2014 FIFA World Cup™ Semi-Finals: Netherlands vs Argentina| Wednesday, Jul 9, 4:00 PMET

Haters? I have no horse in this race, I wanted anyone to win but Brazil. Relax bro its not that serious.

 

People celebrating in 9 de julio avenue


damnit, sorry, that photo was posted in an online newspaper and taked 5 minutes after cause it was from a big protest a few years ago, sorry, just seen this, everyone thought it was true and was retweeting it


but i was in the 9 de julio avenue and it looks just like it! swear, its crazy outside

 

^^^^WOW! That is really cool.^^^^ Maximo Respeto

 

Awesome! Was there in 2011 one of my favorite cities.... really glad for you guys, can only imagine what it must be like now....

 

If the germans show respect, I will do the same
I think they will

 

I'm going through an opposite dilemma here.

Rationally I think Brazil needs Argentina to win. We need to bring back this rivalry to what it was in the 80's and 90's, and in order to do this, we need to keep the spotlight in South America. Since Brazil has not been competent enough to do it, Argentina should. If Germany wins, it will be a 3rd consecutive title to Europe, which will simply push South American football further down, far from the football elite.

Once I start watching the game though, I know it will be hard to cheer for Argentina. I tried today and did a pretty bad job at it.

In any case, congratulations to Argentina for the historical achievement today. Both teams deserve to be in the spot they're in, and hope we have a good game on Sunday.

 

Actually we lost the 1990 final with a PK.....a dubious one

 

why is it so hard? i know i will be easily cheering for Brazil if they faced germany in the finals, and i think most people would too

after all, we are southamerican brothers in the end

 

The final should be more entertaining if Germany lives to the image they built
But if they are as cautious as Holland (and that is not impossible) it can be a similar game

 

She is in the Public Television now, and still in FOX I think, she is OK and also hot

 

All the Madrid dudes are against Argentina because Messi plays in Barcelona

 

Actually it isn't that good a record. The best all around PK record actually belongs to Tim Howard who has faced something like 16 PKs in the last five years. Of those only 7 were scored. Of course, that may just reflect the fact that he plays in England and the English suck at PKs.

 

Curiously which of the teams that defended against Argentina, primarily, did Argentina play defensive against in return? Iran, as an example?

Germany attack more than any of the teams that Argentina played, barring Belgium possibly. That may very well open up space for them.

 

ARGENTINA!!!!

Messi will be looking for two forms of revenge:

1) The 4-0 loss in WC10
2) His poor performance in the semifinal

Let's go Argentina!

 

I mean at least the 1990 Final -as bad as it was- didn't go to a Penalty Shootout like the dreadful 1994 Final which was 0-0 PKs. Yes it was a dubious PK call in 1990 but at least there was a 1-0 result.
2014 Argentina is better and more dangerous than the 1990 version which bunkered and seemed to hack Germany all game long even with Maradona. The fans deserve an exciting Final, we are due. I feel the last decent/so so Final was 2002, but the last really exciting Final was 1986. And no more PKs, enough already, unless maybe it's a 2-2, 3-3 nail biter. I may even accept 1-1 PKs if it's anything like the 1986 1/4 Final between France/Brazil.

 

I've just became a member yesterday and haven't posted yet.

So my first post is to commend you. I love this sport and I would like to discuss it with other fans so I'm happy I found this site where the mods (allow me to generalize) consider it a social friendly club. I'm in!

 

We were decimated that game, having lost Caniggia due to a stupid second yellow for a hands and oyhers for injuries. maradona had an ankle in ruins. It was bad, but we could have won it.

 

Messi had been rough- housed all night . They were suggesting that he'd have to gone off ..

 

What a game. What a match. That's the word, a match. The teams were matched. I don't know if they care (I would be devastated right now) but I wanna congratulate Holland for that game, we both knew we were strong teams facing another, both knew you couldn't underestimate the other cause at the first mistake you'd be going home. If one team had scored in regulation then that team would've won probably with more than one goal (with the other having to go look for the tie and both being so excellent at counters). The coaches knew this.

Perhaps some people expected Argentina to confront Holland like Spain did, or like Brazil did with Germany the other day. That is naive. That is what you would do if you wanted to get crushed. Everyone that understands football knows that today Argentina played their best game of the tournament so far. Ever since group stage this has became more a team and less Messi +10. Which is the best that could happen to us. And Romero (my lad from Racing ********ing Club de Avellaneda!) having to prove his worth, becoming a giant...

Today was a game of chess. Tactically Argentina and Holland couldn't break each other. Messi was nullified by Holland. Robben was nullified by Argentina. And I know maybe it's not that fun or exciting for a neutral, but this is the WC Semifinal we're talking about here, not a FIFA video-game where you risk everything only to end up with results like we did in our last WC. We learned the lesson. Holland always knew it, that's why the game was what it was.

A tie was a fitting result for the two countries, we had a couple more chances in extra-time (Palacio and Maxi) but Robben could've sealed it in last minutes of regulation too.

Thankfully for us, there came the play of the match by the man of the match today:



Man, in Buenos Aires that play was screamed as if it was a goal. It was worth one, actually.

And now, i'm gonna read the whole thread.

 

Some of you aren't old enough to remember 1990, and you have missed nothing. It was 24 team tourney and we got into knockout on GD, which, we earned by playing defensively, putting it lightly.
Even if we had won that final, it really wouldn't be something to be proud of, and because of Maradona, the entire Europe hated us, maybe even majority of the world at the time.

It was a shitty tournament, which ended with one of the worst, if not THE worst refed match in history.
Many people now say he was a Mexican, truth is he immigrated to Mexico in the 80s and was really an Uruguayan. He's the reason that ref from a rival country of one of the participant of the match are not allowed anymore...

The PK call on Sensini was pure bs and this everybody knows, but less remembers there was a red card on Pedro Monzon who had just subbed onto the field. He committed a foul that would had been overlooked in most matches today, and earned a straight red.

The one thing people rarely talk about is that Sergio Goycochea was a PK specialist, and we really were trying to win it through penalty shootout, it was hardly a 50/50 chance, and the strategy had been proven against Yugoslavia and Italy in games before that...

 

Argentina in 6 games has scored just 1 more goal than Germany scored vs Brazil.

 

Lol some brasilians really want Argentina to win? You know what they say about you and sing about you etc. right? You cant be pro Argentina. And Messi deserves shit. He went to the hairdresser before the game against Switzerland. He tells the coach how the team has to play. What a joke. One man shows never deserve to win such a big title.

 

usually, argentina is a team that i love and germany a team that i hate.
but this year, germany is the team that deserve to win. finish first of a death group, explode the host country in semi finals and show a wonderful team playing. and Neuer. the man of this world cup.

for argentina, their fans are really rude with brasilians. i understand that it could be some rivalry but it's gone too far especially when they make fun of players injury.

 

usually, argentina is a team that i love and germany a team that i hate.
but this year, germany is the team that deserve to win. finish first of a death group, explode the host country in semi finals and show a wonderful team playing. and Neuer. the man of this world cup.

for argentina, their fans are really rude with brasilians. i understand that it could be some rivalry but it's gone too far especially when they make fun of players injury.