Can the Jabulani ball be blamed for France/Italy/England's under-performances?
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From: Adama on 27 Jun 2010 23:11 "Raja, The Great" <zepfloyes(a)gmail.com> a �crit dans le message de news: bafd5af5-b137-4d5d-a70f-11c553a9b5ad(a)i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... Nope it cannot although it can be blamed for the poor level of the competition overall. I mean, there aren't many goals in the first place, and about half of them come from either keeper blunders, horrible defending or bad refereeing. More than half of the teams are complete rubbish offensively and most of them cannot defend at all. Where are the great offensive plays ? 90% of the goals are counterstrikes or set pieces) This is probably the worse WC I have ever seen. (my memories go up to WC86). Italy 90 was boring footballwise (except for Milla and Cameroon's freshness). This time, it's just ... bad ?
From: KaiserD2 on 28 Jun 2010 09:37 On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:11:25 +0200, "Adama" <spam(a)invalid.com> wrote: > >"Raja, The Great" <zepfloyes(a)gmail.com> a �crit dans le message de news: >bafd5af5-b137-4d5d-a70f-11c553a9b5ad(a)i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... > >Nope it cannot although it can be blamed for the poor level of the >competition overall. >I mean, there aren't many goals in the first place, and about half of them >come from either keeper blunders, horrible defending or bad refereeing. More >than half of the teams are complete rubbish offensively and most of them >cannot defend at all. Where are the great offensive plays ? 90% of the goals >are counterstrikes or set pieces) > >This is probably the worse WC I have ever seen. (my memories go up to WC86). >Italy 90 was boring footballwise (except for Milla and Cameroon's >freshness). This time, it's just ... bad ? > Totally disagree here. First of all, how can the Jabulani help short passing? The difference is in the players, not the teams. Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Ghana have shown great ball control, passing, and work rate (especially the Chileans.) So has Argentina. Brazil really hasn't been that great yet and today is a key test for them--not just winning, but playing a lot better. Yesterday's refereeing was disappointing the but results were fair and the winners are good teams. This has been a great WC and from the draw looks to get greater. Jesus, we're half way through the 16s and we haven't had one shootout. Isn't that grounds for celebration? DK
From: SHUSSBAR on 28 Jun 2010 18:37
Can the Jabulani ball be blamed for France/Italy/England's under- performances? I wish but no. England : not able to get over the non goal even with 45 minutes left and probably a referee that would have been very lenient with them after that mistakes. Italy : too old France : Egos and divas can t play football |