USA vs Germany

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:40 pm

govmentchedda wrote:Easy fucking goal for him. Keeper cleared it right to him, just near the penalty spot.

Beggars will not be choosers.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:40 pm

Who do we want to tie or win narrowly while Belgium is woodshedding us?

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:40 pm

Ronaldo just missed another from point blank.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:41 pm

Ryan wrote:Who do we want to tie or win narrowly while Belgium is woodshedding us?

Can't you just go back to not giving a fuck about soccer and leave the rest of us alone?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:42 pm

brian wrote:
Ryan wrote:Who do we want to tie or win narrowly while Belgium is woodshedding us?
Can't you just go back to not giving a fuck about soccer and leave the rest of us alone?

Right, because the true fans have been the optimists. We look like shit, right?

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:44 pm

Ryan wrote:
brian wrote:
Ryan wrote:Who do we want to tie or win narrowly while Belgium is woodshedding us?
Can't you just go back to not giving a fuck about soccer and leave the rest of us alone?
Right, because the true fans have been the optimists. We look like shit, right?

Since you're such an expert you realize Germany is vastly better than Belgium right?

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:46 pm

Portugal is subbing their keeper in the 88th minute. Beto is apparently hurt

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:48 pm

Four minutes of extra time in POR-GHA

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:49 pm

Time for Simpsons soccer.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:51 pm

each game is different

the way the US played against Ghana you wouldn't have thought they would play that way against Portugal and watching that you'd wouldn't have thought they'd play this way against Germany.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:51 pm

Tempers flare at the end of POR-GHA. But GHA need two goals in one minute now

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:53 pm

Survive and advance, I guess.

Ghana is gonna need a new witchdoctor

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:53 pm

Portugal missed a shitload of chances, could have made it interesting.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:54 pm

Much respect to Portugal. They showed heart I didn't think they had.

And anyone thinking we backed in -- we were the second best team in this group. We fucking deserved to go through.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:59 pm

Survived group of death, I really never thought they could when the draw came out.

Really impressed with what Klinsmann has done at this point.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:01 pm

brian wrote:Much respect to Portugal. They showed heart I didn't think they had.

And anyone thinking we backed in -- we were the second best team in this group. We fucking deserved to go through.

Agreed.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:04 pm

lucky shirt will be the first lucky shirt ever to survive a loss

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:08 pm

Hope "we backed in" doesn't become a thing. Totally deserved to go through. Great results from this Cup so far. Feel so much better abou this than when we got through to the 16 in 2010.

elflaco · Post by **elflaco** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:11 pm

that was a wasted 'lunch meeting' save for the sly foxes and tasty burger.

can't believe i agreed to watch it w the boy tonight..

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:20 pm

govmentchedda wrote:Time for Simpsons soccer.

"I'll just die if Portugal doesn't win!" Can't believe I squandered the opportunity to use that line all week. A former coworker used to bust my balls constantly about watching soccer, especially when I closed my office door and watched the 2005 Champions League Final (Best.Game.Ever, despite Liverscum winning the cup). He bought me a Portugal Figo t-shirt and said the above quote. 5 years later, the asshole went to South Africa and went to all 3 US games. Fucker. Anywho, I think I am wearing that Portugal shirt for the next couple of days.

Despite my joke about backing in, we did deserve to advance. Switch the order of the games to Ger/Ghana/Portugal, it looks a lot different.

Great defensive effort against one of the best offensive powers. Omar was fantastic. Beslar didn't make a sing misstep, Beasley was beaten a bunch, but recovered and looked great going forward. Jones has been an absolute beast all tournament. I have always been leery of him, but he has really shown restraint in not taking stupid cards, his work rate is phenomenal, and he is even going forward. I always said that Jones adds nothing going forward, and I still have no idea where that goal came from. Jones is my US player of the tournament.

Huge plus that nobody gets suspended on 2 yellows. They yellows reset now, right?

Bradley's first touch has been atrocious. WTF is wrong with him? Great effort and a good game otherwise, but he keeps missing simple traps. I think his mistakes have gotten into his head a bit.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:24 pm

Arguably the person most responsible for us going through is Pepe. Gotta love soccer.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:29 pm

brian wrote:Arguably the person most responsible for us going through is Pepe. Gotta love soccer.

Great point. I'll go out and buy a Pepe shirt

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:37 pm

The Sybian wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:Time for Simpsons soccer.

"I'll just die if Portugal doesn't win!" Can't believe I squandered the opportunity to use that line all week. A former coworker used to bust my balls constantly about watching soccer, especially when I closed my office door and watched the 2005 Champions League Final (Best.Game.Ever, despite Liverscum winning the cup). He bought me a Portugal Figo t-shirt and said the above quote. 5 years later, the asshole went to South Africa and went to all 3 US games. Fucker. Anywho, I think I am wearing that Portugal shirt for the next couple of days.

Despite my joke about backing in, we did deserve to advance. Switch the order of the games to Ger/Ghana/Portugal, it looks a lot different.

Great defensive effort against one of the best offensive powers. Omar was fantastic. Beslar didn't make a sing misstep, Beasley was beaten a bunch, but recovered and looked great going forward. Jones has been an absolute beast all tournament. I have always been leery of him, but he has really shown restraint in not taking stupid cards, his work rate is phenomenal, and he is even going forward. I always said that Jones adds nothing going forward, and I still have no idea where that goal came from. Jones is my US player of the tournament.

Huge plus that nobody gets suspended on 2 yellows. They yellows reset now, right?

Bradley's first touch has been atrocious. WTF is wrong with him? Great effort and a good game otherwise, but he keeps missing simple traps. I think his mistakes have gotten into his head a bit.

