Ça alors, les Bleus se réveillé!
Wow, finally, les Bleus have awoken from their 8-year slumber.
Didn't really manage to catch the game live... was somewhere between slumber and groggy consciousness myself. I did, however, remember witnessing somehow that last peach of a strike by Zizou fly beyond Casillas and a cluster of men in white and blue collapsing onto one another in ecstasy before falling back into unconsciousness.
When I awoke sufficiently to make sense of my surroundings again, I knew that the 1998 champions - written off by many - have come from behind to see off the Spanish pretenders 3-1, in no small thanks to goals from veterans Patrick Viera and Zinedine Zidane. And the reward for their troubles? A last-eight meeting with defending champs Brazil.
Germany, Argentina, England, Portugal, Italy, Brazil and France... The big guns and former champs have all made it - and I've somehow managed to pick 7 out of the final 8 teams correctly.
Here's going out on a limb again and picking my final four (using both heart and mind as indicated in parenthesis):
- Germany to narrowly defeat Argentina solely with home ground advantage (all mind);
- Luck to finally run out for the English, who simply cannot get out of their insipidness, and Portugal to triumph (heart and mind);
- Italy to persist and out-last Ukraine in a low scoring slug-fest (heart and mind);
- France to hold Brazil for a while before Ronaldo and co. manage to fire their way through (mind).
Anyway, those four would make the most mouth-watering semis in my opinion. Fans of Argentina may argue but hey, as past stats will show you, you simply cannot underestimate the power of home advantage in sports, and in particular, football.
Didn't really manage to catch the game live... was somewhere between slumber and groggy consciousness myself. I did, however, remember witnessing somehow that last peach of a strike by Zizou fly beyond Casillas and a cluster of men in white and blue collapsing onto one another in ecstasy before falling back into unconsciousness.
When I awoke sufficiently to make sense of my surroundings again, I knew that the 1998 champions - written off by many - have come from behind to see off the Spanish pretenders 3-1, in no small thanks to goals from veterans Patrick Viera and Zinedine Zidane. And the reward for their troubles? A last-eight meeting with defending champs Brazil.
Germany, Argentina, England, Portugal, Italy, Brazil and France... The big guns and former champs have all made it - and I've somehow managed to pick 7 out of the final 8 teams correctly.
Here's going out on a limb again and picking my final four (using both heart and mind as indicated in parenthesis):
- Germany to narrowly defeat Argentina solely with home ground advantage (all mind);
- Luck to finally run out for the English, who simply cannot get out of their insipidness, and Portugal to triumph (heart and mind);
- Italy to persist and out-last Ukraine in a low scoring slug-fest (heart and mind);
- France to hold Brazil for a while before Ronaldo and co. manage to fire their way through (mind).
Anyway, those four would make the most mouth-watering semis in my opinion. Fans of Argentina may argue but hey, as past stats will show you, you simply cannot underestimate the power of home advantage in sports, and in particular, football.
posted by snowcalla @ 5:15 pm (UTC+8)
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