World Cup 2006 - Germany (World Cup ONLY)

[JTK]

[CTG]

I hate German football.
I hate English football.
I hate yankee football.
I hate French football.
I hate Asian football.
I hate Balcan football (Croatia is not Balcan in this case   )

The rest: GO!!!  :twisted:

[CTG]

Very positive

Czech Republic
Sweden
Trinidad and Tobago

Positive

Brasil
Croatia
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
Paraguay
Poland
Spain
Ukraine

Neutral

Australia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Ivory Coast
Portugal
Togo

Negative

Angola
Argentina
Ghana
Iran
Japan
Saudi Arabia
Switzerland
Tunesia

Very negative

England
France
Germany
Serbia
South Corea
United States

[Usrin]

Neutral: Australia

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Riverkillers, GO HOME!!! :twisted:  :wink:

[CTG]

Neutral: Australia

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Riverkillers, GO HOME!!! :twisted:  :wink:

No Bosnich, no problem.  :-D

[al il professore]

48    *Togo*       2    X    3    *Franca*

Looooool ! You're crazy ! Togo 0 x 5 France :-D

every male on earth has a huge part of his brain dedicated to SOCCER! me too:

FRANCE is on the verge to beat togo by a landslide (more than four goals, probably six) this team has no coach (all the coaches of this team resigned today because of salary problems) it will be the last match and togo will have zero points. it will be like 1-6 in cameroon russia in 94 with the five goals of salenko.

south korea is far from an international level ( they were unable to beat saudi arabia on both matches in the qualifications) they had a very bad friendly matches preparation last month. I think we can beat them 3-0, that would not surprise me at all.

switzerland is crippled in injuries: Patrick M?ller, Valon Behrami, Marco Streller, Philippe Senderos are to be benched. And we know switzerland by heart for dominating them in the qualifications. minimum 2-0 france.

I feel great about the national team. no midget giuly, no lazy anelka, no worthless pires, three stupid individuals that are always in ire. we have three world class goalkeepers, barthez coupet and landreau. even with malouda, vieira and cisse injured, the team depth chart is... deep. so deep we can line up two teams

look at our team playing the world cup: we have some plans (several plans, not just "a" plan), and it will be beautiful to watch it.

RIBERY. the world will remember his six world cup goals. allez l'OM!!!

i dont trust germany (two goals? against costa rica? are you kidding???) and argentina (ivory coast played so slowly i don't understand how argentina couldnt score three more goals!) england is playing football like "the dirty dozen" It's france and brasil world cup.

[Shoegazing Leo]

The French are not bothered to football and mathematics, because they put the #12 shirt on Six.

[BonzaiJoe]

France has one of the easiest groups, there is no other good team in it. Even Germany's group seems to be stronger.

[al il professore]

vaterland has done very little things well for his world cup: the grass is always too weak and players slip on it, tv broadcast sucks because the players look like ants. with that heat, you can see few water bottles on the  sidelines... lastly they also decided to close the roofs of stadiums because of the shadow and sun annoying contrast on tv.

[al il professore]

France and brasil will be the only teams to play an impressive 4-2-4

i know, this disposition has disappeared in modern football, but ONLY france and brasil can afford having four real forwards on the field on this world cup: ribery zidane wiltord and henry vs Ronaldinho Kaka Ronaldo and Robinho

but france only can display the best middle ever in support: vieira and makelele.

[al il professore]

depth chart? behind zidane wiltord ribery and henry, we have trezeguet, saha, govou and dhorasoo. those are no jokers. they can turn into blood thirsty scorers.

[Krys TOFF]

France has one of the easiest groups, there is no other good team in it. Even Germany's group seems to be stronger.

Easiest group is the one of Portugal. France group is only the 2nd easiest. :lol:

depth chart? behind zidane wiltord ribery and henry, we have trezeguet, saha, govou and dhorasoo. those are no jokers. they can turn into blood thirsty scorers.

Dhorasoo is no joker, he is a clown. Not effective. I don't like him.

france only can display the best middle ever in support: vieira and makelele.

True for Makelele. Viera is not on top at the moment. A full power Viera is awesome, a half-full power Viera is better than most of the WC midfield players anyway.

I hate French football.

Mmmm. Why ? And why do you think France will finish 3rd of this WC then ? Even I don't think so. :lol:

I feel great about the national team. no midget giuly, no lazy anelka, no worthless pires, three stupid individuals that are always in ire. we have three world class goalkeepers, barthez coupet and landreau. even with malouda, vieira and cisse injured, the team depth chart is... deep. so deep we can line up two teams  

look at our team playing the world cup: we have some plans (several plans, not just "a" plan), and it will be beautiful to watch it.

