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Varegg wrote:

If Italy beats France and Holland doesn't loose against Romania my team will still go through to the quarter finals ...

Go Italy

Holland - Romania to get through

and bye bye to France and Italy

hopefully

Glad to see the Italians and French got their shit tossed by the Dutch. Italians were crying like little bitches whenever the Romanians brushed past them, just like the Croatians.

But what a game that was for Holland. Loved it!

Remember that you can't bring any liquid containers in, empty or otherwise. Security is hardcore - be prepared.

CapnNismo wrote:

Remember that you can't bring any liquid containers in, empty or otherwise. Security is hardcore - be prepared.

No drinks allowed at all? Fuck that shit

edit: Oh wait I think I misunderstood you

Last edited by Mek-Stizzle (2008-06-14 05:54:19)

.Sup wrote:

Going to Austria in an hour to see some matches on the big screen.

What?

I hope Italy gets thrown out too. Fucken Inzaghi nicking it at the last minute and celebrating like a retard always ruined my day.

btw did you hear that Domenec uses star-signs to decide which players to use? Is that true? Because if it is France needs to gtfo as well. And a change coach asap

Yeah bad decisions. But Spain haven't really been playing well since Sweden have scored. They need to forget about those decisions now and get their act together and play like they did against Russia.

Fotball is all about emotions

Congrats Spain on another victory allthough this was a much harder challenge for Spain, Mellberg was really really good Torres and Villa, no wonder he is off to Juventus ...

Um... he means Mellberg, you nub. Villa wants to go, but noone knows where. Barcelona want him.

Anyway, it wasn't a harder challenge for Spain; they just didn't play like they did against Russia. They were unstoppable against them.

It was an awful decision to put on Cazorla for Xavi. Xavi was the heart of the team in the first half. As a comparison, Svensson had 47 passes completed by the FULL game, Xavi had 51 by half time.

Anyway, FUCK YES!

Unfortunately, I seem to be quite a pessimist. While most other Austrians were fairly happy about the draw against Poland, I'm rather disappointed. Not just about this game, about our performance in the Euro in general.

I know, most of the people who read/post in this thread are well informed about the tournament anyway, but let me sum it up for you.
Disclaimer: Yes, I am going to refer to the Austrian national team as "us". Not just out of patriotism, also out of convenience.

Austria vs. Croatia:
Yes, the much-disputed penalty right at the start of the game. While I do think it was a tough decision to make that call, you can't really argue with it. He didn't necessarily have to blow the whistle, but it was definitely a justifiable call and well within the rules. He could have let it slide for the sake of the game, but well... sucks to be us.
After being completely dumbfounded for the next half hour, Austria started to get their act back together and dominated the game. Especially in the second half we had one chance after another, but failed to score. I'm not going to try and blame this on anyone but our own inability.
In overtime though, Kienast was massively held back by a Croatian player on an Austrian free-kick, essentially preventing him from getting in position for a decent header. The ball was coming towards him and the ref stood less than 5 meters away. This should definitely have been a penalty, especially when you consider the FIFA advised the refs to be strict on this kind of thing just before the Euro.

Austria vs. Poland:
We started off incredibly strong with one great chance after another. Again, there's no one to blame but ourselves for not going ahead at least 2:0 right then and there.
About half an hour into the game Poland scores on us. From an offside position. The side-ref has to do nothing at that point but check for offsides, so again there's no excuse for overseeing it. At least this time we handled the score a bit better, not being completely stumped for the rest of the half.
At some point, Ivanschitz storms into Poland's box all by himself and the defender grabs him by his shirt to rip him to the ground. Again, a penalty in my opinion, but no call.
In overtime, we get the previously discussed penalty. A justified call if you ask me, even though Prödl was held back less than Kienast was in the game against Croatia.

Sidenote: What I really don't get is: How in the world can people and even newspapers from Poland complain about that penalty? They said the referee "stole" the victory from them.
Not only were the refs advised to be strict on those things, what's worse is that their goal was an offside. Penalties are a matter of interpretation, offside is a goddamn fact. While some might call the penalty a harsh decision, their goal was definitely irregular.
He basically gave them a goal that wasn't supposed to count and they still bitch around. I just don't get it.



tl;dr: We should have gotten 3 penalties in those 2 games, one of which was called, and wasted loads of chances to score. A little more luck and ref decisions going more in favor and we could already have 6 points and be qualified for the quarter-finals.
Considering that, I just can't be happy about the outcome of Thursday's game.

.Sup wrote:

kptk92 wrote:

.Sup wrote:

Going to Austria in an hour to see some matches on the big screen.

What?

Which part don't you understand?

You live in Slovenia, right?

Zimmer wrote:

kptk92 wrote:

.Sup wrote:

Which part don't you understand?

You live in Slovenia, right?

Wow.... it shows how ignorant people are.
http://www.geographic-guide.com/maps/eu … al-map.gif

See? Now, do I need to teach you basic geography, or can you tell that it's AUSTRIA'S NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY?!

So?

Ireland neighbours my country, but I wouldn't go there to watch football on a TV. I can see where kptk is coming from.

Zimmer wrote:

liquidat0r wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

Wow.... it shows how ignorant people are.
http://www.geographic-guide.com/maps/eu … al-map.gif

See? Now, do I need to teach you basic geography, or can you tell that it's AUSTRIA'S NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY?!

So?

Ireland neighbours my country, but I wouldn't go there to watch football on a TV. I can see where kptk is coming from.

Wow, again.... I wont even repeat the word...
We aren't in Britain, where moving over a border is like taking 20 million steps away from your house.

This is mainland Europe, people move from country to country daily.

I would have expected you to at least know that. Same applies with German and French borders and Swiss and French borders ( French work in Switzerland but live in France because it's cheaper ).

If you had just used your brain, you would have realised that mainland Europe isn't like Britain.

Also, Ireland is not your neighbouring country, you are separated by water, therefore it's not your neighbour. Like Frances' naighbour isn't the UK.

FINE LETS TALK ABOUT SCOTLAND THEN WE'RE NOT SEPARATED BY ANYTHING OR MAYBE WALES I DON'T KNOW ZIMMER THE POINT IS THAT IF I WAS SLOVENIAN I WOULD NOT TRAVEL ACROSS THE BORDER TO ANOTHER COUNTRY JUST TO WATCH 90 MINUTES OF FOOTBALL.

You see where I'm going?