Germany is looking pretty good clean crisp passes and being patient but going quickly once they find a hole.

6/13/2010 3:00:13 PM

That's what she said?

6/13/2010 3:01:05 PM

i <3 fat ranaldo....


and im not going to lie. i really want to see sweinstager pound a 30m lazer beam.

6/13/2010 3:01:44 PM

Damn, Germany is looking great... very patient (60%+ possession), lots of small touches, and they're putting on a clinic for making runs and pushing balls forward into space. If they can continue to dictate the pace of their games like this, they'll be hard to stop.

6/13/2010 3:24:09 PM

regardless of how bad australia is playing on defense (not as bad as the us or even england last night)


germany is probably the most impressive team in the tournament so far.

6/13/2010 3:24:30 PM

australia denied a penalty on a handball early in this half

6/13/2010 3:35:37 PM

looked like a penalty to me


Australia looks a lot better this half though

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 3:37 PM. Reason : .]

6/13/2010 3:36:43 PM

i thought so too. it denied a header that was going on frame

6/13/2010 3:37:59 PM

Damn good chance for the Germans

and there goes the aussie chances

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 3:42 PM. Reason : Red]

6/13/2010 3:40:18 PM

even better chance from the germans. great passing and a great dummy. needed a much better finish

6/13/2010 3:41:41 PM

another fucking red card, really?

cahill off wow


shouldve been a yellow. wow at a straight red.


3 games, 3 red cards today

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 3:43 PM. Reason : f]

6/13/2010 3:42:20 PM

wow, that is not a red card challenge. obvious foul, easily justified yellow, but I don't see that being a red at all.


[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 3:44 PM. Reason : ]

6/13/2010 3:42:40 PM

that's an extremely harsh red card


of course it's the CONCACAF ref

6/13/2010 3:43:01 PM

The Mexican Dracula fucked that one up.

6/13/2010 3:43:12 PM

That's awful... and there goes any chance they have of getting out of the round.

6/13/2010 3:43:12 PM

no way that's a red, he pulled out of the tackle.

6/13/2010 3:43:37 PM

Yeah a straight red in the World Cup has to be a fucking malicious and obvious tackle, give him the yellow and tell him if he does anything like that again he is gone. Especially sending off a teams best player is kinda rough

6/13/2010 3:44:38 PM

so is fifa required to take a concacaf ref?

6/13/2010 3:44:42 PM

Clipped him from behind, but didn't have legs extended, didn't have cleats out... that's not a red. Bloody hell.

6/13/2010 3:45:00 PM

Anyone else just lose the feed?

6/13/2010 3:45:05 PM

^ yea. my HD feed and normal feed are out for the game atm.

Quote :

"no way that's a red, he pulled out of the tackle."

yep. he was late and he knew it and tried to pull back. no malicious intent there at all and it wasn't that reckless even.

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 3:47 PM. Reason : ]

6/13/2010 3:45:05 PM

im convinced the refs are pissed from the cusing and yelling the aussiesdid in the first half, and now they're paying for it.

6/13/2010 3:45:30 PM

this may turn into the first official butt raping of the tourney now

6/13/2010 3:46:57 PM

Quote :

"so is fifa required to take a concacaf ref?"

I don't think so

6/13/2010 3:48:08 PM

Australia look like they may have just opened up the game after the red... probably a "fuck it" type of reaction since realistically they don't have much of a shot with a thin bench and now no Cahill next game too.

6/13/2010 3:49:52 PM

^
That's not going to turn out well for them.

6/13/2010 3:50:26 PM

i just looked up the refs and they do have a ref from every region. somehow concacaf got 4 refs in, and i cannot recall a really great ref from our region...there is always shady shit happening in our qualifying games

3-0

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM. Reason : f]

6/13/2010 3:51:17 PM

damn germany is looking scary good

6/13/2010 3:54:48 PM

after the red i cant take much out of this game. its gonna be a clinic from here on out. i didnt get to see much of the first half though

6/13/2010 3:55:15 PM

ugh this feed is pissing me off. my regular and HD ABC has been totally out now for like 15 minutes so of course I miss another goal too

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM. Reason : ]

6/13/2010 3:55:16 PM

4-0

6/13/2010 3:56:22 PM

got to see that goal at least

6/13/2010 3:56:43 PM

epic ass whipping in progress

usa, plz win group to avoid ze germans

6/13/2010 3:56:46 PM

6/13/2010 3:57:33 PM

Quote :

"i didnt get to see much of the first half though"

they were just as dominant...if Ozil didn't have such a lead foot he would have had 2 himself in the first half

6/13/2010 3:57:37 PM

Now it's trying to put the psychological warfare into play letting their future opponenents know they are
for real this year so be worried

6/13/2010 3:57:51 PM

well i cant recall ozil being a clinical finisher or anything in the past.

6/13/2010 3:59:27 PM

these really wouldn't have even been fantastic finishes though iirc, just run of the mill stuff that he put bad touches on

6/13/2010 4:03:11 PM

oh. well thats even worse then. this is prob gonna end up 5-0

6/13/2010 4:04:17 PM

germany is making a habit out of opening the WC up with tons of goals...

6/13/2010 4:08:17 PM

haha yeah didnt they beat saudi arabia like 8-0? im not sure if it was an opening game though

6/13/2010 4:10:23 PM

in '06 it was ecuador 4-2...i thought it was more, must be thinking of another game...i just remember that torsten frings blazer from like 30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u14-IwCOjnA

yea in '02 they beat saudi arabia 8-0 in their opener

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 4:19 PM. Reason : ]

6/13/2010 4:17:31 PM

lol at that dive. glad he got a yellow for it


in 2002 germany did open with saudi arabia and won 8-0

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 4:19 PM. Reason : f]

6/13/2010 4:18:41 PM

^^i think they played costa rica in '06.

Quote :

"there is always shady shit happening in our qualifying games"

i think ireland might think uefa has the worse refs. (but yeah, i'm not a fan of concacaf refs)



to me, this game just showed that australia isn't ready to play with the big boys (no big surprise, really), and that the '06 showing was closer to a fluke than improved quality. germany looked strong, but i'm not entirely convinced they have strong midfield play (ozil looked particularly shaky out there and i don't see him doing well against tougher competition), and the red card coupled with the weak opposition made it hard to entirely asses what germany has to offer. they certainly have no shortage of firepower up front, but i'm thinking germany won't really be tested until the knockout stage (with maybe a goal allowed against ghana).

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 4:30 PM. Reason : ]

6/13/2010 4:26:35 PM

Quote :

"^^i think they played costa rica in '06."

u right...i even posted the vid and still put Ecuador

6/13/2010 4:27:53 PM

dangit abc now i can't get this out of my head

6/13/2010 4:28:10 PM

well as i am sure all the italy haters will remember, australia almost made it through to the quarters last WC, but thanks to totti's magic, italy took it home

6/13/2010 4:30:22 PM

That Australian team was miles better than this one, though.

6/13/2010 5:42:04 PM

its all the same players though, minus viduka

6/13/2010 5:42:44 PM

Germany looked good. I had sort of dismissed them.

They looked way better than the over-hyped England side. I see England in round of 16 or quarterfinals exit and Germany at least a semifinal team.

6/13/2010 5:46:31 PM