FIFA: Germany 2006

[Swallow Your Soul]

Sky Sports is a pretty good site (website of the UK sports channels) - has a bit of background info and whatnot as well as stats.

Japan's player profiles page - http://home.skysports.com/worldcup/s...aspx?clid=1266

[Apraxhren]

There is almost info available from ESPN, http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team/squad?id=627&cc=3888. It may be the same info as Sky I don't know.

[kAi]

Brazil v Australia match was disappointing, we should've been able to capitalise on the oppurtunities that were there, but that couldn't finish it.

The second goal wasn't that good at all, lol. It came off the post and a clear goal, it was just tapped in, the first goal was better.

Why didn't Japan win! It would've secured our spot in the next round. Now we just need to draw with Croatia and we're going through, which will happen, can't wait for this.

[msmush]

whens the match with aussie and croatia?. i know dissapointing about japan not winning.
those sites were handy cheers =].

[Munsu]

espn has everything you need to know about schedules and stuff, so just browse over there to figure out when matches are played instead of asking here.

[Swallow Your Soul]

Decent result for England but I was bricking it every time the Swedes got a corner! That needs sorting out as we looked shaky every single time, and even though they only made one real chance from open play (the 2nd goal - which was the sort of defending you might expect from Saudi Arabia) their corners were excellent and they looked like scoring almost every time they got one. In the end it was only a good save onto the bar, a goal-line clearance and a bit of luck on that other shot that hit the bar that saved us.

It's a shame cos we were looking ok in the first half, I was hoping we could make a positive statement and show the quality of our players...unfortunately all we have done is show we couldn't defend against good corners and we lost our bottle when the opposition piled on the pressure. Hopefully that was just a one off as we're not normally so weak at set pieces.

Having slagged England off, Sweden played well in the 2nd half and their first goal was a top header. They put us under pressure and we ended up panicking and they got what they deserved.

From the look of what happened Owen will be lucky to play again in the tournament, although on the good side Rooney played really well until he got knackered (which is understandable given the lay off). Hargreaves had a great game, his control looked awful in the build up games but he played well today. Campbell didn't do bad considering he's not played much football as well, hopefully Rio isn't too badly injured though. Most importantly we've avoided Germany for now.

[msmush]

ecuador vs germany last night. 0 - 3
ok so it was obvious who was going to win but i still wanted ecuador to win, i guess i like the underdog.
good match though. although ecuador has possession of the ball more they just kicked a million chains whereas german just went full out and attempted actual goals. But i guess the german defence was good too. The second goal from germany. im pretty sure it was the second, oh well one of them was sweet. the set up was perfect oh well close enough anyway and the goal was ace =] !

only one more day until Australia vs Croatia!!!
also Japan vs Brazil. gee wonder who will win?

edit: OMGUSHHH wasnt tthaaat A FREAKING AWESOME GAME BETWEEEEEN AUSTRALIA AND CROATIA!!! !!!!!!
DAMN IT FOR ALL THE AUSSSIE GAMES WE HAD SUCH a BAD RUN OF CRAPPPY REFEREEES.

gosh. was he blind? I mean its a fast games yes and you cant expect the ref to catch EVERYTHING but when its like a handball iN THE GOAL square...you'd expect something! and wattthenut?!?! . 3 yelllow cards. to suminic !!! thats outfreakingrageous, also vuduka was like TACKLED to the ground. :| theres a conspiracy going on against us :P.

BUT that was such a sweet goal by HARRRY KEWELL Gotta love him you GOTTA love him . but damn next match against ITALY brett emertons not playing :|.

The match was pretty much aussies the entire time just many things didnt go our way. We deserved that draw against croatia if not the win. Next match they better put swatzer on. that was a terrible miss by kalac! a goalie of such high calibre missed such a standard goal. :| dissapointing. but nevertheless AUSTRALIA are THRU to ROUND 16

Match: Japan vs Brazil.
Figures. :P

[Munsu]

Germany destroyed Sweden, I'm surprised that it only ended 2-0.

Argentina played a lazy game, lazy passing... but they made up for it with the second best goal of the WC by Rodriguez. Mexico played well, but not well enough.