We'll see how good Algeria is when playing Germany, group H kinda made it hard to evaluate the teams, as no one was playing vs. an elite nation/team. Regarding your question about my standard for Belgium: Too many people labelled them as dark horses, so naturally I have to compare them to nations like Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, France, Argentinia, Chile, ... And right now they're looking like the worst team left except for Algeria and Nigeria, deep below the top nations and favourites. Given their dark horse status they look terrible, you can argue they are doing well if you place them in the 3rd tier (smaller nations outside of the world's top 15).
Agreed. Good post. Germany will destroy Algeria. Belgium has been a disapointment, I think it is mostly because they are young, and their best players are in their defense. So they have difficultief scoring. Can you imagine if Belgium and the Netherlands become 1 country (what some people might want). With the defense of belgium and the attack of the Netherland we would really have an amazing team. I think this tournament was just to soon for Belgium, in 4 years they can be a power house.
^ You wonder why this thread kills the other thread? That post has NOTHING in regards to the U.S. and A.
No. Sorry. I just do not think it works your way. It all depends a lot on what you call the shape on that particular day. For example. Netherlands went from a 5-1 against Spain to a troubling 3-2 vs. Australia. Belgium did ok in their first two matches.... not the best but well enough to win. They did not went from 0 to 100 and back to 60%. PS: They are not the worst team except Nigeria and Algeria. Argentina(the rest outside of Messi), Uruguay(first game and third game), US against a very bad Portugal team were mediocre. Greece had one good game, one mediocre and one terrible one. They cannot score goals. Very lucky penalty
r****ded is probably the best way to describe it lol I don't think she understands anything about soccer. I'm sure he's referring to Ann Coulter's article that I posted.. http://news.yahoo.com/ann-coulter-wo...182845703.html
The game was certainly very close, especially with the late game flurry from the US, but I think it was clear Germany was the better team. If we had Jozy healthy that would have helped, I suppose.
Germany will have to beat Algeria, France and Brazil for that to happen. Unlikely with regard to Brazil, but not impossible. USA would have to beat Belgium, then Argentina, then the Netherlands. Spoiler
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Bradley has been pretty bad for the US, but a lot of that is that he's being asked to do too much. He's put in more mileage than anyone else in the world cup. http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/statistics/players/distance.html
I think he puts that on himself, though. I think, ideally, he would have been the one staying more forward than Jones against Germany. That's Bradley's nature, though. Having Altidore back might mean we'll see more of what we expect out of Bradley.
Football rarely has ties, and they've looked to change that. No ties in NCAA. NHL has done away with ties. Boxing shouldn't exist. Soccer would be better with more aggressive play, fewer penalties, less flopping, & no ties (shootouts are one of the best tiebreakers in sports). I'd also like to see them do away with offside.
