USA-Slovenia World Cup Soccer Open Thread
by Avinash Kunnath on Jun 18, 2010 6:30 AM PDT
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Putting all the US soccer games on the frontpage. This is no different. Kickoff at 7 AM PST/10 AM EST, join in from whereever!
Stars and Gripes (the best futbol blog I’ve found) has their Slovenia previews up:
A look at Slovenia
US – Slovenia Keys
So, who will line up for the United States? The arguments for Buddle and Torres are detailed above. I would say Torres is the more likely of the two to start, and a 65-70 minute run-out may be in order. Slovenia’s rather methodical nature tends to mean they score late in games (both goals in the playoff with Russia were in the final frames, as was Robert Koren’s strike against Algeria). The US will need fresh legs in the middle of the pitch as they move towards the final whistle, and a late cameo from Clark may make more sense than 90 minutes.
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Can we talk about the early game here Avi, or would that be spoileriffic?
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I didn’t! But I saw the result and was curious about specifics
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Polish-German Miroslav Klose got sent off
Germany kept hitting crossbars. After they scored, Serbia bunkered down.
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by Thoroughbred on Jun 18, 2010 7:01 AM PDT up reply actions
It sure changes everything we thought about the group. If everybody takes 3 points from the Aussies it could end in a 3 way tie for first
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yeah, but the Aussies will have something to say about that tomorrow, I think
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by Thoroughbred on Jun 18, 2010 7:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Some of those people are also watching this game on their cell phones because espn3.com is blocked.
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channelsurfing.net
justintv
None of that works?
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:31 AM PDT up reply actions
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 7:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Much like parking meter attendants what is the point of the web filter dude's life.
Fucking up others people’s lives is the point of their life.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:42 AM PDT up reply actions
and then not let other people view said fun sites. Cant you get a proxy or something?
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Not to mention getting in trouble over watching the US get pwned would be a bad bet.
Irate Toothmonger - Will get all up in your business for food
where's your sense of adventure / loyalty / patriotism
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:47 AM PDT up reply actions
DID WE GIVE UP WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?!?
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 7:48 AM PDT up reply actions
SPOILER
I have a time machine. Team USA won 2-0. Sorry to break your heart Avi Baby.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:03 AM PDT reply actions
I’m guessing one of Torres/Bradley should have been near that
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We’re doing well pushing into the attacking third, we’re consistently one or two touches away from breaking through.
....a country the size of HOUSTON. How many times am I going to have to hear that today.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, apparently there are. What is that, 1/2 the population of Cleveland?
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Geez...
We pass 6 yards out but shoot it from 30 yards….come on!!!!
Did the US team not watch Patrick Kane in game 7?
Because at the moment the ball was kicked the defender and goalscorer were exactly even on the pitch.
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US Soccer = Cal Bears Football.
They’ll tease you with some great efforts in big games as underdogs (USC, England, Italy), have an occasional great season (2004, Quarterfinals), and then mail it in and lose to some inferior teams (Arizona, Slovenia).
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Bad analogy.
Cal and Sharks were much closer to the top of the mountain than USA soccer ever was.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:45 AM PDT up reply actions
And in 94.
Stupid elbow by the Brazilians.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 7:47 AM PDT up reply actions
There is no need for analogy. One thing that makes some Cal fans intolerable is relating every other sporting failure to their program's failure.
It has too much of a Red Sox stench to it.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:48 AM PDT up reply actions
We shouldn't try to analogize our Cal misery to anything
It’s all our own. Nothing really compares to it anyway
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You know who's Slovenian?
Sasha Vujacic.
Ugh.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 7:46 AM PDT up reply actions
So if you were rooting for the Lakers last night
You were unAmerican…
by calbearjd on Jun 18, 2010 7:48 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I think that goes without saying every night. Even the nights the Lakers aren’t playing. Constant vigilance!
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, at least the Celtics didn’t win. That would have been a crime against humanity.
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 8:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Twist, I always thought you looked like Al Bundy.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 7:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Against most teams I wouldn’t be freaking out – the US has a pretty good offense and I wouldn’t put a comeback past them. But against Slovenia’s defense and goalie? You’re asking for a hell of alot, and then just to get the tie.
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Well, darn it.
Second half adjustments — Gomez for Findley after 60; take out Onyewu and shift over Boca, filling in with Spector; stop playing the long ball (I’m looking at you DeMerit).
We only need 2. Unless England completely craps the bed against Slovenia — which likes entire possible.
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by Thoroughbred on Jun 18, 2010 7:55 AM PDT up reply actions
that’s historically been our strength ;(
Gooch just hasn’t been sharp. At all.
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by Thoroughbred on Jun 18, 2010 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions
fuck slovenia, it’s time to finish our opportunities.
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 7:50 AM PDT reply actions
Actually...
the game should be 1-1…if the US scored…no counter attack for Slovenia…
that’s it…I am blaming the refs…
yeah, that yellow card on findley was a joke beyond belief
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 7:54 AM PDT up reply actions
nice to see germany lose though
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 7:51 AM PDT reply actions
I IS SAID
Samuels said. "That last-minute shot at halftime sums it up. Shooting off one leg? C'mon, man."
Slovenia has the population of Alameda and Contra Costa counties combined and they are kicking our asses, a country of 300+ million — how sad is that?
Let’s be fair. They have 2.
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 8:03 AM PDT up reply actions
At least he’s in the league.
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 9:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Some terrible defense.
/says the unknowlegable soccer fan
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we’re playing like the overconfident Europe side
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by Thoroughbred on Jun 18, 2010 8:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Just no Slovenia beers...
