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Germany dhaan koppaiya thattichelvaanga nu thonudhu
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Sumall note on the previous tropic of discussion
Italia != Death football. Avinga game la defense pradhaanama irundhaalum, there was an efficiency in their link up play which is beautiful to some. Anga Federer, inga Italy, konjam muran dhaan. Adhukkum mela i will never argue that they are the most beautiful team on earth, sinna vayasu ninaivugal adhu idhu elaam serndhu they are my favorite team (along with Argentina). IMHO, Greece, Norway ect 'laam death football nu sollalaam, the kind that Chelsea championed this season.
With you on Portugal, loved their game when Figo, Rui Costa were around. England were never a bore team IMO, over hyped OK, but not sedatives. Indha murai konjam mosama thaan irukku, vera vishayam
Regarding Italy, they have to play the game at slow tempo to make up for lack of pace, they aren't negative per se. They could dominate and impose their game in subtle ways like Totti's team over Zizou's in Euro 2000 finals. Del Piero flopped on numerous chances. Btw if Italy go past England, I would fancy them to do Mannschaft like they always do.
Btw Greece are very similar to Italy in organization, but never had Italian flair in attack. The 2004 team was ruthlessly efficient and a tactical masterclass.
Although as reactionary as Greece were, never fluked it in 2004 like Chelsea did, they didnt rely on series of fortunate events (like two missed penalties by Messi and Robben back to back and multiple shots to crossbar/post). The only similarity that Chelsea have with Greece is the clinical finishing, but they werent rounded, drilled & oiled like Greeks were.
I liked the Scolari Portugal team with flair players like Deco, Maniche, Figo, Rui Costa, but guilty of diving, cheating and fortunate circumstance
Athletic:
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Aesthetic:
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Azurri OWN die mannschaft. FACT!
What is the positive thing about England vs Italy? One of them go home :)
What is the negative thing about England vs Italy? One of them go to Semis :(
patchi tells it is England
Bala - Italy jenmappagai because I gew up reading about the 1982 coup(socrates etc) and watched the 1994 version. (Brazil 94 were not that flairy, true, but compared to Italy, it was easier to take in Romario and Bebeto and co). apdi Italya verRuththE pazhakkam Agi pochu.
Only thing is due to ketta sagavAsam and London vaasam, 2004 varaikkin Englan vs Italy-la England suffort paNNi kittirundhEn :oops: :banghead:. ippO thirundhittEn.
idhanAla nAn enna solla vaRREnna, italy will lose to England now because even I support italy in that match
I am rooting for England vs Greece Semis and the winner of this to win the championship. git shoulderai eRakkaNum :evil:
Ibra's goal is the goal of the torunament for me
Italy in 94 had Baggio, who had more bags of flair than Romario and Bebeto put together. Obviously not their goal scoring capabilities.
Looks like Flu will not pull my collar down.
Portugal vs Spain / France
Germany vs Italy / England
Stunning lineup of games from here on. L
No nasri in starting line up :yes: cmon les bleus kick barcelona out of the comp :-D
An intense 1st half and very boring 2nd half between Spain and France. The most important thing is Spain is ready to kick ID hair Wax King and co. outta in semifinale.
exactly, i dunno, but i have a hunch that even Bala were bagged into Italy by Baggios.........their WC 94' loss was a historic anti-climax which earned them lot of support.......a whole generation of 12-15 yr olds had a icon called R.Baggio after that missed penalty kick...infact many of us in that had a reunion party after 2006 WC triumph of azzuris - we didnt do it even for India's WC win in 2011 :D
for tonight, go Azzuris......but England too look good esp with Rooney's inclusion - infact, England, Germany look very good......didnt catch last night's match - i dunno if spain have hit the purple patch......yes, germany to me are the favs too
90s also had a terrific lil guy, strange as it might sound, my first football hero... one mr. gianfranco zola. idli fans here, ivarukku no cigar eh? yeah, his intl career was probably very ordinary, but his mercurial talent was on display at epl'nga. gold'mbEn.
When Nadal plays I always want him to win. He is a genuinely likeable person. I feel the same way when Walcott plays. At least for Walcott's sake Engilandhu should win.
