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no anger wrote:
DAMBUSTER wrote: Did Ljundberg get a second yellow putting him out of the game against Germany?
No

Btw where the hell is the defence in England? Does they think that letting Larson stay alone inside the 16m will not lead to a goal?

Ecuador can beat England
No, It was Ljungbeerg's first. All yellow cards will be deleted when the group is finnished and the finals start ( that is now ).


And yeah No Anger, even if the man is old and hasn't shown anything of his good quality against T&T and Paraguay he can still strike in his sleep if he gets the ball somewhere around the goal. He's as lethal on his head as on his feet, because he can somewhat fly ( those of you who's seen him a lot knows what I'm talking about, his unbelievable talent to fly to the ball when the ball is in the air ) :P

Allbäck did great to, I really do wonder if Zlatan ( Ibrahimovic ) will start against Germany or not.

Ecuador is far more dangerous than Germany as of now. They had 5 of their best players on the bench last game. I wouldn't exchange our game against Germany to a game against Ecuador for a second. These are some reasons:

1. Germany hasn't played very well, they can do a lot better.
2 They're the home nation, they are under extreme pressure ( + Anyone in the german team who remembers World Cup 1994 and when germany went out would be afraid of going out early again ). Loads of Pressure.

Of course, they will be hard to beat, they've got Klose, Lamm, Odonka, Schweinsteiger and lots of interesting players but we still stand a good chance, I think we'll win if we play like we did against England. England is in no way a shit team, they're defence is though not of the same quality as their highly lethal offence ( even though they've got some of the worlds best defenders like Carragher they don't seem to work together ).

Something I would like to exchange for is Anders Svenson for Joe Cole :P
Cole's performance against Sweden is probably the best performance to date in this whole tournament.
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I think we'll have a decent chance against Germany on Saturday. The Swedish team always plays better when underdogs! :thumbs-up:
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Good post Bleix.
I fear someone was winding me up at the boozer the other night watching the Sweden game telling me that Freddie will miss the game against Germany.
It's a good thing because his foul was certainly not bookable.
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1-1

Thank God the referee opened his eyes towards the end of that half. Australian players are getting held, rugby tackled, and pushed all over the place - and WE'RE the overly physical team?!


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Second round here we come!!!! :cheers:
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First time I've watched Australia in the tournament and I was surprised at how good they are. Graham Poll had an absolute nightmare. The Ausie guy should never of been sent off.
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Well, this was nice :-(

Congrats to Aussies, you were extremely agressive (not in the kick-in-the-balls way, in the run-and-score way).

If only Tudor made that goal in the last 10 mins...
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Shit yeah! Massive crowd in my city were up early (I've been up all night) and the atmosphere was great. Croats everywhere in Australia.

Weird game. The ref tried his best to keep us out, hand-balls, rugby tackles and 3 yellow cards to one Croat player and we still got enough done! Probably a bit lucky there wasn't an offside on Kewell's goal though.

Psycho Kalec was a debacle. I bet Guus was thinking "30 years of coaching cred is about to go up in smoke".

Bring on the Azzuri!

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I can't believe Guus didn't play Mark Schwartzer as goal keeper. Three yellow cards to one player is just another example of the great umpiring Australia has had put up with.

Great goal by Kewell to equalise!

Bring on Italy.
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Ghana have been kicking some serious ass. Its too bad that they are playing Brazil and probably wont be able to make it further. But I think im rooting for them to make it all the way. They have been quite impressive for their 1st time ever at the World Cup.