OT: US vs. Germany Official Thread
Michael Bradley has been horrible... I realize we have to keep him in there but my God someone kick him in the nuts to get him going.
3 of the 4 midfielders you can't really replace since Jones has been the U.S> best player, Beckerman has a specific role, and Bradley is supposed to be good. I'd like to put Yedlin in here for fresh legs but they already subbed for his position. A part of me wants to put Jones in at Bradley's position but Jones is needed to backtrack...and put Yedlin out wide...
or you could sub Donovan in for Bradley...oh wait.
A Portugal here would be very soothing.
2 US players down wow. No concussions please.
Ohh Florida OL flashbacks...
For basketball fans that reminded me of Vinnie Johnson and Adrian Dantley I believe in the late 80s early 90s?
'87 Conference finals at Boston - game 7.
The AD-VJ collision was a massive head-on collision. This was bad, but was a glancing blow compared to that train-wreck, IMO.
No we are fucking each other up on the same team. Things feel not good right now.
Twillman is trying to kindly say Donovan should be on this team. Green makes no sense - he looked lost in the 2 warmups.
WHERE IS WONDO
13 minute to go. NOTHING CHANGE WORLD. (Portugal you are allowed to score 1 goal)
I guess now the important match is Portugal vs Ghana...
Portugal!
PORTUGAL!!!!!
Cristiano finally comes through for the US.
I loooooooove you Cristiano Ronaldo.
PORTUGALLLLLLLLLL
So we are in unless Ghana scores twice in 10 minutes folks!
Yedlin for Jones to protect vs yellow card?
RONALDO
YESSS!!! That was Ronaldo's way of saying sorry for fucking us last game.
PortuGoal
Guys Gonzalez has had a very good game. JK made the right call here.
nope yedlin for Zusi. I am surprised he'd risk a Jones yellow in the final 7 minutes.
Through the varied quality of the video (and I am sure I saw it after everyone else as a result of this) on the WatchESPN App right now, that collision still looked pretty damn painful. Hopefully, both players are alright.
Otherwise, I've tried in good conscience to do some significant work for the last 80 minutes or thereabouts, but I can't look away but for more than a few moments at a time here.
I'm telecommuting today. Had a meeting for the first half hour of the second half. I'm on my couch with a headset, watching the game, talking with everyone else in the office.
Totally a coincidence that I scheduled my telecommuting day today, I swear it.
So we're in the sweet 16?
Looking ahead to Belgium it will be a Germany-lite. Not quite as good but very attack oriented and a lot of youth. Some very creative individual players. Not sure about their defense. They came in the tourney as a dark horse to win it all but have thus far not been playing at a high level. If you have to play a 1st place team they are not a bad choice - other options would be France, Brazil, Argentina, Holland, Columbia for example.
Ironically US and Belgium were set to play a closed scrimmage in Brazil but due to traffic it was cancelled.
Fellaini has brilliant lettuce.
Germany-lite is about right. Won't complete 10 million passes a game like Germany but a bit quicker in the front 4.
Very tough team to beat though.
damn haha that would have been cool
DAMN!
I BELIEVE THAT WE GO THROUGH!
It turned out to be a really balanced group. Germany was the best but not by an overwhelming margin. All four teams played fairly well overall. Great job by Kilnsmann and his guys to survive this.