saw this come up on my phone and punched my desk with glee lol.
What a shocker and not something we are used to seeing!
No, and also interesting is how both goals (as is the case with so many others during this tournament) came after ninety minutes.
But, given that Germany were so comprehensively awful, - and never threatened to score - this is really of little matter.
I didn’t see any of the game so will catch the highlights.
I can’t help but think if they’d faced England then they would have found that missing magic though lol. The old foe.
Kia, Hyundai, Samsung, and LG increase production in Mexico.Ah, okay. All good.
The funny thing is, as with yesterday, when, with the awful France-Denmark game, when I just checked the half time score and some commentary - and deliberately missed the rest of it entirely, - the first half of Germany and South Korea was so dreadful, I assumed that a 0-0 result would occur and Germany qualify in a tedious and unimaginative manner, and so took a nap.
I awoke an hour later, rested, revived, restored, recovered, to a changed world.
Germany are out after a performance (actually, after series of performances in the world cup) that were breath-taking in their sheer banal poverty of ambition and delivery and execution. Disastrous stuff.
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Actually, I am not so sure.
South Korea are already out, yet they competed and beat Germany.
Sweden, a team considered no great shakes, Germany only beat after they both woke up and had a bit of luck.
And they had already been beaten by Mexico.
If England played Germany and lost, it would have been because of a collective failure of nerve on their part, - not a lack of talent, and certainly not being dominated/destroyed by a superior or better team, because Germany have shown themselves to have been lamentably lacking - something that Gareth Southgate (who has impressed me so far) seems to have been quite good at addressing.
What a shock result! Been at work busy with meetings, so totally missed this.
Can't say I'm disappointed though
Can't say I'm disappointed though
England fans are excited because this means Germany can’t knock England out of the World Cup on penalties.
England fans are excited because this means Germany can’t knock England out of the World Cup on penalties.
Well, yes.
But that doesn't necessarily prevent another team, perhaps an even older enemy (France, anyone?) knocking England out on penalties.
If I were Mr Southgate, (and he has personal experience of this, so I imagine that he has indeed paid heed to the subject matter under discussion), I would ensure that the squad practised penalties until they are twitching in heir sleep, practicing penalty shots.
Nevertheless, thus far, this World Cup is confounding expectations.
Germany are not professional and clinical, chess players on a pitch, but listless and lethargic and actually, shockingly poor.
England are not fractious and scandal-prone, but calm, collected and unassuming and playing as though they are actually enjoying themselves, worse still, almost playing as a team.
Don't worry. We can lose on penalties to anyone on our day!England fans are excited because this means Germany can’t knock England out of the World Cup on penalties.
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