WC2010 Group A - South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France

L r dd wrote:I'd rate Uruguay but i cant forget that game against Argentina AT HOME they were dreadful and they're too violent also. A decent team will put them out(include S Korea in that)

L r dd wrote:I'd rate Uruguay but i cant forget that game against Argentina AT HOME they were dreadful and they're too violent also. A decent team will put them out(include S Korea in that)

Barrilete wrote:

L r dd wrote:I'd rate Uruguay but i cant forget that game against Argentina AT HOME they were dreadful and they're too violent also. A decent team will put them out(include S Korea in that)

Uruguay have yet to concede a goal, they have a lot of fire power upfront and a very astute coach...

uruguay for 1/4

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

Ade wrote:French managers not shaking opposing managers hand

Do we know why ?

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

L r dd wrote:I'd rate Uruguay but i cant forget that game against Argentina AT HOME they were dreadful and they're too violent also. A decent team will put them out(include S Korea in that)

That was then. What happened in qualification counts for little now.

Their path to the semis looks doable.

Super Africa wrote:
Probably but I think people have to remember that they talk about host normally doing well it is partly down to the fact that normally the host is a good team.

blutgraetsche wrote:

Super Africa wrote:
Probably but I think people have to remember that they talk about host normally doing well it is partly down to the fact that normally the host is a good team.

South Korea? Japan? USA in 1994, before the official start of the professional football league MLS in 1996?

All of them made it to the second round at least.

mongrel hawk wrote:
but they had much easier groups.

L r dd wrote:One bad game for SA really. They were leading and had a decent match against Mexico. They beat France. Just the Uruguay game fucked them up. I don't think they were that bad.

blutgraetsche wrote:Guess les Bleus took that motto literally...

kas wrote:2 days ago I made my picks for the 3rd round of games in the FIFA online predictor, and put my joker (double points) on a South Africa win. This morning I chickened out, changed the result to draw, and moved my joker to a draw in the Mexico-Uruguay game



Good pair of games though, at least there was some drama and it didn't just fizzle out. Uruguay looking impressive, and they could go all the way to the semifinals Could this be a return for the oldest "superpower" of football?

Ä wrote:so what role did Zidane play in this sorry saga ?

I hear he was meeting with players to discuss alternative tactics

behind Domenach's back ?!

World Cup 2010: France stars Hugo Lloris, Bacary Sagna & Yoann Gourcuff wanted to ignore strike – report

Hugo Lloris, Bacary Sagna and Yoann Gourcuff were all prepared to ignore France’s strike on Sunday, according to a report on the website of Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly news magazine, nearly coming to blows with several of the squad’s senior members over the incident.

France were eliminated from the World Cup on Tuesday, but their entire campaign has been hugely controversial. After a falling out between Nicolas Anelka and coach Raymond Domenech at half-time of the 2-0 reverse against Mexico, les Bleus refused to train on Sunday. But it now seems not all the players were unanimously in favour of the strike.

Lloris, Sagna and Gourcuff reportedly wanted to train, making their feelings known on the bus that the players were kept on. It is suggested that Franck Ribery, Eric Abidal and Patrice Evra were vehemently against the idea and nearly came to blows with their colleagues over the incident. France Football states that “the fight was narrowly averted”.

Evra, who captained the side in their opening two matches before dropping to the bench for Tuesday’s finale against South Africa, has already stated that he will reveal all that transpired behind the scenes in the France dressing room in a press conference later this week.