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2014 FIFA World Cup |OT7| Krul luck for Costa Rica after masterstroke from van Gaal

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keit4

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Shit is getting out of hand

Zuñiga is receiving death treaths and is his daughter is being bullied on Instagram. His address published on twitter

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Seriously. Fuck em

Filhos da puta..
 

caesar

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Goals by League in the WC

Bundesliga 31
Premier League 30
La Liga 23
Ligue 1 13
Serie A 12
Portugal 8
Eredivisie 5
Liga MX 5
Russia 5
MLS 4
 

Linius

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This WC is a disgrace with refs. I will not hype for a WC again unless we get video ref. Also, don't make WC on countries with issues such as Brazil or Qatar.

Not saying we lost because of the ref.

The Dutch not only reach to the semis, we also got a great ref in Brazil. Hah!
 
Media heralding Louis van Gall as some sort of tactical genius for swapping goalkeepers for a penalty shoot-out.

It's been done before... hell, Martin O'Neill did it when he was in charge at Leicester. And he ain't no genius.
 

ghst

thanks for the laugh
Media heralding Louis van Gall as some sort of tactical genius for swapping goalkeepers for a penalty shoot-out.

It's been done before... hell, Martin O'Neill did it when he was in charge at Leicester. And he ain't no genius.

they're heralding it given how effective he was. for whatever reason krul dived the right way every single time, and anything less than a perfect penalty was saved.
 

Sadist

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Media heralding Louis van Gall as some sort of tactical genius for swapping goalkeepers for a penalty shoot-out.

It's been done before... hell, Martin O'Neill did it when he was in charge at Leicester. And he ain't no genius.
... not during the WC though. It's a pretty crazy move and will be regarded as a World Cup classic moment.

"Hey remember that one time Holland subbed their keeper and brought in Krul? That was weird man"
 
Newcastle should start a new tactic where if an opposition player is about to shoot, they give away a penalty instead. Then Krul would have a better chance of saving it

Not likely, he just got extremely lucky today and the only reason he was in there was because LVG said he has a bigger reach.

He had only saved 2 of the previous 20 penalties he had faced, it's not like all of a sudden he became some psychic with mind-reading capabilities.
 
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Colombia received as heroes. It was nice seeing this country, that's always in war and shit, united under football

I'm not fond of celebrating defeats tho
 

Kiraly

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I love all the salt on the internet about 'unsportsmanlike' behaviour by Krul during the penalty shootout. :lol :lol :lol

As if Navas his six injuries in a row during normal time were fair.
 

Arjen

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I love all the salt on the internet about 'unsportsmanlike' behaviour by Krul during the penalty shootout. :lol :lol :lol

As if Navas his six injuries in a row during normal time were fair.

Brought back Van Breukelen memories.
 

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
Boy do they like treating women like objects.

It's a cultural thing. Living in local Spanish areas and seeing the news, it's hard to explain but the humor and sexuality is easier to digest.

It's almost laughable how they throw in hot women but hell if I care.

On a separate note, the WC bring the best and worse out of people. Reading some of the posts even since last night, damn.
 

LiquidMetal14

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Cillessen stats

You know, he's been doing ok but that game vs Mexico, he looked like he didn't even want to be there and made some mistakes. Hopefully he plays better the next game since his work was really eased for him vs CR thanks to the dominant ball possession before putting CR to sleep Netherlands™
 

Aiii

So not worth it
I love all the salt on the internet about 'unsportsmanlike' behaviour by Krul during the penalty shootout. :lol :lol :lol

As if Navas his six injuries in a row during normal time were fair.

Maybe it's because I like UFC or something, but a bit of trash talking in sports seems perfectly normal to me. Let your opponent know you don't fear him. *shrug*

Besides, hard to feel bad for a losing team that purposely played a game to go to penalties. You tried, you lost. Tough luck.
 
Messi VS Netherland's Defence

It works both ways. :p

I can not see the defense from The Netherlands being worse in comparison to Iran or Bosnia. It is actually much better.

Dutch defence is being underrated. The only quality defensive team this WC is Germany, though.
 

TimFL

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I can not see the defense from The Netherlands being worse in comparison to Iran or Bosnia. It is actually much better.

Dutch defence is being underrated. The only quality defensive team this WC is Germany, though.

It's all Hummels and Neuer.
 
I can not see the defense from The Netherlands being worse in comparison to Iran or Bosnia. It is actually much better.

Dutch defence is being underrated. The only quality defensive team this WC is Germany, though.

If you have watched the game there is somethig like parking the bus and having an open field, Belgium went halfway between parking the bus and open field by having 3 men man marking Messi, that gave higuaine the space to score one goal and hit the bar on another. If Messi doesnt score , the men needed to mark him down will allow others to. Its a lose lose scenario for Netherlands. He got through 3 defenders and was tackled by the 4th vs Belgium, if you have 3 defenders on Messi that leaves 2 possible defending others and rest in front , if Argentina doesnt park the bus themselves the presence of
Messi creates havoc for all formations unless its 5-4-1
 
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