The Official Brazil 2014 World Cup Thread

US looking decent against Portugal. Minus that terrible screw up that allowed the goal.

 

Even being highly anti-US Sawker, that was cruel on the yanks.

 

That was heartbreaking.

 

Damn whata brutal ending. We controlled that game and just lost it at the end. Brutal.

 

Ouch moment.

 

Now you're in trouble. You need at least a tie against Germany (not likely). If you lose, you need help.

 

• If Portugal and Ghana draw, the United States will progress in second place.
• If Ghana win, they'd progress if they won by a couple of goals or more, or won by a single goal and the U.S. lost by more than one goal. If the United States and Ghana ended up level on goal differential, it would come down to who scored the most goals overall. If they were deadlocked still, the United States would progress as they've already beaten Ghana in the group stages.
• If Portugal win, they'd need to overturn an even bigger goal differential deficit to progress ahead of the United States. Their goal differential heading into the final slate of games is minus-4, while the United States' is plus-1. That's a fairly big final swing Portugal require. If they pull it back level, it would again go down to who scored the most goals in the group stages overall. Still deadlocked? They'd end up drawing lots for progression -- picking a name out of a hat, essentially. Ouch.

 

I hate Mexico's elimination games. I can't sleep, I can't work, I can't focus on anything. You hate yourself for giving so much importance to such meaningless things, but that's sports, I guess.

With a tie we advance. It's all we need. But after so many years, and all my teams falling short time and time again, I just can't have any confidence.

Mexico FTW. Please don't let us down again, guys. Let the best team advance.

 

It actually looks fairly likely to me that we advance. Am I missing something? Barring Germany blowing us out, Portugal is basically done. Ghana has a good shot at it though.

 

that ending was right up there with rhonde barber and joe carter for me.

 

Say wha?? We didn't even lose. This wasn't even close to those events in my mind.

 

to each his own i guess. i know it's different but right when it happened i had the same knot in my stomach.

 

You were saying? He felt well enough to help stick a dagger into the US yesterday.

 

he actually helped the US by not even attempting to play any type of defense the entire game.

 

You must not have the the previous 94 minutes where he didn't play defense, was playing out of position, and completely botched multiple shot opportunities.

 

Well, yeah...I didn't say LOTS of help. If you lose by one to Germany, and Ghana beats Portugal by at least two (or Portugal blows up Ghana by 4 or more), then you're out. This is the World Cup. I still remember how we squeezed to the second round after a tie to Netherlands on a goal scored in the 96th minute or something.

I say you're about 85% in.