row_33 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 15 minutes ago, Jon in Pasadena said: I care. ? Go Samurai Blue! May you find happiness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Some exciting soccer here. If you're not watching, you're missing out. ? GOAL! Beautiful strike from Haraguchi! 1-0 Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Japan giving Belgium all they can handle. I'm off this week, so I can finally watch some games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 GOAL! Inui makes it 2-0 Japan from the top of the box!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Ugh. Goalkeeper error leads to a Belgian goal. 2-1 Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 (edited) That was rhe best "lob" header ever. Pretty sure it was pure luck, but we used to do lobs all the time in water polo...loved it! Now 2 headers in like 3 minutes.. fun match Edited July 2, 2018 by plenzmd1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Uh oh. 2-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 How did either team get this far? A dumpster fire of no talent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 6 minutes ago, row_33 said: How did either team get this far? A dumpster fire of no talent. Japan is running on confidence, but I wouldn't say Belgium has no talent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 unbelievable!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Sigh. I have no idea what the Japan defenders were doing on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 1 hour ago, plenzmd1 said: That was rhe best "lob" header ever. Pretty sure it was pure luck, but we used to do lobs all the time in water polo...loved it! Now 2 headers in like 3 minutes.. fun match That might be the luckiest goal I've ever seen. But the winner was beautiful so kudos to Belgium. Need to root for them over Brazil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Japan vs. Belgium was one heck of a fun soccer game. I was pulling for Japan, but I hate Brazil and Belgium will give Brazil a much harder time than Japan would have. Brazil v. Belgium should be a good game; both teams pretty evenly matched. Tomorrow's games are bit weak; hope we see more good soccer. On July 1, 2018 at 1:32 PM, bobobonators said: Russia just showed the world how anti-football is played. 11 players in front of goal for 120minutes. Playing bunker ball as if they were a High School team playing Spain. Embarrassing display. Yeh, Spain didn’t play well (hard to do when there are 20 players in a 20yd space on the field) but at least they were trying. Russia’s game was simply to do everything except play football. And they got rewarded for it. It's called parking the bus and they did it to perfection. Hate to see teams who play that way rewarded with a win. Don't worry, it won't last long. Russia is horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Well, the two teams I'm still rooting for play today...the Swedes and the Brits. Hope the games are at least interesting. So far in the knockout stage I haven't watched everything but the France/Argentina and Belgium/Japan games stand out as the most exciting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Shouldn't all of Switzerland's games end in a draw? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Who Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 3 minutes ago, eball said: Shouldn't all of Switzerland's games end in a draw? "You know what the fellow said -- in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Dr. Who said: "You know what the fellow said -- in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock." Love that movie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Holy crap. Walker just practically gifted Colombia a goal, and Colombia said "Nahhhh. We'd rather go home." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Aaaannnd.... England concedes a goal in stoppage time, right on schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon in Pasadena Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 England won a PK shootout. Pinch me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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