Germany v Greece

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rarnes1 wrote: »

4-1 down and Greece fans cheering on their team.

WTF ???

Maybe they're the BFITW and not us

Francie Barrett

Francie Barrett wrote: »

-2.5 goals should be in now.

Noooooo!

Like I said, that clown Boateng could cost Germany the Euro's.

Samich

Greeks, best fans in the world

Aidric

Delighted that Germany won, love watching them play.

IvySlayer

Who the hell is Rice? :pac:

Nuri Sahin

I like Muller Rice too Liam.

darkman2

Brady talking about "Rice" and Muller



Muller Rice:D

kitakyushu

Renn wrote: »

Did Whelan just go "Verrrry interesting" in Arte style?

Also, only time during the game he referred to anything Alkin had to say as "interesting". Fair, maybe one time too many.

klose

Be interesting to see who lowe will start up front in the semi, id go for klose

Schism

You tell him Bill.

DubDani

Thankfully a much better Game then the one last night.

Germans showed class when they needed to, and I think they might have what it takes to win the tournament.

But it also shows that their back can be exposed at times, which a more ruthless team might take advantage of.

kryogen

Dunphy really struggles when he has to talk

whatawaster

Even for Eamo this is mad talk

darkman2

lol wtf!


Dunphy doesn't rate Germany:D

kitakyushu

Samich wrote: »

Greeks, best fans in the world

It's easy to sing when losing 2-4, but could they do it at 0-4?

Moreso could they do it consistently? Thanks to our WC qual group we'll be able to prove that we can.

Felexicon

Someone get Dunphy a pint. He's talking more bollox than usual

steelcityblues

Felexicon wrote: »

Someone get Dunphy a pint. He's talking more bollox than usual

I think he has already been there today.

kryogen

That finish from Reus was just so sexy

handsomecake

i love dunphy but im disappointed in him tonight. his punditry has been vidictive with a clear anti german agenda and he has been quite rude to didi when he speaks

kitakyushu

Bad set-up that Germany get 6 days and their opponent only get 4.

Renn

Yeah kinda unfair that Pirlo doesn't get as much rest as the Germans

Felexicon

kitakyushu wrote: »

Bad set-up that Germany get 6 days and their opponent only get 4.

Once they both get 72 hours there will be very little difference. 95% of recovery happens in the 48 hours after exercise

keith16

Samich wrote: »

Greeks, best fans in the world

Let it go. Seriously.

J. Marston

Funny choice of music for the closing video package.

niallo27

J. Marston wrote: »

Funny choice of music for the closing video package.

Merkel with in her arms in the air at the end as well.

Jelle1880

Berlin is nuts now, fireworks all over the place

steelcityblues

J. Marston wrote: »

Funny choice of music for the closing video package.

The emphasis on 'money', and the nation with the money won out against the broke sods. I 'got it'.

Barr

Germany looked good tonite even with all the changes.They deserve to be favourites given Spains run in.

ArmaniJeanss

kitakyushu wrote: »

Bad set-up that Germany get 6 days and their opponent only get 4.

Group A plays on Days 1,5,9.
Group D plays on Days 4,8,12.
So theres a 3 day gap between when teams have finished the groups.

By the time these groups are scheduled to meet (e.g., semi final stage) that 3 day gap has to have been reduced to zero. So someone has to get an ever so slightly less favourable rest period, but not a huge deal imo.

Fight_Night

The youth structure in Ireland is an absolute sham. If we sorted out our youth system we'd be fairly consistently at the same level of Sweden and co. and then occasionally we'd get a freak generation and finally win something. Will anything be done? Probably not. I'd like to get involved but I'm emigrating soon enough so...

Then obviously the LOI, but that's for another thread...

Out of interest though, how does one get involved in the FAI and how did Delaney and the likes get so high up in the ranks?

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Fight_Night wrote: »

The youth structure in Ireland is an absolute sham. If we sorted out our youth system we'd be fairly consistently at the same level of Sweden and co. and then occasionally we'd get a freak generation and finally win something. Will anything be done? Probably not. I'd like to get involved but I'm emigrating soon enough so...

Then obviously the LOI, but that's for another thread...

