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On June 07 2013 05:26 anomalopidae wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2013 05:21 Ysellian wrote:Sorry anomalopidae, I'll wait three minutes before typing  Oh man, it was kinda funny, there I was thinking you were commenting on his previous header but it just didn't make sense cause he missed it, so I was waiting for him to score but Germans were in front of Dutch goal all the time... I was not sure what to think anymore :D Gotta say this was interesting match, showed a lot of good stuff
Haha yeah it certainly looked very unlikely. Great match, the Germans showed great fighting spirit I have to give them that, but it shouldn't have been this close IMO
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Does anyone know why the Germans didn't bring players like Gotze, Draxler, etc? Ya know, the best players on the team? It seems really bizarre. Do they just not regard the competition highly enough? I hadn't heard about this competition at all until like two days ago, and I was looking for them the whole game, wondering "where the fuck are the big guns?".
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On June 07 2013 06:18 Stratos_speAr wrote:
Does anyone know why the Germans didn't bring players like Gotze, Draxler, etc? Ya know, the best players on the team? It seems really bizarre. Do they just not regard the competition highly enough? I hadn't heard about this competition at all until like two days ago, and I was looking for them the whole game, wondering "where the fuck are the big guns?".
Well its quite common not to bring the big, allready established stars. Its first and foremost a talent tournament and winning is not all that matters.
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On June 07 2013 06:40 DaCruise wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2013 06:18 Stratos_speAr wrote:
Does anyone know why the Germans didn't bring players like Gotze, Draxler, etc? Ya know, the best players on the team? It seems really bizarre. Do they just not regard the competition highly enough? I hadn't heard about this competition at all until like two days ago, and I was looking for them the whole game, wondering "where the fuck are the big guns?". Well its quite common not to bring the big, allready established stars. Its first and foremost a talent tournament and winning is not all that matters.
Yeah, I also wondered at first, but that's pretty much it. Quite opposite to countries like Spain the DFB coaches Löw and Adrion see the U-21 as opportunity to bring second line talents into the spotlight. Thus they didn't want to bring in players which are already established in the A-Team.
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Yeah, Spain really brought the big guns out for this tournament and the Netherlands as well. I think the difference is club pressure perhaps.
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LOL
Fkn lol
England, playing ok passing nicely. Then they all stop in the box from a Norway corner, and scream handball ALL stop and guy taps it into corner rofl
1-0 Norway!
Lol some Norwegian fan in crowd doing some knitting xD
LOL
Norway 2-0 England
England fucked awful defending.
Great finish by the Norwegian player, but wtf. Its like 60% possession for England yet we had 0 shots on target.
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as we know from barcelona, ball posession is nothing :D
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On June 06 2013 06:47 Liquid`Drone wrote:
yea this is norway's golden generation. when we enjoyed what norwegians would define as success during the 90s, our players were actually much worse, we were just ahead of the curve tactically and to some degree physically. but the youngsters in this team are legitimately good. sucks that we couldn't beat israel tho, now I guess we have to beat england. :'(
Lol sounds like you were right :D.
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hooray :D
the combination of good defending and finishing made that look fairly easy.. I also didn't understand what the penalty was for (again.) like not saying it wasn't a penalty but I was watching without commentary at that point and couldn't see it myself;p
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Best team taking a comfortable win. A solid performance by a skilled and organized team, especially marcus Pedersen was great.
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Italy is pretty good. 
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That was a fantastic performance, showing that having the ball doesn't really mean much. Stefan Johansen set for bigger and better things I hope ;D
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pretty impressive by Norway!
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On June 09 2013 03:48 Ingebrigtsen wrote:
That was a fantastic performance, showing that having the ball doesn't really mean much. Stefan Johansen set for bigger and better things I hope ;D
He wasn't at his best today, too much effort too little class, but he is such a great player. Stefan Johansen would have been a star on any team in this cup!
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HOLY CRAP DID YOU GUYS SEE THAT GOAL BY WIJNALDUM?
From like 25+ yards out!
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Not so great after u see the defelection >.<
I did too think that it was an awesome effort, but deflection takes it away from the keeper.
But as Martin Tyler 9 Alan smith was saying at the time, it needed someone to take the game by the scruff of the neck for Netherlands. They were bossing possession but did not have anything in terms of major goal mouth action. Until that beautiful strike!
Looking an exceptional passing side though Netherlands, will be a great game vs Spain
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EPT![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/22px-Flag_of_England.svg.png)
![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/22px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png)
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![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png)
Netherlands vs ![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png)
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Germany vs ![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/22px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png)
