[WC] 3rd place : Germany vs Portugal -> Germany wins

9 PM local time

Germany 3-1 Portugal

Last play was a huge dive that got Costinha a yellow

Pretty good game this far. You can tell that a lot of the pressure on the players have been released.

LMAO, Alex... Let it go for your own sake.

Good action so far, thanks to the mistakes both teams make. Why Germany has two defensemen that haven't played in this Cup untill this match?

and there he goes again :biglaugh:

That Christiano Ronaldo dive in slow-motion was the most funny thing I've seen in a World Cup game.

Wow Ronaldo dives all over the place

oh my Gosh what a dive!!!!!!!!!!! LOOOOOOOOOOOL

Ban Ronaldo!!! what a disgrace for the football world

That Christiano Ronaldo dive in slow-motion was the most funny thing I've seen in a World Cup game.

You sir, know nothing about aerodynamics. Clearly the airstreams around the defender disturbed Ronaldo. :(

This game hasn't been that bad diving wise though. A bronze match isn't that important.

Pretty good game this far. You can tell that a lot of the pressure on the players have been released.

True. I think this game is more about winning rather than fearing losing.

OMG, Ronaldo.... :amazed:

How come he doesn't learn anything? He's been booed like no other player in this WC.
He's made headlines for the wrong reasons.

And yet he continues and continues and continues...

The funniest on today's dive is that he watched the ref all along his fall.:biglaugh:

That was the worst dive I've seen in a while...glad they didn't give in and call it.

the sad part is that the FIFA won't do anything about it, and the next game he plays he will dive again, again and again.

They should suspend him for 3 to 6 months to set an example.

No chance it happens though.

Anyone else expecting some comedian to pop out and point to hidden cameras ? It's as if Portugal doesn't even want to shoot or score anymore, they just want to dive and get a call. It seems they are playing for the referee to give them a penalty/free kick, not to score....

FIFA should do something, this is painful to watch

maniche tsk tsk

Pauletas runs have been better this game than in the previous ones. His finishing still has been poor though.

And Ronaldo again.

Seriously, I'm wondering if this guy has brains the size of a nut.

Wow! Beauty!

Ronaldo is young and too full of himself. Suspension could be that bitter pill that clears his head.

Bout time Bastian showed his talent.
I was disappointed in him in this WC.

Everyone will blame Ricardo, but once again, the ball was floating.

Nice one. Ricardo maybe should have saved that.

Ricardo should have taken that one, even with the weird travel of the ball.

Football Gods punished Portugal, not Ricardo's fault. :p:

Own goal 2-0

2-0 Germany!!!!!!!!!!!

Why Germany has two defensemen that haven't played in this Cup untill this match?

Friedrich, Mertesacker are injured -> Janssen, Huth in -> Huth injured during warm-up -> Nowotny in

Kahn still has it :clap:

The Gods are truly ANGRY... I have a strange feeling that Portugal is suffering an inferiority complex. Pauletto freezes from such a great position, Ricardo watches the ball float by...

Where's Ballack, was he scratched for this match? I haven't heard his name all game..

Where's Ballack, was he scratched for this match?

suspended

Where's Ballack, was he scratched for this match?

Some small injury. If it was the finals I am sure he would have played.

oops I'm wrong

How annoying is this cheating by Portugal! Showing hand play when there was nothing close. Great skill, sportmanship of a bunch of ********.

3-0

Awesome :D

oh my

Great shot. Portugal has been a bit unlucky. 1-0 probably reflects the play better than 3-0.

Did Shweinschteiger get yellowcarded for taking his shirt off? :biglaugh:

*honk honk honk* We're #4! We're #4!

Khan won't even let an autogoal in. So many great saves from him today.

1-3 to portugal

Nice goal.

Well done Germany

Gomes with a pretty nice header on that one.

Germany still wins, 3-1. Ending on a positive note:handclap:

Congrats Germany! :handclap:

Ronaldo, grow up. If you can.

Glad to finally see my favourite German player (Schwein!) finally come out of his shell and defeat Portugal single-handedly.

Seeing C. Ronaldo stare at the ref as he flopped to the ground made me want to vomit, what an embarassment.

Nice to see Germany finish on a high note.

Frings' steady play was obviously missed in the match against Italy. :madfire:

Lahm, Schweinsteiger played up to their talents, and it was nice to see some vintage Kahn.

Deutschland!

Bis den nachsten Pokal...

It cracks me up that 90% of Portugals gameplan is running into the box and falling over hoping to pressurise the ref into giving a penalty. :biglaugh:

Portugal have easily become the most hated team ever just because of one tournament. Whoever replaces fat Phil has got a big job on his hands to get an ounce of respect back from other countries.

:vhappy: :towel:

Germany wins, nice game, finally some goals. :bow:
Could have been a few more though, they blew some great chances by not being entirely focused. Well, I guess that happens if you have such a lead.


BTW, Kahn officially retires with this game from the national team.

Congrats to Germany - they've done themselves proud.

