# Brasil 2014
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [May 6, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840 "2014-05-06T21:19:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 11
### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/201 "2014-06-12T20:14:48Z")
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Own goooooooooooooooooooooal after 10 minutes!
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### Author:  [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/202 "2014-06-12T20:15:31Z")
Well, as expected, a Brazilian player scores the first goal.
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/203 "2014-06-12T20:16:06Z")
10 minutes in, Croatia 1 Brazil 0, some very lazy Brazilian defending leads to an Own Goal.
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### Author:  [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/204 "2014-06-12T20:18:46Z")
Croatia deserve to be ahead, it is quite some sound when the Brazilians charge forward. They are a bit frantic at the moment though, almost asking to be caught on the counter.
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### Author:  [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/205 "2014-06-12T20:21:02Z")
Croatia is playing much better.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/206 "2014-06-12T20:23:13Z")
Here in Buenos Aires you could cut the Schadenfreude with a knife and sell it for pie…
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/207 "2014-06-12T20:33:08Z")
Uuuntil now.
I hope our own first game iswill be a bit more relaxed than this.
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### Author:  [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/208 "2014-06-12T20:37:13Z")
What’s the pace like so far?
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/209 "2014-06-12T20:46:22Z")
I’d say Premier League pace.
First time I’ve seen that 10-yard paint used. I like it.
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### Author:  [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/210 "2014-06-12T20:50:47Z")
Premier league pace on the first day is a good sign. The only place I’ve seen the paint used is during a couple Brazilian league matches.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/211 "2014-06-12T20:55:43Z")
The MLS uses the 10 yard paint as well.
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/212 "2014-06-12T20:56:13Z")
Think I heard the commentator saying they were going to use it in La Liga next season. Could be mistaken, I was too busy saying to my girlfriend - “No, there, look, look, right there, the line on the ground, at their feet, no THERE” 😃
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### Author:  [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/213 "2014-06-12T21:03:11Z")
29 minutes of the 1st half – Brazil equalizes with a _beautiful_ goal.
Brazil puts enormous pressure on Croatia. Waiting for the 2nd half to begin and see if Brazil can turn around the game. Hope they will; I bet on them to win in my office pool!
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/214 "2014-06-12T21:25:53Z")
I wouldn’t call it beautiful, except in so far as the circumstances made it so. The Croatian keeper should have saved it. Neymar has far prettier goals in him than that one.
Still looking for Brazil to win this, but it’s been a dull second half.
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### Author:  [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/215 "2014-06-12T21:30:07Z")
Brazil dives! Terrible call
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/216 "2014-06-12T21:31:28Z")
Penalty against Croatia! Terrible call.
ETA and of course Neymar put it in, although it was almost saved.
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/217 "2014-06-12T21:31:58Z")
Harsh.
The ref won’t enjoy watching that on the replays tonight.
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### Author:  [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/218 "2014-06-12T21:32:24Z")
Weird penalty kick against Croatia. I think it was unfair.
Some people were foreseeing that referees would favor Brazil in this WC
71 minutes, 2nd half – Brazil 2, Croatia 1
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### Author:  [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/219 "2014-06-12T21:34:27Z")
Some people have said that the referees might favor Brazil during this WC.
Might they be right…?
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### Author:  [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/220 "2014-06-12T21:39:02Z")
> [@JoseB](#):
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> Some people have said that the referees might favor Brazil during this WC.
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> Might they be right…?
No doubt that was a terrible call, but I doubt it’s the referees favoring Brazil so much as you end up with subpar refs from “lesser” regions when South American and European teams play each other. That, and a referee’s job in general is almost impossible because three officials cannot make completely accurate calls on a field 50% larger than an American football field. Especially without instant replay.
Complain to FIFA, though, and they’ll tell you referee fallibility is just all part of the drama. Wankers.
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