FIFA World Cup 2014 - Semi-finals [8th - 9th July] **spoilers**

esoteric said:
Looking forward to a Germany v Holland final.

[EDIT] And goddam I hate that ITV get footy matches, the picture is less then 480p and it's constantly freezing, but right now it's flat out paused. Never have a problem with BBC. Nothing against Adrian Chiles either but really, leave it to the professionals.
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ITV really do suck & I'm not ashamed to admit I use pirate streams when their games are on. As the pirate streams are 100000000000000x better than what they offer!

Even on Sky Go the quality is horrible.
 
ITV callit intriguing and finely balanced. I think they are too slow to realise it was an exercise in hoof ball
 
David Luiz needs to come on for one of the them.

Maybe it could be a new kind of punishment to sit in between a yellow card and red card where a team must nominate a defender to be replaced by him for a ten minute period.

I'm sure PSG won't mind giving him on to FIFA to work as a professional forfeit player
 
Looks like Argentina have figured out how to counter van Gaal's master plan: don't give Robben room to run at your defence.
 
Fulax said:
Looks like Argentina have figured out how to counter van Gaal's master plan: don't give Robben room to run at your defence.
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I think van Gaal is the one who figured out how to counter Robben. It's not much to do with Argentina. As with previous games the delivery to Robben and RVP has been terrible. Sneijder shooting if he's... in their half, passing 60 yards straight off the pitch. The best long ball has come from De Jong. Slow and pedestrian in midfield, failing to get forward quickly... it's the Sneijder and Kuyt show. Their passing is poor, it's either pointless sideways/backward safe passing or messing up their forward passing.

How did they not sit down after the last two games and ask the players to highlight the difference between the first two and the last two games... yes, you tried to get forward quickly.

Get Kuyt off, and probably Sneijder too. Actually pass the ball to RVP and Robben when they show, yet another game where someone in midfield gets the ball, RVP starts a 5 yard run across a defender intending to head behind, or dropping 3 yards asking for the ball, guy in midfield with the ball looks at him, then passes sideways. Holland playing slowly and not actually giving the ball to their attackers. Robben/RVP picked up the ball LOADS in the first two games all over the pitch, not just in behind. They hit long balls and crosses from very deep, but they also passed to them short, all over. They are either ignoring them or smacking it long, predictable and easy to defend against when it's the only thing they are doing.
 
Messi trying to do everything...great tackle by vlaar.

Vlaar to Man U next season on a free? lol.
 
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