For many fans the world cup only begins when Brazil plays its first match and that's later tonight.

I am going to predict 5-0 here.

Tricky game. I am predicting 1-0 to the Ivories.

I predicted a draw, both sides as good as one would expect, IC better on paper than in reality and portugal doesnt look that strong. I do want to see the first match to see where the sides are at, how free Drogba can play with his injury also plays a big part, the arms are way more important for football than one would think, balance, physical and aerial strenght will be hurt, dont know how freely he can play.

Portugal aren't as good since Quieroz took over. I just don't think he is a good enough coach. They have plenty of talent but they didn't have a very easy qualifying, plus Nani is out.
IC are very talented too and since I got them in my work sweepstake I am going to go for them :)

I don't know man, Dunga seems to be pretty scare of the N. Koreans for some reason. He's taking a lot of heat at the moment and had a few of the latest training sessions closed to the media. People back in Brazil are absolutely furious and Socrates has said there's a possibility Brazil won't even make it out of the group stage iif Dunga keeps this up!!! This clash with the media can't be good for the team morale and Dunga's way too defencive minded for this WC by the looks of it. He still hasn't announced the starting line-up for the game btw!!!

Queroz is a good assistent, not a good headcoach IMO. Drogba doesnt start the game.

Similair thing was going on for the 94' World cup, where everyone wanted Ronaldo to play, the brazilians havent had the creative brazilian style or system for about 20 years or so, they have creative players but alot of their game is based on set pieces and countering. The old brazilian game is more a thing of the past but people still link it with the current brazil team. People and mostly the brazilians want it to be flashy and samba but its a good team and result orientated wich is fine, Dunga isnt being influenced by outer pressure and the media dont like that, its been like this for a while bc of his selection, leaving out those who the media would have like to see, and his result orientated team. 5-0 seems a bit too high and I highly doubt it, but brazil will win, n.korea aint that easy and they wont go for the goal bt the packd defence, the Ausies actually thought they stood a chance playing football, N.Korea wont go there to play football, but to prevent the others from doing so.

Rofl WTF does CryBaby think he's doing looking for a fight with Demel, this is someone with actual brute strenght unlike CB's artificial torso he is so gay on.

Hate the Portuguese, fucked up characters, atleast in football.

I am at work and can't watch :(

Should I report the game behrooz?

Btw are you supporting the brits or are you trying to jinx them :D Your a better jinxer :D

Live report;http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/15/world-cup-2010-ivory-coast-portugal

Links;
-Rojadirecta.com
-http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=77151&part=sports

Dj warming up

Danny out Simao in

Good match, chances from both sides.

DJ In Kalou Out, wouldnt have taken Kalou out but whatever.

0-0 good game for a 0-0 though. Ronaldo nowhere, Dj had one chance but was defended well by fereira.

What a moron! The last corner of the match with time running out, all your players waiting in the Portugese area, what does he do? He squares it! The ref blew final whistle!!!

Thanks that was unbelievably stupid, he would have even whistled if the corner was defended and portuguese went on a break, basicly a free chance.

The tie puts me on second place for now Bardya infront of me, IC boys helping the IC boys on 1 and 2 :)

Ivory Coast have gained lots of descipline compared to 4 years ago. They have mega stars everywhere but as we saw in the last seconds, lack of brains is still a problem. I am sure Sven will point that out to them.

IC boys helping the IC boys on 1 and 2 :)

LOL. IC all the way! :)

That was a really stupid move at the end. I was very impressed with IC, particularly Gervinho - what a player. I'm sure we'll see him alongside Drogba in the next game as opposed to a sub for him. IC defence was absolutely solid and completely shot Ronaldo down. Portugal... I wasn't too impressed at all.

Yeah, I think 3-0 is even pushing it at this point. We may see a 2-0 most likely, although I can't stand the N. Koreans even more than I can't stand the Samba Kongs! ;)

Should I report the game behrooz?

Btw are you supporting the brits or are you trying to jinx them :D Your a better jinxer :D

I managed to catch the last 10 minutes on the screen we have been allowed to set up in the staff room. I don't want to spend too much time in there.

