Football (Soccer) Thread

[Liep]

why is it always the damn danes.

Will be a happy country I return to today, well tomorrow... damn distance!

[Valdemar]

 

Three games in a row with fairly exiting forward offensive play.. and good use of some of the talents. Boilesen and Agger will hopefully be fit and with playing time when we reach 2012 making our defence issues one of too many fair players rather than the usual issues. Bjelland did really good for youngster in the local leaque and with only 3 caps.

One more tour left in Rommedahl will give one side a good go, Kron Dehli will hopefully stay at this level securing the other wing. Bendtners new role as center attacker as well "Play center" is much better than lazy Bendtner of old. Eriksen just needs to stay consistent and try a little less hard, get used to scoring and our offensive is fairly set.

That leaves the machine room in midfield. C poulsen still seem awfully rusty and slow, but at least he didn't make any obvious mistakes either. William Kvist looks like the new midfield general.

If Lindegaard takes on in Man U we also have decent goalie alternatives with a potential for really good goaltending.

All in all it was a good end for the qualifiers

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[Warspite]

Croatia is happier about Serbia not qualifying than Croatia making the playoffs. 

[FunkMonk]

USA was defeated 1-0 by mighty Ecuador.

It was a decent match in the first half, but Klinsmann pulled off four players at intermission. Our back four was pretty solid throughout the game until Tim Ream and Jonathon Spector came on. Spector was downright horrible and a defensive lapse by Ream let in the only goal of the game. Gooch and Bocanegra seemed to work very well together.

Just a friendly, and although I was slightly impressed by the attacking play, there were still no goals. Someone other than Dempsey/Donovan needs to start scoring goals.

[Josephus]

They don't have a particularly good recored since Klinsmann took over, do they?

Well...Canada drew Puerto Rico 0-0 at home. That's even worse. 

[FunkMonk]

I'd say the results wouldn't be dramatically different than under Bob Bradley.

[Zanza]

Germany's oldest player yesterday was Philipp Lahm, age 27. So the team could conceivably play in that formation for another 4-5 years. I hope this will be a golden generation for Germany. The only starting player that will leave anytime soon is Klose, but then there is hope that Gomez has stabilized and will keep being a goal-scoring machine.

[HVC]

Croatia is happier about Serbia not qualifying than Croatia making the playoffs. 

You're a petty people

[FunkMonk]

Germany's oldest player yesterday was Philipp Lahm, age 27. So the team could conceivably play in that formation for another 4-5 years. I hope this will be a golden generation for Germany. The only starting player that will leave anytime soon is Klose, but then there is hope that Gomez has stabilized and will keep being a goal-scoring machine.

Germany 2014 World Cup Champions

[Warspite]

The 2010 German team was pretty damn good. People forget they only lost to the eventual champions to a goal from a set piece and because the key player in their midfield and forwards link up was suspended for a non-foul the previous game.

[Maladict]

Play-offs:

Turkey v Croatia
Estonia v Ireland
Czech Republic v Montenegro
Bosnia v Portugal

[The Larch]

Turkey - Croatia should be the more interesting matchup, followed by Bosnia - Portugal.

Estonia - Ireland might be a snorefest for the ages.

[Cerr]

I'm happy with the draw.

Estonia are the weakest team in the play offs.
Plus we get to play the second leg at home.

[Josquius]

Estonia play football? News to me.
And Portugal in the playoffs.

[Zanza]

Germany 2014 World Cup Champions

I wouldn't go that far, but in current form, Germany is certainly a contender for the Euro 2012.