World Cup Day 13 Open Thread
Welcome to Day 13 of the World Cup. We have the conclusion of Group C and Group D today. The highlight of today’s schedule is Uruguay and Italy, fighting for second place in Group D.
Group D:
12pm EDT
Costa Rica – England (ESPN2)
Italy – Uruguay (ESPN)
Costa Rica is improbably through to the knockout stages. England, of course, is not. Uruguay needs a win to move on whereas Italy needs only a draw due to Goal Differential.
Group C:
4pm EDT
Greece – Cote d’Ivoire (aka Ivory Coast) (ESPN2)
Japan – Columbia (ESPN)
If Cote d’Ivoire wins, they’re through to the final 16 for the first time in their history. If they draw and Japan beat Columbia by more than two goals, Japan would go through. Columbia will likely rest some of their normal starter’s as they are through into the Knockout Stage.
Greece up 1-0 on mistake by Tiote for CIV. They're through if results hold. Greece about to park the bus.
What's the best place in Ann Arbor for Greek food?
Japan score right before half. Changes complexion of things a bit. Japan hold tiebreaker right now over Greece if both win.
No chance for the Greek goalie. He was all alone.
Take the lead and now it's 1-1...if the matches ended now, CIV would be through with Columbia.
1000% Elephants
Faryd Mondragon subs in for Colombia. Oldest player ever in a World Cup match (43).
Greece convert the penalty in the 93rd minute. What a match
Shit penalty call. Contact was made by the Greek player.
...awarded game-winning kick.
Err. Yeah.
That's crap. Where's the challenge flag? ;-)
That was about 1000x times worse than what we went through on Sunday.
Terrible call. What a shame for CIV. I feel bad for Drogba, so close to finally making the knockout round in his last World Cup.
EDIT: on replay, it looks like more of a penalty than I thought live. Still a shame for the Ivorians.
It looked like a foul in the box...if that was a foul in the 40th minute, no one would dispute it.
I want video review. Send it back to New York.
Seriously, I'll have to go back and re-watch, but it looked to me initially that there was near-zero contact there by IC and that the turf monster reared its ugly head. Maybe I saw it wrong. I am admittedly WAY out of my element discussing soccer.
The shooter's bringing his left foot forward to strike the ball--the defender clips the shooting leg with his own left knee, deflecting it into his right leg and the turf, which trips him.. The defender doesn't get any part of the ball, he isn't even close. He just uses his leg to keep the shot from happening.
Just saw the replay.
Definitely an excellent game from them. They seem to rise to the occasion quite often in international tournaments.
I still don't get how they managed to win Euros.
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/03/29/greece-euro-2004-tactics/
That's catenaccio, forty years after it had supposedly died.. Seeing it in 2004 was like if Borges had actually committed full-time to the single wing instead of just trotting his diamond formation out for a few plays. Nobody knew how to attack it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenaccio
On the flip side, Portugal has been really good at getting to the semifinals (and occasionally finals) of tournaments over the last decade, but really bad at winning them.
He clipped the player's shooting foot as he's bringing it through for the shot. That's as clear as a penalty can possibly be.
but next to "Hillsborough", this is ESPN's finest 30 for 30
Uruguay could be disqualified or does FIFA not operate like that?
I don't know, that would be pretty extraordinary and not necessarily fair to his teammates. They can certainly ban him from playing for a long time, though.
I don't think they would do that.
I can see a 2 year ban.
It's a tough one for FIFA. He's been suspended twice before for biting incidents but both at club level and not international. The other problem then is jurisdiction and what FIFA can suspend him from.
Suarez won't care if he misses some friendlies. Copa America is next year but that's organized by CONMEBOL. Any reasonable ban would have to extend to 2018 qualifying.
Has to be gone for the rest of the tournament but I wonder if FIFA just leaves it at that. Wouldn't like if they did but wouldn't surprise me either.
Apparently FIFA has the jurisdiction to ban from all soccer competitions.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1052784/Chelsea-defen…
A Serbian defender got a 1 year ban when he spit in a refs face.
| Wed 6/25 | 11:30 a.m. | ESPN | Nigeria vs. Argentina | F | Porto Alegre | 43 |
| 11:30 a.m. | ESPN2 | Bosnia-Herzegovina vs. Iran | F | Salvador | 44 | |
| 3:30 p.m. | ESPN | Ecuador vs. France | E | Rio de Janeiro | 42 | |
| 3:30 p.m. | ESPN2 | Honduras vs. Switzerland | E | Manaus | 41 |
What is the tiebreak if we lose 1-2 and Ghana wins 2-1
We'll have the same GD, same GF, same GA.
How does head-to-head NOT come into play in this scenario?
Head-to-head eventually does come into play. It's just not the first tiebreaker.
Thank you.
