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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2014 19:03:39 GMT 1
ALG | ARG | | BEL | BIH | BRA | | CHI | COL | CRC | CRO | ECU | | FRA | GER | GHA | GRE | HON | IRN | ITA | CIV | JPN | MEX | NED | NGA | POR | RUS | KOR | | SUI | USA | URU |
Australia | 18/06/2014 | eliminated from Group B
| Spain | 18/06/2014 | eliminated from Group B
| Cameroon | 18/06/2014 | eliminated from Group A
| England | 20/06/2014 | eliminated from Group D
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28 teams are left in the World Cup
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Post by paulgilb on Jun 20, 2014 19:32:56 GMT 1
Well, it wasn't the most absorbing second half. I gathered from comments here that the first half wasn't up to much either. Greece won the 2002 Euros by boring their opponents into submission and they haven't changed their tactics since then. I don't recall any Euros in 2002 - so perhaps their win owed more to opponents not turning up?
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Post by suedehead on Jun 20, 2014 19:39:00 GMT 1
Greece won the 2002 Euros by boring their opponents into submission and they haven't changed their tactics since then. I don't recall any Euros in 2002 - so perhaps their win owed more to opponents not turning up? Oops, 2004
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Post by Mart!n on Jun 20, 2014 20:14:57 GMT 1
I didn't think Costa Rica would get through that group, when the groups were announced, I was wrong there, I expected them to finish in the bottom of the group. hats off to them for playing so well and getting in the last 16, they probably be playing Ivory Coast in the next round, they easily get to the last 8, I think.
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Post by Mart!n on Jun 20, 2014 20:18:38 GMT 1
France are in a hurry to win this. :lol:
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Post by rewardman on Jun 20, 2014 20:20:50 GMT 1
I expected more from the Swiss.
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Post by suedehead on Jun 20, 2014 20:29:17 GMT 1
I expected more from the Swiss. Ah yes but think of the headline potential - Swiss Roll Over
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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2014 20:31:02 GMT 1
How European teams eliminated in the 1st round of the World Cup fared in the next European Championship:
1958: Austria (quarter-finals) Czechoslovakia (semi-finals) England (did not enter) Hungary (did not qualify) Scotland (did not enter)
1962: Bulgaria (did not qualify) Italy (did not qualify) Spain (winners) Switzerland (did not qualify)
1966: Bulgaria (quarter-finals) France (quarter-finals) Italy (winners) Spain (quarter-finals) Switzerland (did not qualify)
1970: Belgium (semi-finals) Bulgaria (did not qualify) Czechoslovakia (did not qualify) Romania (quarter-finals) Sweden (did not qualify)
1974: Bulgaria (did not qualify) Italy (did not qualify) Scotland (did not qualify)
1978: France (did not qualify) Hungary (did not qualify) Scotland (did not qualify) Spain (1st round) Sweden (did not qualify)
1982: Czechoslovakia (did not qualify) Hungary (did not qualify) Scotland (did not qualify)
1986: Hungary (did not qualify) Northern Ireland (did not qualify) Portugal (did not qualify) Scotland (did not qualify)
1990: Austria (did not qualify) Scotland (1st round) Sweden (semi-finals) USSR (1st round) Yugoslavia (1st round)
1994: Greece (did not qualify) Norway (did not qualify) Russia (1st round)
1998: Austria (did not qualify) Belgium (1st round) Bulgaria (did not qualify) Scotland (did not qualify) Spain (quarter-finals)
2002: Croatia (1st round) France (quarter-finals) Poland (did not qualify) Portugal (runners-up) Russia (1st round) Slovenia (did not qualify)
2006: Croatia (quarter-finals) Czech Republic (1st round) Poland (1st round) Serbia & Montenegro (did not qualify)
2010: Denmark (1st round) France (quarter-finals) Greece (quarter-finals) Italy (runners-up) Serbia (did not qualify) Slovenia (did not qualify) Switzerland (did not qualify)
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Post by Mart!n on Jun 20, 2014 20:33:04 GMT 1
Wow... excellent save.
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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2014 20:35:43 GMT 1
How European champions fared at the previous World Cup:
1960: USSR (quarter-finals) 1964: Spain (1st round) 1968: Italy (1st round) 1972: West Germany (semi-finals) 1976: Czechoslovakia (did not qualify) 1980: West Germany (2nd round) 1984: France (semi-finals) 1988: Netherlands (did not qualify) 1992: Denmark (did not qualify) 1996: Germany (quarter-finals) 2000: France (winners) 2004: Greece (did not qualify) 2008: Spain (2nd round) 2012: Spain (winners)
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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2014 20:40:52 GMT 1
Echoes of Lineker against Poland in '86 for that third goal.
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Post by suedehead on Jun 20, 2014 20:41:06 GMT 1
And the ITV commentator gets the chance to use his pre-written line about a mountain between France and Switzerland.
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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2014 20:42:28 GMT 1
Remember folks, England have got Switzerland in the Euro qualifiers...
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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2014 20:43:12 GMT 1
And the ITV commentator gets the chance to use his pre-written line about a mountain between France and Switzerland. I don't get what Natalie Sawyer sees in him...
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Post by rewardman on Jun 20, 2014 20:45:25 GMT 1
Good save by the Swiss keeper at the PK but what was Cabaye thinking?
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Post by rewardman on Jun 20, 2014 20:47:22 GMT 1
I expected more from the Swiss. Ah yes but think of the headline potential - Swiss Roll Over The defence has more holes than their cheese.
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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2014 20:49:44 GMT 1
I expected more from the Swiss. Ah yes but think of the headline potential - Swiss Roll Over Our local radio commentator went down that route when Middlesbrough beat Basel in the UEFA Cup in 2006: "THE SWISS HAVE ROLLED!" Not as good as when they beat Steaua Bucharest in the semi-finals: "BORO HAVE DRIVEN A STAKE THROUGH THE HEART OF DRACULA'S BOYS!"
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Post by Mart!n on Jun 20, 2014 21:04:15 GMT 1
And the ITV commentator gets the chance to use his pre-written line about a mountain between France and Switzerland. I don't get what Natalie Sawyer sees in him... Great mountains
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Post by suedehead on Jun 20, 2014 21:15:44 GMT 1
In the 1954 quarter-final Switzerland went 3-0 up against Austria, scoring in the 16th, 17th and 19th minutes. They lost 7-5 with Austria getting back on level terms with goals in the 25th, 26, and 27th minutes! Seven minutes later Austria led 5-3.
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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2014 21:18:48 GMT 1
In the 1954 quarter-final Switzerland went 3-0 up against Austria, scoring in the 16th, 17th and 19th minutes. They lost 7-5 with Austria getting back on level terms with goals in the 25th, 26, and 27th minutes! Seven minutes later Austria led 5-3. And that was the last time they reached the knockout stages until 1994, when they got to the last 16, managed by a certain Mr. Hodgson...
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