2014 World Cup

[Eddie Teach]

Canadian sports Basketball

Blasphemy!

[Hansmeister]

The Argentines seem to do quite well in penalty shoot-outs.  Their goal keeper is impressive.  This may persuade the Germans to play more aggressively.

They have only ever lost one penalty shootout at the world cup. To Germany.

While I believe Germany has never lost a penalty shoot out.

[jimmy olsen]

Not enough puns in here

[Monoriu]

The Germany-Brazil match will be what people remember and talk about when they discuss the 2014 World Cup in future years.   

I am still thinking if I should bother to wake up at 4am to watch the third place match. 

[Maladict]

I am still thinking if I should bother to wake up at 4am to watch the third place match.

Fixed. And no, you shouldn't. Brazil will win it.

[Maladict]

Goddammit, lost my lead in the pool as well.

[Syt]

Austrian news site called yesterday's fixture "ein von Taktik geprägtes Match" (a match dominated by tactical considerations) which is sports journo shorthand for, "Both teams played very defensively and it was boring as fuck."

[Maladict]

Austrian news site called yesterday's fixture "ein von Taktik geprägtes Match" (a match dominated by tactical considerations) which is sports journo shorthand for, "Both teams played very defensively and it was boring as fuck."

Yeah it probably wasn't very exciting for neutral viewers.

[Admiral Yi]

I did notice it was a relatively clean game and the there was little diving.

I also plan on missing the hell out of the consolation game.

[Monoriu]

Austrian news site called yesterday's fixture "ein von Taktik geprägtes Match" (a match dominated by tactical considerations) which is sports journo shorthand for, "Both teams played very defensively and it was boring as fuck."

Yeah, that was boring.  Sometimes a 0-0 match could be interesting if there were a lot of shots.  The Netherlands-Argentina match was lacking in that department too.  Stars like Messi or van Persie didn't really do much.  Couldn't believe that I woke up at 4am and took painkiller after painkiller (as I had heahache due to sleep deprivation) to watch that. 

But anyway, the important point is that we got the result that we needed.  A Germany-Argentina final is what the status quo needs.  That's all that matters.

[Maladict]

Mono, do you enjoy watching football or are you just obsessed with the status quo thing? Honest question.

[Monoriu]

Mono, do you enjoy watching football or are you just obsessed with the status quo thing? Honest question.

I do both.  I do like football, especially the World Cup format.  When I watch football, I have to pick a side to enjoy it.  One feature of the system is that I don't have much discretion on which side to support.  Say, if it is Uruguay vs China, I will have to support Uruguay. 

[Syt]

Austrian news site called yesterday's fixture "ein von Taktik geprägtes Match" (a match dominated by tactical considerations) which is sports journo shorthand for, "Both teams played very defensively and it was boring as fuck."

Yeah it probably wasn't very exciting for neutral viewers.

Well, it helps if you are rooting for one of the teams, but even so - I mean, I've seen my share of highly defensive games of Germany or Bayern Munich in the past 20 years and usually it's not really fun unless you're particularly fond of the intricacies of "Rasenschach" (lawn chess) as it's often called derogatorily.

[Maladict]

Well, it helps if you are rooting for one of the teams, but even so - I mean, I've seen my share of highly defensive games of Germany or Bayern Munich in the past 20 years and usually it's not really fun unless you're particularly fond of the intricacies of "Rasenschach" (lawn chess) as it's often called derogatorily.

I don't know. If your team is playing in the knockout phase a game like this does have a lot of tension, because you know a single goal will probably be the end of it, for both sides. So it's pretty much a 120-minute sudden death game. With the stakes as high as they were, I couldn't take my eyes off it.

[Maladict]

I did notice it was a relatively clean game and the there was little diving.

The ref did miss a very blatant foul on Sneijder, of the "inbetween yellow and outright red card" category.