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I really don't want Spain to win this competition. Don't get me wrong - I admire their skill and artistry, what they've built, but if every team played football like that then the whole sport may become something of a snooze-fest.
My hope is that Germany win, and the style and success of the Spanish becomes a curiosity of footballing history, and not a template for the future of the game.

I want spain to suffer in revenge for the £20 I put on Portugal to win. And they would have if Ronaldo didn't choke on most of his chances!!

Azza007 wrote:Destrado, I think pointing out I am more of an ice hockey and rugby fan may explain why I found that match so boring. Most fun bits was seeing Ronaldo mess up time and again especially the penalties.

Ronaldo didn't even shoot a penalty... but I guess I shouldn't be feeding this.

This game is already stressing me out.

I hope the Germans beat history and manage to get past the Italians.


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Good God, Gerries 2-0 down already, well it seems my prediction is coming true.

Destrado wrote:

Azza007 wrote:Destrado, I think pointing out I am more of an ice hockey and rugby fan may explain why I found that match so boring. Most fun bits was seeing Ronaldo mess up time and again especially the penalties.

Ronaldo didn't even shoot a penalty... but I guess I shouldn't be feeding this.

Thats my point, he messed up that bad. Should have been one of the first to go.

If Germany would have played the 1st half with the same energy that they played in the second half, then the outcome may have been different. Italy outplayed us and did a very good job attacking the goal and converting their opportunities.

Germany continues to have the record of never beating Italy in a major tournament.

I'm going to root for Italy in the final, just because I feel a little better if we lost to the eventual champions.


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I thought our goalkeeper was going to shoot a goal for us there.

Azza007 wrote:

Destrado wrote:

Azza007 wrote:Destrado, I think pointing out I am more of an ice hockey and rugby fan may explain why I found that match so boring. Most fun bits was seeing Ronaldo mess up time and again especially the penalties.

Ronaldo didn't even shoot a penalty... but I guess I shouldn't be feeding this.

Thats my point, he messed up that bad. Should have been one of the first to go.

Once again for the back seats: its the coach that decides the penalty scoring order, not the individual players.

Also, good game by Italy but now I don't know who to root for in the final. I don't like the Italian way of playing football, but I certainly can't root for Spain either!

PhantomViper wrote:

Azza007 wrote:

Destrado wrote:

Azza007 wrote:Destrado, I think pointing out I am more of an ice hockey and rugby fan may explain why I found that match so boring. Most fun bits was seeing Ronaldo mess up time and again especially the penalties.

Ronaldo didn't even shoot a penalty... but I guess I shouldn't be feeding this.

Thats my point, he messed up that bad. Should have been one of the first to go.

Once again for the back seats: its the coach that decides the penalty scoring order, not the individual players.

Also, good game by Italy but now I don't know who to root for in the final. I don't like the Italian way of playing football, but I certainly can't root for Spain either!

Mutually assured destruction??

Want Italy to win, only so as an englishman, I can say we lost to the best lol

Might be a few days to late, but how the feth did Germany lose that?? Victory was within their grasp!

As for tomorrow, immortality is only 90 mins away for these players, and Spain could set a new record. I'm predicting a narrow Spainisg victory in a game that will probably be quite dull. But seeing as I predicted England to win every game 3-0, then don't quote me on this.

Finally, keep posting everybody, this thread can't finish on 13 pages!!

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:Might be a few days to late, but how the feth did Germany lose that?? Victory was within their grasp!

Don't send a boygroup to do the work of real men...

Too young, too scared. And looking at the treatment afterwards, we may generate only top 10 teams but never winners this way.

Whatever happened to German steel? The type that snuffed out holland in 1974 or Lothar Matthaus at world cup 1990 sticking the boot into Gary Lineker. That ruthlessness is no longer there.

Anyway, back to today's game. I'm predicting 2-1 to the Spanish.

Magic.

Well that was just a slaughter in the end.

Auch. What a murder!

I just want to weep with joy! That was the football equivilent of waking up next to Kelly Brook, strolling down for breakfast and the hotel manager saying to you "Good morning, Senor Bond."

See? What did I say? Unplayable.

Great team, great football, great champions. And to think that some people were saying England had a chance

I was one of them!!!