This game is craaaaaazy! Let's see what happens . . .

CRAZY!!!!!!!

Wow! What a cracker of a game!!!

And the cheating f&Cks won it

Uruguay wins after penalties... I was rooting for Ghana. They were soooo close to winning the game.

If only Gyan had scored with that penalty...

Really a bitter defeat for Ghana.

Although IMO working outside the rules is part of the game.
They had to use their hands there. If not its over. if he does he trades a red card for a small chance that the penalty is missed.

Still this is really a horrible way to go out.

Okay Deutschland, tomorrow is your day. From here on I'm all for Klose, Podolski and the German crew. Ich druecke mir die Daumen.

Some game. Handball/redcard saved Uruguay. Not a great way to win a game but they go on. Gyan did have a big chance to win it though, not all was "dirty play" by Uruguay.

After these 2 games today, those that say football is booorrrriing, need there heads examined.

HAHAHAHAAHHA ! We lost ! i knew it ! i was having good dreams during the match,wich meant no goals from brazil.

I`m glad the plebe anesthesic is over and now the governament have to show its doing something in the northest disaster, that received help even from venezuela of all places !

Only watched the game later on replays, but our goalkeeper....facepalms....

Vergüenza!!!!!!!

Shame on Uruguay! - Well, this World cup is really showing to kids all over the world that CHEATING WORKS!

Typically South American style. They always use their hands whenever they can and to boot they're proud to win like that. And, yes, I lived a year in Argentina, played a lot of footie and can say that that is the way it is down there. Really shameful. No sense of honour or fairplay.

Now I just hope that the Oranje will destroy Uruguay and go to the final. I hope Uruguay gets the same bad karma France got from Handball Henry (a "great" French football player, just like "Headbutt" Zidane...)

yeah,

I really hoped Ghana would make it in the penalties, they deserved it. I hope this player who saved the goal with his hand won`t be allowed to play again in this WC. This is the minimum.

Let's face it - this is not just typical south-american style to save a goal by cheating in the 120th minute.

In this situation I can imagine most teams would resort to that. And the rule says, the player gets booked with a red card followed by a penalty. The player justifiably got it, Ghana sadly missed to score.

This doesn't mean it's good style - far from it. But if the Uruguayan hadn't done it, it surely would have been over and to risk a red card and a penalty in the 120th minute is a low price if this is the only chance to stay in the tournament and to get through.

Overall, both teams had strong phases in this match. And it certainly made for a good drama. Can't say the better team won, certainly the more case-hardened team.

Oh, and the player will miss the match vs. the Netherlands for sure and I strongly believe that Uruguay will not win against the Netherlands. And after seeing how the Dutch sent their Brazilian counterpart packing today I don't think Ghana would have had good chances either.

All i want is paraguai to won the cup so we can see their model do a naked streak !

purolator, the instinctive reaction of most if not all European players is to strain to block the ball with their heads and upper bodies, you see that all the time in European football. The South American instinctive reaction is to throw the hands and arms up, which goes totally against the idea of the game, FOOTball. It is not OK to win like that. It is like saying, about someone who stole a car, "sure, he took it but he also took the jail sentence, so it is all fine and dandy". No, it is not, what he did was wrong.

Congrats to Uruguay!

Freycinet, I just read an article which made me grin. It is in German, I don't know if you speak it or not.

In a nutshell, the writer (like me) also concludes that everything was settled according to the rules - but he also writes this:

"Wenn die Regeln denjenigen, der vorsätzlich einen Verstoß begeht, belohnen, und gleichzeitig diejenigen, die um die Früchte ihrer Arbeit gebracht worden sind, bestrafen, dann sind die Regeln das Papier nicht wert, auf dem sie gedruckt wurden. Im Basketball, um mal eine Anleihe in einer anderen Sportart zu nehmen, gibt es die sogenannte Goaltending-Regel. Wird die Flugbahn des Balles regelwidrig verändert, bestraft man den Regelverletzer, aber nicht zugleich auch den Angreifer - denn die Punkte werden gegeben."

Rough Translation: "If the rules reward the one who deliberately breaches them and simultaneously punish those, who get robbed, then the rules are not worth the paper being printed on. To use an example from another kind of sports, in basketball you have the goaltending rule. If the trajectory of the ball is altered by irregular means, the infringing player gets punished, but not the scorer - the points get added to the score."

Source: http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,704428,00.html

Sums it up nicely for me.

only a few minute left for the match to begin.

I hope our team will put up a good fight, because as to beat Argentina, we will again need a great performance. And even better.

Of course, I wouldn`t mind seeing Maradona crying AGAIN after a match vs. Germany...

Go Germany!

1:0 for Germany in the 4th minute!!!