The Soccer Thread

[shnsajax]

http://atdhe.net/7534/watch-italy-vs-usa

 

Doesnt work at work, any other feeds.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

http://atdhe.net/7534/watch-italy-vs-usa

 

Doesnt work at work, any other feeds.

 

Try myp2p.eu or p2p4u.net. That one's working at work for me, so I don't know what to tell ya.

 

This team is so maddening. They shouldn't be able to play this well against Italy and choke to Costa Rica. Must be a matchup thing.

[wolf stansson]

http://atdhe.net/7534/watch-italy-vs-usa

 

Doesnt work at work, any other feeds.

 

Try myp2p.eu or p2p4u.net. That one's working at work for me, so I don't know what to tell ya.

 

This team is so maddening. They shouldn't be able to play this well against Italy and choke to Costa Rica. Must be a matchup thing.

And the pitch, better lineup as well as maybe losing to CR is why they are playing well.

[TruffleShuffle]

:x

[Guest]

That was a sick shot by Rossi.

[TruffleShuffle]

what on earth is the background noise? it sounds like a swarm of the most annoying bugs ever created.

[UMFan83]

Is it just me or is Spector having a really nice game besides the I'll advised kick off that last free kick?

[Exile on Waveland]

Well that's just painful/cruel/knife in the back.

[TruffleShuffle]

friggin wops :x

[Guest]

Ugh. And it was that colossal dbag De Rossi.

 

This is so disappointing since we were holding our own in the first half.

 

Oh well.

[UMFan83]

so much for that whole leading at halftime stat.

[Exile on Waveland]

Insult to injury. Sheesh.

[pitchcs]

what on earth is the background noise? it sounds like a swarm of the most annoying bugs ever created.

 

 

Haha, it was all the horns those people were blowing during the game. So obnoxious

[TruffleShuffle]

what on earth is the background noise? it sounds like a swarm of the most annoying bugs ever created.

 

 

Haha, it was all the horns those people were blowing during the game. So obnoxious

 

they're horrible. it's worse than thundersticks... it's just this consistent obnoxious drone. i really don't need to hear that for an hour and a half.

[shnsajax]

It looked like the US were playing a man down in the 2nd half, oh wait...

 

I'm never going to cheer for Rossi, but that was a great shot.

[USSoccer]

-Clark's foul was not a red. It was a yellow. I can'tt believe I'm typing this again in a US/ITA match.

 

-Bradley is a complete idiot for not using a sub to relieve Benny, who hasn't had that many competitive minutes in a long time and was obviously gassed. Terrible giveaway on Rossi's 1st. Great pass to Jozy.

 

-I fricking hate Gio Rossi so much. I wish he had caught a Davies elbow to his stupid Judas head. You don't celebrate like that against your country you were raised in-and i'm too irritated right now to remember, but if he was born here, he's an even bigger prick. Even Podolski, who's a complete douche, didn't do that in the Euros against Poland. Completely classless from a classless little bitch.

 

-DeMerit failed to close out on all three goals.

 

-The team deserved better than they got today. Jozy and Bradley both flubbed clear chances on goal, which would have made this a fairer result. The ITA player on Jozy's foul in the box didn't get carded, nor did Grosso after elbowing Donovan in the head. Ridiculous.

[wolf stansson]

You don't celebrate like that against your country you were raised in-and i'm too irritated right now to remember, but if he was born here, he's an even bigger prick.

Born and raised in Teaneck, NJ. Left the country when he was 14.

Podolski moved to Germany when he was 2.

 

 

Rossi is an Italian footballer, so it stands to reason that he's a prick.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Does anyone get more game changing calls in their favor than the Italians? Ridiculous that this would happen to us again.

[wolf stansson]

Does anyone get more game changing calls in their favor than the Italians? Ridiculous that this would happen to us again.

Who cares? They are a class above us. Of course we lost to them. The ref could get every call right and we'd probably lose 6, draw 3 and win 1. It's not upsetting, it's reality.

