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

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jts

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I like my opponents to also look nice, It is so sad that Porto has dumped Nike for Warrior. Like WTF
Heh, whoever comes with dat dough, I guess. They're not doing an half bad job either, weird choices aside, I like how they 100% removed the sponsorship boxes from Meo. Nike, do you even outline?
 
According to this source, Brazil has faked the most injuries of this WC:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissm...aked-the-most-injuries-at-the-2014-world-cup/

Through their first two games, Brazilian players have gone down 17 times before returning to play. That Brazil leads the list shouldn’t be much of a surprise for anyone watching the World Cup. The team’s players could hardly keep their feet in the tournament’s opening game against Croatia, a match in which Brazil took a late lead thanks to a controversial dive by Fred. The subsequent penalty kick was put in by phenom striker Neymar, who has long drawn plenty of ire for his acting abilities.

Not sure if I agree with this entirely, but it's interesting.
 

Jeff-DSA

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According to this source, Brazil has faked the most injuries of this WC:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissm...aked-the-most-injuries-at-the-2014-world-cup/



Not sure if I agree with this entirely, but it's interesting.

This has already proven to be bad data. It's also just Forbes rewriting another story using the same info. Their data gathering was deeply flawed. Dempsey's kick to the face/broken nose went down to count against the US as time wasting. Seriously.
 
Heh, whoever comes with dat dough, I guess. They're not doing an half bad job either, weird choices aside, I like how they 100% removed the sponsorship boxes from Meo. Nike, do you even outline?

Sporting has dumped Puma for Macron
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the yellow away shirt looks dumb but still on the same level as Puma almost.

Porto... pfffff major downgrade for the blue n white.

My Dad & I are Benfica supporters while my older brother for some hipster reason has always supported Sporting
 
According to this source, Brazil has faked the most injuries of this WC:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissm...aked-the-most-injuries-at-the-2014-world-cup/



Not sure if I agree with this entirely, but it's interesting.

Yeah, Neymar is also faking right now
He's faking so good that he will be at home for the next 2 months

And probably Robben alone dived more than 17 times during the Costa Rica and Mexico matches

and still Germany gets away with murder every time. Muller did two major dives on Game 1 and all the media talks about his about Pepe's temper.. fuck Germany
 

Arjen

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Yeah, Neymar is also faking right now
He's faking so good that he will be at home for the next 2 months

And probably Robben alone dived more than 17 times during the Costa Rica and Mexico matches

17 times? Show me, this is getting ridiculous. Dude likes to overreact, but that's not the same as diving.
 

artist

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This has already proven to be bad data. It's also just Forbes rewriting another story using the same info. Their data gathering was deeply flawed. Dempsey's kick to the face/broken nose went down to count against the US as time wasting. Seriously.
1 example to disprove 293 instances? wow such magic.

Yeah, Neymar is also faking right now
He's faking so good that he will be at home for the next 2 months

And probably Robben alone dived more than 17 times during the Costa Rica and Mexico matches
That's not even funny and doesnt even address the article. 0-2
 

GunBR

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17 times? Show me, this is getting ridiculous. Dude likes to overreact, but that's not the same as diving.

lol, yeah, maybe i'm exaggerating. Sometimes it's really a foul and not just diving

But i'm really tired to see this face and reaction over 10 times in each match:
Arjen_Robben_2958991b.jpg
 

Arjen

Member
lol, yeah, maybe i'm exaggerating. Sometimes it's really a foul and not just diving

But i'm really tired to see this face and reaction over 10 times in each match:
Arjen_Robben_2958991b.jpg

He's a top player with tons of defenders on him, and he's getting fouled on a lot. Not that weird seeing him go down. But this diving bitching is getting out of hand.
 

daxy

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lol, yeah, maybe i'm exaggerating. Sometimes it's really a foul and not just diving

But i'm really tired to see this face and reaction over 10 times in each match:
Arjen_Robben_2958991b.jpg

Then the opposing team shouldn't send three guys to wail on him.
 

Jeff-DSA

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1 example to disprove 293 instances? wow such magic.


That's not even funny and doesnt even address the article. 0-2

How about the fact that Raul Meireles spent more time on the ground for a fake beard injury than all of the injury time they attributed to Portugal? The numbers didn't add up. Whatever system they were using to count fake vs. real injury and actual recovery time from a real foul against time wasting was messed up. There were lots of other inconsistencies found in there. I don't need to go point out every one. Just those two (Dempsey's broken nose and Meireles midfield nap) were enough to invalidate the totals for two teams on the list completely.

Edit: I'm not saying that Brazil doesn't dive/foul a lot. They do. Way too much. But man, that study was junk.
 

artist

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How about the fact that Raul Meireles spent more time on the ground for a fake beard injury than all of the injury time they attributed to Portugal? The numbers didn't add up. Whatever system they were using to count fake vs. real injury and actual recovery time from a real foul against time wasting was messed up. There were lots of other inconsistencies found in there. I don't need to go point out every one. Just those two (Dempsey's broken nose and Meireles midfield nap) were enough to invalidate the totals for two teams on the list completely.

Edit: I'm not saying that Brazil doesn't dive/foul a lot. They do. Way too much. But man, that study was junk.
Fair enough. Sorry for the sarcastic post earlier.

So you are basically just trolling. Gotcha.
Just because I'm not cheering for your team or 15 others doesnt mean I'm trolling. Thankfully I'm not blinded by bias like you.
 
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