Olympic football tournament

The Stadium pitches are really $h!t.

Belgians were sent off for innocuous/non-existent challenges.

Riquelme looking miserable as usual. Argies to win the tournament.

Maduro is really shite, he's playing a position in which he should win balls; in stead of that he loses them.

Luijckx please.

Offside goal for Ivory Coast, so close!

New Zealand player already sent off in the game against China.

Messi scors for Argentina, who lead 1-0 at the break.

Nigeria - Holland is a more than decent match to watch

Both sides have been dangerous.

Holland will grow stronger with each substitution, but the Nigerians will probably have stamina (and 4-5 years ) on us.


Maduro is so Cr@p that you could probably use him as fertilizer

De Guzman is playing very well....but he's ineffective and doesn't track back, he'll be our make or break player though : we'll score through an action of him, or him losing the ball / his man will cost us a goal.

Dirk Marcellis deserves a thumbs up for that first half, just like the Nigerian #14

New Zealand lead China

What a header 1-1

Ivory Coast are awesome!

Ivory Coast have equalised through Cisse.

Why have Holland changed captain the second half?

Argentina look rattled. Really have no answer atm.

What? Makaay off for Sibon? Foppe is an idiot!

De Guzman wrote:Why have Holland changed captain the second half?

Don't know why the hell Makaay has been taken off, means we've lost our most dangerous weapon

Sibon is even slower than Maduro ffs !



.....and could please tell someone De Guzman that football is supposed to be a team sport

Reckless challeneg from Ageuro then. Really impressed considering Kalou is the only household name on the pitch atm.

Axeslammer wrote:

De Guzman wrote:Why have Holland changed captain the second half?

Don't know why the hell Makaay has been taken off, means we've lost our most dangerous weapon

Sibon is even slower than Maduro ffs !



.....and could please tell someone De Guzman that football is supposed to be a team sport

maybe somebody could tell his teammates to support him a little more... Some hardly move, players should make themselves available.

Really hope Fopp is an idiot, otherwise what I feared for happened: Makaay getting injured.

Aguero offisde....goal disallowed

Aguero has a goal ruled out for offside. Correct decision, although the football from Argentina was very good to open up the Ivorian defence.

More bad keeping, this time from Cameroon, South Korea lead.

2-1 Argentina!

That was coming you could just tell!

91' Sno sent off. straight red for foot over the ball. Still 0-0.

Cool, means next match we get Maduro again. Luijckx please!

0-0 FT

De Guzman wrote:91' Sno sent off. straight red for foot over the ball. Still 0-0.

Cool, means next match we get Maduro again. Luijckx please!

0-0 FT

Completely ridiculous sending off

The ref whistled any time oneone went down anyway : Bozo, f@ck off back to Chile

Holland was completely Cr@p in the second half.

We should have brought Nijland instead of Sibon, my gran over Maduro and Hieriej/Janmaat over Zuiverloon.

4 red cards in 8 matches then unless I'm mistaken, rather poor display from referee's in general, hopefully this isn't occuring as a result of a FIFA directive.

well done Ivory Coast, played very well.
What odds at least half that team being swapped for ak47's by arsenal in the next 4 hours?
the guy up front with the extra tight hairband will defo end up in prem.

Dwarf wrote:4 red cards in 8 matches then unless I'm mistaken, rather poor display from referee's in general, hopefully this isn't occuring as a result of a FIFA directive.

Red cards have an even bigger impact than in normal tournies due to the small squad (18 ) and the quick succession of matches

Axeslammer wrote:

De Guzman wrote:91' Sno sent off. straight red for foot over the ball. Still 0-0.

Cool, means next match we get Maduro again. Luijckx please!

0-0 FT

Completely ridiculous sending off

The ref whistled any time oneone went down anyway : Bozo, f@ck off back to Chile

Holland was completely Cr@p in the second half.

We should have brought Nijland instead of Sibon, my gran over Maduro and Hieriej/Janmaat over Zuiverloon.

Well since Makaay had a painful foot, I would have stuck Babel alone up front & let Bakkal play off him (got to do with what's available, unfortunately your Gran isn't in the squad), what really pissed me off is in the second half Nigeria were a tad better, so we could play on the break, so we stuck Babel up front anyway with Sibon playing attacking mid (which of course he can't). De Guzman behind Babel would have been an option too, with some lefty playing right mid.

Calidad wrote:Belgians were sent off for innocuous/non-existent challenges.

Riquelme looking miserable as usual. Argies to win the tournament.

I think that too, they seem not only good but better organised. Well, I would be happy

Dong Secures Draw For China

China 1-1 New Zealand

China and New Zealand played out an entertaining 1-1 draw in front of a capacity crowd in Shenyang in their opening Olympic match. Jeremy Brockie handed the guests the lead against the run of play just after half time, but substitute Dong Fangzhou replied for China as the game ebbed towards injury time.

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=808994

Juligen wrote:

Calidad wrote:Belgians were sent off for innocuous/non-existent challenges.

Riquelme looking miserable as usual. Argies to win the tournament.

I think that too, they seem not only good but better organised. Well, I would be happy

Organised are you having a laugh? They were cut open time after time. Gervinho was running rings round Garay. Please they'll choke as usual...

Lordanger wrote:well done Ivory Coast, played very well.
What odds at least half that team being swapped for ak47's by arsenal in the next 4 hours?
the guy up front with the extra tight hairband will defo end up in prem.

We already have tabs on Gervinho

For anyone who saw the Brasil match - can you say how Marcelo played?