Now it is your turn Gilbert. Do my homeland proud!

Deutschland Deutschland ber alles! (im Fuball)

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Thank you, WPR.

I'm rooting for Gilbert now, as well. But only after 120 minutes. 0-0 at halftime is great for us. When you train to play 90 minutes and play 90 minutes every match, you can really feel those extra 30 minutes for the rest of the week.

And they'll be playing us on Sunday.

I'm loving watching the match online at ESPN3. It's still 0-0 in the 63rd minute, though, so it's been slow going.

Go-o-o-o-o-o Germany!

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Spain won. darn it. Kick their (insert the appropriate Dutch terminology here.)

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Herzliche Glckwnsche, Spanien, zu einen beeindruckenden Sieg. Sie beherrschten Beherrschungszeit und Ihre Hintermannschaft war erstickend. Arschlcher.

(Warmest congratulations, Spain, on an impressive victory. You dominated time of possession and your defense was suffocating. Fuckers.)

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the only positive for today is that rock cannot force me to quit the message board by assigning me a mark van bommel avatar :icon_smile:

well deserved win by spain, they had a lot more quality in their play and more nuts today. the next 2 (european championship) or 4 years (world cup) the team will grow, the fourth star will arrive someday.


p.s.: i'm having this damn fuckin' octopus oracle paul for lunch tomorrow :physassult:

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I was amazed at how utterly Spain squelched Germany today. After the Argentina game, I was expecting an aggressive gameplan from Germany. But it seemed like this game was played mostly on Germany's side of the field. Spain simply dominated, not only in goal-line defense (where they were impressive), but also in shots and shots on goal. They made Germany look tentative and tired. I was very disappointed, but I tip my hat to Spain. They executed superbly.

Thanks to ESPN3 for affording me the opportunity to watch the game online.

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old rule in soccer: you can only play as good as your opponent let you to play. spain played a very impressive pressing system. once a german player had the ball, one of the spanish guys was with him. germany had big issues to leave the own half, not to mention to get their good offensive play rolling.

as mentioned, very well deserved win by spain. me and a lot of experts said, that spain is the team to beat in this world cup. today, and not only today we saw why.

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I'll be cheering on Holland for all it's worth on Sunday

I put 10 on Holland to win it all at 9 - 1 before the tournament started.!!!!!!!!!!

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Is this thing still going on? WTF....I thought the NBA playoffs took forever and now this? LOL

Next guy that blows a damn horn, I'm gonna kill. Shove a horn up his a_ _!

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