The announcers on British TV are now discussing the referee’s track record in earlier tournaments, which is never a good sign. Very harsh decision. I can only think that it looked like a leg-breaking tackle from his angle.
3rd goal for Germany!.. Australia never had a chance. Nice goal by Muller.
And the 4th TWO MINUTES later! Cacau, who had just come in for Klose after the 3rd German goal, scores.
Jeez… This is tremendous. Germany has totally steamrolled over Australia in this game.
I have been hearing that this German team has quite a bit of flair and they certainly have shown it. They could easily have been 5-0 up by now and this kind of dominating performance surely makes them a leading candidate to go all the way.
Only been on the pitch 2 minutes or so.
His first touch on the ball.
Germany looks like the soccer Borg right now. Come on, Aussies, one goal!
Fourth goal… 20 mins to go…
If you’ve got a decent telly, with an EQ, then drop 300MHz and boost a little on either side. It helps a bit. But by fuck the horns just kill the atmosphere on broadcast. I mean South Africa score in the opening game - and, hey, it’s the same fucking drone but a bit louder. Hopefully they will be banned once everybody has had a game.
Resistance is futile! efficient disciplined relentless no-one who actually likes football wants them to win, and yet they do Having said that, they look like a pretty good side this time, entertaining even.
I’d like to see Oz score a goal. I don’t like shut outs.
This day could not have gone worse for the Serbs. Losing basically means that they need an Australian win against Ghana or an absolute miracle of their own against the Germans, and now the Socceroos will be without Cahill against Ghana while they’ve lost their central defender against the Germans.
Bets on whether Australia makes it past the group stage?
Yikes. I was hungry, so I did a Mickey D’s run. When I came back, it was 4-0 Germany. You’d think they were playing Poland in 1938.
Yellow card for Cacau.
Good grief, this game has been a complete shut-out of Australia. I feel for them… It is not every day that you get trounced so thoroughly at WC level!
Ah well.
Gotta tip your cap to the German side anyway. That was exactly what you should do when you are facing a lesser opponent. They imposed their will and did not take their foot off the gas pedal.
Grrr. I fucking hate this stupid stereotype. Germany are in fact consistently one of the best teams to watch, for a neutral. Put them in yellow shirts and people would be purring over their football. They played some lovely stuff tonight, even leaving aside the goals.
Yeah they played some very attractive football today and in fact weren’t particularly efficient in the sense of converting all their easy chances. They could easily have been 4-0 up in just the first half.
They did. That being said, Australia is bad. Like really really bad. The US beat them 3-1 and really should have put in 6. If Germany was clinical in front of the net this could’ve been double digits.
Most people had North Korea or New Zealand as most likely to let in the most goals. I think it’ll be Australia.
While it’s nice to have more American voices in a World Cup thread, I have to say that I’m really struggling with the singular vs. plural thing. Such as “Australia is bad”. That just sounds horribly ungrammatical to me. “Australia ARE bad”. ARE.
Although, I’m quite enjoying saying that, so maybe this singular thing will grow on me. Australia IS bad. IT stinks. Australia IS hopeless at football. Australia couldn’t hit a cow’s arse with a banjo (OK, that one works both ways, but I just like saying it).
I hope you didn’t miss my multi-layered deconstruction of UK media tropes?
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