Brazil vs France / Argentina vs Portugal / Germany vs Italy

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Three relatively blockbuster friendlies, if there is such a thing.

Germany - Italy is 0-0 having kicked off 15 minutes ago. The other 2 kick off now, with Brazil - France on ESPN.

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Just as I post that, Germany take the lead thanks to Miroslav Klose.

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Teams:

Brazil Julio Cesar, Alves, Silva, Luiz, Santos, Elias, Lucas, Hernanes, Renato Augusto, Pato, Robinho

France Lloris, Abidal, Mexes, Rami, Sagna, Diarri, M'Villa, Gourcuff, Malouda, Menez, Benzema

Portugal Eduardo, Pereira, Rolando, Alves, Coentrao, Meireles, Martins, Moutinho, Nani, Ronaldo, Almeida

Argentina Romero, Rojo, Milito, Burdisso, Zanetti, Cambiasso, Banega, Mascherano, Messi, Di Maria, Lavezzi

Germany Neuer, Aogo, Badstuber, Mertesacker, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Podolski, Ozil, Muller, Klose

Italy Buffon, Cassani, Ranocchia, Bonucci, Chiellini, Montolivio, Motta, De Rossi, Mauri, Pazzini, Cassano

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Tom_Brady wrote: »

Just as I post that, Germany take the lead thanks to Miroslav Klose.

Wonderful flick by Özil for this goal. Great vision.

flahavaj

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Teams:

Brazil Julio Cesar, Alves, Silva, Luiz, Santos, Elias, Lucas, Hernanes, Renato Augusto, Pato, Robinho

France Lloris, Abidal, Mexes, Rami, Sagna, Diarri, M'Villa, Gourcuff, Malouda, Menez, Benzema

Portugal Eduardo, Pereira, Rolando, Alves, Coentrao, Meireles, Martins, Moutinho, Nani, Ronaldo, Almeida

Argentina Romero, Rojo, Milito, Burdisso, Zanetti, Cambiasso, Banega, Mascherano, Messi, Di Maria, Lavezzi

Germany Neuer, Aogo, Badstuber, Mertesacker, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Podolski, Ozil, Muller, Klose

Italy Buffon, Cassani, Ranocchia, Bonucci, Chiellini, Montolivio, Motta, De Rossi, Mauri, Pazzini, Cassano

Interesting to see how these guys fare, all excellent prospects.

Bodhisopha

1-0 Argentina.

Fabulous run and assist from Messi, nice finish from Di Maria.

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flahavaj wrote: »

Interesting to see how these guys fare, all excellent prospects.

Aye, not much experimenting going on across the six teams though it has to be said. Also looking forward to seeing Renato Augusto. Cracking player, albeit only when he wants to be.

Di Maria gives Argentina the lead too.

Lawrence1895

1:0 Germany...but I managed to miss the goal, because the stream went down :mad:

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Ronaldooooo!

Bodhisopha

1-1 Ronaldo!

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Lovely flick by Nani in the build-up too.

Commentators will require a change of pants at halftime.

daithijjj

Spain v Columbia if anyone is interested.

http://www.tvoo.eu/ch3.html

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Cracking game it has to be said. Brazil - France was boring me, and I couldn't look at Lloris' jersey for much longer, it's ridiculous.

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Ronaldo makes a fool out of Mascherano

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flahavaj wrote: »

Interesting to see how these guys fare, all excellent prospects.

Hernanes shown a straight red lol

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Tom_Brady wrote: »

Hernanes shown a straight red lol

The jinx of the Flah. The other two will probably do their cruciates.

quarryman

meireles must have been instructed to ignore the ball and just kick whoever is closest to him.

decent game.

Rekop dog

Shame from Hernanes. Usually such a placid sort. I see him playing the kaka role for years to come for Brazil.

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More petulance by messi after B. Alves had the cheek to take the ball off him.:rolleyes:

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Park Ji Sung wrote: »

More petulance by messi after B. Alves had the cheek to take the ball off him.:rolleyes:

have you watched the rest of the game, he has been getting lumps kicked out of him for the whole half. Portugal are a nasty bunch it seems.

Surprised messi doesn't get injured more, he seems to be hacked down 3 or 4 times in any game.

FatherTed

Watchign Netherlands-Austria online, cracker of a goal by Sneider, absolutely fabulous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPbJ4Z5D-n4

Bodhisopha

quarryman wrote: »

have you watched the rest of the game, he has been getting lumps kicked out of him for the whole half. Portugal are a nasty bunch it seems.

Surprised messi doesn't get injured more, he seems to be hacked down 3 or 4 times in any game.

Meireles is making Mascherano look like a saint in this game. Shame, he's normally such a classy player.

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quarryman wrote: »

have you watched the rest of the game, he has been getting lumps kicked out of him for the whole half. Portugal are a nasty bunch it seems.

Surprised messi doesn't get injured more, he seems to be hacked down 3 or 4 times in any game.

Plenty of other players are getting hacked down, and don't feel the need to go head to head. It's a friendly.

Rekop dog

Italy weren't slow at putting Motta into their team after he got international clearance the other day.

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It really was a horrible tackle from Hernanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ce64EcBZE

losthorizon

Cant view the match but I heard Almeida had a truely shocking miss?

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Giuseppe Rossi equalises for Italy.

CantGetNoSleep

Tom_Brady wrote: »

It really was a horrible tackle from Hernanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ce64EcBZE

Even looks like he moved towards Benzema when he knew he wasn't getting the ball?

On a side note, that France jersey is amazing, pity it is France though

Lawrence1895

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Giuseppe Rossi equalises for Italy.

I saw it coming. The last 5 matches against Italy on German soil ended in a draw.

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Almeida with one of the worse misses iv seen for some time

Portugal would be a dangerous team if they had a proper striker

greendom

Another win for France - things certainly looking up now the clown has left and a decent manager has replaced him.

Boskowski

Germany Italy 1:1. Very good game of football, fair result. Couple of cracking passes from Aquilani. Germanys youngsters making good progress. On the downside we still can't beat Italy.