Thread: World Cup Prediction Thread
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Unread 17 Jun 2010, 11:24   #151
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Re: World Cup Prediction Thread
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Originally Posted by Kjeldoran View Post
That match proved that the best team doesn't always win the match.
What a load of shit. This time you can't even blame it on a referee. The better team won that game. The prodigal sons of Spain were wasteful, and eventually dismantled by the Swiss. Winning games is not a matter of flavour or preference. Benaglio was just unbeaten behind Swiss defense. If you can't put the ball in the net on 22 shots, you've been stopped by someone who played better than you.

Inevitably, the better of the two teams is decided by the result on the scoresheet when the referee blows his whistle for full time.

Some people might argue that Spain played "more beautiful" football, but possession and ability to pass the ball alone will not win you games, as proven by Barcelona. Barcelona was probably by your definition the best team in the European Champions League this year. Yet the final was battled between Bayern Münich and Internazionale, the latter of which won. Are they now the ECL champions, or just "worse" than Barcelona?

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Spain was alot better, played good football but wasn't dangerous enough. The other team scored using their first chance really.
Spain was worse. They kept ball and passed the ball, but they failed to put it in the back of the net despite a multitude of chances. Where likes of Pique were incredibly wasteful, Eren Derdiyok's and Gelson Fernandez's determination wasn't. You can keep ranting all you want about how better team this better team that, but the truth is, the winner of the world cup won't be decided by possession numbers or passes completed.

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Spain will beat Honduras and then against Chili, they need to win, no alternative.
They'll prob qualify. I'm still calling on the pressure to perform and them eventually crumbling on it. However, if Spain do fail to qualify (I can see how that could happen if they land into trouble with the energetic Chile team), and Swizerland go on with Chile, are you going to be here telling "the best team in the world cup got knocked out 'because' they what". They were so best that they err knocked out the same way Barca did?
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