WC2010 Group G - Brazil, Portugal, Ivory Coast, North Korea

I've always said that I understand why Italy get abuse for being negative but don't understand why people say "Italy" rather than "Italy, France and Portugal".

I feel vindicated.


* You can probably add England's name to that over the past 8 years or so

Pierre Littbarski wrote:I've always said that I understand why Italy get abuse for being negative but don't understand why people say "Italy" rather than "Italy, France and Portugal".

I feel vindicated.


* You can probably add England's name to that over the past 8 years or so

That's new... So now we play negative football?
Maybe CQ learned something from the Greeks since 2004. Let's see if we can do better than the semi.

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

kas wrote:Disgraceful from Brazil now, they've spent the last 10 mins passing it sideways or backwards with no intention of going for goal. Indeed every time they make a vertical forward pass and try to create danger, Dunga goes mad on the touchline because they lose the ball.

Isn't that more or less what Barca did against Inter?

Here we go again.

Read what I've written. Are you really trying to imply that Barça were not trying to score a goal against Inter?

blutgraetsche wrote: Your team was built to counter the crap out of teams, not dominate them.

true, and without kaká, robinho and elano, the creativity just disappears completly. with them there's always a chance of breaking the defence, like against Ivory Coast. those 3 created the 3 goals in that game.

j césar - 8

maicon - 7
lúcio - 8
juan - 8
michel bastos - zero

gilberto silva - 6
felipe mello - 9 (no 10 cause he didn't know when to stop butchering and got a yellow)
daniel alves - 2
julio baptista - 2

nilmar - 5
l fabiano - 4 (stupid yellow)

mongrel hawk wrote:j césar - 8

maicon - 7
lúcio - 8
juan - 8
michel bastos - zero

gilberto silva - 6
felipe mello - 9 (no 10 cause he didn't know when to stop butchering and got a yellow)
daniel alves - 2
julio baptista - 2

nilmar - 5
l fabiano - 4 (stupid yellow)

Kind on Lucio and Juan that.

Juligen wrote:Look at our subs:

Ramirez
Josue
Grafitte

this is a disgrace

That's why I said Dunga should have called up players like Ganso, Ronaldinho and Pato. He doesn't have good options on the bench. It is pretty clear that he doesn't trust in players like Kleberson, Grafite, Gilberto, etc. Dani Alves, Julio Baptista, Luis Fabiano, they all should have been substituted earlier, but there weren't any quality players at Dunga's disposal. I wonder how it would have been if Brazil hadn't won against Ivory Coast.

Does anyone else think that Pepe should have been sent off after his dirty tackle on Felipe Mello? He didn't have any intention of hitting the ball, he just tried to hurt him. And he did.

Juan should have been sent off earlier as well.

Pepe was a dirty c**t. The studs to the calf of Felipe Mello was a straight red.

The Brazilian (forgot who) whose handball stopped the Portuguese counter should also have gotten red, yet only got booked.

Those two were undisputable reds.

Yep should have been 2 straight reds.

Formerly known as sheva7 wrote:

Juligen wrote:Look at our subs:

Ramirez
Josue
Grafitte

this is a disgrace

That's why I said Dunga should have called up players like Ganso, Ronaldinho and Pato. He doesn't have good options on the bench. It is pretty clear that he doesn't trust in players like Kleberson, Grafite, Gilberto, etc. Dani Alves, Julio Baptista, Luis Fabiano, they all should have been substituted earlier, but there weren't any quality players at Dunga's disposal. I wonder how it would have been if Brazil hadn't won against Ivory Coast.

It clear for me too. He knows the bench is shit, I think he really regrets calling Kleberson or even Julio Baptista. Today I really, really wished he had called Ganso.

Isn't that a bit paradox? If he knows that the bench is shit, why did he call up those players? It's his bench!

blutgraetsche wrote:Isn't that a bit paradox? If he knows that the bench is shit, why did he call up those players? It's his bench!

well, maybe he thought at the time they could play, but is clear to me that those players are too weak technically to play for Brasil.

He had years to realise that Juli, and only know he finds that out? Get real...

Now that this is done it's time for me to go

Is this the funniest thing at the world cup so far