Portugal v Iran | Czech Republic v Ghana | Italy v USA

[Benitez]

Portugal v Iran: Frankfurt, 1400

 

Czech Republic v Ghana: Cologne, 1700

 

Italy v USA: Kaiserslautern, 2000

[Kahnee]

not exactly a mouthwatering set of fixtures

[Benitez]

Portugal:

Ricardo,

Miguel,

Meira,

Ricardo Carvalho,

Nuno Valente,

Costinha,

Maniche,

Deco,

Ronaldo,

Pauleta,

Figo.

 

Subs: Paulo Ferreira, Caneira, Ricardo Costa, Petit, Boa Morte, Nuno Gomes, Paulo Santos, Postiga, Quim, Simao, Tiago, Viana.

 

Iran:

Mirzapour,

Kaabi,

Golmohammadi,

Rezaei,

Nosrati,

Nekounam,

Mahdavikia,

Karimi,

Teymourian,

Madanchi,

Hashemian.

 

Subs: Bakhtiarizadeh, Borhani, Daei, Enayati, Kazemeian, Khatibi, Navidkia, Roudbarian, Sadeqi, Shojaei, Talebloo, Zandi.

 

Referee: Eric Poulat (France)

[R A Softlad]

Portuguese have Portugal v Iraq stitched under their badges.

[Benitez]

well that was good

[magneto]

yawn

[Guest Aussie_Red]

Portugal have to be the worst 'good' team to watch. I've never seen such a 'good team' or collection of individuals rather, make scoring a goal seem like such a challenge, save for England. Half of the challenge seems to come from them breaking their own play up with so many fecking dives. I've put my second bet of this cup on Portugal scoring between 0-1 goals, safe to say it's looking like another 1-0 Portugal.

Edited June 17, 2006 by Aussie_Red

[Moose]

Deco scores, match might liven up now ..

 

.. decent goal too on second watch.

[SkippyjonJones]

I've got a few people coming round to watch the USA.

 

They are gonna get spanked today.

 

 

The UsA that is - not the people coming round to my house.

 

figo is a diving c***.

[BDB]

C. Ronaldo scores the pen following Figo's dive.

 

2-0

 

Not too impressive overall the portugese

[Guest Scot]

Ronaldo's incredibly frustrating

[Guest Cally77]

Ronaldo's a t***

Edited June 17, 2006 by Cally77

[Guest Aussie_Red]

figo is a diving c***.

 

Cost me a cheap bet. I'm getting really sick of watching Figo and Ronaldo getting away with what they do. It's funny that the only two penalties to be given in this cup have been wrongly given. Portgual will need to play a lot better if they want to get past Argentina or Holland.

[Guz]

What a thoroughly entertaining game that was....

 

Hope the Czech can put on a bit of a show and Italy/USA have a good'un.

[Cooldude]

Ronaldo is a t***

[Benitez]

Czech Republic:

Cech,

Grygera,

Rozehnal,

Ujfalusi,

Jankulovski,

Poborsky,

Galasek,

Rosicky,

Plasil,

Nedved,

Lokvenc.

 

Subs: Mares, Kovac, Sionko, Jiranek, Jarolim, Blazek, Stajner, Heinz, Polak, Kinsky, Koller, Baros.

 

Ghana:

Kingston,

Pantsil,

Mensah,

Mohamed,

Shilla,

Essien,

Appiah,

Muntari,

Otto Addo,

Gyan,

Amoah.

 

Subs: Adjei, Sarpei, Kuffour, Pappoe, Boateng, Tachie-Mensah, Owu, Quaye, Eric Addo, Pimpong, Ahmed, Dramani.

 

Referee: Horacio Marcelo Elizondo (Argentina)

[Guest Jack Bauer]

oh man what a boring fixture line up, i can see only USA vs Italy being any good. Czechs will destroy Ghana.

[Nathan Explosion]

Go on Ghana - get destroyed by the Czechs

[Guest TheFooFighter]

1-0 Ghana !!!

[magneto]

oh man what a boring fixture line up, i can see only USA vs Italy being any good. Czechs will destroy Ghana.

 

 

HA HA!

Edited June 17, 2006 by magneto

[Guest Cally77]

Some of these refs are very poor. Far too whistle and card happy; it's ruining the flow of the games. This one is blowing up for every sliding tackle, even if the ball is won fairly.

Edited June 17, 2006 by Cally77

[Guest Jack Bauer]

Czechs will still win.

[Guest Jack Bauer]

what the feck is wr ong with the czechs today?

[Guest Cally77]

Cracking game this. I can see one of the African nations winning the WC in four years time. They've now added good technique and tactical awareness to their natural stamina and athleticism.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

as I said a few days ago - I was impressed with Ghana.

 

 

There - that's probably gone & done it