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Originally Posted by IdeoFunk
What type of crack are you smoking there dippin, or do you really just have no idea of what it is you're watching when you see a football game? Holland is a great team and played dominant over Brazil and Uruguay. Uruguay came close in the final minutes but that was it. They're inability to defend Dutch attacks lost them the game. I don't even like the Dutch but I'm saying it because I watched most of the game (second half at least) and that's plain to see. And as for your insult towards Italy's championship team in the last cup, I laugh. The talent on that team was ridiculous. They didn't concede a goal between their first few games and the finals. End of story.
Additionally, you seem to think that a game has been totally invalidated by a referee missing an offside call? I hate to break it to you but soccer is an imperfect sport and it's something you have to accept. If a team is good they'll prevail. I could have got on here bitching about Slovakia's 2nd goal on Italy - in the reply you can clearly see the first corner they took was deflected out by a Slovak, thus they should never have been awarded the second corner which led to their 2nd goal. But at the end of the day my team played like shit so fuck them, that's their fault for dropping the ball... that's soccer.
In other news I was really happy to win lots of money today when I chose Spain over Germany. Everyone I talked to thought otherwise. That was an impressive display Spain put on, although I still feel the Netherlands have a strong chance given their deadly counter attacks, and Spain's lack of finish. Methinks it should be a good final!
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I hate to break it to you, but I don't think you know great soccer.
Dull, boring, defensively oriented, with players there to instigate the others and get them sent off, or to foul in midfield to kill a counterattack (like von Bommel and Materazzi) isn't great soccer. It might win games, but it is not great soccer.
And I say this as a Brazilian who hates Dunga and wanted him to lose.
The question is not of whether the Netherlands or Italy are are good enough to win, but whether they are exciting and interesting.
There weren't any games these past 2 world cups that come close to the quality or excitement of Netherlands v Argentina or Netherlands v Brazil in 1998, or even Romania v Argentina or Brazil v Netherlands in 94 or England v Cameroon in 1990.
Which might be the great tragedy of it all: that the Dutch could win the world cup just as they gave up the style that they've always had, and that this could be like 1974 in reverse, where the exciting team gets beat by the dull one, except the Dutch are now the dull ones.
As far as the offsides go, we are talking about the same linesman calling offsides against Uruguay 3 times wrongly, and then not calling it the one time it should be.