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when you play the game of clickbait, you bait now ("first impressions" get the first day fanboys to chime in so everyone feels good about a new shared experience and cool for being the first) and then you bait later ("review" where the commoners can join on being included)

They surrendered less goals in that entire tournament than they did to just the Dutch in that one game. The Swiss were simply lucky

"If Holland was vulnerable against everyone they played except Spain, I guess the only "non-vulnerable" teams so far are France and Colombia, who not coincidentally came out of weak groups (and got good draws in the 16)." Colombia's d looks pretty vulnerable too, but as you say they havent faced any top end attacks…

Yes, Robben might be their offensive heart but DeJong is their organizational center piece. Without him the Dutch really do look like a crappier team. And honestly, if Roben gets injured then thats a wrap for the Dutch.

Ya they had better opponents so they had to play up to that level. Argentina is sleeping walking through their group and Switzerland tomorrow because they are conserving their energy. When they play a real team theyll throw out Aquine up there with Messi and that will be that, a brutal humiliation of whoever they play…

The Dutch look vulnerable against everyone they played except Spain. Theyll start with a 5-3-2 instead of a 4-3-3 because thats how van gaal rolls and they lost dejong to injury. Costa Rica can take them

But but his dad...and something something. The Bradley family coasted into the national team on a lot of good will based on MLS performances, time to cut ties with them because the US isnt going to a higher level with mediocrities like this. They did the brave thing and fired Bruce, now get Mike the fuck out of there.…

He turned a 100% goal into a 80% goal, depriving the goal of its full point generating power. He did it for the same reason people foul during lay ups, because free throws are harder. In other words, he cheated like a buck toothed, racist piece of shit that he is. The logic of his play is also the logic of 'send out a…

ops, I was thinking Algeria and typing Brazil. But yes, Brazil, France and Germany are all player exporters, people who are exported are generally inferior to the players who stayed on their home teams.

A better title would be "Which country produces so much talent that it has to export some of them" yes, that is wordier but its a truer definition since the implication of "swap world cup players" means either a fair exchange or that all the players would have been world cup players, like others pointed out the French…

The game winning goal for Chile and the second Van Persie goal were all Castilles

it was a real goalocaust

They held onto the lead poorly, if Ghana had one competent striker the score would have been 3-1. The Ghanians dominated the pace of the game, easily moved the ball and the American midfield was probably the most incompetent of all teams at this tournament. They couldnt keep the ball, they couldnt pass it properly,…

italian defensive prowess = holding onto the ball, preventing the ghanians from walking into their box. american defensive prowess = giving hte ball away to ghanians, hoping that they keep shooting from 100 yards out into outerspace

You see, in the third movie of the Indiana Jones franchises, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the quest was to discover the Holy Grail or the Cup of Christ. The final challenge was finding the right cup among a wide variety of cups. and drinking form it. If you got it right, nothing bad happens to you — or good, if…

Brazil, Spain, Germany, and Argentina are all stronger squads. Italians are just more prone to cheating and getting away with it. Unfortunately their woggy corruption is now permeating the rest of the football world, fortunately that means their odds of ever winning a major tournament are rapidly declining.

super power? Italy is now on the level of the Dutch, they can beat anyone but they arent the favorite against the top 5 teams.

Atletico doesnt play anti soccer, what are you talking about. They play a perfectly rational response to tiki taka.

What did you people expect? Its a rigged cup designed to bring in the most favored teams as far as possible. The games arent going to get interesting until the Semis when all the teams involved will come from rich federations that have an equal bribing power with FIFA.