Match 30 - Portugal x Korea DPR, in game PBP thread.

yes it's easy. but it's very hard to perfect it (see Inter or brazil vs korea).

(you can't understand if you never played team sports)

 

Come on Korea DPR, give Cote D' Ivoire some hope! Bring that GD down!

 

North Korea should have used a blowout preventer:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/21/us/20100621-bop.html?hp

 

NK succeeded brilliantly. Virtually every team who's tried it in this WC has succeeded. It closes a 3 division gap. No offensive strategy can do that.

 

Portugal has made another substitution: Liedson in for Almeida

 

its hard against skill team thats got speed. ur just siting their getting rogered again again, its ez to crack

its ez bunker vs shyt teams or teams thas slo

 

Wow, bye bye Ivory Coast.

 

5 is halfway to 10

 

5-0...good bye Ivory Coast...

 

Look, it is easy to bunker. It is EXTREMELY hard to bunker well. It takes superb physical strength and you need to have a very good understanding of your teammates play. IMO it is not much easier than playin offensive.



NK was IMO against far better team than Switzerland. (practically the team that was already clueless vs bunker in CL)

 

It's now 5-0 thanks to Liedson capitalizing on an error from a North Korean defender.

 

LOL. Well done.

 

And Liedson further humiliates the DPRs.

 

Well, that makes available 50 minutes of productivity I wasn't otherwise counting on.

 

Are you kidding? NK players wouldn't make Brazil's 20th team and that's not even an exaggeration. Yet they were able to hold them to 2-1. Look what happened when they opened up. Look at Oz when they opened up against Germany. It's happened again and again.

 

Honestly, I think only Brazil and Argentina could crack that bunker NK can play. But 3 draws would not be enough for NK so they went into this messy thing

 

But before getting to work I checked a few other websites: Apparently, Portugal has scored 5 in a world cup match before.

In 1966. Against North Korea.

 

81' 5-0 #5 Duda holds at 24m just wide of box left, whips in a poor cross to 6-top left -- but #5 Ri Kwang-Cho swings and whiffs on a one-touch clearance bomb, and it rattles off the bottom of his right sole and squirts through to 6m left post, right into the wheelhouse of #9 Liédson, who simply spins and blasts it in across #1 Ri. That was the epic fail of defensive clearances.