Rio de Janiero - 2014 Fifa World Cup Thread

[J.Benson II]

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Maybe Toure just never saw Mexico's game against Cameroon or Bosnia's game against Nigeria?

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oh my word

[Fernando]

How did that stay out?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

SCENES

[Fernando]

Costa Rica for the win   

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Not entirely sure why, but I have a serious hatred of Bryan Ruiz. Can't stand him

[Fernando]

I suspect it's the one direction mop haired look  

Costa Rica should of had a pen.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Finally Van Gaal takes one of the CB's off and brings on Huntelaar

[Fernando]

Well that's a painful collision.

[Fernando]

Costa Rica doing what most CL sides fail to do and stopping Robben on his left foot.

Huntelaar booked for taking out Navas in mid-air

[Fernando]

Interestingly Tim Krul is warming up, Penalty shootout tactics?

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This is brilliant

[Fernando]

Sneijder hits the bar!

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Van Persie has been complete crap

[Fernando]

Robin Van Offside is trending worldwide   Livened up since Olly said this was crap.

Krul coming on for the pens.

[Fernando]

Michel Vorm is better at penalty saving then Krul.

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LOL

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LOL of forever if Costa Rica score now?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Best game ever

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Krul has saved 2 of 20 penalties at Newcastle

[Fernando]

FT Holland 0-0 Costa Rica - Penalties coming

Costa Rica have done their country proud tonight   

Id feel peed off if i was the keeper dragged off better hope it works out now.

2 pens saved out of 20 for Newcastle.

[Duty281]

Bizarre change, I rather feel for Holland's number one.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Van Gaal has some serious serious John Stones on him

[Fernando]

The way Navas is going Holland be lucky if they score 1   

[Fernando]

Vorm > Krul @ Penalty saving

Cillesen been mugged off by LVG

[Fernando]

1-0 Costa Rica

[Fernando]

1-1 RVP - classy penalty.

[Fernando]

Krul saves Ruiz pen

1-1 still

[Fernando]

2-1 Holland - Robben

[Fernando]

2-2 Costa Rica. Going back to mock Krul after his words   

[Fernando]

3-2 Holland - Sneijder

[Fernando]

3-3 Costa Rica.

[Fernando]

4-3 Holland - Kuyt

Costa Rica heading home most likely now.

[Fernando]

Costa Rica miss and are heading home as Krul saves.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Well that sucks

[Fernando]

Semi Finals
Germany vs Brazil
Argentina vs Holland

[kingraf]

I can't believe it worked. just got back in time to witness the greatest substitution of all time

[Guest]

TIMOTHY KRUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! U BEAUTY!

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Lol @ all the Van Gaal loving completely ignoring his sides inability to beat Costa Rica

[Pal Joey]

So the nation with the average tallest people go through.
Well played both sides, a little sorry for Costa Rica but the Krul sub was very timely indeed.

[The Special Juan]

Lol @ all the Van Gaal loving completely ignoring his sides inability to beat Costa Rica

Just like England's then

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Lol @ all the Van Gaal loving completely ignoring his sides inability to beat Costa Rica

Just like England's then

Completely irrelevant but sure

[Duty281]

I wouldn't say the substitution exactly worked as the penalties saved were fairly weak efforts... Krul should have saved the first one as well!

Difficult to predict the semifinals.

I feel Germany are doing slightly better than Brazil, but the hosts have home advantage and some...other advantages on their side as well, shall we say.

Both Holland and Argentina are doing fairly averagely; the former peaked in their first game, and the latter have just meandered.

Such a wide-open tournament will further frustrate England, as they could have given it a real go. Just think, that penalty when Gerrard is toppled over gets given and Godin gets sent off. England could have beaten Greece, could have had this Dutch side on Toast, and be turning their attentions to average Argentina.

And the World Cup itself, right now, could be there on the horizon in all her glistening glory, calling out to dear, sweet England to take her home after all these forlorn years in the foreign wilderness.

It could have been ours; Roy could have had it all. Maybe my fractured, broken dreams will take me to such a place.

[Hammersmith harrier]

It's was a psychological ploy in bringing Krul on, it's taken all the pressure off the players and put it entirely on himself, if they'd lost we'd be talking about what an odd decision it was rather than what a poor penalty by whoever.

[Guest]

Not sure it's a massive story, Krul's obviously been performing very well in training, therefore, you go with your best GK for that situation. Krul had done the work & went the correct way each time, you can't save every penalty but he did the business & it worked for LVG. Agree, took the pressure away from the pen takers & all on LVG. Just glad Holland are through & will make a better spectacle vs Argentina. Costa Rica have been magnificent & should be proud but they've gone as far as they could possibly go.

[Nachos Jones]

Wij zijn er bijna maar nog niet helemaal. Hup Holland Hup

[kingraf]

Without using Google translate, using only my knowledge of Afrikaans and Suisse German, I'd guess you typed - .... but still completely in it. Go Holland go... No clue what Wij Zijn means

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Manuel Neuer vs Nobody and Messi vs the guy who keeps untying Robbens shoelaces.

[lorus59]

Duty really is delusional when it comes to England. Even now he still thinks they could have won the World Cup.

[socal1976]

I find it pretty shocking that a lot of people on this site actually feel like Neymar got what he deserved or was faking at the time when he got kneed in the back. When I saw the knee in the back it looked pretty vicious and at least deserving of a yellow card. Neymar isn't even as close to as big a diver as Robben, I still don't want either guy to be injured and knocked out of the tournament. Some of the commentary during the Brazil match and even after the news that the kid had a fractured vertebrae on this site has been pretty harsh and borderline grotesque. Neymar is a major talent and has carried an anemic Brazil attack in this world cup, I certainly don't watch tournaments and hope that players like him get their vertabrae crushed and get knocked out of tournament they have worked for 4 years to win. In fact, I read reports that a couple of inches up and the kid could have had a career ending or even crippling injury.

[socal1976]

Duty really is delusional when it comes to England. Even now he still thinks they could have won the World Cup.

if 31 other teams ate lasagna prepared by Tottenham's chef then England could have won the world cup.

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