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England-Croatia is the last set match for you, as Sweden-Denmark is for us. The quarter-finals will only go on to play out groups A versus B and C versus D, so as Lee pointed out, we could only possibly meet in the semi-finals. I'm rooting for you in group B and the first semifinal, naturally.
Psyliam:
You can see Buffon, Italy's goalie, being pushed aside, on the right, and Zlatan using this chink to heel it in. That's not seeing an opening and taking it, that's creating it. I've never seen anything like it.
If you can find a video clip of the whole bloody dream sequence, check it out. I haven't found a clip yet that is downloadable, only streaming realplayer-shit.
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Click this link, scroll down the page to the Italy-Sweden video clip (this spot) and watch a 30-sec summary of the game, ending with Zlatan's goal.
Thats the only website in Europe that offers streaming video summaries of all current championship games, and it is free.
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Amazingly, Portugal go from potentially not going through to the quarter-finals, to winning the group. And Spain are out! That's just hilarious. Eurpoean football is basically run by the Spanish, Italians, Germans and French - and all four could potentially fail to get past the group stage. I can dream, but as it is this time tomorrow I'll likely be eating my words if England fail to get through.
And all of a sudden the Russians develop an ability to play! What will have happened is, their previous two outings will have dropped their odds against Greece right down and the Mafia will make a lot of money by betting on something with very low odds, namely the chance of their team beating Greece. . .
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Edit: Odds? What were the odds that we would post at the same time???
TSN: It's a wordplay on "klock(-)ren", which means, approximately, "clean as a bell". Like when you hit the middle of the dartboard or throw a basketball that only touches net, that's a nice clean hit, a "klockren" hit. Zlatan heeled the ball in, so it is "klackren". "Klack" is our word for shoeheel, from french "claque", of imitative origin (klick-klack).
Check the videoclip I linked to and you'll know why everyone makes a fuss of the heel, it shouldn't even be possible, what with a 6-foot-4 italian goalie in Zlatan's way, being gently bumped to the side. Also, in the goal-cam, notice the other italian (no.9) that tries to head-butt the critical ball out of its course, but has to abort or he'll hit the goal frame. Not their finest hour, no.
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Indeed it was, one might even say one in a million. That's why it's so cool. Straight-shooting penalty kicks are boring, this was totally out of the blue, we weren't even sure it had gotten in before we saw people hopping around and screaming happily on the field, truly a telltale sign that something important has happened.
Alexander Magnus: zlatan is as zlatan does. You aren't the zlatan-material.
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Well, that was fun. Sure, England tried to give me a heart attack on several occassions, but overall, quite good.
Surely all the other teams in the competition are shitting themselves over the prospect of facing Rooney now? 4 goals in 3 games? And he's only 18? Eat that.
Pity Henry's finally found his scoring boots. For a few brief moments, France were heading out of the competition at the end of the group stages. For the world #2s to do that two tournaments would have been brilliant.
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Well, there's still Italy and Germany to crash and burn. Granted Germany has yet to assemble another team of the calibre of 1990, but we still like to see them fail. Italy, who aren't so much a team as a bunch of prima donnas running in the same direction, will probably do their usual 90 minutes of poncing about with the few seconds of luck needed to win.
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