After 62 games, 32 teams, we have only 2 squads left, and they shall meat to see who's best.

3th place play-off
8 Jul Germany - Portugal

Final
9 Jul Italy - France


Who's the best?


ps.: AVANTE AZZURRA!

yer i think Italy will take it home

Italy played a great game against Germany. If their ball flow is the same, the France I saw play tonight doesn't stand a chance...

Yeah got to agree, Italy were very impressive and have to be favourites. However, France have shown they can play when they need to, so it could be an interesting game.

I'll win money if France win so I'll have to support them

ALLEZ LES BLEUS!

argh....

pt vs fra... few chances for both teams but fra is too strong , after the pen. was hard to get back to the game. im glad for the pt's, even us didnt expect such a good wc but the players prooved that they could do it.


anyway, from my pov the best teams in the world are:
Italy - strong teamwork and always looking for a mistake from the opponent - skeaky bastards
Brazil - for its resources, alot of good players
Argentina - Magic and good football
France - Zizou and strong team - everyone is good.

The runner ups are:

England
Portugal
Germany
....

Imo, france is favourite, not only because Italy in the last games scored with a bit of late luck, but because of french group.




ps. QUAKE! and sensible soccer, game of the 90's at least! hug for all quakers!

was a nice article in the metro today about Italy and their 'adult' style of football against germany

any chance of a link to that article oldman?

My guess is a 0-0 and the penalties will decide in favour of France.

sadly it is a physical paper and they didn't have it on their website i don't think

if i still have it i can scan it in over the weekend

0-0 what a typical score when italy plays
I believe it will be 1-2 it vs .fr
france will win ;/

Portugal has a great team but the acting of them makes me sick. In the game Holland vs Porto the coach of porto (Scolari) was sitting in the referee room talking with the referee, a FIFA guy saw it too.

And the game porto - france the players that walked up the field after the rest where whining to the referee why ronaldo didn't got a penalty and france did. Ronaldo should of get 10 yellow cards because of all the faking. Bleh makes me sick too watch the porto team.


France - Italy will be a hot game but i think Italy will come out as winners if france play like they did the 2nd half vs porto.

murdoc holland was best team in competicion...

who said that? don't act like porto is the best team on this WC while they reached half finals by lame acting.

NL sucked 2 but hey what to expect of a team with 8 new players, even then they overruled porto, but if you can only play 15min football the second half and have to be arsed by the lame acting the rest of the game and a gay referee that decides that only 6min addon will be enough and even 2 out of 6 minutes are played, because of more lame acting.

BG portugal and even more BG to the ppl who think that portugal played any fair football at all. They should of get atleast 10 yellow cards.

mur that seems a bit agressive imo...
remember in pt vs nl game, nl got 2yellow cards in the first 8min.

rofl @ Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_cup_2006#Final

somebody edited the page and wrote the score for the final Italy - France 3:1

here's a screenshot in case they fix the page:

its a prophecy!

Allez Les Bleus !§§§§!!§§!

i wonder if hafog will be eating his words after his complaints about Italy pre-tournament?

raa!

Congrats to Italy and a big BOO to Zidane!

/me eats his words

zidane =\