WC 2006 Official Thread

[theasfl]

Originally Posted by ukhotstove

Notre Dame

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Sdpm100]

I don't know if anyone cares, but here are the Goal Time stats:

	1-15	16-30	31-45	46-60	61-75	76-90	91-105	106-120	Total
Group	16	21	19	14	10	37			117
Round16	5	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	10

[theasfl]

Originally Posted by bababui

He was also great on the song Eminem sampled

uh...Dido?

[Chisanga]

Goal! 2-0 Brazil

[ukhotstove]

Originally Posted by bababui

He was also great on the song Eminem sampled

[Sdpm100]

Adriano makes it two!

[theasfl]

Brazil scores against the run of play...Ghana have to take shots and then get them on goal or this is going to get ugly

[Chisanga]

Originally Posted by ukhotstove

Notre Dame

The Bells! The Bells!!

[theasfl]

he was a half step off...the man scores with his inner thigh...


thats Brazil's 200th WC goal

[redmarkYankees]

Offside.
Sounds odd, but that's probably a good time to concede a second, if any. The coach can tell them they've been playing well, go back out and attack! attack! attack! for 45 minutes, see what happens.

[bababui]

Originally Posted by ukhotstove

Tonights game should be a decent game as well.

Aragones cast a dark cloud over tonights game

[Sdpm100]

Originally Posted by theasfl

there have been plenty of horribly played games, mostly in Groups G & H

As I said France/Switzerland was such an obvious 0-0 from even before the kick-off, it almost makes you wonder if it was a repeat of that 1982 West Germany/Austria game. Neighbourly friendship to help each other out.

[Chisanga]

More dodgy ajudicating to favour the established teams there

[bababui]

Originally Posted by Sdpm100

I don't know if anyone cares, but here are the Goal Time stats:

    1-15    16-30    31-45    46-60    61-75    76-90    91-105    106-120    Total
Group    16    21    19    14    10    37            117
Round16    5    1    0    1    0    1    1    0    9

Not suprising with the lesser conditioned teams eliminated. It also bodes ill for the Ghanans

[bababui]

Originally Posted by redmarkYankees

Offside.
Sounds odd, but that's probably a good time to concede a second, if any. The coach can tell them they've been playing well, go back out and attack! attack! attack! for 45 minutes, see what happens.

May I borrow your rosecolored glasses??

[redmarkYankees]

Originally Posted by bababui

Not suprising with the lesser conditioned teams eliminated. It also bodes ill for the Ghanans

Not at all; stats like that have no predictive value. Being 2-0 down against the World Champions bodes ill, of course.

[Sdpm100]

Originally Posted by bababui

May I borrow your rosecolored glasses??

They're going to score 3 in a row - and win 3-2!!!

[bababui]

Originally Posted by redmarkYankees

Not at all; stats like that have no predictive value. Being 2-0 down against the World Champions bodes ill, of course.

I would modify that to little predictive value.

[redmarkYankees]

Originally Posted by bababui

May I borrow your rosecolored glasses??

Conceding a goal then was better than conceding one after 35 minutes (which may have led to a 3rd), or immediately after half time when the coach would have no opportunity to address them. Time for a Churchillian speech - they have 45 minutes to stage the greatest comeback in history against the World Champions, etc etc. Of course it probably won't happen, but they have nothing to lose.

[theasfl]

Originally Posted by Sdpm100

I don't know if anyone cares, but here are the Goal Time stats:

	1-15	16-30	31-45	46-60	61-75	76-90	91-105	106-120	Total
Group	16	21	19	14	10	37			117
Round16	5	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	10

pretty much along the lines of what I would have predicted