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VALENTÍA
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Young had no business taking a penalty, he's had no bottle all tournament long.
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Over Like Rover
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he's had a poor tournament and a poor game but he still stepped up and took one, that's bottle alone
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BAY BAY
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lol olympics. I've never heard a single person say "You know what, I'm bang into my hurdles you know mate"
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BAY BAY
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Big fan of stabbing people. Can't wait for this fencing lark.
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#6 |
Narc stole my star
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No Theo No Win
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Former TPWW Royalty
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So is there like some sort of recent curse involving England and penalties or they suck really bad during practice?
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World Class Raconteur
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#9 |
BAY BAY
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Oh Italy
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Wilson and Keown sure do hate the Spain players who aren't the obvious superstars. Arbeloa and Negredo are practically Hitler by the sounds of things.
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World Class Raconteur
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I think like a lot of people they're probably a bit miffed that Spain picked easily the worst striker they have in the squad on the day they actually decided to play with a proper forward. Llorente must have defiled del Bosque's daughter.
They left Soldado at home as well, who is also a much better player than Negredo. |
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Spain has too much luck its no longer funny anymore.
Portugal hits the post and its out, Spain does the same and it goes in. |
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It's not so much luck when you leave your best penalty til last because you would assume he wants to take the winning pen.
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Yeah that was a pretty random decision but then you'd be leaving the potential game tying kick to Alves who isn't that great compared to the others in the line.
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Over Like Rover
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Sergio Ramos is probably a more creative player than the entire England midfield
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#17 |
World Class Raconteur
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No luck involved there really. All Spain's penalties were good-to-class, even Alonso's that was brilliantly saved by Patricio.
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#18 |
Narc stole my star
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What a boring tournament thus far.
Hoping Germany win the thing. |
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Boring? It's been excellent.
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#20 |
Narc stole my star
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Outside of Russia and Germany's games I can't remember too many good matches tbh.
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#21 |
Tîm Defaid
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It's been great. Best Summer tournament in years. First one I've thoroughly enjoyed since World Cup 2002 or Euro 2004. Not a single 0-0 in the group games which is almost unheard of. Not that a game needs goals to be good but that tends to be what most people go by.
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#22 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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Yeah, the tournament as a whole has been greatness this year. The only truly disappointing match for me thus far was England/Italy in the quarters.
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Quote:
Only games I've been really disappointed by are any of those involving France. They just didn't show up at all. |
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#24 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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What in the hell is going on? Is Mario Balotelli kryptonite to Germany or something?
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#25 |
They're eating the dogs..
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Deutschland über alles!
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Nah De Rossi and Pirlo together in the centre of midfield is kryptonite to everybody that faces them. Balotelli's finished his chances well though, although it will be hilarious if he gets a second yellow and misses the final because of him removing his shirt.
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3 Dicks Out For Trips
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Ah I was wondering if he got carded for that, I walked off at the time in disbelief. Also, I agree that Pirlo and De Rossi are greatness. I'm just wondering if this is really the same team that played England the other day or if they have been replaced by genetically engineered dopplegangers.
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Also De Rossi's glorious beard.
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Over Like Rover
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same team, we just got lucky and were playing to not concede as opposed to actually playing like ze Germans
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#30 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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How long before Balotelli will be the best in the world?
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Never.
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#32 |
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Balotelli has certainly grown into the tournament anyway. He was largely frustrating during the group, started slowly vs England but ultimately was superb against them in a really mature display, then capped it all tonight with a wonderful performance. He's Drogba-like when he wants to be in terms of his pace, power, touch, intelligent running and aerial ability. He added the explosive finishing tonight as well.
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Crazy how some absolute winnets can think that this Spain team are boring.
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Sisukas Mies
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Italy got a right royal spanking.
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Wasn't expecting Spain to dominate that badly in terms of scoring considering they were averaging barely over 1 goal a game since the World Cup (not counting the 4-0 vs Ireland).
Also the way Spain's style works, once they score its almost impossible to come back which is why they have a ton of 1-0 games and the "boring" tag. I think Italy in Group Stage were the only ones to have scored first against Spain since the World Cup and even that game ended in a tie. |
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#36 |
Needs to be 20% cooler
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Pretty boring final game imo.
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In the manner that from the moment Motta went off injured as well as the entire Italy team being fatigued there wasn't really much hope of a comeback and a dramatic ending perhaps (although that's utter bollocks really) but the football on display from Spain was absolutely fantastic and not at all boring and should be shown to any kids with a desire to become a class footballer.
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I'm not sure if the whole "boring" thing is actually a worldwide opinion (Smelly Meatball, Ossman or Supreme, is it something you'd hear in America?) or if it's something that's been brandished by the media here in the UK because you're not a good footballer unless you run around like a headless chicken and throw yourself in to block any oncoming shots and appear to be playing with all your heart. A simple passing game is massively overlooked in England and is a reason why many good players are overlooked.
I can use Lucas as an example for Liverpool who would absolutely flourish in a Spain or Barcelona team and not our setup for the past couple of years. Jordan Henderson too is pretty much considered to be a dreadful player right across this country, when really he's a very tidy player (when played centrally and not out wide) who keeps play ticking over in a pretty similar manner to many of Spain's players. I'm not saying he's anywhere near that level btw, he's just of a similar ilk. And I'm sure there are players like that for every club that are overlooked simply because they're not blasting in 30 yard screamers and lunging into tackles that I'm also less aware of because I'm not watching every game for other clubs. |
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#39 |
You know that’s right
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I can't stand Italy so I would never consider watching them get their shit pushed in boring.
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