oh please Brazil, show what you can do even without Neymar !

Hulk and Fred are overrated

Brazil seems to have perfected the art of 'winning ugly' but I hope Germany will prevail today. The key may be the referee from Mexico; he has a history of being trigger happy with the cards. It will be a battle, that's for sure.

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Hulk and Fred are overrated

Highly overrated. And Neymar is a fine football player, but he could be even better if he doesn't pretend to be beaten all the time. Despite being brazilian, Germany wins today, that's my prediction.

How many fouls will Brazil do today?wwhat happened to the beautiful game

I think Brazil has 96 fouls so far. Today will be crazy.

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Come on Brazil !!
Please get rid of the Germans. I've never liked the way they play football.

and go ahead the Netherlands !

What problem do you have with the way Germany play football? Since 2006 they have played with attacking flair and passion. They showed that beating Argentina 4-0 and England 4-1 in their knockout stage games in the last World Cup. They try to score goals, not engage in cynical stalemate matches.

This time round they have been in closely fought matches with Ghana, Algeria, USA but you can't accuse them of being boring. Their only game so far that has resulted in an air-less game with few chances was the last one against France. Were any others of the quarter finals really better. I don't think so.

I completely agree with you.
And your statement "since 2006" is valid for a serious time frame previous to that year, too!
As far as I can remember, Germany has had that very 'complete' & attacking style of footbal that you're referring to, with a distinctive flair & passion to it indeed, dating back as far as 1990... (though they've had their ups & downs as well.)

I wouldn't take him too seriously...I'm sure he won't post a rebuttal either as he wouldn't know how to defend his stance as it is probably more emotional than factual.

I assume you're referring to Dagger, yes? Well, I think he had a point.

Sorry, no I'm also in agreement with Dagger...I was referring to jpasc95

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I think Brazil has 96 fouls so far. Today will be crazy.

96 fouls , really ?
it sounds enormous
tonight I think Brazil will show they can beat the heavy graceless German machine with a beautiful way.
let's hope the referee won't give a helping hand to Brazil

Brazil has shown much less grace than Germany, don't you think?



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Dear Mr. DJA, you could have stayed with your continent instead of your hemisphere...but that's your free election right of course! Let's see which geography wins! LOL

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I think Brazil has 96 fouls so far. Today will be crazy.

96 fouls , really ?
it sounds enormous
tonight I think Brazil will show they can beat the heavy graceless German machine with a beautiful way.
let's hope the referee won't give a helping hand to Brazil

Graceless German machine??? Where are you from man, Mars? What football have you been watching? You obviously have an issue with Germany and not their football team.



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Germany plays with more grace the Brazil

That's easy since Brazil plays with no grace at all

Brazil at least 3-1

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Come on Brazil !!
Please get rid of the Germans. I've never liked the way they play football.

and go ahead the Netherlands !

What problem do you have with the way Germany play football? Since 2006 they have played with attacking flair and passion. They showed that beating Argentina 4-0 and England 4-1 in their knockout stage games in the last World Cup. They try to score goals, not engage in cynical stalemate matches.

This time round they have been in closely fought matches with Ghana, Algeria, USA but you can't accuse them of being boring. Their only game so far that has resulted in an air-less game with few chances was the last one against France. Were any others of the quarter finals really better. I don't think so.

I completely agree with you.
And your statement "since 2006" is valid for a serious time frame previous to that year, too!
As far as I can remember, Germany has had that very 'complete' & attacking style of footbal that you're referring to, with a distinctive flair & passion to it indeed, dating back as far as 1990... (though they've had their ups & downs as well.)

I wouldn't take him too seriously...I'm sure he won't post a rebuttal either as he wouldn't know how to defend his stance as it is probably more emotional than factual.

I assume you're referring to Dagger, yes? Well, I think he had a point.

Sorry, no I'm also in agreement with Dagger...I was referring to jpasc95

Aaaah - got it. (nów... )

First semi final about to start;
enjoy it, everybody!!

Me, I'm just hoping that both semis will be just a little bit better than these quarters... phew.
Time will tell.

It's gonna be fun to watch

Guess Germany meet Netherlands in the final and history will be written when the a European team winn WC on the American continent for the first time

These are the first real games that I curious about ...........hope both games will only last for 2 x 45 min. have get up early the next day's

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I think Brazil has 96 fouls so far. Today will be crazy.

96 fouls , really ?
it sounds enormous
tonight I think Brazil will show they can beat the heavy graceless German machine with a beautiful way.
let's hope the referee won't give a helping hand to Brazil

Graceless German machine??? Where are you from man, Mars? What football have you been watching? You obviously have an issue with Germany and not their football team.

yes it's pretty obvious...everyone posting here has been pretty gracious but for some reason jpasc95 has been in 'hatemongering' mode.

Good Luck to both teams. All 4 teams to cover tomorrow's matches and cheers to good sportsmanship.

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Guess Germany meet Netherlands in the final and history will be written when the a European team winn WC on the American continent for the first time

Will never happen

Van persie has a stomach bug , looks like Argentina now has a chance

Mueller scores 11 minutes into game.... Oh yeah

Incredibly poor marking by Brazil. The thing is; Brazil can't get away with playing so-so against a top team like Germany. This goal is going to open up the match - which is a good thing...

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Dear Mr. DJA, you could have stayed with your continent instead of your hemisphere...but that's your free election right of course! Let's see which geography wins! LOL

At this point I think I'm hopelessly lost! Actually, my continent (North America) isn't actually an option since all of our teams have been eliminated though you're correct that I could have easilly hopped on a "South" America bandwagon based on continent similarity. I was trying to imply that I was going to stick in the "WESTERN Hemisphere" for my rooting purposes but after reading your post, I realized that I could just have easily been saying that I was rooting for the European teams in the NORTHERN hemisphere. It's all so confusing!

For even more confusion...

Within the past couple of hours I've just found out that my brother-in-law who I meantioned above, although he was born and raised in El Salvador before moving to the USA to be with my sister, is actually a HUGE fan of Holland. He was a bit more conservative than Greg but promised his kids (9&4) that, if Holland actually wins, they are going to San Salvador the very next day to buy replica jerseys for the entire family.

I think I'm going to simplify things by saying: "GO WORLD! Play a beautiful game and I root for you. Play ugly & boring and I'm going to hope you get sent packing!"

Peace,
Mr DJA

Go, Deutschland!

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I think Brazil has 96 fouls so far. Today will be crazy.

96 fouls , really ?
it sounds enormous
tonight I think Brazil will show they can beat the heavy graceless German machine with a beautiful way.
let's hope the referee won't give a helping hand to Brazil

Graceless German machine??? Where are you from man, Mars? What football have you been watching? You obviously have an issue with Germany and not their football team.

yes it's pretty obvious...everyone posting here has been pretty gracious but for some reason jpasc95 has been in 'hatemongering' mode.

no I just don't like their football.
you don't agree with me , it's no problem to me. Just try to be a little bit more tolerant.

Can u say blow out???

What a joke.... I called it

3x0???