All three of these games should be super-competitive. With that being said, my predictions:
SUI 0 - 2 POL
WAL 1 - 0 NIR
HRV 2 - 1 PRT
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Winner gets to re-join the EU, right there on world-wide television.
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Swiss almost coughed up a soft goal right at the start lol
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L with stroke is a W, fellas
You're pulling for these guys?
I didn't think they qualified.
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40 years later...Queen still rocking at sporting events around the world.
Me personally, I'd like to see:
Howard
Yedlin - Cameron - Besler - Castillo
Zardes - Jones - Nagbe - Bedoya
Wood - Dempsey
LATE subs to preserve a win Pulisic for Dempsey, Beckerman for Jones, Orozco for Zardes or Nagbe.
....there is no reason to mail it in versus a top team. You take the win if you can earn it. That said, I have no interest seeing Bradley in this game. We know what he is and what he'll always be - he can be effective versus the slower teams that pack it in, but he has no business being on the field that play with any type of pace, movement or creativity. Give Nagbe a shot in his role.
Plus, Bradley bitched about having to play in a third place game when he was interviewed after the Argentina fiasco.
So let someone play who really wants to play.
PK's for SUI-POL
Polska wins!
Bums me out that these matches can come down to penalty kicks. I'd be a bigger soccer fan if they'd play sudden death until a winner was decided on the field. Take a couple players off every few minutes if need be. I'd rather see a team advance while playing 8 on 8 than on penalty kicks.
I didn't particularly have a rooting interest here. I'd just like to see the better team advance by virtue of a winning football play.
I would listen to Ian Darke broadcast Purdue-Rutgers Water Polo.
How are the only two Welshman we know both named Bale?
Wales doesn't have that many last names.
It is fairly well known that there are relatively few Welsh surnames. In fact Professor Hartmann (Americans from Wales, 1967) concludes that "Some thirty-nine surnames include about 95 per cent of the Welsh, wherever they are found"
but sometimes nothing happens for an hour
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And Wales advances!
First the EU kiss-off and now this.
Don't fuck with Wales.
That Nani dive was the worst.
Dislike the diving on both sides.
OT, but funny: my mom is watching the Nats game, and becoming more and more disgusted with them. "They should leave Gio in there until he throws his arm out, and then fire him."
Exactly.
When you flop, you put yourself a man down. If the refs just ignore it and play on, it will stop.
they usually dive when they realize they can't get to the ball, so being "a man down" while the ball goes out for a goal kick is not much of a deterrent. The refs would have to clamp down on it an equivalent amount that they totally blow penalty kills, for example a red card every time it happens
ya'll act like there's not diving and whining to the refs (WRs) and faking injuries (defenders) in football and other 'american' sports. Basketball is especially outrageous with the foul calls
Damn, Portugal scored at 117
So, what's your deal with Croatia? I may be a little biased, but every team is guilty of flopping. And there are lot a more egregious floppers than Croatia.
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Having an underwhelming group stage might have been just what they needed to damper expectations and take some pressure off of them.
I think they beat Poland and are in to the semi's!