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World Soccer XIII: Through the Group Stages

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Park Ji-Sung! 2-0 KOR.

The Greek defense has been bad all over the pitch- the first thing you teach young soccer players re: defending is "Don't sell!" Keep your man in front of you when he has the ball and don't lunge. The Greeks are lunging everywhere, and the Koreans are just dancing by.
 
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Cha Du-Ri is having a fantastic game, even before that cross. He's been solid on the ball and great going up and down the right wing from his fullback position.
 
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FIFA rankings have Greece #13 and Korea #47.

But today's play by Korea (thru 65') is worthy of a quarterfinalist. And Greece ... well, maybe they should pull the goalie.
 
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AMC said:
Lee Jung Soo! 1-0 KOR.

Terrible marking by the Greek #9 (looking him up... Angelos Charisteas, F, Nuremberg), he was responsible for Soo and left his man.
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He struggled with my Nuremburg team this season as well.

He did score the game winner in the Euro 2004 final, but that was years ago.


The worst part of that goal was the referee's call on the penalty that lead to the free kick. Although to be fair, the referee also missed an obvious penalty kick a few minutes later.
 
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Loads better than I expected this morning. Argentina should be fun to watch, 3-4-3 with Tevez, Higuain, and Messi up front.
 
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that's 5pts for mookie!!

one tie so far
& one win.

LET'S GO NIGERIA!!! (they are called the eagles, right?:o ) GO EAGLES!!!
 
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woooo! super eagles!!!

-i for one was saddened that we saw no crowd shot of wifes/gfs of the victorious koreans towards the end :( :(
 
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No chance for the Keeper on either of those goals. The early first isn't always a killer, but when you're Greece...gotta clear that one out.

They had some chances to get back in it, but just couldn't convert. Why was Karagounis taken out?
 
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mookie1995 said:
18 spain
15 italy
14 germany
11 ivory coast
9 usa
8 mexico
7 nigeria
6 denmark
4 south korea
4 switzerland
3 japan
1 north korea

left off england (17), brazil, argentina (16), netherlands (15), france (13), portugal (11). and other single digits.

got a pt for the mexicalis tie today :rolleyes:
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Won't Argentina be favs in the game against Nigeria today?
 
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There is really nothing cooler than the WC national anthems, except the Olympic medal ceremony.

Let's go Nigeria! Africa is the ECAC of international soccer.
 
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Already one wrong for the day, let's make it two. I pick the Argies 2-1.
 
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Looks like Messi has decided to show up. Higuain needs to finish that.
 
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Heinze! Is Argentina this good, or did Nigeria not show up?
 
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There was no one within five feet of Heinze. Even I know that's wrong.
 
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Heinze! Is Argentina this good, or did Nigeria not show up?
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I would say a combo of both. Argentina is one of the top 5 teams in the world (despite what happened in qualifying), and have arguably the best player in the world who, based on the first 20 minutes, is going to have a huge tournament.

Nigeria, is actually a pretty good defensive team compared to years past, but not showing so far in this game.

Nigeria is lucky this is only 1-0, it could EASILY be about 3 or 4-0.
 
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