Shak

Bit rich coming from you that.

Hope it goes to penalties, love a good shootout.

Don't know what you're on about. I know Mike has written something similiar, but I haven't seen it. ESPN is promoting US/Ghana heavily, but the only fool I've seen discounting Ghana is Alexi Lalas. And we've come to expect such homer idiocy from him. That's his schtick. Was just trying to wind Mike up tbh. Don't tend to go on many American websites for football news and opinion tbh.

So, Uruguay qualify to play the USA in the last 8 if the US press is to be believed.

Teams taking off one of their best players late in a game when they're only a goal up and an equaliser would send it to extra time. That means you, Uruguay!

Brilliant, brilliant goal.

Would be surprised if this goes to ET, someone will nick it in the next 20 minutes surely with the game being so open?

The Uruguayan keeper and #2 want shooting on that. It's the fucking World Cup man, go in with some conviction ffs.

Goal!!

Penalty that like.

Got Uruguay and a draw in 90 mins for the two games today. 5 returns 30.

Cacau was woeful against Ghana, he's no loss at all with Klose coming back. The big one for Germany is Schweinsteiger. So much of what they do starts with him, if he's out or not at his most effective then that's a really big boost for England because I'm not sure the Germans can replace what he brings to the team.

Ha, gargle my piss Switzerland. Just watched the Spain game on Sky+, fucking delighted that group ended the way it did. Sets up two very tasty games in the next round. On a side note, Barcelona are going to be stupidly good next year. Villa looks a terror playing from the left which is where I assume he'll spend most of his time for Barca.

God I hope Honduras win, would love if both Chile and Spain could get through.

They always do. http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/06/08/marcelo-bielsa-chile-world-cup-2010-tactics/ Worth a read.

Aye, taking a penalty in a shootout is all about bottle and whether you've got the stones for it at the time. Impossible to really say what would happen, as a general rule I wouldn't fancy taking on the Germans at them though. Just having a think about it though, the odds are that to win a World Cup you will have to win a penalty shootout somewhere along the way. Of the last 5 winners, only 1 hasn't had to face a penalty shootout somewhere along the way.

Amazing that some people still hate Maradona. It was 24 years ago lads, time to move on.

Japan motherfuckers!!

Good at free kicks these lads.

Hope Argentina win it. Some Newcastle representation in there and they're the most entertaining to watch.

Well executed strike but I'd have saved that tbh.

DOD. G. KEEPAH!!

Yeah but by the same token if Klose doesn't get wrongly sent off against Serbia then they're probably through with maximum points and everyone's wanking over them furiously. They were well on their way to thumping the Aussies even before Cahill's red as well tbh.

I thought we created a shedload of chances and only poor finishing and some terrific goalkeeping stopped us winning the group. The Germans won't do what the other three sides have and put men behind the ball and that will suit us down to the ground. I actually agree that you'll be better suited to playing against teams that will take the game to you a bit more, but you still looked hopeless in the middle of the field at times and gave the ball away cheaply far too often (Barry being the main culprit). Slovenia couldn't take advantage of it because they're rubbish, the Germans though have the players to make much more of those errors.

Got to agree with Bluf. Maybe I watched a different game yesterday when you played Slovenia? Yes it was better than against Algeria, but you still struggled to put much of note together and ended up beating a very poor team 1-0 without looking particularly great. By all means be optimistic, I actually think you'll beat the Germans if you get your act together and start playing like you're capable of. But if you play like you have so far in the tournament you'll probably get your arses handed to you tbh.