Soccer / Football 2012-2013 Always With The GERMANS!

[The Stig]

Haha BBC showed a camera of a scene in downtown chicago where there's a huge crowd on the street watching what I presume to be a massive screen!

Go USA!

[SamanosukeShiva]

kiefer sutherland hype? lol

[The Stig]

I much preferred the patriotic uniform they had on the previous match. White doesn't match

[Ashmada]

After 2 rounds of games, the results for group H are:

- Belgium is guaranteed to go through and is first in case of victory against SK, in case of tie with SK, in case of tie between Algeria and Russia and in case of a Russian win.
Only if Belgium loses AND Russia loses is Belgium second behind Algeria (goal difference doesn't matter).

- Algeria goes through if they win against Russia or if they tie and South Korea doesn't win or if they tie and South Korea wins by less than 3 goals.
They take the lead if they win AND SK wins.

- Russia goes through if they win AND SK doesn't win by more goals than they do.

- SK goes through if they win AND Algeria ties with Russia OR if they win and Russia beats Algeria by a lesser goal differential.

In table form:
BE wins, RU wins-> BE, RU
BE wins, RU ties-> BE, AL
BE wins, AL wins-> BE, AL
BE ties, RU wins-> BE, RU
BE ties, RU ties-> BE, AL
BE ties, AL wins-> BE, AL
SK wins, RU wins-> BE, RU/SK -> direct GD, RU has +1 over SK; if GD is the same, SK is through.
SK wins by <=2, RU ties-> BE, AL (by GD)
SK wins by 3, RU ties-> BE, SK (by GF)
SK wins by >3, RU ties-> BE, SK (by GD)
SK wins, AL wins-> AL, BE

Time to do the other groups now.

[The Stig]

NUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuu.......

[octopus]

Welp

[Akiyama]

RIP

[Byrd]

I think the US tried to allow that goal. Ugh.

[SamanosukeShiva]

daaaaaaaaamn haha

[Cail]

Welp

[Tyrath]

That's rough..

[Plow]

by the way I'm not positive, could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the U.S. can still advance with a loss here if they beat Germany, ESPN/ABC just completely avoided mentioning that possibility to keep the hype up for the sunday prime time game

[Byrd]

This is like watching a Varsity-JV scrimmage so far. Not good.

[Plow]

This is neither here nor there, but it looks like Adidas and Nike have sponsored all the cleats for this World Cup. And they are all amazingly fucktastingly ugly.

I am having a hard time that the classic Adidas Copas do not perform as well as... whatever they're wearing now.

as great as copas/sambas are, they're an extremely basic shoe, and the technology they have to improve touch/feel these days is pretty amazing

[Cail]

Wow having to sub already

[Headspace]

US playing well really. Despite the shit start

[Byrd]

After that initial flurry of 10 minutes or so, I think the US has looked as good if not better than Portugal. Their offense seems more aggressive than it ever did against Ghana.

[The Stig]

Agreed. Can they keep this pace up is the question, but I sure as hell want them to win lol

Playing better than England too ahahahaha

[Tyrath]

by the way I'm not positive, could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the U.S. can still advance with a loss here if they beat Germany, ESPN/ABC just completely avoided mentioning that possibility to keep the hype up for the sunday prime time game

Yeah but if they can't beat Portugal it's unlikely they beat germany

[The Stig]

FUCKING GOOD SAVE!