Hows your money doing? Part 2

When I last left you underdogs were running rampant, with the only decent team playing well being Germany.

Tonga with Netherlands: Looking at the Netherlands performance there's a bit of a mixed response: Yes they got the victory, but it was by no means pretty and certainly not up to the Dutch's potential ability.

Max with Brazil: Brazil had a painful dog fight with North Korea who put up a decent effort, refusing to be broken down and frustrating Brazil at times.

Ben with Spain: Of course everyone's favorites to lift the trophy, Spain are making headlines today but not for any respectable reasons as they were undone by some vigilant defending and a scrappy goal against Switzerland.

There's a resounding theme that I'm picking up: Big teams (excluding Germany who were helped by a weak Australia) are not breaking through the underdogs defense. Many a football fan regard this as "Boring defensive play" but sod that! There's nothing wrong with a weaker team putting all their eggs in the defensive basket and staving out 90 minutes of attack after attack by a stronger team. If this stronger team can't break down the weaker teams with their superior players, tactics and training then Kudos to the weak team.

Jordans Team Of Week 1:
Keep in mind this is Jordan's team of the week and suffers from spells of bias, forgetfulness and occasionally outrageous decisions.

                                                                          GK  Khune (South Africa)

                                DC   Lee Jung-Soo (South Korea)                 DC  Winston Reid(New Zealand)     

 DR   Glen Johnson(England)                                                                                DL Phillip Lahm(Germany)
                                                                                                                  

                                                CM Steven Gerrard(England)      CM Oezil(Germany)

RM Modise (South Africa),                                                                             LM  Park Ji Sung (South Korea)


  
                                              CF Klose (Germany)                     CF Messi(Argentina)
                                                                                                                                  
                               

This is just my opinion, now its your turn to feel like a bad-ass journalist, share your team of the week below. =D

Hows your money doing?

I couldn't resist a quick blog update, here's a summary of how your teams holding up.



We'll start with the money down the drain list:

Riley with Australia: After a week of over confidence and ex-Australia players claiming Australia could give Germany a run for their money the 'Socceroos' World Cup dream is pretty much over. A questionable decision by Pim Verbeek to change Australia's tactics backfired epically. For some deluded reason Australia played a high defensive line, allowing the Germans to use their fantastic through-balls and quick paced strikers to knock home four goals. They were outplayed in every area by 'Ze Germans' and they paid for it. Also worth noting is the penalty the referee denied Australia (Wouldn't have made a difference) and the harsh red card which sent Tim Cahill packing.
Ghana and Serbia are reasonably acceptable sides so with a massive lack of moral, confidence and crucial player Tim Cahill, Australia might as well book their tickets home.

"Screw you guys I'm going home"

Me with England: As much as it pains me to write this, the match against USA revealed countless problems with the English side. Sean Wright-Phillips is the pinnacle of rubbish, giving the ball away at every opportunity. The injury to King means Carragher gets a place in the team, during Carragher's time on pitch he managed to be outrun by the entire of the American team as well as a number of inanimate objects. The keeper crisis has obviously been knocked up a notch with Greens sexy, sexy mistake. Green is mistake prone, as is James and Joe Hart (I'd pick Joe) is young and inexperienced. Rooney was marked out of the first 70 minutes of the game and only came to life when the American back-line got tired. I did take a small number of positives out of the game but their not nearly as interesting.

Beckham's raised eyebrow says it all.

Carragher scratches his mind over his lack of speed.

The your money looks good list:
Agam with Argentina: Argentina were fine, Messi was denied three goals by some decent keeping by Nigerian, Vincent Something.

Brazil, Spain: Haven't played at the time of writing so can't complain. I might update them once they've played, if i can be bothered.

The Surprise
Jan with South Korea: South Korea are everyone's second favorite team. How can you not like a team with Park Ji Sung in it? A decent performance against a mediocre Greek side gave the South Koreans a nudge in the right direction however it's still biblically unlikely they'll be seeing the trophy any time soon.  

Park Ji Sung practicing his 'white man eyes'

Various things that are related to football

*This is only funny if you know who people are*

"Every kick of it massively mattering to someone presumably"

This ones mostly for me but it has Rick Mayall from the young ones so win win

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I'm sure you've seen this but it's tip top, watch it again.
I like how Kobe Bryant does "The Ronaldinho"

Alright I'm done.