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    x-dANGEr, boy, get your Croatia - Brazil highlight here !!!

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    Hoping Poland - Germany 'll be a good one !

    Hope poland 'll be able to put up some kind of a fight, winning would surely make the group a whole lot more interesting - especially if Ecuador beats CRC !

    As I only watched the first half of the Brazil - Croatia game, I have to say I'd overestimated Croatia, which isn't a good thing considering the fact that Brazil was probably playing at about 70 % of it's strength...

    Luckily for them, they have players like Kaka who can turn the tide with one solo. Great shot by the way !

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    I would still maintain that Croatia played better than Brazil. Considering their
    only previous meeting [last year] was a draw, it was reasonable to expect them
    to get more from the game.

    Today though, the Ukraine have been on the end of some poor refereeing
    decisions - and I'm glad to see that Spain just had what would have been their
    fourth goal effectively ignored.


    We've seen that Germany are nothing special in terms of their defence, so I
    hope Poland can exploit their weaknesses.
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    ukraine never got off the bus. that was easily the worst performance of the WC so far. wow.

    the red card PK was also the single worst call of the WC so far. that ref should be fined for that. not that it mattered.. spain was always going to win this one, since the ukraine seemingly fielded a bunch of goat herders instead of a football team.


    yikes.
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    However that my be, the fourth spanish goal was excellent !

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    speaking of excellent goals.. did you see the flying, twisting volley by jaziri?

    tunisia is my sleeper pick.

    edit: but the saudi's are looking pretty good.

    edit2: so much for a sleeper pick.. saudis played a better game, though 2-2 is a fair result i think. very good game.. not as good as sweden/t&t but very entertaining i thought. great result for ukraine, interesting to see who gets second out of this group.
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    Wow! Injury time goal from Neuville in the Germany/Poland game! The Poles must be kicking themselves.

    They should have won by a couple more though, missed a couple of great chances.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine
    x-dANGEr, boy, get your Croatia - Brazil highlight here !!!

    Croatia - Brazil Rapidshare Link
    First of all, thank you, you didn't have to have the trouble.

    Though, am getting this message:
    You have requested the file Croatia-Brazil_0-1.rar (5403 KB). This file has been downloaded 380 times already.
    IMPORTANT: Download-accelerators are only supported with a PREMIUM-Account!

    Your IP-address xx.xxx.xx.xx is already downloading a file. You have to wait until it is finished.
    Premium-accounts can download many files at the same time. Get your own Premium-Account now. Instant download-access!
    If you are not downloading anything, you are using a proxy-server or a shared IP-address. A Premium-account solves this problem as well.
    And no, am not DL-ing anything, and am the only one who's gaining internet from that modem.. Any idea?
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    Yay for Germany! Good game, Poles, really, twas a tough one. Had me on the edge of my bed (was watching it in my room) at times. Smashing work.

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    x-dANGEr, this can only happen if you are using a shared connection. If you have a wireless LAN, check if anyone hacked into your connection and exploiting it. If it is an ordinary LAN, I don't think you would not notice some other cable plugged into your modedm to share your connection where you reside.

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    Wow - what a match against Poland. We watched it in a crowded sportsbar (fanatastic atmosphere) and the last 20 minutes really had averybody on edge.

    Good fight by Poland - but in the end they were just too tired and the deccicive goal was more than deserved and overdue.

    I wouldn't say that our team was "great" but they were clearly very enthusiastic and driven by the homefield advantage ... let's see how far this motivation will carry them...

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    Germany will lose to Equador though. Spain was impressive, bad call in the box by the ref.

    Edit: I meant Germany not Poland!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rythmic
    Germany will lose to Equador though. Spain was impressive, bad call in the box by the ref.
    Red card was justified, in my opinion; those are the rules. It was, however, outseide the box and should not have been a penalty. Spain looked the strongest of all teams so far in the first round of play.

    Good win for Germany (it really hurts to say that). Lucky in the end but well deserved. It shows that you needed a Swiss born player to score the decider, eh?

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    Germany vs Poland - one of the best games so far! I was personally hoping Klinsmann would make a substitution to get Odonkor in the field - a fast guy was exactly what was needed to break through the Polish defense. He got a bad start but got better and better for every offensive, eventually making the extremely accurate pass to the 1-0 goal
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    Loved the Germany Poland game. Was rooting for the Germans all the way, so glad when they finally made a goal. Was a bit disappointed in the Poles though, they played a good defense but they rarely tried to move the game into the German half of the field.

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