Neowin's Official World Cup 2006 Thread

[PaulCabby]

Problem is that the French didn't protest against it :/

[Romario Brazil]

England Fanboys are bashing Brazil because they know that doesn't have team to beat Germany. They know Brazil is the best and will kick who cross the team front.

Brazil is not England. Brazil was the best team in last 30 years and again, is the best team of this competition. England is only a promisse (and hype! wow PL is the best competition! blah blah!)..

[thetechroom]

English fanboys are bashing Brazil because are they aren't playing like world champions would, the whole world expects them to kill every team out there - they are not doing that, now please shut your trap and go watch Spain win!

Cheers my dears.

[L3thal Veteran]

England Fanboys are bashing Brazil because they know that doesn't have team to beat Germany. They know Brazil is the best and will kick who cross the team front.

Brazil is not England. Brazil was the best team in last 30 years and again, is the best team of this competition. England is only a promisse (and hype! wow PL is the best competition! blah blah!)..

Best team in this competition? :laugh:

Best team in the last 30 years? They have won two cups in the past 30 years, the same as Argentina and Germany :whistle:

[PaulCabby]

English fanboys are bashing Brazil because are they aren't playing like world champions would, the whole world expects them to kill every team out there - they are not doing that, now please shut your trap and go watch Spain win!

Cheers my dears.

Exactly.

Romario Brazil you're rambling on like the current Brazil team will thrash every team that they face, which they certainly are not.

[L3thal Veteran]

Tunisia is beating Spain :omg:

[Martyn]

England Fanboys are bashing Brazil because they know that doesn't have team to beat Germany. They know Brazil is the best and will kick who cross the team front.

Brazil is not England. Brazil was the best team in last 30 years and again, is the best team of this competition. England is only a promisse (and hype! wow PL is the best competition! blah blah!)..

Who the hell is bashing Brazil? The only thing people are saying about Brazil is that they are not performing to their capabilities at the moment, but in my opinion they undoubtably will before the end of the tournament. As an England fan I also admit that England have not been performing to potential as well!

As a football fan I absoloutely love Brazillian football, at times it makes me drool! I aint saying Brazil will win the World Cup, but they will be there or thereabouts come the end of the tournament.

So please, stop acting like everyone is bashing your precious football team, you are just trying to spark a reaction, while having a dig at England and it's fans at the same time.

[thetechroom]

Wow! Really well worked goal from Tunisia, 1-0!

[Martyn]

Spain played well, Tunisia did not play badly either.

Torres could of had a hat trick! The guy is undoubtably a world class tallent, and he is only 22! I wish Liverpool would sign him, but I think his performance at the World Cup would give him a value of ?25 million+, so a bit to expensive:pp.

[Julius Caro]

Torres didnt play well AT ALL. Those goals were very good though, but the rest of his perfomance was horrible.

[L3thal Veteran]

Its funny how people say a player played well just because they scored. Torres was horrible and lost the ball so many times to the Tunisian defense that it seemed it was 12 v 10 with him giving the ball away. He got lucky on a bad move by the goalkeeper by leaving the net and then he scores on a PK. Hardly a good performance.

[Julius Caro]

^ Exactly. And that's the way most spaniards think of Torres.

I think he's just there because of his lucky goals...

Most of my friends were like: It's sad that the press will praise him tomorrow when he actually played BAD.

Edited June 19, 2006 by Julius Caro

[thetechroom]

Well personally what do you prefer:

- Player playing the best game of his life and not scoring a goal

- Player playing the worst game of his life and scoring 2 goals

In the case of this game i'm pretty sure everyone prefers the latter however bad or not Torres played

[geek_rohit]

Well personally what do you prefer:

- Player playing the best game of his life and not scoring a goal

- Player playing the worst game of his life and scoring 2 goals

In the case of this game i'm pretty sure everyone prefers the latter however bad or not Torres played

Well its not about the first one or the second one. What matters is a goal at the World Cup!!! :laugh: You score a goal and you are a hero for your nation.

Finally Shevchenko scores. a 4-0 victory for Ukraine. That brings them to second in the group. They lost 4-0 to Spain, they won 4-0 to Saudi Arabia :p

Ra?l opens his scoring for Spain. Another BIG win for Spain. Though a clean sheet would have be better. They have 7 goals from 2 games!!!

4 games today

My predictions

Ecuador 3 - 2 Germany

Costa Rica 2 - 1 Poland

Paraguay 2 - 1 Trinidad and Tobago

Sweden 0 - 3 England (I want them to maintain the clean sheets:pp)

Edited June 20, 2006 by geek_rohit

[Martyn]

Its funny how people say a player played well just because they scored. Torres was horrible and lost the ball so many times to the Tunisian defense that it seemed it was 12 v 10 with him giving the ball away. He got lucky on a bad move by the goalkeeper by leaving the net and then he scores on a PK. Hardly a good performance.

Was I watching a different game to most of you people or something? Torres worked very hard for the team, made some brilliant runs and his general movement and sharpness was great. I would admint that Torres did not exactly link up the team quite well, but he is not exactly a Crouch type player. Torres is an out and out striker and his job is to score goals, which he did very well.

[Fili]

Come on England!

[Wannes]

Tunisia is beating Spain :omg:

I think it's proven to be that everything can happen, even in the last phase of the game. A 3-1 to Spain, though I rather found the game boring...

Tonight England's playing, I wonder what that will give. I'm getting my hopes up. I've enjoyed watching Sweden in their last game and hopefully we"ll see some action here because after France, Brazil, ... I need some good football.

[Shibby]

There is 4 games today and 2 are only getting shown on tv

Costa Rica v Poland, 15:00

Ecuador v Germany, 15:00

Paraguay v Trinidad and Tobago, 20:00

Sweden v England, 20:00

Who bright idea was it to put 4 games on the same day at similar times.

I would of loved to watch the T & T match!!

[mongoloid]

LETS GO GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!

2-0

VAMOS TICOS!!!!!!!!!!

1-1

And later on........GO ENGLAND!!!!!!!!

A good day indeed :yes:

[L3thal Veteran]

Ecuador is playing really bad. They put their two best forwards in the bench for whatever reason (don't give me that excuse of resting, this is the World Cup and rhythm is important) and they are being shown how to play football.

[stefanka]

Which difference for classes! Ecuador can counter only from the defensive! But no develop a game! The Germans play so intelligently.

This dominance!

Equador dont play bad-the Germans dont let them!

Didnt you see this!

Equador can play only one variant.

[L3thal Veteran]

If you can't tell, Ecuador isn't playing with that urgence like they did in their first two games. I am no fan of Ecuador but if you watched all the games they played, you can tell they aren't playing like they could. Could Ecuador beat Germany if their forwards were playing? Most likely not, but they would be showing better class.

[stefanka]

If you can't tell, Ecuador isn't playing with that urgence like they did in their first two games. I am no fan of Ecuador but if you watched all the games they played, you can tell they aren't playing like they could. Could Ecuador beat Germany if their forwards were playing? Most likely not, but they would be showing better class.

3-0!!! :whistle:

[Orange]

Good game, i mean Germany played very well but Ecuador... i hear all good things about the team but they didn't prove anything.

[Jonezy712]

They ain't the best team I've seen... What are all your predictions for the England - Sweden match then =D?