2010 World Cup talk

• gerb131

  

  Argentina vs Mexico=FUN
• Laley23

  

  gerb131;397535 wrote:Argentina vs Mexico=FUN

  
  Argentina will score on them a few times, and Messi will get his. Mexico doesnt have enough defensive minded midfielders. Their only chance would be to put Marquez in the holding mid slot and play 4 more defenders behind him. But I dont see that even slowing down Argentina. They look fantastic so far, and Messi in particular has looked great despite not scoring.
• gerb131

  

  Think Mexico will give them all they can handle. You haven't seen the best of Mexico yet and they are thru anyways. Messi is just nasty he gonna get his.
  Can you remember the name of the Mexican keeper from a few years back? Shorter guy always wearing bright colors, took some pk's every now and then?
• I Wear Pants

  Now with the group stage ending we can check to see who's doing well on the Ohio Chatter ESPN thingy.
• ts1227

  

  France decided to class it up a little more at the end (because at this point, why not?), Raymond Domenech did not want any part of a handshake from the RSA coach.
  
  [video=youtube;EDrq1SM9f_o][/video]
  
  Apparently his justification was something along the lines of claiming the RSA coach made negative comments last year when France qualified on the handball goal, but who knows.
  
  Good riddance to France.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Watch tomorrow, every ally France has will drop out.
• Mulva

  

  Automatik;397427 wrote:If Higuain gets one today I'm thinking about putting a decent amount of cash down on him to win the Golden Boot. Thoughts? That will give him four so far.

  
  I still like Fabiano personally.
• I Wear Pants

  SportsAndLady;397738 wrote:Watch tomorrow, every ally France has will drop out.

  We're dropping out?
  
  Domenech is the ultimate douchebag.
• Laley23

  

  As for the golden boot thoughts. I think we have mentioned the top 3 choices:
  
  Fabiano
  Higuain
  Villa
  
  and honestly, I dont think you can rule out Messi. I know he has zero goals, but he could EASILY get 2 versus Mexico and we all know how he scores in waves. If Argentina make the finals (4 more games) he could end up with 6 goals. Unlikely, but depending on the odds, could be worth a flier. Personally though I still like Villa.
• SportsAndLady

  

  2 hours til game time!!
  
  I'm fuckin pumped. I'll be in an office, but I was for the Slovenia game, too, and my co-worker and I had the games up on ESPN3 watching very quietly...USA scores their first goal and you heard our boss from his office "HELL YEAH!! COME ON!!" I didn't even know he liked/watched soccer haha so today there will be no sneaking, business is off for 2 hours.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Sooooooo
  
  Anyone know why Bornstein is starting for Onyewu????
• gorocks99

  

  England starting XI: James, A Cole, Upson, Terry, Johnson, Gerrard, Lampard, Barry, Milner, Defoe, Rooney
• cbus4life

  SportsAndLady;398146 wrote:2 hours til game time!!
  
  I'm fuckin pumped. I'll be in an office, but I was for the Slovenia game, too, and my co-worker and I had the games up on ESPN3 watching very quietly...USA scores their first goal and you heard our boss from his office "HELL YEAH!! COME ON!!" I didn't even know he liked/watched soccer haha so today there will be no sneaking, business is off for 2 hours.

  Haha, awesome.
• Fab1b

  

  Come on US!!
• vball10set

  USA baby!!!
• tk421

  

  If the U.S. comes out and falls behind again early I'll fucking kill someone.
• vball10set

  ^^^almost happened--wtf is up with our defense????
• like_that

  

  They shouldn't have disallowed that goal. That was bullshit. At the very least it should have been a PK to begin with.
• lhslep134

  

  We're gonna "lose" one way or another if we don't fucking put the ball in the net.
• Firad

  

  I wish John Madden would do commentary for the World Cup
• Laley23

  

  SportsAndLady;398172 wrote:Sooooooo
  
  Anyone know why Bornstein is starting for Onyewu????

  
  Cause Gooch sucks and cant cover, recover, or really do anything useful except clear crosses that find his head. I would however liked to see Bocanegra move to the center (he did) and have Spector play the outside instead of Bornstein.
• cbus4life

  Gooch is slow as balls, and hasn't really played well at all this World Cup. He was awful in the Slovenia game.
  
  Would rather see Spector than Bornstein, though.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Firad;398513 wrote:I wish John Madden would do commentary for the World Cup

  
  that's the most laughable statement I have ever heard
• I Wear Pants

  I do like Spector.
• tk421

  

  Germany/Ghana here we go. Go Germany! Don't want to face them on Saturday so we need a German win.