The Road to the FIFA World Cup - South Africa 2010

Good run from Quaresma there running 40 meters or so almost before delivering a cross that almost ends in a own goal. would have been pathetic if they could win with a own goal.

Great chance there after a clever backheel from nuno gomes to Nani who should have buried that one. only 4 minutes left for Portugal.

EDIT: Good chance by Ronaldo with one of his trade mark cut in and shoot. goes rigth past the post. almost saved Portugal there. only extra time now. would be a great result for Albania.

Klinsi RAUS ! wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

Young gets serious end product in one of the big 3 leagues - Ribery chose to play in a joke league.
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the only joke on here is YOU

why do you even bother ?

in terms of retardation, you are right up there with rai and deano

Aww did he hit a nerve? Lets face it German football is in dire straights.... with all those Champions League winners... err finalists?.. err knock out stage teams

Stuttering to a hugely uninspiring 1-0 victory at home against the mighty Wales

All those superstar German players dominating the world... err Ballack and err who else

German football IS a joke

Albania

FT
0-0
Great result for Albania with 10 men. excellent and they both have 4 points now.Nani and Quaresma did some bright things now and then and Quaresma almost saved it with his great dribble in the end but a bad cross.




Carlos Queiroz.

Yep Portugal this is only a taste of what's coming. Dutch revenge for 2006. Haan in charge of Albania & Erwin Koeman in charge of Hungary will take good care of you lot.



0-0 at home v Albania v 10 men

and this was just the starter...

Football Genius wrote:

German football IS a joke

SChweini, Poldi , Troch... were excellent

Wales were parking the bus forcing Germany to try long distance shots

mission accomplished

you Englanders can show how good you are when you come to Berlin in November

P W D L F A GD PTS
1 Denmark 3 2 1 0 6 2 4 7
2 Hungary 4 2 1 1 4 2 2 7
3 Portugal 4 1 2 1 6 3 3 5
4 Albania 4 1 2 1 3 2 1 5
5 Sweden 3 1 2 0 2 1 1 5
6 Malta 4 0 0 4 0 11 -11 0



We are on top and we have already gotten past the hardest match with 3 points. now we only need to get revenge on the swedes and we will going to Sout Africa. if they f@ck this up Morten Olsen should be deported to Holland.

I don't think German football is a joke. The German team is one of the teams I enjoy watching. I also think along with Spain Germany has the best young talent in Europe. The senior German team does need better defenders though. Mertesacker, Friedrich, and Fritz are shockingly bad.

Good Job Albania.

Parks lives wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

zizoued wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

zizoued wrote:Some muppet in 606 claims A.Young is better than Ribery. Yeah, right. though it should be said A.Young is a decent player, I rate him. As one would put it, "team oriented" and quite effective winger. I'd play him, Joe Cole, or SWP over Theo walcott, who simply put is not ready to start. Perhaps one day he will be consistent enough to satisfy the fans. You know like scoring hattricks or doing a maradona run in CL quarters, and stuff. I think the hype has got into his head. Nothing new.

It seems to me if England fails, it's going to be either Lampard or Gerrard's mistake.

I'm a Ribery fan but that's hardly teh most ridiculous claim I've heard.

Young gets serious end product in one of the big 3 leagues - Ribery chose to play in a joke league.

Neither has done anything at the very highest level.

Ribery is the reason France did as well in WC06. IMO, Vieira and Ribery raised France to go to KO phase with some great performance, and Zidane stole the limelight in KO phase. Ribery has proved he could perform at the highest level for France. And, I'm not sure whether Bundesliga is a "joke league". However, the way Bayern have started this season is a "joke".

Fair enough - I thought Ribery's performances at WC '06 were massively overhyped

Even Malouda was better in some games.

Sorry, I was watching the game. Laughing so loud. I hate Queeroz, Cristiano, and Portugal NT. Felt bad for Pepe though.

Reg. overhyped ribery and Vieira - The first two games in the group were poor, and believe it or not, only Henry turned up in both the games, and he nicked an important goal against Korea. They were looking to be out of the tournament. Now, who pushed the blues to glory? Look no further than their resurgence in the Togo game. Ribery dribbled and finds Vieira's run, who finishes off the 1st goal vs Togo, and for second, Vieira won the header to assist henry's goal. And if not for that 2-0 vs Togo, they wouldn't have made it to KO.