Woohoo, Italy won
Forza Azzurri.
The best thing that happened in this Euro 2012. :-)
Clearly not, as proved again today. They continued being shit like the Ukraine game. Did far better with Carroll-Welbeck in hindsight.
Taking off the best attacking player (Welbeck!) was suicidal. Why was Young staying on, had his worst game.
Caroll did what he could with long balls. Walcott provided all the threat after he came on.
England deserve to go out. Italia. Pirlo. I called it right when I said they are a fantastic team on the ball. Loads of possession, loads of chances. Would have been travesty if they went out.
England were very bad, i saw some promise in the sweden game only to be deceived, i guess :-)
but yesterday i was more disappointed with Italy than England......65% posession and ~34 shots on/near the goal - still they couldnt score.......they lack the finishing touch of German forwards - was particularly pissed with Cassano - tried so many times without success.....couldnt blame them too much, almost all of 11 english players were standing in their own half, they had no idea to score only to defend :lol:
Yeah. In all, England played well for 15 minutes. Italy bossed the remaining 105 minutes.
Pirlo just killed the penalties with paneka. I had thought of Totti nightmaresque (For me that is) one vs Oranje
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ih8lQcAMNg
No you weren't deceived. They played well without Rooney (That's why I was surprised you said they were looking good after his return. So much for England begging UEFA to reduce his ban! :roll: )
Cassano was magnificent apart from scoring. Balotelli pisses me off, so much talent. Will be a great striker one day, but too temperamental and casual, still top penalty vs Hart (Who looked silly with tongue out routine btw, total fail! Pirlo obviously made him look an utter mong)
http://www.royal.gov.uk/List%20Image...in%20Green.jpg:rotfl3:
Italia thanks for putting an end to Ingleend's misery :thumbsup:
Italy vs Germany would be an epic, but i hope germans wins in the end..
Germany will beat Italy , 2-1 or 2-0
Germany's football is not very technical. They rely on physical prowess more than anything. One look at their frontmen/midfiled you will know they are all supreme athletes. Their game is physical. They will never let the opponents to have the ball. They will immediately rush to retrieve it. Never liked the germans, can never like them in another 100 years. So Italy inimae un kaila thaan ellam. Enna ?
Being very objective, Italy has everything in its possession to frustrate the germans. I wish them all the best !
I am hoping for a Italy vs Protugal final
the fun stuff about english media is, after germany wins the quarterfinal match, media said germany could potentially face England even before the match started.
I think Germans have restricted their flair this time. But they have been fun to watch IMHO.
And how could you say their football isn't very technical? Isn't Schweini, Ozil, Reus, Goetze, Kroos flair enough for you? ;-) Schurrle, Mueller are fantastic draughtsmen off the ball. Poldi's been more restricted in group stages. Gomez is a traditional striker, I'd prefer Klose for his all-round CF-play. Khedira, although a DM, makes some great offensive movements. I'm more than OK with them winning. Hummels is more of a attacking player than a CB, idhukku mela enna vEnum? And their combination play isn't down to physical prowess. That they have athletes doesn't mean they aren't skilled enough. In fact, one of the complaints from Germans is that they have abandoned their traditional qualities of power, grit, fight and determination, sacrificing it all for flair and good football, like Oranje used to be. Role-reversal :(
Even Spain/Italy do not let the opponents to have the ball, they retrieve and keep it.
From the place where I am, the sight of onrushing German players doesn't make a good viewing. It make the opponents panicky. Italians/Spanish don't do that to their opponents. I feel Germans have undue advantage due to their physique. I followed the Portugal Germany match closely. The Portuguese were not bad at all. It looked like the height and others aspects of their physique were the only thinsg that made them look inferior to the Germans. I have never sat through one game of Bundesliga , its like watching Qatar Stars league football.
KG
My assumption is based on bbc website. For example americans also market their team and it irritates me sometime but they do win significant times but BBC is all about hype with very less substance. For example they are talking about wimbledon title for Murray for the several years but he is yet to make final appearance at wimbledon.
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