Semi Finals [R]

[One Part]

Nigeria Vs Belguim
Argentina Vs Brazil

Winners will play for gold. Losers for Bronze.

[vancity eagle]

Nigeria look really good, it was a very efficient performance against CIV. We completely shut out the best attacking team in the tournament. Gervinho and Kalou were almost invisible. A very well organized team. Hopefully they stay focused against Belgium and I have very little doubt they will be playing for the Gold. If we make the final, I think Brazil will be easier to beat, but I want Argentina for revenge of the 2005 U20 WC final, where they needed 2 penalties to beat us.

[Andrés_]

Nigeria look really good, it was a very efficient performance against CIV. We completely shut out the best attacking team in the tournament. Gervinho and Kalou were almost invisible. A very well organized team. Hopefully they stay focused against Belgium and I have very little doubt they will be playing for the Gold. If we make the final, I think Brazil will be easier to beat, but I want Argentina for revenge of the 2005 U20 WC final, where they needed 2 penalties to beat us.

Don't forget Atlanta '96.:cool:

[vancity eagle]

Don't forget Atlanta '96.:cool:

yes there seems to be quite a little rivalry between the 2 countries, we've also lost 2 very close WC games as well. Anyways we both have games ahead of us, so lets not look too far ahead right now.

[Andrés_]

yes there seems to be quite a little rivalry between the 2 countries, we've also lost 2 very close WC games as well. Anyways we both have games ahead of us, so lets not look too far ahead right now.

Right, but having a rematch in the final for that one which was in an olympic game final too, would be cool.

[tomwilhelm]

The '96 Olympic semi-final between Brazil and Nigeria was the most enjoyable soccer match I've ever attended.

[jlscrub]

ANyone know the time of the Arg-Bra game eastern time?

[veritas01]

I am going to guess 9:00 AM again like the Argentina - Netherlands game. I am hoping Universal HD will carry the game as it did before. Very difficult to find out if this is true.

[DSGB]

9:00 AM Eastern
6:00 AM Pacific
10:00 AM Buenos Aires

[DSGB]

Sorry, I was wrong, it's 9:00 AM Eastern. If I could delete my post I would. Sorry.

[tomwilhelm]

That right?

[ks vllaznia]

argentina-brazil
9:00am est
msnbc
this is the info i got .is this correct???????????????????

[DSGB]

Yeah, that's right.

[scotch17]

Well that was a bit of a meltdown, expected a little better and the ref was a little quick with the cards. Still the best team won. Also kind of puts the "who was physical" debate to rest in the Cameroon - Brazil game.
How many players will miss the bronze medal contest now?

[Andrés_]

For Argentina, Pareja will be the only one missing the match he got his second yellow today. A real pity he had a fantastic tournament.

[Cannons]

I guess it's only the "beautiful game" if you're winning. When you're getting beat like a circus monkey, it quickly becomes the dirty game.

Nigeria is no walk over and Argentina better bring their "A" game

[Maruti]

Lucas, Thiago Neves and Breno won't be playing in the bronze medal match. I think Ronnie will probably run back home to Europe.

[man_in_the_middle]

I'm glad Argentina won that game. Brazil has become so unattractive to watch. And that was a pretty classes display at the end. What happened to them? The quality of the players seems like it is still there. But the team plays like Uruguay now.

[scotch17]

I think Ronnie will probably run back home to Europe.

If he really did that'd be a shame and kind of disgraceful. :o

Now that we've got the typical over-hyped match over, I am really looking forward to the last 2 games. The finalists both blew their opponents away, but the "runners up" have still looked very good throughout the tourny. I wonder if the bronze wouldn't mean more to Belgium than Brazil though?

[Excape Goat]

Don't forget Atlanta '96.:cool:

liked in 1996, Argentina takes on Nigeria, and Brazil likely will win the bronze.