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[Navy Bean]

City will beat them.

I'm not a fan of City at all (been following Liverpool for about 10 years) but they should be fun to watch assuming they field a decent lineup.

 

[black_13]

That was a great second half. I went to the gym and watched it there.

People were clapping and cheering when Ghana scored that second goal. Good for them.

Now come on Bosnia! Keep the hope alive!

 

[ScHlAuChi]

 

[Courage]

How can I place bets in the US? bet365 is anti-freedom.

 

[ndiicm]

If knockout stage ends up being only south and North American teams. I will be unsuncscribing to this thread and will not watch sports tv of any kind till July 14th.

There will be a European team seeing as FIFA made sure there were 12 slots just for European teams available...

 

[figadapaura]

Forgot about Netherlands. Still Netherlands are an old school rival of Germany so don't feel right rooting for them.

France will get through as well.

 

[Symax]

/dead

 

[Patrick Bateman]

"Nutted but she still sucking"

Oh God..

 

[silver.tongue]

Should I feel bad for Salvador residents? They got to watch:

HOL x SPA
GER x POR
SUI x FRA

Wanna guess their last match? BOS x IRA... wow...

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Forgot about Netherlands. Still Netherlands are an old school rival of Germany so don't feel right rooting for them.

Soon everyone will root for us

and then we get kicked out by random country #71

It is the Dutch way

 

[Fisticuffs]

haha it flows so well

 

[kamorra]

I secretly cheer only for Napoli since Berlusconi owns Milan.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

good lord....

 

[Skyr]

Roflmao, i can't breath.

 

[Altazor]

#REKT

 

[B-Dubs]

Holy shit, that's amazing

 

[kamorra]

Forza Juve

What are you doing? I loved you!

 

[Navy Bean]

^^Amazing^^

 

[DukeBobby]

France will get through as well.

Belgium probably will too.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Wut?

 

[RoyalLaFlame]

Soon everyone will root for us

and then we get kicked out by random country #71

It is the Dutch way

Kinda reminds me how Portugal plays. They always play better when feeling the pressure of failing any big competition. That's how they work.

 

[Milchmonster]

Bayern players save germany. Hummels playing dortmundly bad again.

Pep basically saved us with playing Lahm at DM.

Bald. Nice. Genius. What a man.

 

[figadapaura]

I'm not a fan of City at all (been following Liverpool for about 10 years) but they should be fun to watch assuming they field a decent lineup.

I'm a Man United fan, so I understand. Just being realistic. Milan have been pretty dire.

Don't know about their lineup though. Could probably give a bunch of players a rest. Who knows?

I secretly cheer only for Napoli since Berlusconi owns Milan.

I do like to see Napoli do well.

 

[bone_and_sinew]

Any word on USA vs Portugal on ABC tomorrow evening? Is ABC really refusing to show on English network tv potentially the only WC game USA will play on a weekend in the entire tournament? And at a super comfortable 6pm EST time slot to boot!

They've got more important things to show, like *checks guide* Wipeout (?!?!).

[insert every laughing gif ever here]

 

[Navy Bean]

Dzeko 2
Nigeria 0

 

[Wazzy]

lmao oh Rihanna

 

[Tugatrix]

Kinda reminds me how Portugal plays. They always play better when feeling the pressure of failing any big competition. That's how they work.

True they always loose the first game, is a tradition

 

[Gotdatmoney]

Very embarrassing for germany, the big teams really should stop underestimating the weaker teams. If the US could beat Ghana than germany should quiet easily.

The last time Germany and Ghana played (last world cup), it was 1-0 Germany and they scored with like 15 minutes left in the game. I think we all expected Germany to win but the dominance people were expecting was laughable. It was never ever going to be a blowout.

Also, congrats to the US for winning the first game against Ghana but the game I was watching was Ghana dominating for like 75 minutes and conceding some rather shitty goals. I won't say the US shouldn't of won, I will say that that wasn't Ghana's best performance. This is the first time the US was even able to beat Ghana, I dunno why every puts so little faith in the underdog nations. They are coming to play, they have nothing to lose.

 

[Acorn]

What are you doing? I loved you!