And, the pair made the difference against Spain as well. Surely you couldn't forget Ribery-Vieira's combination(again) for the first goal against Spain? Vieira again added the second. Zidane scored the third, which like it or not, was not as important as the first 2 goals. Zidane only really lifted them in the game against Brazil. And, Henry stamped and fell from Carvalho's foot, and they won with that penalty against Portugal in an even game.

It'd be easy to diminish Ribery, Vieira, Zizou, and Henry contribution. You could easily take out Malouda , Wiltord , but not the aforementioned's contribution in Les blues attack!

So who can we consider qualified.

USA, Spain, Holland, ...

De Guzman wrote:So who can we consider qualified.

USA, Spain, Holland, Denmark

Hope so, but still a lot to play for in your group.

brilliant goal by Arshavin

I hope he joins Bayern in the winter break , leading Poldi to join Schalke or HSV

Football Genius wrote:

German football IS a joke

Yes, that joke that played you out the park last year, with the third string team. You remember fortress Wembley?

I think there is not much difference between England and Wales. Both play negative and dull. Wales have a better keeper, though.

England vs Germany

Super Madrid wrote:P W D L F A GD PTS
1 Denmark 3 2 1 0 6 2 4 7
2 Hungary 4 2 1 1 4 2 2 7
3 Portugal 4 1 2 1 6 3 3 5
4 Albania 4 1 2 1 3 2 1 5
5 Sweden 3 1 2 0 2 1 1 5
6 Malta 4 0 0 4 0 11 -11 0



We are on top and we have already gotten past the hardest match with 3 points. now we only need to get revenge on the swedes and we will going to Sout Africa. if they f@ck this up Morten Olsen should be deported to Holland.

Last year the Denmark vs Sweden game was crazy. I think Denmark can finish of on top in this group.

kroesius wrote:

Football Genius wrote:

German football IS a joke

Yes, that joke that played you out the park last year, with the third string team. You remember fortress Wembley?

I think there is not much difference between England and Wales. Bot play negative and dull. Wales have a better keeper, though.

Here we have words of a Genius... dull?

4-1 and then 5-1 and then 3-1 , wow in three games a total of 12 goals we've scored... legendary dull

haha, Wembley last year? thats about as relative as talking about 1966... Capello's England are a different proposition to McClown's....

German football is shite at the moment, English football is on the ascendancy.... Get used to it... hell in a couple of years even you will be singing Royal Britannia

Football Genius wrote:

kroesius wrote:

Football Genius wrote:

German football IS a joke

Yes, that joke that played you out the park last year, with the third string team. You remember fortress Wembley?

I think there is not much difference between England and Wales. Bot play negative and dull. Wales have a better keeper, though.

Here we have words of a Genius... dull?

4-1 and then 5-1 and then 3-1 , wow in three games a total of 12 goals we've scored... legendary dull

haha, Wembley last year? thats about as relative as talking about 1966... Capello's England are a different proposition to McClown's....

German football is shite at the moment, English football is on the ascendancy.... Get used to it... hell in a couple of years even you will be singing Royal Britannia

The only flair player you have is J. Cole. I wouldn´t pay to watch one of the others.
The first step is to qualify for a tournament. You didn´t manage that with all you super dooper players like the white Pele, last time.

The second step is to win some titles or at least reach a final.
If you did that, you have some reason to belittle the success of one of the most successful football nations.
Right now you are nothing more than Denmark, Serbia or Greece, who all lead their groups.
And if you take a closer look, Denmark or Greece have been more successful than England, as they won titles before my granddad was born.

To be honest, I have never seen an Italian, Brazilian, Frenchman calling German football a joke. Maybe they would have more reason to do so, than you.

Pele has scored 5 goals in 3 games for England.... perhaps you shouldn't preach too hard as the chickens may just come home to roost....

Won all of our first 4 qualifying games, scored 14 goals....

A German critizing our lack of flair players? LOOOL, keep it coming... we will decimate you boys in the upcoming freindly... you heard it here first....

England

On Ireland's game v Cyprus.

Delighted with the result, but thats where the elation stops dead in it's track.

The midfield selection was plain wrong.

Duff was excellent I thought. Given and Dunne were equally excellent as well.