RIBERY. the world will remember his six world cup goals. allez l'OM!!!

Giuly, anelka and Pires are better that numerous players of most of the nations present in this WC.
Ribery is the future, but it's better to keep him as joker number 1 for the last 30 minutes of each match I think. Else, he will be too tired after the groups matches.
Malouda is a key member, I hope he will play.
Cisse's speed will be missed.
Wiltord, Saha or Govou ar not as effective as Cisse. But they will get the job done to make Henry score for sure. Saha and Wiltord proved it more than once before.
About "plans", yes, France has many differents plans to play, and can be effective on all of them :
4-4-2 (Henry and Saha because Cisse is injured)
4-5-1 (Henry as the main forward in this case)
4-3-2-1 (Henry as the main forward in this case. With Wiltord or Saha on the right and Malouda or Ribery on the left behind him, it should be the best "scoring machine" configuration)
4-2-3-1 (Henry as the main forward in this case, same as 4-3-2-1 but with Zidane a little bit forward)
4-2-4 (as Alain said, but probably not used against teams with 4 or 5 midfields. Can be the best choice against teams playing 4-3-3, even if Zidane told that he would not like this configuration)
4-3-3 (Henry, Trezeguet and Saha/Wiltord probably in this case. Normally it would have been Henry-Trezeguet-Cisse...)
4-4-1-1 (Henry as the main forward in this case, but less probability with Cisse missing to be just behind Henry... Except if Ribery can play this way. And I'm sure he can so why not)

[CTG]

I hate French football.

Mmmm. Why ? And why do you think France will finish 3rd of this WC then ? Even I don't think so. :lol:

I hate French football since 1998. It was a lucky, dirty victory - just remember France-Paraguay or France-Croatia. I also hate their style and some certain players too. Zidane is the only positive character from that team. And generally Hungarian people don't like French because of the history. This hate is true for me too - but only in sports. I like friendly people like you, independently from nations.


My hate isn't enough to avoid their 3rd place.

[CTG]

Btw Trinidad and Tobago made a really great match against Sweden. Caribean soccer rules!

[Krys TOFF]

I hate French football since 1998. It was a lucky, dirty victory - just remember France-Paraguay or France-Croatia.

France-Paraguay : Only Paraguay goalkeeper was playing in this match. Ball possession was almost 90% for France. Paraguay only defended and thay were waiting for penalties. Laurent Blanc scored golden goal before the end of the match, during extended time, but victory was well deserved to France.

France-Croatia : nice match, and individual performance from Lillian Thuram saved France from defeat. Match was excellent, Suker was on top (he was the only one to score a goal to Barthez during WC 1998 except goals scored on penalty by Denmark and Italy), French forward players couldn't find the way to goal, they started to doubt and lost their way to play. Only Thuram, the French defender who made a mistake that made Suker goal for Croatia, managed to play 110% instead of 100% to correct his mistake and then give France victory. Croatia could have win this match, but in the end Thuram won it. Not France, only Thuram. Sometimes, one player can modify a match. This match was Thuram's match.
Was this luck ? No, it was Thuram's motivation.
Was it "dirty" or undeserved ? No : Croatia lost one match (versus Argentina) while France had lost no match before in this WC. It was logical that France was favorite. But Croatia made a great WC : they finished 3rd in the end, beating Netherlands for the 3rd place. Remember that Brazil was qualified versus Netherlands for the final only at penalty session. Croatia's 3rd place was a really good performance.

You don't talk about France-Italy. This was the most difficult match for France I think, more difficult than France-Croatia because of Italian defenders that were just too good for French forwards. And France didn't beat Italy : this match have been finished with the penalties. Goalkeeper Fabien Barthez was at his very best, he was the player that made France win this match.
But for penalty session, talent is not enough, luck is also required. This one is the match that was won with a part of luck in my opinion.
All other matches have been won logically, with talent and/or motivation.

In 1998, those who were the most unlucky, like in 2002, were Spain, not Croatia. Spain made marvelous matches in their group, and were beaten because they failed to score versus Paraguay. Again, Paraguay performance was only due to their goalkeeper. They never played, they just defended.

generally Hungarian people don't like French because of the history. This hate is true for me too - but only in sports

Yes, I remember some discuss about it with Akoss on chatroom when I joined Stunts community. This has nothing to do with football, nor with WC, nor with us : none of us were born in 1956 (except AbuRaf).