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Lou Cipher
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Tinkering for the sake of it. Most fans despise penalty shoot-outs so UEFA think up a way to increase them.
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funkymonkey
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The Turkey match was THE match of the tournament so far, it was just bizarre by the end lol.
Ballack scored a beaut last night but Germany are looking awful after an impressive first game. I would never bet against them though! |
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clevelandspur
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^ Sets up Germany v Portugal right? That should be a real cracker. Germany gets Schweinsteiger back for that one. What a matchup of him vs. Ronaldo on the wing!
Italy today have to do the business, I expect Holland will still put out a strong team considering their depth. |
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funkymonkey
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| clevelandspur wrote: | ^ Sets up Germany v Portugal right? That should be a real cracker. Germany gets Schweinsteiger back for that one. What a matchup of him vs. Ronaldo on the wing!
Italy today have to do the business, I expect Holland will still put out a strong team considering their depth. |
Yeah there are some really meaty final rounds this Euro champs and tonight will be the best so far I hope.
As for Germany v Portugal, Portugal are the better team man for man but the German team spirit is always worth a goal. I also think it was a school boy error of Scholari to drop so many players (8) from their last group game, they are in danger of losing momentum and cohesion. I could have understood benching the guys on yellow cards but not 8 players! Could bite him in the ass that decision.
Like you, I don't expect Van Basten to do the same with Holland tonight. |
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Penny
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| clevelandspur wrote: |
Italy today have to do the business, I expect Holland will still put out a strong team considering their depth. |
^ I have a feeling Romania will go through. Italy and France to go out. Italy have been so unlucky in this tournament. Holland are through already - they'll probably rest most of their best players. |
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clevelandspur
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| funkymonkey wrote: |
As for Germany v Portugal, Portugal are the better team man for man but the German team spirit is always worth a goal. I also think it was a school boy error of Scholari to drop so many players (8) from their last group game, they are in danger of losing momentum and cohesion. I could have understood benching the guys on yellow cards but not 8 players! Could bite him in the ass that decision.
Like you, I don't expect Van Basten to do the same with Holland tonight. |
I may put a nice chunk of change on the Germans. I agree about messing with the team too much, add to that every star on their team has talked more about his club future for next year than business at hand including the manager. I don't see how the team can stay focused with all of this drama. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah Italy made it ... I watched Holland - Romania and Holland was go0d enough again although the match wasn't important ... Probably it will be Spain-Italy & Holland-(Sweden/Russia) |
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AlexH
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Best game of the tournament tonight. It was verging on 'it was so bad, it was good'.
What was up with Luca Toni? He only missed about 6 clear cut chances. |
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Penny
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| AlexH wrote: |
What was up with Luca Toni? He only missed about 6 clear cut chances. |
I know.
What is going on with him?!
Pirlo and Gattuso out for the next game against Spain. I'd say Italy haven't a hope! |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| Penny wrote: | | ...Pirlo and Gattuso out for the next game against Spain. I'd say Italy haven't a hope! |
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Penny
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| ^ Lol! I'm not happy about that Samad. |
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 Sometimes I become a sadistic person lol, don't know why  |
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clevelandspur
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Job done and Italy through!
Toni was shocking he could have had 6! The squad is held together by tape right now, so many injuries and suspensions but you can never count them out. |
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Penny
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| ^S^ wrote: | | Sometimes I become a sadistic person lol, don't know why |
I forgive you.
This time!! |
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funkymonkey
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| On the subject of Italian injuries is Totti injured? I must have missed that one as he isn't in the squad. |
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Penny
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| ^ No, he retired from International after the last WC. Same as Nesta. I think they should both have stuck around for this tournament. |
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funkymonkey
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Totti is only blumin 31 ffs!!!! That is shocking!
They could have really done with him that's for sure! |
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Penny
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, Nesta is only 32. I guess Totti has had a lot of injuries, so he doesn't want to jeopardise his club career by risking injury while with the national team. I dont' really understand why Nesta retired. I know he asked not to be called up last year cos he was just after getting married. Then he said his career with the Azzuri was over, but this time around when he wasn't called up, a few of the players started complaining - I thought that was a bit odd, since I definitely remember him announcing his retirement. |
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clevelandspur
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| ^ I think Totti was going to play in the Euros but he picked up a knock towards the end of the season. These retirments from internationals are a bit like boxing, you can never take them serious |
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Penny
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^ Yeah, I guess. Poor Totti - he's always injured.
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