Get RID of McShane. He's absolutely useless any moron could tell you that 3-4 years ago. Playing him at full back

The ref and linesman had a complete shocker tonight.
The number of atrocious decisions and that ruckuss at the end were unbelieveable. No discipline or authority and completely clueless when it came to the rules of the game. They effectively ruined the match with their constant stop-start idiotic ref'ing.

Saying that there were too many passangers out there againist fucking Cyprus with a few suberb performances.

Tolerating conservative tactics away from home (though I fully believe in the 'if we got one goal why can't we get another' ethos) is one thing, but I was expecting more ambition tonight in our first game at home and against understrength and average opponents.

3 points is comforting but I that was painful viewing.

BrianS wrote:I don't think German football is a joke. The German team is one of the teams I enjoy watching. I also think along with Spain Germany has the best young talent in Europe. The senior German team does need better defenders though. Mertesacker, Friedrich, and Fritz are shockingly bad.

Good Job Albania.

Personally think German football is in a very healthy state. Wonderful crowds, good attacking football, and a lot of talent. A league is wonderfully run imo.

Calidad wrote:

BrianS wrote:I don't think German football is a joke. The German team is one of the teams I enjoy watching. I also think along with Spain Germany has the best young talent in Europe. The senior German team does need better defenders though. Mertesacker, Friedrich, and Fritz are shockingly bad.

Good Job Albania.

Personally think German football is in a very healthy state. Wonderful crowds, good attacking football, and a lot of talent. A league is wonderfully run imo.

I agree. A lot of talent coming through.

zizoued wrote:

It'd be easy to diminish Ribery, Vieira, Zizou, and Henry contribution. You could easily take out Malouda , Wiltord , but not the aforementioned's contribution in Les blues attack!

Take out Henry and put in Trezeguet, and you would have probably had a better side. Though to be fair, i doubt Trezeguet would've managed to match Henry's amazing dive against Portugal and his world class playacting against Spain.

Parks lives wrote:
RIO FERDINAND: Once again England's best defender, but there was a serious dearth of competition. 7

Parks lives wrote: Remember the time when we had an embarrassment of riches at centre-half?

No.

Super Madrid wrote:Interesting game between Portugal and Albania. Albania has had a man sent off and Portugal has to force it now for an entire half. they are sitting totally on Albania.

Arie Haan's Albania have as many points as Portugal after this draw

The Portuguese seem to be in serious trouble to qualify

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

zizoued wrote:

It'd be easy to diminish Ribery, Vieira, Zizou, and Henry contribution. You could easily take out Malouda , Wiltord , but not the aforementioned's contribution in Les blues attack!

Take out Henry and put in Trezeguet, and you would have probably had a better side. Though to be fair, i doubt Trezeguet would've managed to match Henry's amazing dive against Portugal and his world class playacting against Spain.

He did make most of it, but I think both incidents were fouls. Or, maybe I'm a Blues fan, and I'm biased. Nevermind. Trezegeut was less impressive than Henry for the NT. They tried 4-4-2, but Trez's poaching type didn't really suit others like Zizou and Ribery, who both preferred a link-up striker and get back the ball to shoot. so they prefer Teary to Trez. As I said before, it'd be easy to undermine and undervalue the contributions, but for an inexistent strategy and tactic from clown Domenech, the French attack was about individuals trying to link up and get the goals. It's not like they were creating chances after chances, which would have benefited Trez greatly. And let's not forget Trez miss in the finals.

Super Madrid wrote:70'
Things are heating up for Albania. Almedia just hit the inside of the post. Portugals fans are also getting mad. good combinations but they cant quite deliver the final ball. Ronaldo a good player but not such a good captain. he constantly whines at others and has a bad attitude.Carvalho should have gotten it.

What was Quieroz thinking to make Ronaldo captain? Any idiot knows that he's not captain material. Can inspire with his football, but hardly a calm leader of men (unless we're talking about guiding Nani and Anderson about how to find prostitutes in Manchester).

In fact, didn't Scolari give him the armband too sometimes?

Vieri,

Rio Ferdinand is one of the best Center backs in the world. We could count his mistakes last season, but every great defender needs a bit of luck sometimes, in the sense some of his mistakes weren't capitalized by the opposition.

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