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If we can get past Ghana, Uruguay isn't going to be anything to sneeze at. Very tough, very strong team.

I love the fact we went on and the Italians couldn't even get out of the group. Take that, Rossi!

Cobra Medic wrote:Group C is interesting. Who thought Slovenia would have as many points as England and USA combined?

All the groups are kinda crazy this year. Who thought Italy would be sitting on 2 points in their group?

Or the french would whine and threaten to pick up their toys and go home because they're not winning?

Well, okay I guess the french whining thing was a pretty sure bet....

Oldgringo wrote:The US team was robbed of a victory today! This referee was blatantly opposed to the US for some apparent political reason. His blown and/or neglected calls were way beyond incompetance. Watch it out on the news tonight.

It was a disgusting call. But, with a good showing in our last game, we should advance anyway!

I'd have to disagree that we need to give it to the wingers.

In the friendlies leading up the the Cup and some in the English game (though we didn't have much real production at all) all of our great opportunities or goals came from runs or passes to the inside and center. The one thing we continued to try over and over again that did NOT work for us was dumping it off outside to the wingers, letting them dribble down to the corner and either crossing it to no effect or letting them lose the ball in the corner.

We should only be distributing to the wingers to spread out the defense, allowing us to pass back to center mids, let forwards make runs to the inside, and see what we can do. Altidore proved he's fast and tough enough....now we just need to hook him up with some good opportunities.

Oldgringo wrote:ENG 1 (Thank Goodness) USA 1

It was an exciting game, to say the least.

Our back 4 need to figure out man marking....

Tim Howard is a beast! He deserved Man of the Match, hands down.

jimlongley wrote:

74novaman wrote:Figure I can't be the only soccer nut on here.....

Any thoughts on who's going to win, who's going to crash and burn, etc?

Chime in if you're counting down to June 11th like I am!!

I had to check into this thread, finally, to find out what this "World Cup" is and see if is anything like the Wimbledon Cup.

The only thing that excites me about June 11th is that my vacation starts.

Fun trivia: The draw for World Cup groups gets more viewers across the world than the Super Bowl and MLB "World Series" combined.

So in other words, more people are interested in watching a fat dude draw names out of a bowl for the World Cup than are interested in watching the pinnacle of US football or baseball.

England will probably beat the US in our opening game, but I figure we can take Algeria and Slovenia and at least get out of the group state. What happens from there is anyones guess...

Just as a preliminary guess, I have Brazil vs Spain in the final, with Span winning.

I do have England making it to the semis, only to lose to Brazil.

Figure I can't be the only soccer nut on here.....

Any thoughts on who's going to win, who's going to crash and burn, etc?

Chime in if you're counting down to June 11th like I am!!