The Soccer Thread

#329
#329
Turkey's miraculous run has finally come to an end. Germany takes the lead in the 89th minute and goes on to win 3-2.
 
#331
#331
Good to see Germany win. This wasn't the David vs Goliath match up people say it is. Turkey isn't just a one trick Cinderella IMO. They finished third in the world 2002 losing only to champs Brazil.
 
#332
#332
Spain Russia should be an interesting rematch tomorrow. I think Spain wins, but I doubt the margin is like the first game.
 
#333
#333
Russia didn't put up much of a fight after Spain's first goal.

Spain vs. Germany in the finals. That should be a really good match. I'm looking forward to it.
 
#337
#337
Yeah it's going to be a great game.

I got to attend the Italy - USA game during the 2006 World cup and just fell in love with the sport.

I missed the euros by 2 weeks. That would have been fun as well
 
#341
#341
Germany looked like they had no idea what they were doing. It was a pathetic effort and you'd have thought the score would have been far worse (it almost was on a few occasions).

looking forward to the 2010 World Cup.
 
#342
#342
I think the early favorite from Europe is Spain for FIFA 2010. Italy and France will have a new set of players, and Germany is aging. The early favorite is likely one of the South American teams.
 
#343
#343
i've heard people talk about Argentina as the early favorite. i don't know much about them, or most of South America outside of Brazil.
 
#344
#344
Argentina is currently the number 1 team in the world rankings, and has several really good players, Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano, and others, but they didn't really impress me when they played the US to a 0-0 draw about a month ago. Good job by Spain though, they were clearly the best team over the course of the tournament and deserved to win. They totally dominated Germany, I don't think there was a single time in the game where Germany truly came close to getting a goal, and in the final 15 minutes they couldn't even get posession of the ball.
 
#345
#345
tvolsfan said:
I think the early favorite from Europe is Spain for FIFA 2010. Italy and France will have a new set of players, and Germany is aging. The early favorite is likely one of the South American teams.
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German team overall is young. Couple of the stars are older but they have good replacements behind them. They'll be ok.
 
#346
#346
MG1968 said:
Germany looked like they had no idea what they were doing. It was a pathetic effort and you'd have thought the score would have been far worse (it almost was on a few occasions).

looking forward to the 2010 World Cup.
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Agree 100%. I am huge Germany fan of course but the Germans were so out of synch today. Some days are just like that. Spain deserved to win.
 
#347
#347
Nice goal by Torres. Definitely the type of goal he scored all year at Liverpool. He had at least two other chances that I thought were going to be in, but the luck didn't turn for him.

On the goal he did score, it was amazing how he got around Lahm. Lahm is one of the quicker players on the Germany side, but he looked to be in slow-mo as Torres pushed around him.
 
#348
#348
rwemyss said:
Nice goal by Torres. Definitely the type of goal he scored all year at Liverpool. He had at least two other chances that I thought were going to be in, but the luck didn't turn for him.

On the goal he did score, it was amazing how he got around Lahm. Lahm is one of the quicker players on the Germany side, but he looked to be in slow-mo as Torres pushed around him.
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Lahm didn't think he could get the outside position on him. Torres played it beautifully and chipped it over a slow Lehman.
 
#349
#349
hohenfelsvol said:
German team overall is young. Couple of the stars are older but they have good replacements behind them. They'll be ok.
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I'm concerned about who will play goalie. Lehman would be 40. Klose is getting older too, along with Ballack, and they have been the most effective world cup players for the Germans. They have some older guys on defense, too.
 
#350
#350
hohenfelsvol said:
Lahm didn't think he could get the outside position on him. Torres played it beautifully and chipped it over a slow Lehman.
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Lehmann got himself way out of position on that goal and paid the price. Just one of several times in the tourney he made a mental error. But the control Torres had on that chip was amazing
 
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