The first saw Germany overwhelming England with a 4-1 victory. ALL four German goals were superbly executed and built up. Ozil seems to be of a influential component in the German clockwork. A particular controversy happened when Germany was leading 2-1 Frank Lampard had a stunning shot hitting the woodwork, with the ball bouncing down from the crossbar before bouncing up into the hands of Neuer the German keeper, who quickly played the ball on. Slow replay showed that the goal should have been counted! I have little doubt that sore losers would harp on this point by saying things like 'the referee was kayu/stupid', 'if that goal had been counted, as it should have been, England could have played better from then on, and...' etc etc.
In fact I just had a young England fan lamenting online, before he goes to school, saying: "see england tio trash no mood liao lols. if england 2nd goal were to be given i believe they could win the game lorh". I am quite sure many fans will take up this stance... unfortunately. Someone else just changed her msn nick to "England gave me so much pain, but I still support it till my life is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hmmm... I remember someone mentioned that stupidity is incurable... I just hope it's not contagious.
The significance of this incident is not in that the sore losers (I mean the fans or media) will use this to explain away their (perennial) poor performance; but in the history of world cup, something quite similar between the two countries happened... back in the final of 1966 when Germany lost to England 2-4. Geoff Hurst made it 3-2 in the extra time with a similar shot off the crossbar, but later video evidence proved that goal was erroneously counted as it never crossed the line. The linesman had made the wrong judgement that the ball had bounced back down from the net at the top of the goal. The difference is England won that match and tournament, and Germany won this match and will advance in this tournament.
Raymond was doing a lot of live commentry sitting beside me at Bradell Heights CC and he watched the game with an observance as sharp as a scorpion's sting. In just a little while into the first half, he declared that the Germans can exploit England's backline's weakness in handling high through passes.
In my personal opinion, Germany really does show pedigree in their playing. However, they would not win the world cup as well. That's just my prediction.
The second match was between Argentina and Mexico. In this game, which I will alway$ remember...
Tevez scored the opening goal thru a direct shot on goal by Messi, and then later shot super hard from just outside the box to make it 2-0. This is one of the strongest direct shot in the tournament thus far.To be fair to Mexico, they had many quality chances at scoring, and the final results of 1-3 hid a lot of their lively attacking especially in the beginning of the match.
One thing I must comment though, Lionel Messi had yet to impressed me. He's nowhere near the likes of Ronaldo 9, or Roberto Baggio.
In the end, the iconic Maradona is triumphant again. A strange ah pek as he might be, his formation and tactics had been working very well. Nevertheless, in my opinion, Argentina will not win this World Cup as well.
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