World Cup Final Discussion - Germany vs Argentina - 8pm Sunday

[King Gizzard]

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[Drew.]

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[Brother Leon]

Germany deserve it on the whole. Argentina may be the least deserving winners for a long time.

[King Gizzard]

I want Germany but would be happy with Argentina winning for Messi. So I'm just looking forward to a (hopefully) good game

[Brother Leon]

Just realised Germany is my sweepstake on here. Looks like I will have to deffo back the German twats.

[King Gizzard]

We will have a winner in less than 24 hours ladies and gents. I'm feeling an Argentina win today

[Brother Leon]

Germany to hopefully prevent a footballing catastrophe. Worse than Greece Euro 2004 if they win.

[King Gizzard]

wouldn't go that far

[Brother Leon]

They haven't had one interesting match throughout. Considering they have a team of Messi,Aguero,Lavezzi,Di Maria,Higuain etc then it's terrible. Greece at least had the underdog story to make them interesting.

[Alf]

I just hope both teams go to win it and it's a fast open game, as opposed to trying not to lose it and a boring keep possession fest.

Messi and Klose are the match winners for each team, I'd expect one of them to take the headlines.

I went with Argentina from the start and I'm not gonna change my mind, but I'd definitely make Germany favourites and they look a much better team then Argentina, but this is a one off game and Argentina have the ultimate player on their team.

[Calderyon]

Hopefully Germans win it and end this tournament on a high note. Argentina should thank all of their defenders and their goalie that they have got this far, cause the offense as a whole has been quite average (apart from maybe Messi). With an attack like that, they should have teared through all of their opponents easily.

[King Gizzard]

Muller probably the only thing standing in the way of James being player of the tournament

Or if Messi has a ridiculous match he might stand a chance

[Alf]

Which channel you watching it on?

I'm watching the build up on BBC because I prefer Lineker to Chiles and it's Hansen's final broadcast, but I might switch over to ITV for the game because Clive Tyldesley is a better match caller than Guy Mowbray.

[Brother Leon]

BBC


Will tune into ITV for the opening theme song one last time though.

[Locke.]

I've liked ITV's coverage better but I'll probably watch on BBC cos it's Hansen's final show

[Ramsay]

Germany deserve it far more

[Drew.]

BBC


Will tune into ITV for the opening theme song one last time though.

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[Brother Leon]

Got a feeling it's going to be Messi's day. Can just imagine the comparisons to Maradona the GOAT too.

[Drew.]

Arsenal vs City tonight

[Brother Leon]

Arsenal vs City tonight

German players will wear Argentina kits in te second half?

[Black Dagger]

Vamos Argentina!

Germany would warrant the victory due to them playing amazing football all tournament. But I really want Aguero, Zaba and Demichelis to be lifting that trophy, what a sight it would be.

[Shaun]

i don't want it to end :'(

[Shaun]

why have MOTD got in suits for the occasion :umm2:

[Drew.]

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[Drew.]

Germany - Neuer; Lahm, Hummels, Boateng, Höwedes; Schweinsteiger, Khedira; Müller, Kroos, Özil; Klose

Argies - Romero; Zabaleta, Demichelis, Garay, Rojo; Pérez, Mascherano, Biglia, Lavezzi; Higuaín, Messi

[Shaun]

I assume Khedira was in the background of that photo

[Drew.]

He took the photo

[Shaun]

:think:

[Locke.]

The suits :joker:

[Shaun]

no one cares about england let's move on

[Shaun]

poor old Mesut getting the "jobber" title on here when he's created the most chances :(

[King Gizzard]

itv have given up

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[Calderyon]

Germany vs Argentina -> Germany wins the World Cup

GER: Their road to the final: On the Group stage Germany crushed Portugal by 4-1, tied 2-2 with Ghana and got a 1-0 win against USA thus finishing the group in the pole position with 7 points. On the last 16 they had a hard fought 2-1 victory after extra time against the Algerians. On quarterfinals they completely freezed France by 1-0 and on the semifinals they absolutely obliterated and saddened the hosts Brazil by 7 goals to 1.

Germans have arguably the best offensive side of the tournament. They also have a great defense, wall worthy goalkeeping and tactically intelligent coaching. They also have superior ball control, very effective counterattack and an ability to slow the game speed to a minimum, thus gaining full control on how the game will go.

What Germany has to do is straight of the bat gain full control through ball possession and not let Argentina get it from them. They also need to come at the Argies with all they have got straight after the whistle blows, hammer their defense, creating opportunity after opportunity, maybe get an early goal and force the Argentinians to attack and possibly leave their defense in trouble.


