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Originally Posted by mineistaken
You must be joing? They played very well for the last 15 minutes.
For the first 90 minutes they were terrible... The whole game it was clear that they can do absolutely nothing while Belgium was doing everything. 30:5 shots after 90 minutes. Every non US and non Belgium spectator was waiting for when finally Belgium would officially mark their dominance by the goal. Nobody even expected US to win watching the game... Announcer on the TV even trashed this game as the biggest cat and mouse game (as in Belgium was totally dominating the US). They had nothing for the whole game (except the good shot at 89th minute or so).This was the most one sided eight-final game out of all....
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And yet at the end of regulation it was a tie game.
I watched Bill Parcells beat better teams on the playoffs and SuperBowl by 'taking air out of the ball' and dragging better opponents into close games where they would crack and lose. Almost worked this time and the effort was a good one. Winning a Texas holdem with 8 6 off suit isn't easy, but it can be done. Congrats to Belgium. They have no chance against Germany, unless they play the same cat and mouse game from the opposite POV.