Assholes aside(Maradona)

Love your post. Good to see some logical thought on the Sports Board.


BUT THIS IS SPORTS!!!! LMAO  Logic not necessary.

I'll be involved in covert activity today. Won't be able to view TWO very good matches. Please call me with updates.

The Brazil match was theirs to lose and they did.They are a very good ball control team. Ghana doesn't deserve to go further. THEY CAN'T keep the damned ball down. My god they do that for a living.

You will notice how the pairings allowed for Argentina(or Spain)and Brazil to meet in the final. We here at home are always claiming the ncaa wants particular teams to meet in the ncaa roundball final. Food for thought.

Hasta la bye bye

Really fine post, this.  Beautiful mind writes about the beautiful game!

Nice points about die Mannschaft; just wanted to add Khedira has also been important for Germany, and Löw has an excellent running talent with an eye for goal in Marin.

Thanks for writing.  Now I'm putting on my Trikot and heading to the pub.

design.lust

You are making too many assumptions.

"To win the World Cup Argentina need to beat Germany, Spain and Netherlands in a row."

Spain still has to beat Paraguay which won't be an easy game as Paraguay is a very disciplined team.

Netherlands still has to beat Uruguay and that is not a gimme as it looks despite Uruguay missing Suarez and Fucile for sure and maybe two others.

Oh yeah, you forgot Argentina still has to beat Germany. We are getting to the nitty gritty now and no team is going to lay down.

The best team in the WC so far are still alive, so everything is a tossup. Argentina, Netherlands, Spain and Germany have been by far the four best teams in the WC even with Germany and Spain losing a game.

I have not been terribly impressed by Brazil this entire WC and they got their due yesterday. I actually picked Holland in by brackets and bet a straight up win by them yesterday as well. I am not complaining.

If you looked at yesterday's game, Brazil did not come to play football. MMA was more like it. They were lucky not to concede a penalty in the first minute of play when a Brazil defender pushed a Dutch forward down in the box. Brazil were more interested in shoving and pushing and disrupting the Dutch playing style instead of playing their game. Brazil hadn't played a quality opponent or fallen behind before yesterday. When they did, they crumbled unlike the Dutch who responded. After Brazil fell behind, they constantly badgered the ref for fouls and yellow cards instead of playing their game and looking for an equalizer. Overall, Brazil's performance yesterday was shameful and embarrassing.

Now a couple nuggets for you regarding the WC. Only teams from two continents have ever won the WC, South America and Europe. A European team has never won the WC when it has been hosted outside of Europe. A South American team has never won the WC when it has been hosted in Europe.

This history explains the strong performance of South American teams at this years WC and a good bet that one of the remaining South American teams could win the WC but no guarantees exist and history is meant to be changed.