OT: Saturday World Cup Open Thread

Submitted by wlubd on

Knockout Round kicks off today. No more of that group nonsense, win or go home at this point.

All South American battles today. Winners will meet in the quarterfinals on July 4th.

12:00 PM EDT - Brazil vs. Chile (ABC)

4:00 PM EDT - Colombia vs. Uruguay (ABC)

 

alum96

June 28th, 2014 at 4:48 PM ^

Top 5 goals thus far in terms of technical skill -

 

 

1) Cahill

2) Van Persie

3) James Rodriguez today

4) Messi v Iran?

5) James Rodriquez v Japan?

What do you see as #4 and #5?  I think top 3 are pretty clear cut.

EDIT: Hah ESPN asking same question in their outro

alum96

June 28th, 2014 at 5:07 PM ^

That's more than fair - for distance and placement it was quite awesome.  I gave that to Messi due to it being in the 94th and he had a bit more traffic but can make a case for Jones to.

Mr. Yost

June 29th, 2014 at 8:56 AM ^

He's means Jones.

Jonns' strike vs. Portugal was very similar to Messi, he was just coming from the right and Messi to the left. I thought Messi's ball moved a little more and it was a game winner. For me, Messi when's a tiebreak.

However I still may put the Jones goal in Alum's top 5 with the clear cut 3 and the Messi goal. 

alum96

June 28th, 2014 at 5:43 PM ^

Uruguay finally playing well here in the last 15 minutes while Columbia seemed to have mentally relaxed.   While not a pretty display you have to be impressed a country of 3M has had such a nice run and history overall.

alum96

June 29th, 2014 at 3:34 AM ^

I wont be here for the Sunday matches so I am posting this for my soccer friends for the NED-MEX match!  Saw it on my stream on twitter - love that dude.