Yeah congrats to Germany, and also Kahn. :clap:

Klose, and Podolski were good, why won't you guys play for Polska? :cry:

Congrats to Germany. I blame Petit on all 3 goals, I really don't know what he was doing out there. Not to take anything away from Bastien's nice shots.

Why does Scolari wait until the 3rd place game ot put another guy out there and help Pauleta/Figo?

Anyways, Germany deserved this game, played a better defensive game and Ricardo was not himself in the 2nd half.

I really did find myself yelling at the TV especially at Ronaldo to get the hell up. If only he kept on playing rather than dive he would have many more goals to his credit.:dunno:

Good entertaining game though.

Yeah congrats to Germany, and also Kahn. :clap:

Klose, and Podolski were good, why won't you guys play for Polska? :cry:

Perhaps because they are of German origin? ;)
It's not their fault that a certain Adolf Hitler was responsible for Germany losing parts of it's country ;)

Yeah congrats to Germany, and also Kahn. :clap:

Klose, and Podolski were good, why won't you guys play for Polska? :cry:

Tomasz Klos, who was a regular player of the Polish National Team and a teammate of both of them, recommended Klose and Podolski to the PZPN (the Polish Football Association) but he was ignored. Quite unbelieveable but it's true and unfortunately typical of the Polish FA.


Perhaps because they are of German origin? ;)
It's not their fault that a certain Adolf Hitler was responsible for Germany losing parts of it's country ;)

If you want to be precise then they are of Silesian origin but born in Poland. As long as there is no Silesian country there is no real Silesian nationality and you have to call them Poles, Germans or Czechs. As Opole and Gliwice were, and still are, on Polish territory when both Klose and Podolski were born then I think it's right to call them Poles. Klose's mother even played for the Polish handball national team 84 times. Podolski speaks Polish quite well, Klose not so good but I heard that often during games they talk to eachother in Polish.

Anyway, good game for the Germans. Schweinsteiger was great and Kahn also played well in what was probably his last game for Germany. Figo also ended his international career on a high note with the assist on the last last goal.

Germany played pretty well and pretty in general. Portugal, not so much. I think Ronaldo is still diving in an attempt to get a call.

If I'm a fan of Germany, I'm excited for this team for the next few years. They're relatively young and if they collectively peak soon, Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010 is going to make for an incredibly strong German squad.

Horrible game, our worst in in years. First time we have let in three goals under Scolari. First goal was a turkey,2nd goal was awful as that ball was clearly going to no one :shakehead . The third goal was beautiful but Pettit just kept backing up like a moron. Nuno Gomes did more in 15 minutes then Pauleta did all tournament. Good riddance, Pedro :shakehead .

If I'm a fan of Germany, I'm excited for this team for the next few years. They're relatively young and if they collectively peak soon, Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010 is going to make for an incredibly strong German squad.

David Odonkor - 22 years old
Lukas Podolski - 21 years old
Bastian Schweinsteiger - 21 years old
Per Mertesacker - 21 years old
Phillip Lahm - 22 years old

:yo:

David Odonkor - 22 years old
Lukas Podolski - 21 years old
Bastian Schweinsteiger - 21 years old
Per Mertesacker - 21 years old
Phillip Lahm - 22 years old

:yo:

Odonokor is a guy I really enjoyed watching he's pretty fast and should start soon. Phillip Lahm was also stellar

****ing Odonkor is hella fast and has good ball control considering.

I must say that I was also very impressed with this German team. I didn't think they were going to do this well, and I really didn't expect to see this great brand of football from them. Very pleasing to the eye, with nice flow to it. Congrats to all the German fans here, your team was one of the treats of this World Cup. :clap:

David Odonkor - 22 years old
Lukas Podolski - 21 years old
Bastian Schweinsteiger - 21 years old
Per Mertesacker - 21 years old
Phillip Lahm - 22 years old

:yo:


Apart from Lahm these players are nothing to get your knickers in a twist over. France Spain Brazil Argentina Holland have a list of players younger than this with more ability already.Switzerland have a list that is comparable to this as well though not to the 5 teams I mentioned above.

Germany had a huge game, pretty solid. Defense is a little shaky at times but this team knows how to play fast and going to the net...
I really like their tournament, one of the few attacking teams at this World Cup. They deserved to finish 3rd and maybe more, unfortunatly.
I never saw Germany playing this well, I mean not destroying opponent's legs but playing, good skills, speed, very interesting passing game and a lot of shots... clearly one of the best games of the tournament. I'm not a fan of Germany but they're not like the past teams... more enjoyable. :)

Good riddance, Pedro :shakehead .

:clap:
Way to thank the retired player for all his efforts under the portugese shirt, since he qualified you for every tournament and was your best scored in WC02.

Once again,
:clap:

Tomasz Klos, who was a regular player of the Polish National Team and a teammate of both of them, recommended Klose and Podolski to the PZPN (the Polish Football Association) but he was ignored. Quite unbelieveable but it's true and unfortunately typical of the Polish FA.

