The Official World Cup Thread

[CaliforniaRaisin]

That certainly was an interesting goal.

[lowest]

lampard wears his shorts really low

[Balsa]

Shocking result. What crap defence. Looked like a bunch of high-schoolers. Without Cole, this game is a travesty.

[TruffleShuffle]

Is it me or does Peter Crouch always look like a kid who just got separated from his mother at the beach?

 

He looks like someone else in sports. Keith Van Horn, maybe?

[Marco4]

Shocking result. What crap defence. Looked like a bunch of high-schoolers. Without Cole, this game is a travesty.

 

I reckon the scoreline was arranged beforehand.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Is it me or does Peter Crouch always look like a kid who just got separated from his mother at the beach?

 

He looks like someone else in sports. Keith Van Horn, maybe?

 

He's a living caricature of an Englishman, that's what he is.

[Balsa]

Is it me or does Peter Crouch always look like a kid who just got separated from his mother at the beach?

 

He looks like someone else in sports. Keith Van Horn, maybe?

 

He's a living caricature of an Englishman, that's what he is.

 

Bit too tall if you ask me, but otherwise I see it.

[Marco4]

Bit too tall if you ask me, but otherwise I see it.

 

Same height as me....

[Balsa]

Bit too tall if you ask me, but otherwise I see it.

 

Same height as me....

:shock: Don't ever try and climb the stairs to the top of the York Minister, you'll be ducking the whole time.

[Marco4]

Bit too tall if you ask me, but otherwise I see it.

 

Same height as me....

:shock: Don't ever try and climb the stairs to the top of the York Minister, you'll be ducking the whole time.

 

Been there, done it, bled on the t-shirt. I love the collection of kings in York Minster; that's my highlight.

[soccer10k]

Final Group B Standings

Team                W    D    L    P   GS   GA   GD
England             2    1    0    7    5    2    3
Sweden              1    2    0    5    3    2    1
Paraguay            1    0    2    3    2    2    0
Trinidad & Tobago   0    1    2    1    0    4   -4

[soccer10k]

Losing Owen is not going to help England's chances to win the cup.

[soccer10k]

Time to post the games for Wednesday June 21. We will have the final group stage games for both Groups C and D.

 

Here are the current standings:

 

Group C
Team                  W    D    L    P   GS   GA   GD
Argentina             2    0    0    6    8    1    7
Netherlands           2    0    0    6    3    1    2
Ivory Coast           0    0    2    0    2    4   -2
Serbia & Montenegro   0    0    2    0    0    7   -7

 

Argentina v Netherlands 12 PM PT on ESPN

Ivory Coast v Serbia & Montenegro 12 PM PT on ESPN 2

 

Both Argentina and Netherlands have advanced. Winner takes the group but if they tie, Argentina wins the Group. Ivory Coast and Serbia & Montenegro have been eliminated.

 

Group D
Team       W    D    L    P   GS   GA   GD
Portugal   2    0    0    6    3    0    3
Mexico     1    1    0    4    3    1    2
Angola     0    1    1    1    0    1   -1
Iran       0    0    2    0    1    5   -4

 

Mexico v Portugal 7 AM PT on ESPN

Iran v Angola 7 AM PT on ESPN 2

 

Portugal has advanced and Iran has been eliminated. Portugal wins the group with a win or a tie. Mexico wins the group with a win but will advance with a tie or a loss and either an Iran victory over or tie with Angola. Angola must win and have Mexico lose to Portugal (not sure on the specifics with the tiebreakers) to have a chance to advance.

 

The winner of Group C will play the runner up of Group D (and vice versa) in the Round of 16.

Edited June 21, 2006 by soccer10k

[USSoccer]

Owen is likely done for the rest of the tourney:

 

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=371896&cc=5901

[lowest]

Owen is likely done for the rest of the tourney:

 

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=371896&cc=5901

 

lord, the guy cant catch a break can he?

[soccer10k]

Owen is likely done for the rest of the tourney:

 

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=371896&cc=5901

 

lord, the guy cant catch a break can he?

 

Well he can, just not the good kind.

[Balsa]

Losing Owen is not going to help England's chances to win the cup.

Disagree. Owen has not been playing up to snuff the entire time, now that England can call up someone new, they will have a full-time striker.

[soccer10k]

Losing Owen is not going to help England's chances to win the cup.

Disagree. Owen has not been playing up to snuff the entire time, now that England can call up someone new, they will have a full-time striker.

 

Not disagreeing with you, just curious. Who else do they have as options besides Crouch and Rooney? And what do you mean by "call up" - can they drop Owen from the team and bring in somebody else.

[sethuel1]

Losing Owen is not going to help England's chances to win the cup.

Disagree. Owen has not been playing up to snuff the entire time, now that England can call up someone new, they will have a full-time striker.

 

Not disagreeing with you, just curious. Who else do they have as options besides Crouch and Rooney? And what do you mean by "call up" - can they drop Owen from the team and bring in somebody else.

 

They can't. They could've before the tournament started, but now that it has they've only got the roster they have.

 

The 4 forwards thing was really, really, really, really dumb. Especially when 2 of them are already injured and 1 of them is twelve and was obviously not going to get playing time.

[soccer10k]

[rant]

Hey. Eric Wynalda. Yeah you. I get it so you can stop already. You think Miroslav Klose looks like Jurgen Klinsmann. I GOT IT!! I understood you the first 3827445 you made the comparison so the 3827446th time wasn't necessary.

[/rant]

 

Sorry, just had to vent.

[Drew Doughty]

Owen's injury was pretty nasty-looking. My guess is torn acl/mcl/pcl or something of that nature.

[Outshined_One]

I feel bad for Owen; he's been one of my favorite guys in soccer ever since the WC four years ago when he scored that insane goal against the Brazilians.

[Balsa]

Losing Owen is not going to help England's chances to win the cup.

Disagree. Owen has not been playing up to snuff the entire time, now that England can call up someone new, they will have a full-time striker.

 

Not disagreeing with you, just curious. Who else do they have as options besides Crouch and Rooney? And what do you mean by "call up" - can they drop Owen from the team and bring in somebody else.

 

They can't. They could've before the tournament started, but now that it has they've only got the roster they have.

 

The 4 forwards thing was really, really, really, really dumb. Especially when 2 of them are already injured and 1 of them is twelve and was obviously not going to get playing time.

I thought they could call up another player, with the rule that Owen couldn't play again for the rest of the tourney.

[USSoccer]

The referee for tomorrow's game:

 

Germany's Markus Merk, one of the world's top-rated officials, was assigned to referee the game. He worked the 2004 European Championship final, handed out six yellow cards in the World Cup's first-round game between the Netherlands and Serbia-Montenegro, and said he was insulted by Australia's Harry Kewell following the Socceroos 2-0 loss to Brazil on Sunday.

[soccer10k]

Mexico is in trouble right now as Portugal is up 2-0.