It is halfway through the quarter finals now. Lots of surprises so far. Dutch out. Portugal out. Croatia out. In fact, the pattern so far is the winners of group stages were beaten by runner-ups of their own groups (confusing leh..). Anyway, was disappointed that the Netherlands were out. Their group stages football was a joy to watch. Total football. Too bad they can't perform in the Russia game. So was Portugal..although Germany's football is starting to look more like...er...football now. Good thing. As for the Croats, never a fan of their football, favoured Turkey to go through that one.
Poor van der Sar. No last hoorah before his retirement.
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Turkish Delight. Can't really figure how they gonna compete with so many players injured and banned in the next round. Empics.
Joao's emotion practically says all for Portugal.
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Tonight's will be a competition for a team famous for their attacking flair (Spain) and a side with tenacious defending (Italy). Hope they don't cancel each other out. I want a GG.
Update:
Spain went through with Iker Casillas stopping two penalty kicks in the shootout. The whole match was mostly uneventful as the two sides expectedly canceled each other out. For once, one of my favoured team went through. Deja vu for Russia? Finding out in 3 days time.
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