oh, right, the world cup's on

[rone]

Needless to say, i'm ecstatic about Ecuador's victory yesterday.  The Germans seem to be a lot better than expected.  And the English are a huge wad of suck; England-Paraguay was a terrible game.

Also: Trinidad & Tobago played very well and held off the Swedes with only 10 men. Argentina played a good first half and a crappy second half; Ivory Coast's goalie had problems that were all too familiar to me.

For all the hype about England's and Argentina's chances to win it all, they sure didn't look like potential champions today.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

A lot was made of Sweden's 30 goals in qualifying play, but 13 of them were against Malta. Still, Trinidad & Tobago made it through on a half-spot vs. Bahrain, so they were definitely not very highly regarded. Plus, that was their backup goalie you saw; he didn't know he would be playing until about five minutes before the game was on. He was a monster when he needed to be, and his defense rarely let him down.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

My analysis, having no knowledge of the pre-qualifier stuff:

Sweden doesn't know what the hell they're doing and will be out in the first round of elimination.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, that depends entirely on whether they can dominate a crappy Paraguayan team in their next game. Which they should do if they're at all as good as they're supposed to be.