Uruguay v Ghana

[lighterthief]

why do penalty shoot outs never end the right way?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Suarez will be a damn hero in Uruguay.

Comparisons with Maradona are to be expected, but I don't think they're really the same.

 

[Dandred]

Dandred Win




LOL

 

[frogwoman]

So they're playing the netherlands now yeah?

 

[nicksonic]

Suarez will be a damn hero in Uruguay.

Comparisons with Maradona are to be expected, but I don't think they're really the same.

you're right, they aren't.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Gutted. Uruguay should have had a penalty few minutes earlier, mind.

Poor Gyan was inconsolable at the end.

 

[Shreddy]

i dont know who to back now.

Argentina beef, with a plate of blow on the side...

 

[nicksonic]

So they're playing the netherlands now yeah?

yes, tuesday at 7:30pm.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

all the info is here -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/fixtures_and_results

So i was right all along!

 

[Flavour]

shame for ghana. s'always the way. gotta love uruguay though - they are a small country and despite past succeses are still the most underdog team left in it (well maybe apart from paraguay but i expect them to get mullered by spain)

 

[ernestolynch]

So they're playing the netherlands now yeah?

No, Holland.

 

[nicksonic]

So i was right all along!

i jolly well hope you didn't doubt it!

 

[girasol]

you were possibly proved right starfish, although suarez's reaction was probably more instinctive than deliberate.

yep, and Ghana missed the fucking penalty for christ's sake!!!



.. and then some more during the shoot out

 

[TrippyLondoner]

i jolly well hope you didn't doubt it!

was abit confused what frogwoman was on about!

 

[nicksonic]

shame for ghana. s'always the way. gotta love uruguay though - they are a small country and despite past succeses are still the most underdog team left in it (well maybe apart from paraguay but i expect them to get mullered by spain)

surprised to discover their population is only 3m. huge footballing heritage.

 

[pinkychukkles]

Who to back?
The team that cheats the least and plays the most football to win it seems.
Who's the "fairest" (a relative term) out of those left? Germany? even errr, Argentina...

 

[George350r]

Correct.

Scoring a goal with your hand and getting away with it is entirely different to handling in the box and getting sent off. Hardly his fault Ghana bottled the penalty.

Or his handball kept Uruguay in the game and advance to the semis?

 

[TrippyLondoner]

I'll be supporting argentina and spain tmrw.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

surprised to discover their population is only 3m. huge footballing heritage.

Too small to consistently produce good teams, but big enough to get a good team every now and then. They'll miss Suarez against Holland.

 

[ernestolynch]

Fucking mint.

Tears at the Gordain office now lol.

 

[girasol]

surprised to discover their population is only 3m. huge footballing heritage.

3.5 million, but one of the most affluent countries in S America... The most European of the lot I think.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Poor Ghana, I can't recall a time where i've seen a team go out of a tournament in such a harsh manner

 

[nicksonic]

yep, and Ghana missed the fucking penalty for christ's sake!!!



.. and then some more during the shoot out

the point is their definite goal was prevented by cheating, which gave uruguay a chance to take it to pens since gyan wouldn't definitely score the pen awarded for the suarez punch.

far simpler if they just awarded a penalty goal, since it should've been a goal.

 

[Dandred]

So how would it be different if it went to penalties?

Same score.

0 - 0

1 -1

2 -2

3 -3

Still penalties

I was right.

Again.

 

[Madusa]

Argentina beef, with a plate of blow on the side...

staying away from the south american teams...they cheat too much!

 

[nicksonic]

3.5 million, but one of the most affluent countries in S America... The most European of the lot I think.

i'll have to take those 5live commentators to task for showing me up like this!

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Who to back?
The team that cheats the least and plays the most football to win it seems.
Who's the "fairest" (a relative term) out of those left? Germany? even errr, Argentina...

That's an over-reaction. You see plenty of deliberate handballs in English domestic football. Who was it that palmed the ball over the bar for Arsenal in the FA Cup final? Uruguay are no more cheaty than Ghana.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

i'll have to take those 5live commentators to task for showing me up like this!

phone them up!

 

[girasol]

the point is their definite goal was prevented by cheating, which gave uruguay a chance to take it to pens since gyan wouldn't definitely score the pen awarded for the suarez punch.

far simpler if they just awarded a penalty goal, since it should've been a goal.

Can't imagine many players in the same position who wouldn't have instinctively reacted in the same way, can you?

 

[magneze]

staying away from the south american teams...they cheat too much!

The Dutch have been pretty bad too tbh. Some of the winding up of the Brazilians earlier was pretty unedifying. Prefer Uruguay in the final over them.