2014 World Cup discussion & Analysis

[Beskar]

Germany deserved to win.

[rvg]

Beautiful game, beautiful goal. Congrats to the German team, your victory is well earned.

[HoreTore]

The best performance from Germany since '39.

[The Stranger]

Germany deserved to win.

yes, but that doesnt mean much.

this article pretty much sums up my thoughts exactly. http://thinkfootball.co.uk/archives/16453

with the minor note that the thing the dutch team did good this world cup was defending. they conceided very few goals. 2 out of 3 in the groupstage coming from penalties, and 1 of the other 2 was an unstoppable world class goal by cahill, they conceided only 1 goal in the knockout stage. their midfield (in 5-3-2 or 5-2-3 formation) in particular wasnt capable of doing much else than defend or shoot the ball forward and the attack relied heavily on robbens and to lesser extent van persies brilliance.

[Hooahguy]

Got to see the game in some random redneck town in the middle of Alabama. Now lemme tell you something about that state that I hate: no sale of alcohol on Sundays. So we tried to find a sports bar in the southern part of the state that had the final on, but most sport bars are closed because it is probably one of the dumbest states in the Union. Anyways we somehow found this steakhouse somewhere which had it on. But even with no beer it wasn't too bad since for $7 we got endless drinks (non-alcoholic of course) in these Pilsner glasses that we got to keep afterwards. So that was cool.



But me and my two friends were the only ones in the place who were actually watching the game, so when Germany scored I was the only one who cheered (my friends were going for Argentina) so that was a disappointment. But it was an excellent game and quite the experience to watch the game in a place that seemed rather ambivalent to Futbol.

Also they had great bacon.

[Fragony]

Congrats!

[Fragony]

Cool pics http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/wk/2014/...ert_feest.html

Enjoy your party mia mucas you deserve it

[Husar]

yes, but that doesnt mean much.

But it does. It means that while everybody failed hard we actually managed to keep up some kind of standard.

The article you linked sums up a lot of thoughts I already had during the cup, e.g. that Brazil was not as good as people said or that Chile were fun to watch. Of course I am also not a real football fan but even I noticed that individual player skill seemed lower in many cases. Especially the little tricks some people used to know to win a duel seem to be mostly gone and if they are there, they usually get fouled and that's it.

[Sarmatian]

I'm a bit sad for Argentina and Messi, but best team won, no doubt about that.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Sadly, the only thing that will be broadcast of this year's world cup 10 years down the road will be the "Suarez Sandwich" stuff.

[HoreTore]

Sadly, the only thing that will be broadcast of this year's world cup 10 years down the road will be the "Suarez Sandwich" stuff.

Pfft, James' goal will be remembered like van Basten's.

[The Stranger]

Sadly, the only thing that will be broadcast of this year's world cup 10 years down the road will be the "Suarez Sandwich" stuff.

nah alot more will be remembered, but mostly it will be dramatic moments, with some gems of goals, such as rodriguez goal, van persies, the deciding 1-0 in the final, which was beautiful as well. and ofc neymars back break, some more bone breaks, mascherano's torn anus, 5-1 for spain, 7-1 for brazil ushering new eras for these football nations... or signalling their decine :O

who knows.