Posted on 06/30/2006 11:08:19 PM PDT by soccer_maniac
The quarterfinal round concludes with a pair of enticing match-ups. The day's first match pits England against Portugal (10:30 a.m. ET, ABC) in Gelsenkirchen, while a rematch of the 1998 final between Brazil and France (3:00 p.m. ET, ESPN) will wrap the Round of 8.
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It's too early but both teams are employing a plan into space. Brazil seems more on their game to this point in the 18th minute.
The announcers love the game and their excitment is contagious.
I switch to ABC for after game analysis, but today Wynalda was a total turnoff.
WC means nothing to them as far as their bank accounts go.
All I know is I am so much more thoroughly entertained by this match in the first 20 minutes than the entire stinker played by Portugal-England.
Brazil being outplayed big time. I hope they get their act together cause it looks like Zidane is running circles around them.
Both teams are willing to employ speed to pressure the other team. Brazil is playing more it wide and France is trying to play it down the middle (to Henry).
Brazil is playing much better than the team that played Ghana. Clearly not the team that played Ghana.
Defensive holding!
. . . er . . .
Yellow card.
Wynalda seems to know what he is talking about.
Gee, if the ESPN announcers didn't say it 20 times already, I would never know Zidane was retiring after the World Cup.
Zidane's high-kicking footwork is so cool.
Retiring from club and country, dinchaknow? From club and country.
Wynalda is the best of the studio team. I think many of his comments are spot on if not a touch arrogant. Some folks around here don't like him. Regardless, he is not doing the play by play, but anything would be better of the dreadful Balboa and O'Brien.
Zidane is really something to watch! Amazing really.
I thought so until he seemed to think Rooney ought to have gotten away with his stomping on the other guys groin.
Zidane is the real Brazilian so far.
Some amazing skills :-)
I didn't hear him, but I suspect he might have meant that, since the Portuguese player was behind Rooney, the groin stomping was not intentional.
You do realise that Carvalho does not have any balls.
Fair play by Rooney.
In all seriousness though, I don't think it was intentional and even if it was I am so biased I don't care :-)
Get Christiano Ronaldo out from manu, and play Ole Solskjaer on the left.
Cheers.
I was almost late for a friends wedding (and I was in the party) for watching Zidane in the final in 98. Eight years later I was watching him again with amazement and glee on my own honeymoon, in a Paris cafe.
What a long strange trip it's been.
C Ronaldo is going to have a rough season next year.
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