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Brazil - Croatia (June 13th 2006) [Group F] (pg. 9)
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| Epicurus |
Wow. I'll be the first to say it. game by Brazil. . Their team game sucked. The only reason they won it is because of great individual talents / efforts like Kaka's. They seriously need to work on their team passing.
Game notes:
1-) Everyone here mentioned it, but Ronaldo wasn't himself. There's gotta be something wrong with him. Maybe he hasn't fully recovered from the flu/blisters etc, but his performance was terrible.
2-) Ronaldinho didn't play up to expectations. To be quite honest, a lot of his passes were off target. He didn't dominate the mid-field like he should have.
3-) Adriano was terrible. I was actually watching him the whole game, and not once did he win the individual battles. Not once. And when he had the ball, he was most likely to lose it. A bunch of my friends and I strated actually betting on how many more times Adriano would lose the ball. Not to mention the fact that he completely botched that gimme goal at the end. Terrible touch on that one.
4-) Kaka was absolutely brilliant. Great goal, created a lot of chances, controlled midfield the way Ronaldinho was supposed to. Good passing, great hustle, always won the ball or a foul.
5-) Emerson played a very stong defensive game in midfield. Won most of the balls headed in his direction. Great showing by him.
6-) Lucio and Juan were great in the back. Considering the fact that most of the time, Cafu and Roberto Carlos were late coming back from their forays up front, which is what was creating the Croatian chances, I though they did a pretty good job defending the net.
7-) Dida was great when he had to be, although the Croatians kept on shooting straight at him. A little more luck and/or skill, and it's not unthinkable that they could have scored a couple.
8-) Robinho was pretty good in his 20 minutes of action. Created a golden opportunity for Adriano, who botched it, although he might have been trying to shoot. Never saw a replay on that one.
Overall, great game by Croatia. Terrible game for Brazil. Individual talent will only take you so far in the World Cup. They need a better team display next time. |
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| The_G0dfather |
| The Croatian fans were awesome, very nice ! |
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| eRRaTiK |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
iiiiiiiish the green monkeys will need more than that to win this years' cup. |
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| Azz3D |
| even though croatia lost I still say they played a much better game |
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| Mitsutranza |
Croatia was much better than Brazil overall. They deserved a draw but ah it never came. If Brazil keeps on like this they wont get far, but it was the first game so they'll probably step it up a bit.
The big teams like Brazil, England, Portugal and Netherlands are slacking in their first games and its dead obvious...they all have just 1-0 against other very competative teams and underdogs.
Croatia and Brazil should have no problems of passing the preliminaries...
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| Azz3D |
in order for brazil to win anything ronaldo has to lose a few pounds
too many burgers there, ronnie |
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| mellow_head |
| Yeah they definetely deserverd a tiemaker. Brasil wasn't at their best, prolly some '1st match nerves', but they managed to win overall. Ronaldo should be banned, he can't do no more, FATZOID!! #LLDFFFFLGF?çù;$ù :stongue: |
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| FCB_Fanatic |
| quote: | Originally posted by Azz3D
in order for brazil to win anything ronaldo has to lose a few pounds
too many burgers there, ronnie |
in order to win anything they should let Ronaldo warm up the bench with his fat ass for the other players AND let Robinho take Ronaldo's place on the field ... ;) |
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| RapidFire |
| loved this match. probably my favourite thus far. both sides played well and if there was any justice it wouldve been a tie. |
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| Mitsutranza |
| quote: | Originally posted by RapidFire
loved this match. probably my favourite thus far. both sides played well and if there was any justice it wouldve been a tie. |
u really thought Brazil played good?
I don't know...for me the most entertaining match so far was probably Trinidad-Sweden....
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