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Congrats to Argentina.

This will be an interesting final.



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okr said:

This will be an interesting final.


It would have been much more interesting with Netherlands in it. :( 

Argentina isn't that great of a team so Germany will most likely win, which doesn't make me excited for the final. 



    

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Pristine20 said:
Fededx said:
Pristine20 said:
Missed the second half and just watched the highlights. Why didn't LVG substitute Krul in? Did they run out of subs? Oh well, can't win 2 shootouts in a row. Now Germany gonna steamroll again lol.

Sucks for the Dutch. So much promise, still nothing to show for it and the 1-0 team reaches the finals yet again. I hope Germany beats Argentina. Can't have 1-0 games become the new WC winning formula.

the one to zero winning team has no tied games, just so you know... germany does, to ghana...

Only because there are no ties in knockout stages. Don't forget that the same Ghana team was one Luios Suarez away from the semis last WC. Just a very unlucky team with finishing. You act like they were just a no name pushover. Meanwhile, Argentina needed injury time to beat Iran? See? Goes both ways...

Nothing against Argentina but I had a lot of trouble watching Spain's games the last WC and Argentina has become the new Spain somewhat. It's just boring for a neutral observer like myself. I want Germany to win to see positive football prosper because I dont want teams to start seeking 1-0s as the new successful formula.

You think football is about scoring goals? Football is about playing, scoring goals makes you win, but winning does not mean playing good. Most of the time it means playing safe... Argentina didn't score too many goals this world cup, and to be honest, we haven't played very good at first, but the match against Belgium and today we showed how superior we were. It's hard to penetrate a human wall near their goal, but Holland had almost no chances of reaching Romero. We played nice football today, Messi couldn't play, as always, having 3 players around him all the time, but the oranges were really agressive, the referi was too generous towards them...

 

Brazil has a really weak team, and that was exposed when they're only good player was injured and had to play against Germany, which is like the worst rival you could find in this WC, Now they have to play against Netherlands, which is a very good team as well, I am more than sure that Holland is winning. Brazil had a lot of luck to get to the semi finals...

 

Anyway, hope we can play some nice football against Germany, that's gonna be a nice game to watch!



It will be a great final cheer up guys.

I expect attacking football from both sides.

And I don't think we would have got that with Germany vs Netherlands. 

Netherlands had a good run for how inexperienced of a squad they have. 



Argentina are no good, Germany will easily win WC Final.
Argentina scored 0 goals in Semi-Final, Germany scored 7 goals against Brazil in their Semi Final.



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Dark_Lord_2008 said:

Argentina are no good, Germany will easily win WC Final.
Argentina scored 0 goals in Semi-Final, Germany scored 7 goals against Brazil in their Semi Final.

You should never take single games to gauge a team's strength or form.

Final will be quite different. Germany will have to run against a wall of Argentinians and they are at least competent in defending, unlike Brazil.

But as long as we're not standing too high I don't think we will have to worry about Argentinian goals as they just don't have the creativity or class in their attack, as seen in all their previous games. They can only win by speed and if we lock that down I don't see a chance of Argentina scoring a single goal.



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Fededx said:
Pristine20 said:
Fededx said:
Pristine20 said:
Missed the second half and just watched the highlights. Why didn't LVG substitute Krul in? Did they run out of subs? Oh well, can't win 2 shootouts in a row. Now Germany gonna steamroll again lol.

Sucks for the Dutch. So much promise, still nothing to show for it and the 1-0 team reaches the finals yet again. I hope Germany beats Argentina. Can't have 1-0 games become the new WC winning formula.

the one to zero winning team has no tied games, just so you know... germany does, to ghana...

Only because there are no ties in knockout stages. Don't forget that the same Ghana team was one Luios Suarez away from the semis last WC. Just a very unlucky team with finishing. You act like they were just a no name pushover. Meanwhile, Argentina needed injury time to beat Iran? See? Goes both ways...

Nothing against Argentina but I had a lot of trouble watching Spain's games the last WC and Argentina has become the new Spain somewhat. It's just boring for a neutral observer like myself. I want Germany to win to see positive football prosper because I dont want teams to start seeking 1-0s as the new successful formula.

You think football is about scoring goals? Football is about playing, scoring goals makes you win, but winning does not mean playing good. Most of the time it means playing safe... Argentina didn't score too many goals this world cup, and to be honest, we haven't played very good at first, but the match against Belgium and today we showed how superior we were. It's hard to penetrate a human wall near their goal, but Holland had almost no chances of reaching Romero. We played nice football today, Messi couldn't play, as always, having 3 players around him all the time, but the oranges were really agressive, the referi was too generous towards them...

 

Brazil has a really weak team, and that was exposed when they're only good player was injured and had to play against Germany, which is like the worst rival you could find in this WC, Now they have to play against Netherlands, which is a very good team as well, I am more than sure that Holland is winning. Brazil had a lot of luck to get to the semi finals...

 

Anyway, hope we can play some nice football against Germany, that's gonna be a nice game to watch!


Uhh no team was really superior today. Both squandered whatever chance they could create. It was a cagey inactive semi-final. Dutch should have brought the game forward but sat back and paid for it in penalties.



in case we are predicting the 3rd place game..... Holland over Brazil 4-1.



 

Germany should play the same formation.

4-2-3-1

lahm - boateng - hummels - howedes

khedira - schweinsteiger

muller-----kroos-----ozil

-----------klose

Make sure to not play a high line like they did against Algeria. Algerians were relentless in the long ball counter attacks. Argentinians will be even more punishing.



Woeful defending by Brazil most of the 7 goals were preventable. Brazil defenders backed off and allowed Germany too much space and time on the ball. Brazillian defenders looked like they were Photoshopped into the background as the goals were easily scored. 1, 2 or 3 players sent off may justify a big margin but to have 11 lazy Brazilians looking like they just came off the beach was a terrible look.