Dave Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Wait Ecuador are 10th in the FIFA rankings? England are 7th. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 So its Podolski's turn to score the next goal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Wait Ecuador are 10th in the FIFA rankings? Just had a look, Colombia are in 6th and Croatia 4th Brazil are in 19th. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Wait Ecuador are 10th in the FIFA rankings? Just had a look, Colombia are in 6th and Croatia 4th Brazil are in 19th. Friendlies are worth less ranking points than competitive games, even if you win them. Hence why at the last 3 tournaments we've had this rhetoric about 'the hosts being the worst side' going into it. At least I think that was the case with Poland, South Africa and Austria. Basically once a team wins the right to host a competition they inevitably slide right down the rankings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leffe186 Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Wait Ecuador are 10th in the FIFA rankings? Just had a look, Colombia are in 6th and Croatia 4th Brazil are in 19th. Friendlies are worth less ranking points than competitive games, even if you win them. Hence why at the last 3 tournaments we've had this rhetoric about 'the hosts being the worst side' going into it. At least I think that was the case with Poland, South Africa and Austria. Basically once a team wins the right to host a competition they inevitably slide right down the rankings. While that's true about the rankings, I'm not sure Poland, South Africa and Austria are the best examples to use . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Germany 2-0 in 3 minutes v Ecuador; Podolski after 7 seconds and L Bender; look frickin awesome Without watching it.... Could it probably just be, just maybe, that Ecuador aren't just THAT good actually? Just asking. They're very likely to be at the World Cup. They're very good at home (at altitude). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Barca just beat Espanyol on pens to win Copa Catalunya. Looked a strong team, thought they normally played reserves in that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 http://www.livescore.co.uk/default.dll/game?comp=romania1&game=682326 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiemag Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Australia's u/20's drew 2-2 with Germany's u/21's today. Pleasant surprise, I believe our own Curtis Good captains Australia as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Cup Finale de France Featuring everyone's favourite French team, Evian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Mouth-watering match. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Didn't they go down the plughole to L2? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakie Doke Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 it's like wine vs water. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Watching Nigeria vs. Mexico friendly in Houston. They were ripping through us in the first 20 minutes. Our midfield was nowhere to be seen, and luckily chicarito only converted one of his three or four chances. Then we got a penalty and a red card. It's 1-1 and Naija's on top now. Quite eventful for a friendly. Credit to the Mexicans as well. The games not even in their country and they've filled an 80,000 seat stadium with 90 percent Mexicans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Watching it as well, completely missed Nigeria's second, probably shouldn't be watching on mute. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Finished 2-2. Credit again to Mexico. They take these friendlies extremely seriously Easily the most competitive friendly we've played since the ones against Ghana. If Naija had gone down to 10 in a friendly it would have become an exercise in time wasting, but they were running like it was the World Cup final. Not impressed with SE tonight, there was little defensive organisation and some of these players Keshi is peddling simply aren't good enough. Still, that's what's friendlies are for, and there were quite a few individually impressive players. Watching it as well, completely missed Nigeria's second, probably shouldn't be watching on mute. It's funny you had it on mute. I had the ESPN stream and these commentators are useless Mexican cheerleaders. Every single Nigerian name was said incorrectly. Every one. I muted in disgust when they compared the African champions to Jamaica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Finally no need to 'like' Real Madrid anymore after today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Finally no need to 'like' Real Madrid anymore after today. Must've been hard, your devotion to José is commendable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Finally no need to 'like' Real Madrid anymore after today. You can fuck right off if you're just going to be like that with Chelsea next year though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Finally no need to 'like' Real Madrid anymore after today. You can fuck right off if you're just going to be like that with Chelsea next year though. No chance, obvously. Champions League will be a different story, though, as we're not in it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Finally no need to 'like' Real Madrid anymore after today. You can fuck right off if you're just going to be like that with Chelsea next year though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Reckon Mourinho paid those photographers to make a fuss like that just then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Jesus saves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 The 12 Osasuna fans are going wild. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Bayern 1 up in the German cup final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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