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Live Blog: Germany vs. Argentina
Posted By Matt On 30th June 2006 @ 12:54 In Sports, World Cup, Soccer, football | 6 Comments
What kind of blogger starts to live-blog a game at the end of regulation?
Don’t answer that.
Well, that ends a beautiful World Cup run by Argentina. I thought they were going all the way.
sob.
Argentina — NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Germany — fourth kick (Borowski) — Goal. 4-2, Germany.
Argentina — third kick (Rodriguez) — Goal. Keeps hope alive. 3-2, Germany.
Germany — third kick (Podolski) — goal. 3-1.
Argentina — second kick (Ayala) — *&%$$! save. 2-1, Germany.
Germany — second kick (Ballack) — Goal, matter-of-factly. 2-1.
Argentina — first kick (Cruz) — Nice shot into the upper right corner. Beautiful. 1-1.
Germany — first kick (Neuville) — Goal. Nice, low kick.
120 – hot damn! penalty kicks.
118 – Argentina shot (Coloccini) off the top goal post! Germany on the attack! Save!
116 – As soon as I compliment the refs for handing out fewer cards, they hand out another card.
115 – Argentinian player dives, but gets the call. No card, though — the refs have improved.
113 — In the comments, Agi points out that Argentina used up all their subs long ago.
112 – Corner coming up for Argentina. They scored on one earlier in the game . . . but not this time.
109 – First half of overtime completed. Germany had the upper hand for a while, but Argentina looks like it is back on the attack.
99 – Ballack dives, but doesn’t get a yellow card. Maxi received one earlier for a dive when he was, in reality, tripped.
(95 –) Soccernet comments on Klinsmann’s immaculate shirt. But he’s got nothing on the Netherlands coach, whose sweater-around-the-waist style was straight out of a John Hughes film.
97 – Tevez hurt; looks like he’ll stay in, though. Argentina needs him.
96 — Germany repelled, but they’re on the attack, and have been ever since the Argentina goal.
94 – We’re going to overtime. It has been a somewhat disappointing game so far, if offense is your thing. The teams are evenly matched; there has been a lot of grinding in the midfield, and many sparkling defensive plays.
Argentina’s starting goalie is out due to an injury received while going for a corner kick.
6 Comments To "Live Blog: Germany vs. Argentina"
#1 Comment By Comandante Agi On 30th June 2006 @ 13:03
It’s a nail biter…
Too bad they can’t put in Messi
#2 Comment By UncleHorns On 30th June 2006 @ 23:32
Penalty kicks are a shitty way to decide a World Cup game.
I was in the dentists chair during the ot and caca-fest.
Not to be confused with Kaka…
#3 Comment By Matt On 1st July 2006 @ 00:22
The game was just so underwhelming. I expected something spectacular, but it turned out to be one of the most boring World Cup games I’ve seen. Chalk it up to Germany’s defense or Argentinia’s coaching gaffes, but the fact remains the same: this game did not live up to expectations.
It reminds me, in a way, of the Patriots/Eagles superbowl. Germany seemed to throw the Argentinians off of their game in the same way that the Patriots unsettled the Eagles.
#4 Comment By howard On 1st July 2006 @ 01:22
I have mixed feelings about the shootouts.
When I was in high school, our soccer team won a conference title game on the other kind of shootout (more like hockey than traditional soccer style). It was exciting, but then I don’t know how I would have felt if we’d lost on them. Probably not so excited?
The other side of it was we were playing on a un-lit field and we’d just gone through something like a hundred minutes of playing with the sun quickly lowering. I guess we were weary enough to think it was pretty cool even if it wasn’t.
#5 Comment By Matt On 1st July 2006 @ 10:09
Then they go to penalty kicks to decide who advances. This has always seemed insane to me, like flipping a coin in the 10th inning of a World Series game. Germany’s goalie Jens Lehmann comes up big and stops two shots. So Germany advances and the local fans erupt (not in the bar, in the stadium; in the bar, people quiet down and go back to work). But it’s a tainted victory to this American sports fan, like asking two pitchers to throw five baseballs each through a tire rope-swing after nine innings in the post-season. Two halfs, two overtimes, a massive investment of sweat and blood and energy and strategy. Then the slot machine. This and the lousy look-at-me refereeing has to change. Let ‘em play on!
#6 Comment By Comandante Agi On 1st July 2006 @ 11:00
Yep, penalty kicks are a very anticlimactic way to end a game. Leave it up to fate, or chance, or whatever…
So, you gonna live-blog the England/Portugal game?
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