OTO 8: Spain - Portugal [R]
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From: Starcade on 29 Jun 2010 16:19 AND HERE WE GO WITH THE BULLSHIT!!! Costa sent off for an apparent elbow to the face that I did not see!!! 90' 1-0 (Silva) Mike
From: MH on 29 Jun 2010 16:42 Starcade wrote: > 74' 1-0 (Silva 64) He was not even on the pitch. It was Villa. > > And finally our first card in the affair!! :) > > Testy match, Spain definitely having the better of it now. > > Goal was a nice pass to Silva, who collected his own rebound on a nice > run to put the Spaniards ahead. > > Mike
From: MH on 29 Jun 2010 16:46 JK wrote: > anders t wrote: >> Prediction: >> 2-0 >> > > Same here, and it'll be chippy. Was considerably less of a needle match than I had expected. The argentine ref let a lot go, and yet tempers did not really flare. I felt a bit sorry for Cristiano Ronaldo as I thought he was not getting the calls soley due to his reputation as a diver and whiner. Several looked like real fouls to me. They did not show a good view of the alleged elbow to Capdevila's face. From what I saw it was not ultra-malicious. Portugal did quite well and had some decent chances, but Spain are a bit better. Coentrao possibly the best left back in the tournament so far.
From: Mark V. on 29 Jun 2010 17:08 On Jun 29, 1:46 pm, MH <MHnos...(a)ucalgary.ca> wrote: > They did not show a good view of the alleged elbow to Capdevila's face. > From what I saw it was not ultra-malicious. I must have really missed something. > > Portugal did quite well and had some decent chances, but Spain are a bit > better. Coentrao possibly the best left back in the tournament so far. I agree. I commented on that in an earlier post. I'm glad to see somebody else agrees.
From: Bob on 29 Jun 2010 17:53
MH wrote: > JK wrote: >> anders t wrote: >>> Prediction: >>> 2-0 >>> >> >> Same here, and it'll be chippy. > > Was considerably less of a needle match than I had expected. > > The argentine ref let a lot go, and yet tempers did not really flare. > I felt a bit sorry for Cristiano Ronaldo as I thought he was not > getting the calls soley due to his reputation as a diver and whiner. > Several looked like real fouls to me. Agreed. He should have gotten a few more calls. I suspect it points to the near impossibility for one central ref to make the necessary calls. There has got to be a just mid-point between calling only the act of fouling and calling all reactions to supposed fouling. > > They did not show a good view of the alleged elbow to Capdevila's > face. From what I saw it was not ultra-malicious. doesn't take much for an elbow to the face to be painful. > > Portugal did quite well and had some decent chances, but Spain are a > bit better. Coentrao possibly the best left back in the tournament > so far. He was excellent today |