World Cup prediction thread - Knockout Phase

[Dauphin]

Italy 2 goals. What a result.

[Solver]

Wow

[Victor Galis]

Well, I suppose as long as Germany and France both beat Portugal hard, I'll be happy. I suppose I should start cheering for France now...

[Jon Miller]

I taly by 2

JM

[Datajack Franit]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Nobody sees Italy as a winner

[Solver]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
Well, I suppose as long as Germany and France both beat Portugal hard, I'll be happy. I suppose I should start cheering for France now...

As long as France gets a good beating tomorrow, I'll be very happy .

[Flubber]

Just everyone remember that I only made one prediction -I picked Portugal to win before the Round of 16 . I picked them as a dark horse and mainly because no one else picked them -- Some people derided me but now they have made the top 4 and while France or Italy would still be favoured over them by most , my prediction doesn't seem so silly any more. Portugal gets to play with a full squad against France after being hamstrung by expulsions before the England Game.

[Ecthy]

I'm out of this quiz. Remove me from the list.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Winston

FIFA president apologized before referee Valentin Ivanov

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2006/07/05/092.html

I guess, the moron simply haven't seen the game. But at least, he has balls to admit he was wrong.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


At least Ivanov didn't manage to book one player three times. Graham Poll will be laughed out of every English stadium he tries to officiate in next year.

"If Ivanov should be given a yellow card for his performance than many other referees at this World Cup deserve a red". - Russian soccer chief Vitaly Mutko

[OzzyKP]

France - Portugal 1 - 1

[Ecthy]

J/K don't cancel me.

France 3 - 1 Portugal

Germany 3 - 0 Portugal

France 700 - 0 Italy

[Wernazuma III]

Well, I cheered (and continue to support) the Azzurri because somehow in the first place I disliked how German fans approached the WC (before: We won't win a single game, not even score, Klinsmann my ass, we are the worst team etc.; after Costa Rica match: World Champion now!) and the booing against Argentina first and Italy, then (you can imagine, I'm almost always against the host country [though this won't apply in 2008, boo everyone ]).

However, I apologize. I got it dead wrong. I have hardly ever seen not only athletes, but also media AND EVEN FANS behaving so fair after a really hard moment such as losing in the semi in the very last minute. Not even the boulevard press issued unfair anti-Italian slogans today!!
Everyone is proud of their team (rightfully so) and congratulates the Italians. Imagine the same the other way around, or in England (where Cristiano Ronaldo gets beaten by the press and Mr. Unfair, Crotch-kick Rooney).

So, kudos to the Germans.

[Robert]

Portugal - The Netherlands:
15 faults for Portugal (10 yellow cards)
10 faults for The Netherlands (6 yellow cards)

That's way too much cards for the number of faults.
The game wasn't a hard game. The fault of Boulahrouz was pretty hard. Further there weren't much hard faults.

Of course there were some fights etc. but in my opinion that was more a result of the bad leadership of the referee. Of course, 16 yellow and 4 red cards sounds like a rough game. But 25 faults is not much. Most games have more faults.

[Victor Galis]

Well, some of those cards were issued for actions that happened while they weren't playing. I'm not sure if they consider a fault to be committed if a player gives another player a shove while arguing whether some other guy deserved a yellow.