When have time, am watching on TV. My favourite team is Italy with Buffon as goalkeeper.Quote:
Originally Posted by redwhitevision
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When have time, am watching on TV. My favourite team is Italy with Buffon as goalkeeper.Quote:
Originally Posted by redwhitevision
Better game than the one against England, seems like an interesting final. Of course, because Germany has a better team than England. Pirlo probably the best player of this competition so far.
Better finishing from Balotelli, the rest was about the same, I think. His second goal was very special, indeed. From a similar position to the chance Ronaldo missed at the end of the Portugal game (albeit with his weaker foot).
Why did Loew change his side so much. He seemed to be almost disregarding the opposition and showing the world how good his squad is instead. Italy deserved the win on a number of levels.
The odd thing is that when I look at the Italy team and the England team man-for-man, I don't see much difference except for Pirlo. The 'keepers are of the same level. I wouldn't say that any of the Italian defenders are better and I think that the striker options for England are better than their Italian counterparts. The Italian central midfielders are much better but the wing options England have look a lot more effective (on paper!).
But that shouldn't make so much difference to explain the huge gulf in the teams out of eleven players and obviously it doesn't.
Their tactics are spot on and have improved as the competition progressed.
Conclusion: Prandelli is fucking awesome at his job.
Yeah well, I considered this match to be the last at this competition for Italy, they proved me wrong, that's for one and even impressed me with their last game, that's two.
Another thing is Spain didn't really impress that much in their last game against Portugal, yes they won but it wasn't a brilliant game. When I started this thread I predicted that Spain will win the competition, so far they did their job and reached the finals, this being their final test.
I have the feeling that this game will be decided at penalties but either way it will end i really hope this will be the game we all waited for, an epic final to a competition that didn't really bring much surprises with the teams that advanced throughout the competition stages. Only one thing while the memory is still fresh, in my case Italy defeating Germany in this manner was a bit of a surprise for me personally, maybe not for others. Holland is already old news.
P.S. I wonder where Chinephilia is, missing his chance to throw in my face the fact that maybe he was right, haha
And they do their job. :DQuote:
When have time, am watching on TV. My favourite team is Italy with Buffon as goalkeeper.
Like I said way before in the early stages of this competition, my prediction was confirmed. Spain didn't get a goal against in the knock-out stages games, virtually pulverising their competition in these games, the 4-0 result in the finals is more than conclusive for their over-all game. I must admit that I am a bit disappointed with this final, I expected way more from Italy... way way more.Quote:
Originally Posted by redwhitevision
I'll give a conclusion to this thread I started, Spain confirmed their status as best team at the moment, can't say I'm satisfied with the over-all result that I guessed right because I expected to see something new, a surprise, but it was not the case. Spain dominated, not only the finals but the whole competition, like I said before, they deserve credits for that, second team at this competition was Germany in my opinion, I still regret not seeing a Spain - Germany final actually, kudos for Italy for reaching this far but i think Germany would have treated this final match differently..
In spite of the bad game in the finals from Italy, I think Pirlo was the best player in this competition, sincere congratulations for this great player.
Feel football, Live for football.
I'm going with Iniesta as the player of the tournament.
Can't be arsed to write much about the final except I was disappointed with the game as Italy didn't turn up and then it was ended as a contest prematurely when they were reduced to ten men.
My team of the Euro 2012.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...amsam/team.png
I've seen somewhere a funny pic related to this final. It was something like this :
Italy reached this far...
4 nothing which as sarcastic as it is it's pretty much conclusive.
bad final.
I expected to Italy win.
I tried to watch, but every streaming site I found was ad ridden or taken down. Then I tried installing sopcast since I haven't used it since maybe the last euro cup and couldn't remember exactly how it worked. I was easily able to watch the world cup last time around on ESPN by using a VPN to my university's network, but that wouldn't work this time and their site required some kind of login. Overall, it seemed to be a big pain in the ass for a game I didn't really feel like watching, so fuck them. I stayed so far away from it, I learned that Italy lost in this thread just now.
Ffs, as long as you've got adblock installed in the browser that you use, wiziwig.tv will get you every game of consequence with nary an inconvenience.
Why didn't you just post here, the tournament was on for like a month.
The only thing is that the high-end streams tend to be choppy no matter what connection you're using so it's often better to use a 350KBps stream so substituting clarity for smoothosity.
Like I said, I wasn't that interested (I was supposed to get it set up for everyone else, a last minute request), and if they want to be such bastards about making it viewable, fuck them and their faggoty fuckness. I told everyone to leave the house and leave me alone.
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Are you talking about the final game or the whole competition ? Cause if you're talking about the final .. well.. you didn't miss much. I knew the general outcome since the second goal was scored.
New world puntsphere rankings compiled just after Euro 2012
1. Spain
2. Germany
3. Uruguay
4. England <--- rofle
5. Portugal
6. Italy
7. Argentina
8. Netherlands
9. Croatia
10. Denmark
11. Brazil
12. Greece
13. Russia
14. France
15. Chile
16. Ivory Coast
17. Sweden
18. Czech Republic
19. Mexico
20. Japan
Spain is now best team of all times, they won 3 competitions in a row.
Barcelona would beat them.
Only difference is messi :D
Greatest isn't measured by how many wins you have but by who defeat.Quote:
Originally Posted by LemOnzoo
If you can tell me that Spain faced the best teams that other countries have ever produced then I will concede that Spain is "the best team of all times".
Statisticly best, because nobody won euro cup,world cup and euro cup in 4 years so far.
Meh.. comparing a club team with a national team can never be really relevant. Not to mention that in this case, half of the Spanish team is actually comprised by Barcelona players.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Or.. was that sarcasm ?
Well spotted.
The one in which people left the apartment in general fear.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Both could cause that.
I'd be more inclined to fear the spaz-out on the left for one reason alone; mongo strength.
Further step is this
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I called them suckers, not cockaroaches.
What is the meaning of this off-topic?
I angry.
Don't be mad, we're just trying to find out whether Mary's spaz out was caused by lunacy or mental illness.
It's obviously the latter, but she feels better about it if people countenance the other option for a wee while.
How about pure unadulterated rage? Why is that left out of the options?
I couldn't think of a movie equivalent.
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Originally Posted by manker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmjtOnDyYs
And yes it is.
Hey, is that Trumpkin from Chronicles of Narnia?
Maradona.
98% of actual dwarfs in the UK hold an actor's equity card.
Which actually explains a lot since you don't see much of them in other lines of work :eyebrows:
Circuses are out of style.
Makes more sense when it can be explained scientifically ? Just a thought.
Which thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by redwhitevision
The dwarves or Mary's menopause.
Dwarves i guess since Mary is out of options anyway.