Family from Turin, I can't deny my blood.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Kinda reminds me how Portugal plays. They always play better when feeling the pressure of failing any big competition. That's how they work.

That's actually the reverse of how we work. Once everyone starts putting their faith into us and think we're good we completely bomb, it's why Portugal always beats us. We can't play under pressure.

 

[Calidor]

My reaction to this game.

damn, I was at the bar when I saw this and I KNEW that was gonna get giffed at Neogaf :lol

 

[LeonSPBR]

LOL

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

Dzeko 2
Nigeria 0

co-signed

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Any word on USA vs Portugal on ABC tomorrow evening? Is ABC really refusing to show on English network tv potentially the only WC game USA will play on a weekend in the entire tournament? And at a super comfortable 6pm EST time slot to boot!

From what I heard, ABC is not able to show the US vs. Portugal game because of contractual obligations with their local affiliates, who will be showing their shitty local news programs instead. There was an article about it somewhere which my Google Fu is completely failing to turn up.

The irony is if the US played one of the 2 early games instead of the late game, they would have been on ABC. It's because it's during prime time that they can't be on ABC.

 

[Overdoziz]

That's actually the reverse of how we work. Once everyone starts putting their faith into us and think we're good we completely bomb, it's why Portugal always beats us. We can't play under pressure.

That's why we should just play mediocre throughout the entire thing like last time!

 

[defel]

Very embarrassing for germany, the big teams really should stop underestimating the weaker teams. If the US could beat Ghana than germany should quiet easily.

What evidence is there that Germany underestimated Ghana?

 

[kamorra]

Family from Turin, I can't deny my blood.

;(

 

[Haunted]

Pepe you fiend!

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

No Fuckin' waay! /dead!

 

[Navy Bean]

You know it's a great WC when you're compelled to DVR a match between frickin Bosnia and Nigeria to watch later, because who the fuck knows, it might end up awesome.

 

[bone_and_sinew]

God I hope Dzeko FC and Nigeria don't deliver a stink bomb.

 

[Tragicomedy]

damn, I was at the bar when I saw this and I KNEW that was gonna get giffed at Neogaf :lol

Needs a "This is NEOGAF" overlay for perfection.

 

[criesofthepast]

Second of the day!

What the hell is wrong with this guy? Does he not realize there are a million cameras on him all game long? If I was German I'd be bloody embarrassed this disgusting booger eating cunt was representing the team.

 

[pulga]

Needs a "This is NEOGAF" overlay for perfection.

i want one where it says "there is no need to be upset"

 

[Anoregon]

I'm kind if disappointed by the US hate in this thread. It's one thing to not want a team to do well when it directly effects your team (US fans not wanting Portugal to perform well, for instance) but it seems like a lot of folks automatically root for whatever outcome is worst for us.

God forbid those of us in the states who actually care about soccer actually get excited about any amount of success. Cats acting straight up shameful up in here.

 

[fasTRapid]

I think we all expected Germany to win but the dominance people were expecting was laughable. It was never ever going to be a blowout.

Well, I honestly thought Müller would score a lucky one during the first 15 minutes, so a blowout would have absolutely been possible. Ghana's GK choice was risky but paid off.

 

[gutter_trash]

justiça!

 

[Milchmonster]

What the hell is wrong with this guy? Does he not realize there are a million cameras on him all game long? If I was German I'd be bloody embarrassed this disgusting booger eating cunt was representing the team.

I'm more embarrassed that Löw is completely shit at being a coach.

 

[Alex_Mexico]

The hate the US team, soccer, and freedom.

2018 and 2022 WCs are going to be Fox's. Here's hoping the give more exposure to the tournament than ABC's mediocre efforts. ESPN has been superb, though. Just not so much their network tv brethren.

I find it incredible that two earlier matches will be on ABC but the 6pm Sunday evening USA match is ESPN only. Incredible. You guys should be offended or some crap.

 

[Blablurn]

I think we all expected Germany to win but the dominance people were expecting was laughable. It was never ever going to be a blowout.

I respect your opinion...

..but I will come back to it once we got the title.

Have a nice day.