About damn time!

Germany were pretty lucky to score too though. The ball deflected to Özil and he just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Neither team was very positive going forward.

That doesn’t make it a good game. I don’t care who wins, but as a fan of the game I want to be entertained. This game subjectively failed to be entertaining other than the objectively bad penalty shootout at the end.

This is made better by the fact that actual calcio is not very similar at all to modern soccer. No more so that american football at least.

One of the people primarily responsible for “American” spelling was Scottish.

Okay, so I’m not going to be as rude to you as you have been.

Both are defense-first counterattacking teams. This was a classic example of what happens when an immovable object meets an immovable object: the answer is nothing, nothing happens. for 120 minutes.

Referees were told before the tournament to crack down on this very thing as well as keepers leaving the line before the kick. The rules were supposedly revised but it didn’t pan out that way.

You think both coaches sat their players down before the game and planned out all the bad passing and offensive ineptitude? Do you think they were attempting to lull the opposition to sleep and then fall asleep themselves from sheer boredom?

Sometimes I’ve watched MLS games that are exiting because of how much randomness goes on, mainly due to the relative and uniform lack of skill in the league. The games aren’t great because the players are, but because they are evenly matched.

I know, Fox sports studio crew is so bad that they put my nerves on edge. I almost always turn off the TV rather than watch the half-time show and then just guess when the game will restart.

You can’t fully stop in your run-up to the ball like Bonucci did. It should have been re-taken.

It did on Bonucci’s penalty in the second half though. Neuer was diving well before he struck the ball.

The Germans have had a reputation for being the best at this too. So much for that.

Most Americans covering the game aren’t very good at it, but to be fair, I think Mike Tirico has done a really good job.

It was a bad game that neither team deserved to win. I can’t think of a more just way to end it than arbitrary randomness.

I think enough people missed that he gets off the hook a bit. Schweinsteiger on the other hand, didn’t he have a horrible kick like that in the Champions League once too? What was he doing?

I don’t get why people care so much about this shit. Different things are called different names in different places, that’s the way it is.

That was the worst game I’ve seen at this level in a long time. If it were possible for nobody to win and for both Italy and Germany to be sent home, I would have preferred it to what I just witnessed. Someone had to win though, so congrats to Germany... or whatever... I don’t care.

They didn’t enforce it during Poland-Portugal either. Since they let all the kickers get away with it, the keepers should have tested the limits of the new instructions too.