[WC] World Cup 2014 - General Talk Thread (10 Viewers)
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Agreed, I thought the exact same thing. You could say they were.....conserving their energy for this game 
hammered porgual, secured the group without to much energy
played it easy and a bit underestimated vs algeria
and then got a goal against france and locked the game
and they are going to be very fresh for the final. Good luck to holland or argentina if that game goes into extra time
I can see where you are coming from but the elimination stage was very good too, imo, bar this Brazil-Germany fiasco. The only thing that hurt the quality there was the timing of the early games forcing teams to play in ridiculous conditions. Even then, however, there were some good ones among those games (eg. Mexico-Netherlands). All the late games, as far as I remember, offered some very good footie and a great deal of drama though, even a game between irrelevant teams like CR vs Greece.
As for this 7-1 drubbing, it could well have turned into an epic game had Brazil scored those chances they got in the first 10 or min of the 2nd half. Sure one cannot say the way it all went down was the perfect scenario from a footie standpoint but even then, a shocking game like this one does give a WC event an unique flavor for the ages.
I for one would have to go back 20+ years to try to dig up a WC as memorable as this one, or more precisely, one that comes even close.
As for this 7-1 drubbing, it could well have turned into an epic game had Brazil scored those chances they got in the first 10 or min of the 2nd half. Sure one cannot say the way it all went down was the perfect scenario from a footie standpoint but even then, a shocking game like this one does give a WC event an unique flavor for the ages.
I for one would have to go back 20+ years to try to dig up a WC as memorable as this one, or more precisely, one that comes even close.