 

Ricardo Clark doesn't know how to play internationally. You may be able to get away with that [expletive] in MLS, but not on the World stage. I don't know if Mastro was a better option though. Giuseppi Rossi is a treasonous, traitorous [expletive]. The Italians play dirty. The Chilean ref is blind. Feilhaber was obviously gassed recently coming back from injury and had no business being in that game as long as he was, especially a man down. Props to Landon for making himself known in the first half, but too little, too late. We need a second striker with Altidore desperately.

 

2010 will be more of the same as 2006.

[USSoccer]

Does anyone get more game changing calls in their favor than the Italians? Ridiculous that this would happen to us again.

Who cares? They are a class above us. Of course we lost to them. The ref could get every call right and we'd probably lose 6, draw 3 and win 1. It's not upsetting, it's reality.

 

Ricardo Clark doesn't know how to play internationally. You may be able to get away with that [expletive] in MLS, but not on the World stage. I don't know if Mastro was a better option though. Giuseppi Rossi is a treasonous, traitorous [expletive]. The Italians play dirty. The Chilean ref is blind. Feilhaber was obviously gassed recently coming back from injury and had no business being in that game as long as he was, especially a man down. Props to Landon for making himself known in the first half, but too little, too late. We need a second striker with Altidore desperately.

 

2010 will be more of the same as 2006.

 

The thing about it is, if Bradley had been intelligent and pulled the clearly gassed Benny F. (who had several other questionable decisions prior to the giveaway) we could have stood a chance.

 

He should have subbed Benny at the half, probably. At worst at the 60 minute mark.

 

I could have lived with 3-1 with a 10 man squad had the goals been anyone but Rossi. F him. I can't wait for Jermaine Jones to come in to our side and do awful things to players such as him.

[Guest]

Does anyone get more game changing calls in their favor than the Italians? Ridiculous that this would happen to us again.

Who cares? They are a class above us. Of course we lost to them. The ref could get every call right and we'd probably lose 6, draw 3 and win 1. It's not upsetting, it's reality.

 

That doesn't make it any easier to deal with. Sure we probably lose anyway, but at least we have a chance to win or get a draw with 11 men on the field rather than the 10 we had for 57 minutes. Once Clark got carded, that was it. Even after Donovan put away the PK.

 

I'd probably feel differently had we been completely outclassed in the first 33 minutes before Clark was sent off but we weren't. We managed to keep up the play for the rest of the first half but Italy took us to task in the second (which any world-class team would do against a weaker side that was down to 10 men).

[wolf stansson]

Does anyone get more game changing calls in their favor than the Italians? Ridiculous that this would happen to us again.

Who cares? They are a class above us. Of course we lost to them. The ref could get every call right and we'd probably lose 6, draw 3 and win 1. It's not upsetting, it's reality.

 

That doesn't make it any easier to deal with. Sure we probably lose anyway, but at least we have a chance to win or get a draw with 11 men on the field rather than the 10 we had for 57 minutes. Once Clark got carded, that was it. Even after Donovan put away the PK.

 

I'd probably feel differently had we been completely outclassed in the first 33 minutes before Clark was sent off but we weren't. We managed to keep up the play for the rest of the first half but Italy took us to task in the second (which any world-class team would do against a weaker side that was down to 10 men).

Don't mind me, I'm just coping.

[brinoch]

After the terrible red, there really was no hope. Italy are just too good -- you can't deny them for 60 minutes if you can't control the ball.

[sethuel1]

nor did Grosso after elbowing Donovan in the head. Ridiculous.

Grosso got a yellow for it.

[Mark Priors Calves]

i was very excited about how well the us played in the first half. you could see the confidence growing but clark's b.s. red card was enough to dash any hopes for a result for the u.s.

 

the team was gassed the last 25 minutes and the italians superior talent showed through.

 

rossi did act like asshat after his goal (a tremendous goal at that). was there any bad blood between him/his family and usscoccer? his celebration seemed so over the top that i figured it was personal or something.

 

gooch is a much stronger player with boca next to him in the middle. i thought he played indecisively but don't think it really matter in the overall scope of the game because the italians were going to score eventually.

 

i'm not as down on the team as some but i don't have any hopes vs. brazil on thursday. i'm just hoping not to get embarrassed. unfortunately, i think wolf is right, 2010 is shaping up like 2006 and that sucks.