Not sure if we were watching the same game between Netherlands & Portugal but I thought the behaviour of both teams was absolutely dispicable with a slight edge of dispicability going to Portugal. I did not have an outcome preference either way so was not seeing this match from a biased view.
England has been given a chance with meeting Portugal down a few key players in the next round, but even then can’t see them making it through without serious luck or a dose of suspect officiating. Hopefully their match with Portugal will be decided by quality of play and not infractions.
I called Germany 2-0 agains Sweden on another forum and Germany 2-1 over Argentina. The latter match being a key tournament match up and tough as hell to really predict. Germany is not playing traditional German style soccer which may cause some problems for any team they meet – if their defence stands up, watch out…
Now we’re in disagreement
The Dutch instigated that whole mess, Portugal came to play soccer, Dutchy came to hack their key players…what happened during the course of the game doesn’t matter, anybody would retaliate in that situation…it’s who started it that matters in my opinion…and that was when the Dutch went after Ronaldo to try and get him out of the game right at the start, 5 minutes into the game…that was most definitely by design, and it worked, they managed to cripple Portugal’s best player and get him out of the game
That was very cheap, and to be honest, that was the only way they could compete with Portugal, by employing bully tactics
The other move where that little Dutch puke took the ball and tried to score instead of giving the ball back to Portugal, as is customary when one team kicks the ball out of bounds if a player on the field is injured, was just terrible, Deco chased him down and took out his panzy ass, and got kicked out of the game for it.
The Dutch violated the sacred unwritten laws of the game with these moves, and if it wasn’t such an important game, they would’ve got the crap kicked out of them for it, right on the field
The Dutch were clearly to blame for everything…just because Portugal started to fight fire with fire and dished some out doesn’t make them dirty, they are hardly a dirty team…the Dutch on the other hand, are an aggressive hacking team every time out, who just went way too far in this game
I also think in a game like this, suspensions should not carry over to the next game, it’s wrong and stupid…players are getting suspended for actions that never caused injury, or were never even intended to cause injury, not this game in particular, but every game…looking at why some of these players are getting suspended is ridiculous…somebody please tell me what Essien did to get suspended for the game vs Brazil…i mean seriously, let the men play, damn pussy game…FIFA is really abusing the suspension policy in a big way…just when you thought they couldn’t stoop any lower
I remember a time when players never got suspended…nowadays players are getting suspended before the tournament even starts, like Vidic(from Man Utd, and Serbia), suspended for the opening game of this tournament, WTF is that…players getting suspended for scoring goals, are you f#%n kidding me…every team except Brazil and Germany(and the other money makers)is getting their players suspended, what a disgrace
Every day it just keeps getting worse and worse