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[666]Flat · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 9:00 am

Being the German Kraut I am I say: we'll beat da Yank's 'n Rednecks 3:1 .

Your bets, please.

Effigy · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 9:05 am

My prediction

Germany 2 USA 1

But since that 5-1 whipping, Germany havn't been the same...

[666]Flat · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 9:09 am

England vs Brazil, that's gonna be hot game, dude! The very best vs the very best, phun galore!!1

Effigy · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 9:12 am

Tell me about it, should be high scoring too.

fellipe · junior member Member # Joined: 14 Nov 2001 Posts: 43

dunno about brazil vs england (im in for the brazilians tho), but my bets goes to germany. tradition will beat thecnic on that one.

pixelsoldier · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 10:29 am

Yea, that Brazil vs. England game is gonna kick some ass (no pun intended). I actually am not a soccer fan, but I've hopped on the bandwagon along with everyone else in Canada for the final rounds.

Predictions:

Germany:2 USA:1
England:2 Brazil:3
Korea:2 Spain:1
Turkey:1 Senegal:0

VIVA CANADA! err..

Basse_Ex · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 10:53 am

Germany is gonna pounce them yanks, that's for sure.

I'm also betting on Brasil.

Korea is sure to beat Spain.

And Senegal is going to win the whole damn'd World Cup...

I never bet on the exact results though.

ZippZopp · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 9:35 pm

USA 1 - Germany 0
England 2 - Brazil 1
Senegal 3 - Turkey 1
Korea 2 - Spain 1

Novacaptain · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 11:06 pm

yay, well i hope brazil wins :P too bad the matches are on at 3:30 am here.

zak · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 1:01 am

@zippzop ha ha ha, england lost 2:1 lol

Effigy · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 3:06 am

England lost

Ronaldinho, what an idiot. What was he smiling at? or couldn't he help it with those oversized teeth....

Oh well, we may have lost, but making fun of the Brazilian team is some consolation

[666]Flat · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 5:33 am

GERMANY vs USA 1:0 - well, the US folks played it the hard way, tried everything, had some good chances. Whilst our boyz played a lot more defensively and overall worse than I expected. Whatever, the US are beaten, now it's time to rumble. Oh and regarding the game England vs Brazil, well, things looked so good for England at first... I thought the English would do it.
Let's see what comes next.

pixelsoldier · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 6:48 am

I'm 2 for 2. My scores aren't correct, but I've won $40. Beer money!

pixelsoldier · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 10:16 am

Har har, 4 for 4. Woo!

Basse_Ex · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 10:50 am

Damn'd Turkey....

..... ach....

[666]Flat · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 12:21 pm

Your predictions were pretty sharp, PixelSoldier, mah man! w000t!!�

Basse: Turkey doubltessly did a good job. They proved themselves to be some badass mofos on da playing ground in the last matches but beating Brazil will be extremely hard for the turkish team like it will be for any other team left in the world cup. 'nuff said.

Spain vs Korea - damn, what a freaky match!

[ June 22, 2002: Message edited by: [666]Flat ]

Basse_Ex · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 1:28 pm

666 - yup... The turks are bad-ass..... but I was betting on Senegal to win the cup.... so I'm a little disappointed.... Now my bets are on Brasil.

clover · junior member Member # Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 10

Now it's your team against my Korean team, Flat. I don't really mind if we lose though. We've gotten pretty far anyway so it's good enough

[ June 22, 2002: Message edited by: clover ]

fellipe · junior member Member # Joined: 14 Nov 2001 Posts: 43

i think the final will be Brazil vs Korea, because FIFA whant it that way...its all a matter of referees, and FIFA can make then work just right (you can see it by Korea vs Italy and vs Spain).

henrik · Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 5:14 am

Fellipe> No offense man, but that's just bs. Korea is a very good team today. You can see how Hiddink has shaped the Korean team to play Dutch football. They are so offensive, one touch, attacking defenders, playing in triangles, so...no that's just not true.

I guess you suspect a FIFA conspiracy against Portugal eh? And oh yeah, Fifa never liked France? Argentina? Come on man. You're hitting my weak point here

I believe we'll see Germany and Brazil in the final, but I will support Korea for sure.

/The Korean Dude

[666]Flat · Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 5:57 am

One has to admit though: the treatment of Italy wasn't quite allright.

el scoono · member Member # Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Posts: 155

I've got to say that Spain & Italy were robbed in their matches against S. Korea. Italy got about 8 yellow cards in the second half, most of which weren't deserved. That really seemed to kill their aggressiveness on defense. That play where Totti received a red card for flopping in the box was ridiculous. It should have been a penalty kick for Italy; instead Totti gets thrown off the field. Pretty stupid stuff.

The Spain game was even worse, I thought. Spain outplayed S. Korea the entire 90 minutes and they should have been up 2-0. They had two good goals disallowed on phantom offsides and out-of-bounds calls.

I don't think there's any conspiracy going on, but that's some crappy officiating. S. Korea is a good team, but I didn't think they played well enough to win either game.

[ June 23, 2002: Message edited by: el scoono ]

clover · junior member Member # Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 10

Ugh... those conspiracies are driving me crazy... I can't believe those referees.

...well if Korea does come head to head with Brazilians, I don't think any bad refereeing is going to stop them from winning

[ June 23, 2002: Message edited by: clover ]

henrik · Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2002 12:19 am

Er..but since when was football about who's the best team before the match has ben played? Isn't the surprise half the game?

el scoono> No, Totti did not "deserve" the penalty. He deserves an academy award. Also, he did not get a red, he got a yellow card in that situation. (Him being sent off was the result of one yellow card recieved earlier). It's a difference between a yellow and a red y'know.
The 2-0 is bs too, the ref blew the whistle before the 1-0. I admit that the second one was wrong.

Should we blame the referees that France did not score one single goal? That the englishmen who invented football didn't automatically win? Or that Holland isn't even IN the world cup?

If football wasn't about surprise, should we all just stop playing saying; "I give up, Argentina/Italy/Brazil etc are too good. There's no point for us to try". That's crap.

Everybody accuses the referees when they lose. Why don't look at yourself and analyze what you did wrong? Has anyone accused Giovanni Trapattoni for his "Ultra Defensive" style, or just look at Figo when the Koreans tackled or took the ball from him. He stopped playing looking like a questionmark. His body language said: "Can't you see who I am!? I am Figo!

I say football is fantastic and this World Cup is more interesting than ever.

[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: henrik ]

el scoono · member Member # Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Posts: 155

Henrik: I'm aware of the difference between a red and yellow card. I know that Totti was given his second yellow for the alleged "flop" in the box. It's just common knowledge that 2 yellows = a red. The bottom line is that the ref made the decision to throw Totti out of the game at a critical time. The instant replay clearly showed it was a TERRIBLE call.

I'm no big fan of european football. I personally despise the Italian style of taking a 1-0 lead and then pulling the entire team back on defense. It sure makes for a boring match. However, there certainly were some strange calls that dramatically affected the outcome of the games. I think it's terrible that poor officiating played such a large part in the story of both matches. If I felt that the pompous, over-paid Italian team had been beaten fairly, I would have sat back and laughed. However, even I can objectively tell when the refs screw up. It happened in both of these matches.

Anyway, my pick is for Brazil to win it all. They seem to be the only team that is able to play a free, aggressive style in the most important matches.

clover · junior member Member # Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 10

That was just my prediction.