I support England, I always do. That's why I am always left disappointed and frustrated. I am a realist however and I don't think they are good enough to make it beyond the last 8. If they do great, but if not then that's nothing unexpected. England have to get better results than USA against Algeria and Slovenia otherwise it's Germany in the next round.

Just the other day I read an interview by Chrsitina, and she said: ''Don't count us out!''

hahahahaha

Nahhhhhhhhhh

Brazil is gonna end this match in the first half. 3-0. I hope. :D

I don't care by how many goals Brazil will win.... all I know is:

Brazileteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ;)

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Brazil: Julio Cesar; Maicon, Lucio, Juan, Bastos; Elano, Felipe Melo, Gilberto Silva, Robinho; Luis Fabiano, Kaká.

NKorea: Myong Guk; Jong Hyuk, Run Il, Nam Chol, Kwang Chon; Yun Nam, Yong Jo, In Guk; Chol Jin, Tae Se, Yong Hak.

Nutmegs Brazil 1 N.Korea 2 :D

N.Korea playing well.

How much could one earn on a tie? Doubt they can but tie but might be worth the money/try.

Is it even possible to bet on the draw while the game is busy? Should hve done this before the match the odds should be really good.

Tae se Yong should get a couple of good offers after this world cup, good player.

2-0, now if it stands I can add another 4 points, so keep tight at back please.

Aren't you glad they don't allow mid match betting?
I think there should be one more. :D

1-2, N.Korea messes up my prediction :(

Actually Pj they alow mid game bets, but I didnt want to rush into betting, however Im registering on a dutch betting site just in case, I wanted to wait out all the first matches but this would have been a good game to bet on.

Well, that was a pretty pathetic performance for Brazil against one of the weakest teams in the tournament who had lost to Mexico, Paraguay, Nigeria and even Venezuela and tied Greece recently. Lucio was an absolute disaster back there - way to slow now to face the IC boys and Ronaldo. They need to bring in Luisao to repleace him for the next match or they've got a big surprise coming. Fabiano was also completely useless and hasn't scored an international goal for almost a year!

I actually liked that goal by N. Korea. It gave me an extra point and took away couple of points from people who predicted 2-0. I have 20 points now, which is a bit more respectable. Of course no match for our own mooshe khis. :D

NK had to play super defensive but even so Brazil should have broken them down earlier.

I was delighted for NK getting that goal and Se Yong is a lively player. I think he plays in the Japanese league.

Brazilian media are going to love this because Dunga is already their number 1 enemy. They are going to hand him his ass.

Behrou joon and Behrouz jan, I agree with both of you!

Hope for a better performance by Brazil this time.

But anyways.... once again.....

Brazileteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Does anybody watch Brazil - CIV?

Brazil is leading by 1-0. But CIV is playing really badly now in the first half. I'm afraid this Brazil is going to have major problems against better teams.

IC is being terrible, not that good of a game yet.

IC is being terrible, not that good of a game yet.

I thought they started very good. Confident. Got couple ''dangerous'' freekicks which they blew. I think the goal killed their confidence.

Brazil has probably got the best defence in the world when it comes to individual player. But they don't have the needed chemistry between them. That makes them very bad in defence.

Missed most of the second half, the ref lost control in the end of the game and the 3 min extra was rediculous since it should have been atleast 5 bc all the time stoppage especially with the injury and the "fights" in the end. The 2-0 was a hand ball, strange thing is the ref even pointed that out against Luis Fabiano. The tournaments officiating started decent to good but recent games havent been that good, fuckd the game up cause that is a decisive point in the game.

Kaka's sending off was ridiculous. The ref didn't even see the incident.

Plus, Brazil 2nd goal was handball, twice. It's a dodgy ref who asks a player whether he handballed it!

Very very bad game by CIV!!! No sportsmanship. No fair play. First they send Elano out by dirty playing, afew others (including Robinho and Fabiano) were lucky not to end up like Elano. Then that ugly act which sent Kaka out.

If you lost, just accept it damn it!! :mad: Fifa should do something about these kind of behaviours but specially about these kind of referees. He was just awful.

