International Football Game Day Thread (2013)

[GarretJoseph]

MODS: Please move to proper thread as you see fit. Couldn't find an international thread.

With all the International matches on tap today I figure I'd get a thread rolling.

I will be watching a few matches.

Ireland - Poland
England - Brazil
USA later tonight

[GarretJoseph]

Final Results from today already posted.


Japan 3 Latvia 0
Croatia 4 South Korea 0
Cyprus 1 Serbia 3

Notable matches later on


Spain - Uruguay
Turkey - Czech Rep
England - Brazil
Greece - Switzerland
Holland - Italy
Sweden - Argentina
Belgium - Slovakia
Ireland - Poland
France - Germany
Portugal - Ecuador


World Cup Q games

Honduras - USA
Panama - Costa Rica
Mexico - Jamaica

[Everlasting]

Sweden - Argentina is going to be great. In the last two games, Sweden made 0 - 4 too 4 - 4 against Germany, and Zlatan humiliated England. Lets hope they keep that form up and defeat Argentina.

[GarretJoseph]

For those in the States

Spain vs Uruguay is on BEIN Sport HD, about 11 minutes in.

[Live in the Now]

We'll make this a new one for friendlies this year.

Here's links to other relevant threads

UEFA WC Qualifying

Other WC 2014 Qualifying

[GarretJoseph]

Spain off to a 1-0 lead thanks to Fabregas. Horrible mistake by the keeper.

[vsk92]

Israel v Finland 1:0 with 38 minutes gone

watching Finland play is so frustrating

[HajdukSplit]

Croatia - Korea was an interesting game in the first half, both sides created chances but Croatia was more clinical. In the 2nd half both sides made numerous changes which slowed the tempo but Croatia dominated to score two more goals. Korea were full of energy but lacked the technical ability compared to Croatia. Croatia attacking wise were great and were pressing the Koreans like crazy which is good to see in a friendly where Croatia usually half ass it

Even though I can't stand him I must admit Croatia under Stimac is playing better than under Bilic, but we will see when the true tests come up against Serbia and Belgium down the road

[DEVILS ALL THE WAY]

I'm DVR'ing the Holland game and will watch it later on tonight. I have absolutely no idea what their squad will look like today, just hoping that Huntelaar will get the start in favour of VanPersie.

[Cin]

Just now tuning in to Uruguay-Spain. Seems like tempers are pretty high.

[tobo]

We've just started our match against Slovakia.

[Schalkenullvier]

Originally Posted by DEVILS ALL THE WAY

I'm DVR'ing the Holland game and will watch it later on tonight. I have absolutely no idea what their squad will look like today, just hoping that Huntelaar will get the start in favour of VanPersie.

Huntelaar's out with an eye injury, so there goes that.

Germany playing Höwedes as leftback, that's a new one I think Löw hates him, he never gets any chance on his position.

[Evilo]

Lloris with a great great foot intervention.

[Schalkenullvier]

Germany playing well so far, especially Gündogan who has consistently found holes in midfield.

[Evilo]

Hummels once again being very shaky.

[Schalkenullvier]

have to get a besser last pass

Evra having trouble though, very far away from his men...

[tobo]

Belgium leads 1-0 at half time. Hazard scored from penalty early in the match. It's the same as usual. The Red Devils play beautiful, attacking football and put pressure on the opponent. However, they still have a hard time creating chances.

[Evilo]

Ribery is tearing Lahm apart.
Ozil is one heck of a player.

[awesomo]

Hope Evra subs off.

Lots of travelling next few weeks...

[Schalkenullvier]

Hummels doesn't even jump wtf

[Live in the Now]

Well deserved goal for France.

[Evilo]

Gundogan and Ozil give Germany a fantastic transition game.
1-0 France after that great free kick on the bar.

[Schalkenullvier]

Originally Posted by Live in the Now

Well deserved goal for France.

thought germany was better overall

[Evilo]

I'm sorry I'll hear it is a friendly blah blah but Hummels is not a top 5 CB right now with the amount of bad games je has at the CL and international level.

[Evilo]

I also thought Germany was better because of that superior transition game. But France defended well and in the end Germany did not have a good shot on goal.