really tough to imagine we can't find a spot for Schürrle in the starting 11. he should be playing. Özil and Götze deserve to be on the bench. hopefully they can regain their form.
**Official World Cup 2014 Thread**
really tough to imagine we can't find a spot for Schürrle in the starting 11. he should be playing. Özil and Götze deserve to be on the bench. hopefully they can regain their form.
I'm no fan of Sepp Blatter, but I agree with his comments about how diving really needs to be penalized more seriously.
You can't expect a ref running at high speed to make consistently accurate foul calls on crowds of players 50 yards away from him, and accomplished divers have taken advantage of this deficiency for decades. But with the ubiquity of HD video, we finally have something to combat it and implementing post-game video reviews with fines/suspensions for the offenders is imo, a no-brainer. It's a relatively simple fix, and it would go a long ways towards increasing the integrity/credibility of the sport.
You can't expect a ref running at high speed to make consistently accurate foul calls on crowds of players 50 yards away from him, and accomplished divers have taken advantage of this deficiency for decades. But with the ubiquity of HD video, we finally have something to combat it and implementing post-game video reviews with fines/suspensions for the offenders is imo, a no-brainer. It's a relatively simple fix, and it would go a long ways towards increasing the integrity/credibility of the sport.
When the Dutch are on. . . They are a top 5 team. United must be giddy watching RVP today. Bayern knows what Robben can do
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doughbraz54
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Couldn't be happier that Spain is getting romped at the moment. Still a lot of time left though.
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Spain gave up 2 goals in all of the 2010 world cup.....4 in the past 30 minutes. :unsure:
Slaughter by the Dutch. ROBBENNNNNN
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doughbraz54
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Five to fu**ing one. Wow.
Dutch can win this tournament if they play like this. RVP And Robben are 2 of the top 10 players in the world (on my list). Dangerous team.
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Robben is an animal
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lol Torres
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Made me so happy lmao.
COMEBACKRICKY
Superbowl MVP
Awesome game by the Dutch!!! It was a treat watching them play, very fluid passing with great first touches by the lesser known guys. Great tackling by the Dutch defense as well. We all know Robben and RVP can ball out but if the rest of the team plays like they did today to provide opportunities for that duo, watch out.
But on that 3rd goal (off the set piece) RVP went up in the air and had a lot of contact on Casillas.. Where is the consistency? In yesterdays game we saw the Croatian guy get called for the foul and there wasnt as much contact as this one by RVP.
What is the actual rule in regards to contact with the keeper when the ball is in the air?
But on that 3rd goal (off the set piece) RVP went up in the air and had a lot of contact on Casillas.. Where is the consistency? In yesterdays game we saw the Croatian guy get called for the foul and there wasnt as much contact as this one by RVP.
What is the actual rule in regards to contact with the keeper when the ball is in the air?
phins_4_ever
E12 FH Tailgate Gang
Once again the dutch put on a clinic. They are always an exciting team to watch yet they never won it all.
There are no specific rules but in general the refs will do what they can to protect the keeper. That could of easily been called a foul on RVP.
But Casillas played like **** and he misplayed this ball as well so an RVP foul would of been a bailout for what was pretty poor goalkeeping by the hall of famer.
I'm cool with a no call there. It's more important to be consistent in your game over being consistent in every game. Different refs will call the game different. If you call a soft penalty in the box for one side it needs to be equal on the other side. That was a pretty weak azz penalty the ref gave Spain early in the game . . . so this kind of balanced that out.