Not sure when yellows reset.

I think you're spot on re: Bradley's mistakes getting to his head.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:48 pm

One advantage of finishing second that I haven't seen anyone mention is the extra day of rest. Playing Tuesday instead of Monday doesn't suck.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:51 pm

brian wrote:One advantage of finishing second that I haven't seen anyone mention is the extra day of rest. Playing Tuesday instead of Monday doesn't suck.

Fair point, especially since post-Maneus legs were a negative factor for our side in this one.

Only Portugal today played in Maneus and then one their next game. And that was kinda on a fluky goal to boot.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:55 pm

govmentchedda wrote:
The Sybian wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:Time for Simpsons soccer.

"I'll just die if Portugal doesn't win!" Can't believe I squandered the opportunity to use that line all week. A former coworker used to bust my balls constantly about watching soccer, especially when I closed my office door and watched the 2005 Champions League Final (Best.Game.Ever, despite Liverscum winning the cup). He bought me a Portugal Figo t-shirt and said the above quote. 5 years later, the asshole went to South Africa and went to all 3 US games. Fucker. Anywho, I think I am wearing that Portugal shirt for the next couple of days.

Despite my joke about backing in, we did deserve to advance. Switch the order of the games to Ger/Ghana/Portugal, it looks a lot different.

Great defensive effort against one of the best offensive powers. Omar was fantastic. Beslar didn't make a sing misstep, Beasley was beaten a bunch, but recovered and looked great going forward. Jones has been an absolute beast all tournament. I have always been leery of him, but he has really shown restraint in not taking stupid cards, his work rate is phenomenal, and he is even going forward. I always said that Jones adds nothing going forward, and I still have no idea where that goal came from. Jones is my US player of the tournament.

Huge plus that nobody gets suspended on 2 yellows. They yellows reset now, right?

Bradley's first touch has been atrocious. WTF is wrong with him? Great effort and a good game otherwise, but he keeps missing simple traps. I think his mistakes have gotten into his head a bit.
Not sure when yellows reset.

I think you're spot on re: Bradley's mistakes getting to his head.

I think they reset after the Qfs.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:59 pm

The odds are like 200-to-1 but you start to look at the bracket and see a possible US-Mexico semifinal and damn if that game might not set off a war.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:09 pm

CONCACAF thunder keeps on rolling! 3 out of 4 teams advance. CON CA CAF! CON CA CAF!

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:11 pm

The Sybian wrote:CONCACAF thunder keeps on rolling! 3 out of 4 teams advance. CON CA CAF! CON CA CAF!

In all seriousness, that's kinda cool for our region.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:15 pm

8 of the 10 teams from our hemisphere (5 of 6 in CONMEBOL and 3 of 4 in CONCACAF) advanced.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:20 pm

Home Hemisphere advantage!

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:22 pm

Also, I see Bradley getting a lot of crap today on twitter for his play, and I agree that he wasn't very good in spots, that said, I fully expect him to put together a complete game at some point equal to how good he was against Portugal without the last minute mistake. I am actually really heartened that this team is through with Bradley really not playing anywhere near his best and Jozy having been out. Good stuff.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:23 pm

govmentchedda wrote:Nuts out in the Ghana game. Well, underwear covered nuts anyway.

We were watching the US game on the big screen in our conference room and I had the Ghana game on my laptop. Totally lost it to the slow-mo replay of the flopping nuts.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:23 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:Home Hemisphere advantage!

time zone!!!!!

and you all laughed at me

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:45 pm

Has there been any discussion at all about what happened when we scrimmaged against Belgium on June 12? I know they housed us pretty good last year in a friendly.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:50 pm

brian wrote:Has there been any discussion at all about what happened when we scrimmaged against Belgium on June 12? I know they housed us pretty good last year in a friendly.

It was cancelled.

testuser2 · Post by **testuser2** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:52 pm

brian wrote:Has there been any discussion at all about what happened when we scrimmaged against Belgium on June 12? I know they housed us pretty good last year in a friendly.

They canceled that scrimmage because of traffic.

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 3:00 pm

brian wrote:Has there been any discussion at all about what happened when we scrimmaged against Belgium on June 12? I know they housed us pretty good last year in a friendly.

I was at the friendly last year. Here's a game story from the US Soccer Web site about the game. And here's a Swamp thread about the game.

I mostly remember that Romelu Lukaku looks like he could play linebacker for any NFL team. Damn, is he big and fast.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 3:07 pm

brian wrote:And for those of you guys who do not have multiple screens going, Portugal does NOT look invested in this game at all.

That result was unbelievable. I can't tell you how much I thought Ghana was going to score... Not invested is a massive understatement, at that point that you posted that.

But, then... Ghana just looked disinterested at a certain point. It's not that some of them didn't put in effort, but they very rarely put together a collective effort forward, and were extremely lax getting back.

So, a moping, plodding Portugal team was allowed multiple counters... eventually leading to probably the 2nd worse goal of the tournament (that Russian dude is going to take that title, barring some true buffoonery.)

And once it was 2-1, Ghana really just quit. To the point that I started almost getting nervous that they'd allow Portugal to start pounding in goals. Thankfully, Portugal were still in supreme sulk mode and after a couple of close calls with CR, they stopped pressing with about 4 or 5 minutes to go.

Overall, that shit was just bizarre to watch.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 3:08 pm

P.D.X. wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:Nuts out in the Ghana game. Well, underwear covered nuts anyway.
We were watching the US game on the big screen in our conference room and I had the Ghana game on my laptop. Totally lost it to the slow-mo replay of the flopping nuts.

It was like bumper nuts, or dog nuts. Hilarious.