The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Thread

As an impartial observer I have to say, you were robbed.

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The US looked absolutely horrible in the 1st half, then for whatever reason, turned it on and decimated the Slovenian defense in the 2nd half. If it weren't for lousy refereeing, the US would be atop the Group right now. Edu has earned his way into the starting XI I think. I'm glad Bradley stepped up and played brilliantly, including a dynamite goal.

I caught the last 15-20 mins of the Germany/Serbia match. Germany looked nothing like they did against Australia. Losing Klose against Ghana could be hurtful to Germany.

I'm fuming! So angry at that asshole ref. Arrrrrgggghh. The more I watch the replay of that Edu goal- not only was no one offsides, but you could have awarded THREE penalty kick for the holds on Bradley, Altidore, and Bocanegra. WTF was he thinking?

Plus we lose Findley for the next match because this idiot gave him a yellow card for getting hit in the face with the ball. ?????

I haven't been this angry at officiating in any sport since the refs gift wrapped a game for Florida State in the Swamp in 2003.

so proud of the guys in the 2nd half. they showed HEART. cant believe how shit the ref was the entire game. edu's goal was great.

GM, i agree the findley yellow card was absurd, but he is NOT a good player and we will do ok without him. buddle, gomez, and dempsey are all better at striker than findley imo. bradley likes his speed but his touch and field awareness are very poor.

so proud of the guys in the 2nd half. they showed HEART. cant believe how shit the ref was the entire game. edu's goal was great.

GM, i agree the findley yellow card was absurd, but he is NOT a good player and we will do ok without him. buddle, gomez, and dempsey are all better at striker than findley imo. bradley likes his speed but his touch and field awareness are very poor.

I never liked Findley in the starting lineup either. I'd much prefer Buddle or Edu. I think Findley's speed is better suited coming off the bench after the 60th minute in a game. I wouldn't be surprised if Edu starts in his place for the next match.

for me, id like to see this.

-------------------altidore------------------buddle-----------------
--dempsey---------edu---------------------bradley-------donovan--
--boca-------------demerit-----------------gooch-------cherundolo--
--------------------------------howard------------------------------

buddle is a quality finisher, we need that in this team right now. he and donovan are club mates at la galaxy, so them on the right of attack is nice. throw dempsey up top for feilhaber again maybe after the half and take buddle off then if he is struggling. stay with gooch at cb, its hard for me to say that because he was so shitty today, but on his day he is great. goodson is shaky, he is the backup cb.

for me, id like to see this.

-------------------altidore------------------buddle-----------------
--dempsey---------edu---------------------bradley-------donovan--
--boca-------------demerit-----------------gooch-------cherundolo--
--------------------------------howard------------------------------

buddle is a quality finisher, we need that in this team right now. he and donovan are club mates at la galaxy, so them on the right of attack is nice. throw dempsey up top for feilhaber again maybe after the half and take buddle off then if he is struggling. stay with gooch at cb, its hard for me to say that because he was so shitty today, but on his day he is great. goodson is shaky, he is the backup cb.

I like that lineup. Well done. Get an email out to Coach Bradley. :)

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heres the video of the robbed goal. heres my explanation for it being totaly ridiculous

no one knows what the call was. either way, edu was miles onside, and bradley was being tackled into being a hair offside. when offsides is called, thats an indirect kick. the ref is seen walking away, no arm raised. when its indirect, the arm needs to be raised until the ball is touched. his arm is not raised, so we have no clue what was called.

landon donovan said this afterwards to espn

"I'm proud of our guys," he said. "I don't think there's many teams that would respond that way after going 2-0 down [but] I'm a little gutted, to be honest. I don't know how they stole that third goal from us. I'm not sure what the call was. I don't know."
On referee Koman Coulibaly, he added: "It was the guy's first World Cup game, so maybe he got a little caught up in the moment, but you can't take a perfectly good goal from a team, especially at a World Cup.
"When we asked him several times, in a non-confrontational manner, why he made that call, he just ignored us. Maybe he didn't understand us since I don't know how much English he speaks."

Wow. Thanks for posting the better angles Big C. I didn't see anything watching it live and my confusion is only confirmed by watching those clips.

If we get out of the group, the indignation will be quenched, but right now that call is a tough one to swallow. I'm pleased that we improved throughout the game and I'm hopeful we can put away Algeria, althought hey are looking pretty good against England in the first half.

if we beat algeria by 2 goals or more, no other results matter. certainly algeria getting a result would be nice against england, but we dont need them to to have a chance to advance. we control our own destiny, like i said, with a 2 goal victory against algeria.