Already gifting them with a World Cup win…don’t need to give more to their economy…
Random guess
Slovakia?
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They're a former Yugoslav nation.
So, everyone within a couple thousand miles, I’d guess.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Mongolia. So much anti-Mongolia hatred there. It’s startling really.
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Where you will drink a variety of Eastern European ales, I presume!
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All your beers are belong to USA?
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions
OMFG DONOVVAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 8:05 AM PDT reply actions
Is it just me...
…or do Slovenia’s jerseys look like the shirt that Charlie Brown wears.
Where’s Snoopy?
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 8:07 AM PDT up reply actions
GOOOOOOAL!
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:06 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Why squirrel hate me?
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Yo, Slovenia's dude faked that injury to slow US momentum, huh?
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 8:10 AM PDT reply actions
What...
Soccer players diving, faking injuries, and whining?
You must be talking about another sport.
That’s Lakers NBA Championship® basketball
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions
The end result is the same.
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 8:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm buying Rishi's Laker Hate and Selling atom's laker love. I thought you were better than that atom.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 8:13 AM PDT up reply actions
You? Buying the hate?? I never would’ve expected that.
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s so depressing to hear Ian Darke tell the truth that the US backline has been stretched by Slovenia.
the US backline has been stretched by Slovenia.
That makes sense both literally and filthily.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:14 AM PDT up reply actions
come on altidore finish that shit
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 8:15 AM PDT reply actions
that’s kinda his game, though a biased US fan would call him ‘scrappy’
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I’m not complaining, but he’d better be careful or else one of these times he’ll get booked for it.
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions
They would look like clowns trying to play soccer.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 8:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Like
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Can we go back and retroactively raise them to be single-minded futbol assassins?
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, height after a certain point becomes a disadvantage on the pitch.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:21 AM PDT up reply actions
We need to get some friggin possession. Slovenia have been dominating the ball for a good 10 minutes now.
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This ref is funny. He’s calling all the fouls against the US, and now he’s yellow card happy for Slovenia, more or less deservedly. I think he’s overmatched.
Considering how much he swayed the game, the Spanish ref in this morning's Germany-Serbia match might as well have been wearing red.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:36 AM PDT up reply actions
It's pretty much par for the course for me
being a Bears, Sharks, Giants, Niners, and US Soccer fan..
BRADLEY
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 8:39 AM PDT reply actions
Whew!
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:40 AM PDT reply actions
wouldn't you look off if you just choked a 2-0 lead.
by 33SwisherSweet on Jun 18, 2010 8:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Someone who understands tie-breakers, please explain the scenarios here for a 3-2 loss, 2-2- tie, and 3-2 win. Thanks <3
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by Thoroughbred on Jun 18, 2010 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions
If we tie we need to destroy Algeria by 2 or 3 goals to ensure advancement.
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How do you figure? If Slovenia beat Algeria, and one of the teams between England and Slovenia loses, we’ll be ahead of Algeria and ahead of the loser of England/Slovenia (who has a loss)? Wouldn’t we only need to beat Algeria?
by Missing Barry on Jun 18, 2010 8:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Basically, one of the teams between England/Algeria would have 7 points (2 wins 1 tie), the other would have 4 points (1 win, 1 tie, 1 loss), and we’d have 5 points (1 win, 2 ties), with Algeria having 0 :(
by Missing Barry on Jun 18, 2010 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Ohh….talking to myself I figured it out, Slovenia/Englad could tie!
by Missing Barry on Jun 18, 2010 8:52 AM PDT up reply actions
If England beats Algeria today (which I’m assuming because, you know) then Slovenia and England have 4 points, with the US having 2. If US beats Algeria, they have 5 points. That means they advance if the England Slovenia game ends with one team winning. But if England and Slovenia tie, the US needs to beat Algeria by a few goals to ensure advancing on goal differential.
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Stupid ties. Such a foreign concept to me.
by Missing Barry on Jun 18, 2010 8:52 AM PDT up reply actions
GO FOR THE KILL
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 8:41 AM PDT reply actions
WOW
These refs are awful
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FUCK THE US HATING REFS
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 8:43 AM PDT reply actions
WHAT DID WE EVER DO TO MALI!?
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by atomsareenough on Jun 18, 2010 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, I'll just consider that penalty kick call
a make-up for the Green foible.
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Altidore and Bradley are pissssssed
England, do your part. For once, DO YOUR FUCKING PART!
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Or they could just clobber their next two teams too.
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by Thoroughbred on Jun 18, 2010 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions
We should probably root for England to wax Algeria so that Algeria has nothing to play for next week.
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FUCKING LOSER REF FROM MALI
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by CaliforniaEternal on Jun 18, 2010 8:53 AM PDT reply actions
More like malo, amirite?
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Jun 18, 2010 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Some funny quotes I've seen
that ref is lucky that no one in this country cares about soccer or we’d nuke his POS country tomorrow
HOLY **** THIS IS MORE FIXED THAN THE NBA
On a related note, I thought the officiating last night was very, very good.
by Missing Barry on Jun 18, 2010 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah! I didn’t see the game but fuck them frenchies!
by Missing Barry on Jun 18, 2010 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions
What would people put our chance of advancement at? I am a little confused regarding the tie breakers, but if England wins out and we beat Algeria, do we still advance?
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Yup… England with 7 points, USA with 5, Slov with 4
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by Thoroughbred on Jun 18, 2010 8:56 AM PDT up reply actions
If the US beats Algeria by 2 goals or more they are automatically through. A one goal victory might be enough, depending on England vs. Slovenia
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Oh you mean if England ties today? let me think
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