Cheers Strat what are your thoughts on that match? I thought, bar the scoreline, it was pretty evenly matched. A big difference was your strikers were much quicker than our big tall fellas lol. It didn't help when our goal keeper did that whoopsy which lead to the 3rd goal, but your second goal was a bit of a contentious one I feel. Novakovic took about 3 steps or so away from our defender before he fell over and got a penalty. NZ will have to watch out cos we play quite a physical game which some teams may take advantage of and the refs may not like. We'll see what happens! Most NZ fans are realistic, that coming away with a point or two at the WC would be a massive achievment (just being there for us is huge!) - football is not our national sport, unfortunately. Best of luck to in the WC Slovenia too!
South Africa v Mexico, I pick Mexico. But I will be cheering on the host nation to make it hard for them! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by _strat_ from Saturday, June 05, 2010 7:45:31 AM)
_strat_ wrote:
There! Counting down the days to the world cup, Ive decided that we need another thread for football, since the last one fell into oblivion of closed threads.
First game is on friday between the host country (South africa) and Mexico. Cant say whos in a better form, although I will probably end up rooting for South Africa, even though Mexico are the favourites of this match,
On a separate note: great game yesterday, friendly between Slovenia and New Zealand, which we won 3-1... Sorry Becks, I will still have my fingers crossed that you do good at the cup!
what are your thoughts on that match? I thought, bar the scoreline, it was pretty evenly matched. A big difference was your strikers were much quicker than our big tall fellas lol. It didn't help when our goal keeper did that whoopsy which lead to the 3rd goal, but your second goal was a bit of a contentious one I feel. Novakovic took about 3 steps or so away from our defender before he fell over and got a penalty. NZ will have to watch out cos we play quite a physical game which some teams may take advantage of and the refs may not like. We'll see what happens! Most NZ fans are realistic, that coming away with a point or two at the WC would be a massive achievment (just being there for us is huge!) - football is not our national sport, unfortunately. Best of luck to in the WC Slovenia too!