ARG: Their road to the final: On the Group stage Argentina got a 2-1 victory against Bosnia, a 1-0 win against Iran and a 3-2 victory against Nigeria, finishing the group with a perfect record of 9 points. On the last 16 they got through Switzerland with a 1-0 victory. On the quarters they beat Belgium by 1-0 also and on the semifinals they were better than Netherlands on the penalties by 4-2.

Argentina have arguably the best defensive play of the tournament and at least second best goal keeping, having only allowed 3 goals in 6 games and not allowed any goals on the knock out stage, which is quite an impressive achievement.

If Argentina want to win they need to utilize strengths, defend and defend their hearts out and frustrate the Germans enough to possibly make them lose control thus possibly get them make careless mistakes on their defensive play, leading to unnecessary fouls, that leading to free kicks and possibly even penalty kicks. If Argentina can somehow upset and make the Germans lose their calm and cool posture, making them angry and little panicky, they are close to gaining the ultimate glory.

Ultimately it´s a battle of the best offense of the cup vs the best defensive side of the tournament.

[Drew.]

itv have given up

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Can just imagine Shearer giving Hansen a tap on the shoulder & telling him that

[Gstar]

when is kick off?

[arista]

when is kick off?


8PM

[Drew.]

Oh no, Khedira has injured himself in the warm up

[King Gizzard]

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[Calderyon]

30th minute: Argentina scores, but the goal has been disallowed as an offside. Which it was.

[Brother Leon]

Lavezzi will hurt them.

[arista]

You would think Germany would have scored by now?

[Gstar]

:mooriah: if this match goes into penalties

[Locke.]

Good game so far. Argentina have got this.

[Brother Leon]

Lavezzi to create a goal on the break.

[Ryan57]

Rio saying Hummels and Boateng lack ability. :joker:

[Drew.]

Ozil having a great game so far, Argies need to get Aguero on.

[Locke.]

Maxi to come on and score another screamer

[Pete.]

that doctor who promo :clap1:

[Drew.]

Sergiooo

[Brother Leon]

Weird sub.

[Shaun]

messi :umm2:

[Jemal]

Come on lionel.

[Shaun]

Boateng is too good

[King Gizzard]

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[Jemal]

I hate neuer

[Brother Leon]

Hummel's has been ****e.

[Achilles]

Good WC ending with a boring 0-0, knew it would happen :bawling:

[Achilles]

Messi warming up as Germany get tired? :banana:

[Alf]

Time for a hero to step up.

[Drew.]

**** sakes, I think that streaker was Vitaly

[Drew.]

It was as well

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[Locke.]

LOL, that's amazing.

And squeezing an extra 30 mins out of this world cup, excellent. Been a great game.

[Jemal]

Who vitaly

[GypsyGoth]

Now it's time for Argentina to score 3 goals!

[Brother Leon]

Vitaly with that Youtube hit video.

[Brother Leon]

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Of all the players to approach lol

[Black Dagger]

Germany have got this.

Aguero is frustrating me as well.

[Brother Leon]

Argentina will win and it will be a huge shame.




Fair play though. Argentina has had a great defense. Messi and the attack will get the plaudits, but Mascherano,Demishelis and Garay are the main reason they are here.

[Calderyon]

This smells like penalties and an Argentina win.

[GypsyGoth]

His face :shocked:

[Shaun]

<33333

[Calderyon]

113th minute: Germany 1-0 !!! Goetze the hero.

What a goal !!!

[Shaun]

well at least the eventual goal was done in style.

[Brother Leon]

Well deserved.


Those Messi and Higuain chances..

[Calderyon]

If my calculations are correct, Argentina´s defense lasted 443 minutes of consecutive play without allowing a single goal, until Germany finally cracked it.

[Shaun]

Per is on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Achilles]

In this final Messi has played like Ronaldo did in the group games

[Shaun]

daaamn that muller run :flutter:

[Brother Leon]

In this final Messi has played like Ronaldo did in the group games

He's generally been awol in the knockouts.

[Black Dagger]

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They have their PL medals at least :sad:

[Alf]

There's some people on the pitch, they think it's all over.

[Drew.]

PER!!!

[Calderyon]

Final minute of WC 2014!!! And Argentina gets a freekick. Messi as the kicker.

[Achilles]

Messi last kick of the tournament?

[Shaun]

if messi scores this though

[Shaun]

#messy lol

[Black Dagger]

****ing bellend. Get to ****.

[Shaun]

:worship: GOAT team. Great stuff.

