Unofficial World Cup Thread de 2014

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FiveThirtyEight @FiveThirtyEight 9m
In our updated #WorldCup predictions, the #USA has a 41% chance of beating #BEL on Tuesday.

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Gonzlalez got some run in the press as Man of the Match (is that a universal soccer thing?) versus Germany. But they all acknowledged he had looked terrible at points before the World Cup.

he had a rough start against germany, but he played damn good near the end. imo, him and howard are the 2 reasons that we didn't get our asses handed to us

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Did anybody else get the impression that the Germans had another gear they could go to during the US game? They seem like an inconsistent team, which is not like them, historically.

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this game could be a total spectacle

both sets of fans booing the other sides anthems, both sides giving hard fouls early

this is gonna be fun

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boy the brazilian fans and players are all acting like giant twats so far

made me change who i was rooting for from brazil to chilie. i hope brazil losses and they burn their own fucking country to the ground because of it

neymars just a little bitch, dude has skills, but i'm losing all respect for him

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Brasil with a horrible 2nd half.

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Nice save.

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great try by Hulk and a spectacular save!

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how much extra time? They didn't announce it.

edit: ok, they're done. 3 minutes.

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this is crazy! hand in the back, Brazil with a free kick. Followed up by a good opportunity by Brazil, but the Brazilian ends up with a yellow card after he had his cleat too high and the Chilean keeper hammed it up better than a WWF jobber.

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this is crazy! hand in the back, Brazil with a free kick. Followed up by a good opportunity by Brazil, but the Brazilian ends up with a yellow card after he had his cleat too high and the Chilean keeper hammed it up better than a WWF jobber.

don't even try and say that the ref is calling everything for chilie

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don't even try and say that the ref is calling everything for chilie

Not at all - the hand in the back was well called, and overall I think it's been even. I'd say the ref seems to be buying a lot of the pratfalls though.

Wow - another bad call, I think. Brazil with another yellow card, defender seemed to be standing still, Chilean player running by does a backwards handspring. Brazilian might've stuck his foot out?

Another great defensive play by Chile. Their back 3 (4?) are playing spectacularly.

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Holy! Brazil with two big breaks inside of 10 seconds. Just after the 110 minute mark the referee misses wto fouls, either one of which could have been a red card.

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Packers training crew down there? No shortage of guys pulling up with hamstrings. Neymar now.

Seriously though, long game, hot, they must be absolutely beat. And here we go, penalty kicks