Aw noooooo aw nooooo!
Come on
There are apparently numerous anecdotes of what Brazilian and German fans were doing during the nine minutes of the 2014 World Cup semifinal where Germany went from leading 1-0 to 5-0.
One Brazilian anecdote was apparently that someone took a bathroom break and came back to 5-0 while someone else bought a soda, and/or did something else, and the score went to 5-0.
Is there really any doubt who is the greatest player ever?
I started composing an e-mail to my German friend at 2-0 and ended up re-writing it so much that I gave up and did it at half time instead.
Heh, the commentator in Telemundo said that It was going to be a goal from Ronaldo with that free kick.
And it was.
Oh I say!
That’s him in a nutshell though. Spain have given them a masterclass but Ronaldo can be the difference.
And that, boys and girls, is why the tournament does not need to be expanded.
Get a limited group of the top teams together and enjoy. That was worth 20 Russia/Saudi Arabia, Morocco/Iran or Uruguay/Egypt games.
Jolly decent game that!
CR7 scored a hatrick playing out of position, as a CF.
Messi cries when pushed out of his favourite Right Forward or False 9 place.
Please sir, can we have it expanded enough so that we get another go?
Just look at the WC2014 thread on the Dope. We could not keep up.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=722766&page=57
Well, Spain blew that one, giving up a PK in the first 4 minutes, a goalkeeping howler, and a stupid foul right in front of the goal for Ronaldo to take; should have been 3-1 Spain at the worst.
The Spanish papers and TV folks are going to have fun dissecting this one when it’s combined with the change of coach…
Anybody else getting up at 4AM (CST in the US) to watch France?
Meh, Spain dominated as expected. Two dives and a de Gea howler to equalize.
Makes the rest of the matches in this group very interesting though. Instead of knowing who would win the group after one game we now get to see four games where Spain and Portugal try to outdo each other in smashing the hapless Morocco and Iran teams.
The meh is to the Ronaldo love. That was a fantastically entertaining game. If we get one half as entertaining as that every day for the rest of the tournament I’ll be in heaven.
A general request: please don’t link to page numbers of long threads. People change page size from the default. Please either link to a post or link to the thread and say the number of the post that the interesting thing happens at.
The only soccer I watch is the WC every four years, plus an occasional US qualifier, so I’m no expert on what constitutes a well-played match. But even I had no trouble seeing the stark difference between Russia/SA yesterday and Spain/Portugal today.
This is the first post about that game, I think
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17530366&postcount=2823
VAR penalty for France. Not sure why the card was only yellow. Seems like a textbook example of Denial of and Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity.
Excellent point.
Australia and the USA this last week perhaps have exposed France as overrated. I thought France would get 2 or 3 against the Aussies.
Spoke to soon.