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England gets ROBBED! Lampard scores and no goal is given. That wasn't even close - Ball was in by at least a yard!!! Best argument for replay I've seen so far.
Germany leads 2-1. Both teams playing TERRIBLE defense!
If it had been Germany that had been robbed, nobody would say a thing, just like in 1966. Consider it even now (except that England still got the better end of the deal out of, they won a World Cup in 1966).
All in all it does not matter. Germany was the better team. They won fair and square, and England is lucky that it was not worse than 4:1.
Sorry but I didn't see the game in 1966 and only know about it because they happened to show a replay of it during this game.
I would have complained JUST AS LOUDLY had it been Germany that had been robbed in this game. (BTW My c'mon England call was a plea for them to get off their fat butts and start playing.Wojtek will confirm that my roots put me on the side of Germany. ) But to say that the no-goal call was justified because it's payback? That's beyond belief.
The refereeing in this world cup has been atrocious and this is just the latest in a long line of mind boggling calls. FIFA needs to pull it's collective heads out their rumps and do something. Add goal line officials, add replay technology, do SOMETHING for pete's sake.
You're right though - Germany was by FAR the better team and totally deserved the win. They totally outplayed and outclassed England, and 4-1 wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.
And talking of mistakes by officials there goes another one giving the Argentina's a goal...
They really have been awful in this World Cup.
Third goal was scored by TevezThat third goal for Argentina by Higuain was a beautiful goal though!
Totally agreeEngland's defeat wasn't constructed today, it started when they had 2 draws in the qualifying stage , I mean come on guys, Algeria could be beaten. Was kind of sad to see so disbalanced game, true the 2-2 was a different history but the firepower of Germany is too much, probably it wouldn't affect the final score
Totally agree
it was embarrassing, I have no idea what our back 4 were on today, although it resembled special paid leave; they just went missing. Two centre-halves who didn't seem to know where they should be standing when the Germans were coming.
I hope everyone in the FA can now see that John Terry has the pace of a 3-legged donkey running backwards. We don't need a great leader or ambassador for the game, we need a mercurial defender with something to prove.
Bringing Heskey on? When we needed 3 goals?
I knew it, if we made it out of the group stages, the first decent team we ran into would obliterate us - surprise, surprise...
Lampard's goal may well have fired up a different timeline but I'm disinclined to believe it would have been in favour of England.
I think there should be a reviewdo you think Capelo will survive in his job ? he made some very strange decisions if you ask me and was not brave enough to take off Rooney even though he was ineffective in every game !
Rooney just never fired, I can't tell if that was down to bad service or just his mental and physical preparation.