If you want to be precise then they are of Silesian origin but born in Poland. As long as there is no Silesian country there is no real Silesian nationality and you have to call them Poles, Germans or Czechs. As Opole and Gliwice were, and still are, on Polish territory when both Klose and Podolski were born then I think it's right to call them Poles. Klose's mother even played for the Polish handball national team 84 times. Podolski speaks Polish quite well, Klose not so good but I heard that often during games they talk to eachother in Polish.

Klose's family are "Spätaussiedler". Just because you take over land from another country doesn't make the people who live there of your nationality. The Kloses are a German family of German origin who didn't leave the area they lived in when Germany lost these areas to Poland, just like many other families. A German of German origin is a German, it doesn't matter whether the area he was born in still belongs to Germany or not.

I agree that they have a close connection to Poland, but they are not Polish.

Quite a few of my friends were Spätaussiedler or children of them as well, they all speak Polish, but they are still German. Speaking Polish doesn't mean much, when you have lots of foreigners living here. Not to mention that there were quite a few polish speaking people in eastern Prussia during the second Reich. ;)

As for Tomasz Klos recommending them, of course he does, just like the Turks do with every turkish-german who can play. Most of them never have seen Turkey in their whole life, but that doesn't mean a thing. Every country tries to get the best players it can.

Who cares if they're born in Poland
They feel german and play for Germany, where they were raised and learnt football.
Pretty much sums it up for me.

Apart from Lahm these players are nothing to get your knickers in a twist over. France Spain Brazil Argentina Holland have a list of players younger than this with more ability already.Switzerland have a list that is comparable to this as well though not to the 5 teams I mentioned above.

The sky is always falling in Germany.

Personally, I think Podolski and Schweinsteiger are quality youngsters.
Lahm is OK, but probably overrated because of his offensive contribution (his defense is suspect and focus under average).

I really enjoyed that game and the victory for Germany just made it all the better. Great team with a great future:clap:

Lahm is OK, but probably overrated because of his offensive contribution (his defense is suspect and focus under average).

I thought Lahm did an admirable job of marking one of the most dangerous 1 on 1 players in the game, in Cristiano Ronaldo.

:clap:
Way to thank the retired player for all his efforts under the portugese shirt, since he qualified you for every tournament and was your best scored in WC02.

Once again,
:clap:

So I should be happy with one goal in 13 games that count(Euro 2004/WC 2006)? If that was Henry's scoring rate at the level that counts the you would be just as disallusioned as I am. So he scored 3 goals against the worst team in our WC 2002 group in Poland big deal he was near invisible they other two games. Once again he has been dreadful the last two tournaments. Look at Luis Figo, I would be more then happy to have him back for Euro 08 because he gave it all he had and was pretty impressive for most of the tourney, so impressive he made the all star team for the tourney. So you can actually tell me that he impressed you at the last two tourney's?. The excuse that the players weren't feeding him has no grounds either as how does a guy score 11 goals in qualifying with the same players but then just disappears on the big stage. Nuno Gomes in his limited time yesturday and throughout the tourney was much better then Pedro. I will never consider him on the level of "the Black Pearl" Eusebio who actually scored most of his goals against high level competition unlike Pedro

So I should be happy with one goal in 13 games that count(Euro 2004/WC 2006)? If that was Henry's scoring rate at the level that counts the you would be just as disallusioned as I am. So he scored 3 goals against the worst team in our WC 2002 group in Poland big deal he was near invisible they other two games. Once again he has been dreadful the last two tournaments. Look at Luis Figo, I would be more then happy to have him back for Euro 08 because he gave it all he had and was pretty impressive for most of the tourney, so impressive he made the all star team for the tourney. So you can actually tell me that he impressed you at the last two tourney's?. The excuse that the players weren't feeding him has no grounds either as how does a guy score 11 goals in qualifying with the same players but then just disappears on the big stage. Nuno Gomes in his limited time yesturday and throughout the tourney was much better then Pedro. I will never consider him on the level of "the Black Pearl" Eusebio who actually scored most of his goals against high level competition unlike Pedro
Sorry, your post is sickening.

Sorry, your post is sickening.

How so? No grounds to refute my claims?

Because your lack of respect for what Pauleta brought to your national team is unbelievable.
Pauleta is a million times more classy, more intelligent than your dear boy Ronaldo.
He's been a key (if not THE key) for qualifying in every recent tournament.
Your team would have probably missed at least one major tournament without him.

And yet you say good riddance when he retires.

:shakehead

Because your lack of respect for what Pauleta brought to your national team is unbelievable.
Pauleta is a million times more classy, more intelligent than your dear boy Ronaldo.
He's been a key (if not THE key) for qualifying in every recent tournament.
Your team would have probably missed at least one major tournament without him.

And yet you say good riddance when he retires.

:shakehead

Well I will try to explain my side of things to you. Before the Euro's I was a big time fan of Pedro, he scored some great goals for Portugal but I became exceedingly frustrated at his performances in the last two major tournaments. We have made it very far in the last two tournaments and it has been despite him. Can you really say he impressed you at the tourney? Perhaps because of his goal scoring record I put to much expectations on him. Maybe I was to harsh saying "Henry" to get us to the next level