People are so ****ing unreasonable. What did they expect Luis to do, let the ball go in? As a human being you react to certain situations and Suarez reacted in a way that any other person would have reacted. I guarantee you that if someone else would have been in the exact same scenario (being almost eliminated) they would have done the exact same thing. I don't understand why they are calling it poor sportsmanship or anything, Luis just did what anybody else would have done. It's ridiculous to even think that I would just let a ball pass by me when I had a chance to save my team from being eliminated in that instant. Blame Gyan for having a Nick Anderson moment. He should of made that penalty kick, but he missed it. It sucks how it ended for Ghana, but the rules were followed so it isn't as if anyone was royally screwed here.
In hindsight, one break that Uruguay caught was that the card came at the end of extra time. Not only did it pile on extra pressure on Gyan, but it meant they never had to actually play 10 on 11 vs Ghana as the red card would dictate. Not that this was premeditated, but that factor actually worked in Uruguay's favor, although I guess one could argue that if Gyan's first PK went in, Uruguay would have time to tie, thought it would be damn hard with little time and down one of their two best players.
No. Uruguay wouldn't have had time to tie. The ref whistled the game as soon as Gyan missed it. Watch the replay and the ref AUTO-MAGICALLY calls the game there.
You seem to assume that you have been playing football longer than i have Whatever game, sport i have played. Competitively or just for fun i have always been taught win or lose do it honourably.
I guarantee no one in Ghana or a player on the team was outrages when they were given the penalty kick based on the handball to win the game with no time left. It's when the penalty kick is missed that all the people come out of the woodwork to have a problem with rules.
No, no and no. Even the Ghana players will not blame the referee or the rules or anything like that. They know that the rules were applied perfectly and that they had it in their own hands and messed up. Only people who do not really understand the game and only started to follow it recently and have the arrogance to assume that they know how to fix a sport that is the most successful in the world with largely unchanged rules for the past 100 years will think otherwise. It's kind of like someone being invited to a house and after 10 minutes telling the host how he should change everything around in his house. It's a bit presumptuous.
This. Edit: You know what I can't wait for? Everyone who didn't give a **** about soccer before the World Cup to go back to not giving a **** about soccer after the World Cup, because the amount of ill-informed opinions circulating (and I'm not speaking strictly here) has been monumental.
Swoly- my point was if the red card came earlier in extra time they might have time to tie.... That's why I was saying Uruguay caught a bit of a break by the card coming at the very end- they never had to play 10 on 11, which would've made tying the game extra hard if the PK scored and there was some time left on the clock.
You cling to this because you're the Shane Battier of life. You don't have the talent to have a win at all costs mentality, so you need constant political correctness and archaic beliefs to be taken seriously and keep you going. This is a war you silly little b****, we don't have time for tea parties and wine and cheese gala's during the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
This cheating stuff baffles me.... What if he flinched and threw his arms out? If it's not intentional, is it then not cheating? To me, all the flopping in basketball or soccer is a hell of a lot more dishonorable than what Suarez did.... He suffered a monumentally huge repercussion for his red card, and will continue to do so in the next match. People are acting like he got away with something??
There is a happy medium, I think. I don't think you go around stomping people's ankles and sliding into their knees intentionally just to knock out their best players because it helps you win. I think that's way over the line. I just don't feel like this red card is dishonorable, or even remotely close to that same line of "cheating" or dirty play.
Exactly the guy is going to miss the Semi's against a team they can't afford to not have him. He is banned a game for his actions and he gave Ghana a chance to win the game with no time left.
That's good, sir. That's very very good for you. You know what...? Maybe the NBA should start suspending peeps games when they goaltend.
If so, then because of the Argentinians. One thing I am pretty proud of is that German teams have generally conducted themselves well at world cups (with the exception of that shameful 1982 game against Austria). Even when Rijkard spat at Rudi Voeller 1990 and most everyone would have retaliated, he did not (and still got a red card, for no reason). Uruguay and Argentina, on the other hand...man, the Argentinians were such sore losers last time, and Diego Maradona is just a flat-out nutcase. He is crazy. I really hope we get him the return ticket he deserves tomorrow.
LOL! how old are you? Yeah it's a war next time time we'll just take our AK-47's out on the field and take shots at each other.
I'm still saddened by Brazil's loss to Netherlands. Netherlands have an easy matchup against a Suarezless Uruguay team.