Out of interest though, how does one get involved in the FAI and how did Delaney and the likes get so high up in the ranks?

Probably better off asking in the Ireland Talk thread for an answer thee mate

pickarooney

IvySlayer wrote: »

Who the hell is Rice? :pac:

Would 'rice' in a Dublin accent not be close enough to 'Reus'?

fullstop

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Noooooo!

Like I said, that clown Boateng could cost Germany the Euro's.

What exactly did he do wrong in the penalty incident?

Jesus Wept

kitakyushu wrote: »

Bad set-up that Germany get 6 days and their opponent only get 4.

They have to play on a Thursday in the semi and a Sunday if in the final. Would take a swap for playing Wednesday/Sunday like the others.

Oat23

Özil was voted the worst player on ZDFs fan vote tonight. Mind boggling.

Felexicon

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Özil was voted the worst player on ZDFs fan vote tonight. Mind boggling.

They must all read from the Gospel according to Dunphy!!!!

kryogen

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Özil was voted the worst player on ZDFs fan vote tonight. Mind boggling.

Only an average player, sure he doesn't even use his right foot unless he has to

Does he track back all the time?

Puff ball prima donna

Germany have no really good players, no great players.

Fight_Night

Felexicon wrote: »

Probably better off asking in the Ireland Talk thread for an answer thee mate

d'oh, wrong thread meant to post on the "should we copy Germany?" thread.

Orando Broom

niallo27 wrote: »

Merkel with in her arms in the air at the end as well.

Or was it Paul McCartney???

Charisteas

A very brave and gutsy performance from Greece tonight, very proud of the players in this tournament.

After Samaras equalised, Greece should have defended 11 men behind the ball for 10-15 minutes and kept it at 1-1 for as long as possible, but instead remained far too open and were then effectively sliced apart by 3 goals in 14 minutes.

I would have loved to have had a scenario where it was 1-1 with 35 minutes left to play with Karagounis on the pitch, doubt Germany would have gone on to score 3 so quickly.

Boskowski

pickarooney wrote: »

Would 'rice' in a Dublin accent not be close enough to 'Reus'?

Just try 'Royce', that's pretty close.

Guy:Incognito

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Özil was voted the worst player on ZDFs fan vote tonight. Mind boggling.

Specific incidents tend to stick in peoples minds watching on tv rather than overall play and the shot he took on with his left and missed should have been buried , probably with his right. I'd say that alone made up a chunk of that vote.

Jimmy Iovine

Finally managed to watch the second half of the match. Had to wait till 8 this morning for it to be uploaded onto the RTE Player. Better way to spend my morning than watching the Ireland/New Zealand match anyway.

Glad that Germany won. By far the better team. Even at that I thought they were poor enough at times. Schweinsteiger didn't seem to be fully fit or something. His passing was very off at times. I counted at least 5-6 times during the match where he gave the ball away. A few times it led to a Greek attack. He'll have to sharpen up for the next match.

Should be an interesting match between Germany and the winner of the other match. Has to be Germany for me. As long as they don't give the ball away stupidly then they should have enough to do the job.

Schism

fullstop wrote: »

What exactly did he do wrong in the penalty incident?

Nothing really.

Twas a soft enough penalty.

pickarooney

Boskowski wrote: »

Just try 'Royce', that's pretty close.

Yeah, that's how I imagine Whelan saying rice but it's years since I heard him speak.

Jax Teller

Ozil was absolutely amazing last night I thought .

Charisteas

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Finally managed to watch the second half of the match. Had to wait till 8 this morning for it to be uploaded onto the RTE Player.

It was on the RTE player by 2am.

Jimmy Iovine

Charisteas wrote: »

It was on the RTE player by 2am.

Was it? It never came up on the page that I was looking at anyway. I'll know for future.

Charisteas

Yeah I was also waiting for it because I wanted to see Dunphy's post match opinion (because he was very pro-Greece) and I made the mistake of just refreshing the rte.ie/player home page every 10 minutes or so after midnight and thinking that it would be added as the newest available programme, but where it says 'Latest Programmes', I clicked on 'More', and it was the first option on that second page.

I noticed RTE player doesn't always list programming in any particular order, even now last night's Apres Match is listed on the home page.