Spent an aggravating 120 minutes watching the Dutch shoot straight at the Costa Rican goaltender (with a couple at the crossbar or posts for variety). Thankfully, the Costa Rican shooters returned the favor twice during penalty kicks.

Costa Rica's defense deserves a lot of kudos for smothering the Netherlands' attack.

That match brought back memories from previous World Cups - teams more focused on NOT making mistakes/holding on to the ball/not allowing goals against...

B O R I N G 

Yeah, even by the standards of a normal 0-0 game, it was pretty uninspired.

Quote from: 1.21GW on July 05, 2014, 04:31:25 PM
Is that a panama thing or a darkmonster620 thing?

darkmonster620 thing . ..

'Hey Brazil'do you like apples? How the 'make the beast with two backs' do you like them apples?!!!!! How do you say you got stomped like a Narc at a biker rally in Portugese?!!!

Watching the game early in the second half, I got to turn to a friend and say "It looks bad, but you know, just one touchdown and Brazil's right back in this thing."

Not a great joke, but one I'll probably never get to use again in my lifetime.

Quote from: triangleforge on July 08, 2014, 08:48:11 PM
Watching the game early in the second half, I got to turn to a friend and say "It looks bad, but you know, just one touchdown and Brazil's right back in this thing."

Not a great joke, but one I'll probably never get to use again in my lifetime.

 

Quote from: triangleforge on July 08, 2014, 08:48:11 PM
Watching the game early in the second half, I got to turn to a friend and say "It looks bad, but you know, just one touchdown and Brazil's right back in this thing."

Not a great joke, but one I'll probably never get to use again in my lifetime.

Watching the Brazil game in about an hour.  I have to see their fans cry. 

Quote from: kopfjäger on July 08, 2014, 09:06:41 PM

 

^ and thats exactly what we were doing

I don't entirely get Twitter, but in might be worth figuring out just for moments like these:

Seattle Seahawks after goals #6 & #7:





And then this:

I don't get why everyone hates Brazil so much?  Passionate fans, a long history of success and dedication to the sport, a (seemingly--I wasn't there) decent job of hosting, generally a fun team to watch (though they looked awful against GER),...

What gives?  Why is the internet so crazy with Schadenfreude for the Brazilians?

Cocky. No one like's cocky.

And passionate? For sure and so stupid. Crying? Because of a game? Holy crap they got their priorities all out of wack.

Looking back at my posts above, I can see how you'd get that impression; in fact, I love (or once loved & hope to love again) watching Brazil play. It would have made me happy to see them win it all, and watch the entire nation wake up, hung-over and happy, after a few days of joyful celebration.*

At this World Cup, though, they've looked uncharacteristically vulnerable - in part, I think, because their coach made a cynical decision to give up on Brazil's wonderful "Samba" game and shift to a brutal, hacking style that's neither fun to watch nor particularly effective against a strong team like Germany, just ugly. Exhibit A: Brazil vs. Columbia. Watching Neymar collapse on the field and hearing the diagnosis was gut-wrenching, but Brazil went out on the field intending to create mayhem. It worked, but there's a bit of karmic balance in the fact that their deliberate, strategic brutality may have cost them both their best offensive & best defensive players for the game with Germany.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/sports/worldcup/for-bellicose-brazil-payback-carries-heavy-price-loss-of-neymar.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2

*Not as happy as it'd make me to see the Dutch win (and yeah, they've got their own karma issues), but that's going to be a tough road through Argentina & Germany.

so much for getting a Brazilian...crap