Is that to win the World Cup, or just beat North Korea?
That's pretty brave if it's to win the whole thing.
Having said that, I'm already ruling out France, Portugal, Argentina, Italy, and Spain (I know they haven't played yet, but they suck) - which really only leaves Brazil, Germany and Holland.
I'm sure it wasn't the point you were trying to make, but now that you mention it, there are quite a few good teams who failed to qualify somehow - Czech Republic, Croatia, Russia...
Were more places allocated to African teams this time, due to it being held in S.Africa, or what?
I know there was a bit of a re-shuffle, because Australia were moved from "Australasia" to "Asia"(?!) for some reason.
Oh, and I've just crossed Brazil off my list of potential winners - it's now just between Germany and Holland.
Originally Posted by Mkingy Being a goalkeeper myself I actually have no sympathy for him. If you don't get your body behind the ball properly then you're asking for trouble.
Horrible for me as an English person/fan, i mean. I was spitting feathers and swearing at him when it happened!
Originally Posted by Johnny Look I used to be a goalkeeper too but I disagree with you. He was well positioned (even though the replays seem to show otherwise because of the angle of the camera), but he left his eyes off the ball for a split second and when he was about to grab it it was too late. I'm guessing he wanted to get the ball rolling as fast as possible and was looking for the next player to pass it to and miscalculated the speed of the ball.
Also, the ball did make an awkward trajectory and given all the complaints from most goalkeepers in the tournament about it being unpredictable I think it might have had something to do with it.
Positioning fine, his technique was wrong. He's gone down on one knee when he should have his entire body behind the ball so if he doesn't gather it properly he doesn't fluff it into the net. Shouldn't have been in a rush anyways, 1-0 up, what's the hurry?
Positioning fine, his technique was wrong. He's gone down on one knee when he should have his entire body behind the ball so if he doesn't gather it properly he doesn't fluff it into the net. Shouldn't have been in a rush anyways, 1-0 up, what's the hurry?
There was nothing wrong with his technique, other than the fact that he misjudged the trajectory of the ball (which is why he didn't have his full body behind the ball). If you look at the replays you can clearly see if the ball was a few inches closer to him he would have gathered it without any problems.
btw they were winning by a very small margin and they were still in the first half, if there was an opportunity to launch a quick counter-attack it wouldn't make sense not to make use of it just for the sake of saving a few seconds (which could later be precious in the case the us tied the game).
Germany lost to Serbia, so I can now cross them off my list of possible contenders (and I'm still not going to put Argentina back on my list, because their goals were all *really* soft, and a half-decent team would still beat them).
So... It looks like Holland have got it in the bag - Sorry Hayo
Suppose I should probably say "Go England!" at this point...
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Vienna or Salzburg would be great. 