[GypsyGoth]

:cloud:

[Black Dagger]

Better team all tournament. Far more deserving. Even if my heart was with the City trio.

[Calderyon]

It´s over!!! Germany are the World Cup 2014 winners !!!

Very well deserved, i´d say. Better team overall won.

[Alf]

ivOrKizry94

[Black Dagger]

Oh and I just noticed me and Claudia fell at the final hurdle.

**** off Messi you greedy ****kuhnt!

[Alf]

How does the saying go?

"I'm not here for Germany lifting the cup"

I'm putting Big Brother on

[Drew.]

Gotzes life is pretty much going to change forever now. Wherever Iniesta goes, whatever ground he plays out the Spanish fans cheer and bow to him wherever he is.

[Brother Leon]

Well deserved win for the Germans. Best team throughout. Really happy for Klose and Bastian. Football legends.

[Shaun]

pleased Rodriguez kept the ballon d'or as well... best player of the tournament :love:

[Drew.]

Ozil, Per and Podolski coming back as WC winners is going to be such a huge lift to themselves and the squad next season. Amazing that we've ended up with 3 WC winners.

[Black Dagger]

don't rub it in please, I'm sore rn </33

[King Gizzard]

Thank God that didn't go to pens. Happy for Germany

Feel sorry for Leo. A world cup win won't truely define his career though.

[Drew.]

What on earth, there must be something fake behind this

https://twitter.com/FifNdhs

[King Gizzard]

fake. They just tweet every possible outcome then delete the ones that aren't true

[Shaun]

Blatter's boos :clap1:

[Shaun]

messi player of the tournament? lol ok then

[Brother Leon]

LOL


Joke of a reward for Messi.

[Drew.]

fake. They just tweet every possible outcome then delete the ones that aren't true

There are thousands of different outcomes, hows it possible to tweet every single outcome then delete them in that amount of time :laugh:

[Shaun]

literally just been given to him just so they can keep the sponsors happy

[Shaun]

this tournament though :flutter: best WC since '98 (that was probably a bit pants too but it was the first one I watched so it'll always be dear to me)

[Brother Leon]

Going to miss this. Great tournament and great stuff on here too.

In 4 years guys.

[Drew.]

This WC has been immense, cant believe its come to an end.. Only a month until we're all going at each other in the PL thread..

[Calderyon]

Neuer deservedly getting the best goalie award. Messi getting the best player award was a joke. There were better players in the German team than him. Probably just a some kind of weird consolation thing, i guess.

I would have given it to Rodriguez. Or Muller. Or maybe Robben. But Rodriquez got the best goal scorer award, so it´s not all that bad.

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This was the best World Cup ever since USA 1994 (first one i watched). 1998 is third in my list.

[Brother Leon]

What a beautiful ending Montage and sountrack :lovedup:

[Shaun]

:lovedup:

[King Gizzard]

what do i do now?

watch porn again?

[Locke.]

Brilliant world cup.

Happy for it to make way for the new season now though.

[Black Dagger]

Superb tournament, ending was a bit **** seeing Aguero like that, hope it doesn't effect him this season, Demichelis and Zaba are hard as nails and will move on, hopefully he's more focused and determined now to win trophies this season.

Oh well, bring on the Commonwealth Games.

[Drew.]

Going to take those 3 ages to get over it, a terrible atmosphere around the dressing room for City next season.

[Black Dagger]

Pellegrini will cheer them up.

[MTVN]

Good old Germany, great tournament but still felt like it gradually fizzled out a bit after the groups but then it always feels like that when you stop getting wall to wall football

[Ryan57]

Chuffed to see Germany win it. Also fantastic to see the 'best player ever' not turn up again.

Maradona and Pele still above him. Fantastic to see. Could watch that pathetic free kick of his at the end for 3 hours straight.

Edit: It's also disgraceful how he got Player of the Tournament.

[Samuel.]

Thought **** it it's the world cup final, so went with my gut feeling of Germany win in extra time at 11\1 with £50... You beautiful beautiful Germans! £600 baby

[MTVN]

He's just not enough of a proper Argie lad to ever achieve proper hero worship over there really, compared to people like Neymar and Tevez who have given so much to domestic football in their countries

[Drew.]

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[King Gizzard]

hopefully someone gets copa america rights. Although it will probably be BT if anyone

[King Gizzard]

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BRAZZERS

[Ryan57]

Well that'd make an interesting scene.

[Alf]

Sir Geoff still the only player with a World cup final Hat-trick :clap1:


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