Kaka is wrongfully out for the next game. I just hope Elano is ok and can come back.

Kaka's sending off was ridiculous. The ref didn't even see the incident.

Plus, Brazil 2nd goal was handball, twice. It's a dodgy ref who asks a player whether he handballed it!
Kaka's hand didn't even touch the guy's face and bloody Ref. could only see their back. Looking at the video of indecent in slow motion I wonder what CIV fans will think about it. I guess unsportsmanship conduct does not count if you are a true fan of the team.

Yeah well its not like the brazilians dont know what acting on a world stage is, remember the disgracefull Rivaldo grabbing his face and going down at the corner after a player kicked the ball back at him and hit his knee or something, atleast this time it was closer to the face, and players seem to do this recently anyway, its like this with pretty much every red card like this, player grabs to face whereever he gets hit.

The ref was pretty disgracefull though, on both cases, Kaka and the allowing the second goal to count, and there had been more cases in wich there were really odd decisions or small mistakes.

That's why I have been saying they have to start doing video replays. There is the technology, they might as well use it. They said the fourth ref can help the ref, they might as well have the fourth ref sit next to the tv and watch. It is really not that hard and it doesn't slow the flow of the game at all.
The strangest thing was that the ref was chatting with fabiano saying it hit his hand. That was really strange.

I missed the Portugal-Korea DPR game. Finished 7-0 for Portugal!!! Hard to imagine Brazil struggled against them to that point and then Portugal demolishes them like that.

Clearly, their team was shattered after the second goal. It was only 1-0 till the 52nd minute. I saw the 1-0 score and went upstairs to change and get ready to go to work. When I came back it was 4-0.
Apparently the goals came in 2 batches of 3 in the second half.

I saw the 1-0 score and went upstairs to change and get ready to go to work. When I came back it was 4-0.

Aha! And you guys say I take too long to get ready! :UniKia:

Aha! And you guys say I take too long to get ready! :UniKia:

Duuuude,
The expected number of goals to be scored during your shower is about 5, even in this world cup with serious goal scoring problems. :looti:

Its like he says it hit your hand didnt it, luis says no no, Ref again says oh I saw it, Luis doesnt understand anymore :D thinking why didnt you call it then :D

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I guess the 7-0 result means that CIV, my sweepstake at work, is out barring a miracle. They need to beat NK by 8 goals and hope Brazil beats Portugal :(

We used to have "6 taae'i haa", now we have "7 taae'i haa". Only DPRK could brake that record.:D

Yeah well its not like the brazilians dont know what acting on a world stage is, remember the disgracefull Rivaldo grabbing his face and going down at the corner after a player kicked the ball back at him and hit his knee or something, atleast this time it was closer to the face, and players seem to do this recently anyway, its like this with pretty much every red card like this, player grabs to face whereever he gets hit.

The ref was pretty disgracefull though, on both cases, Kaka and the allowing the second goal to count, and there had been more cases in wich there were really odd decisions or small mistakes.
Commander I didn't mean to say the fake was right or wrong, I just wanted to knew the reaction of the fans.

Back in 70s Kalaani used to fake injuries multiple times in a single match, and every time he did it we cheered him.:wavetowel2::Notooth2:

Duuuude,
The expected number of goals to be scored during your shower is about 5, even in this world cup with serious goal scoring problems. :looti:

Differ Mr. Ped! :Notooth2:
I have never missed more than 2 goals while I was in the shower. I think it's time for me to pass this torch on to you. :Ban-Cha:

I guess the 7-0 result means that CIV, my sweepstake at work, is out barring a miracle. They need to beat NK by 8 goals and hope Brazil beats Portugal :(

Yeah, for all intents and purposes CIV is out. I don't think they can score that many goals. Unless Brazil goes Medieaval and Portugal's ass and beats them with a really high goal margin, which is not out of the realm of possibilities, but highly unlikely. :(

We used to have "6 taae'i haa", now we have "7 taae'i haa". Only DPRK could brake that record.:D

LOL. Rasoul jaan it's great to see football fever catching up with you. ;) Was it Singapore that was in the "6 taae'i haa" category back in the days?