• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

2014 FIFA World Cup - Brazil

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
My CEO scheduled a meeting for 6:00 today. Safe to say soccer isn't on his radar. DVR is set, just have to avoid media on the way home.
 
Upvote 0
Plenty of time for fräulein shots. Eins:

7igFP0G.jpg
 
Upvote 0
jlb1705 said:
6:0 please.
Click to expand...
The radio guys were totally wrong on this one. They were saying the US fans should root for a draw...screw that, we want an old school Kraut beatdown. If we beat Ghana and just draw with Portugal now, their WC is over based on GD, barring a US player going Zidane or Portugal scoring 6 or 7 against Ghana.
 
Upvote 0
Bucklion said:
The radio guys were totally wrong on this one. They were saying the US fans should root for a draw...screw that, we want an old school Kraut beatdown. If we beat Ghana and just draw with Portugal now, their WC is over based on GD, barring a US player going Zidane or Portugal scoring 6 or 7 against Ghana.
Click to expand...

Agreed. Even if you set aside the practical disadvantage of a hugely negative goal difference, there's the potential for them to feel and act defeated before they even step on the pitch in their next game. Short of Ronaldo being unavailable in the next game this is the best possible outcome we could have hoped for from this one. It certainly increases the margin for error this evening. A draw of their own doesn't put the US out of it.
 
Upvote 0
jlb1705 said:
Agreed. Even if you set aside the practical disadvantage of a hugely negative goal difference, there's the potential for them to feel and act defeated before they even step on the pitch in their next game. Short of Ronaldo being unavailable in the next game this is the best possible outcome we could have hoped for from this one. It certainly increases the margin for error this evening. A draw of their own doesn't put the US out of it.
Click to expand...

Welp, I dunno about feeling defeated, but, they've just been humiliated. And now they onus will be on them to respond to that, which is going to make things a lot harder. If you can add to their frustration level it makes our life easier.

As to needing a point from Germany, certainly that's best avoided but, my guess is, if we're in that spot, the Germans won't need a result of any kind by then.
 
Upvote 0
AKAK said:
Welp, I dunno about feeling defeated, but, they've just been humiliated. And now they onus will be on them to respond to that, which is going to make things a lot harder. If you can add to their frustration level it makes our life easier.

As to needing a point from Germany, certainly that's best avoided but, my guess is, if we're in that spot, the Germans won't need a result of any kind by then.
Click to expand...
Yeah I'm not trying to go all Klinsmann or anything, but I just subscribe to the second place in the group motto: beat who you should beat and don't get killed. Goal differential is now our friend...just need to frustrate Portugal early, and then...well, they will go all Portugal. Win tonight and we are in great shape.
 
Upvote 0
Bucklion said:
Yeah I'm not trying to go all Klinsmann or anything, but I just subscribe to the second place in the group motto: beat who you should beat and don't get killed. Goal differential is now our friend...just need to frustrate Portugal early, and then...well, they will go all Portugal. Win tonight and we are in great shape.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure there's anyone we "should" beat in this group, but, you gotta beat someone.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top