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Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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  2. 2.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    Greece is going to get destroyed.

    Let’s give a prize to the person who guesses correctly on the timing of Greece’s first red card. I say the 36th minute.

    1-0 Nigeria

  6. 6.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    Wow, I was right about the Red Card and just 3 minutes off (33rd min) – but I got the wrong team.

  9. 9.

    wengler

    Nigeria going for the degree of difficulty win.

    It’s been awhile since I’ve seen someone do something that stupid with his team up and in control of the game.

  11. 11.

    cmorenc

    This game is a contest between ineptitude (Greece) and stupidity (Nigeria). Right now, stupidity is winning, but not content with a clear advantage over ineptitude the first 30 minutes, stupidity handicapped itself with a red card for the sort of behavior you more typically see in a Boy’s U15 competitive game, not a World Cup side.

    Neither team has a ghost’s chance to get past the first knockout round if either gets so blind lucky to get there.

  12. 12.

    Morbo

    @Randinho: Ouch, yes it was; probably would’ve been fine if he’d just kept his foot down. Nigeria really needs to hunker down here at the end of the half.

  18. 18.

    wengler

    I’m going for a draw to make this group more interesting going into the final game.

  22. 22.

    Jesse

    Greece is going to get destroyed. Let’s give a prize to the person who guesses correctly on the timing of Greece’s first red card. I say the 36th minute.

    Hmm?

  23. 23.

    NobodySpecial

    Considering how evenly Nigeria is playing down a man, Greece would have been destroyed. Now it’s anyone’s game.

  29. 29.

    Violet

    Wow, been out all morning and just getting back to this match. How did Greece get up 2-1? Are we in bizarro world?

  35. 35.

    handsmile

    Watched this match in my neighborhood cafe in Astoria, Queens, so with its predominant Greek population you can imagine the pandemonium when the home team scored (!??!) and won the game. (As I write this, the car horns are blaring around the streets.)

    Before the start of the World Cup, my knowledgeable Greek football friends had hoped simply for one goal in any of the group stage matches. They ruefully dismissed the possibility of an actual victory as beyond the skills of their aged squad. Ah, now the ouzo will be spilling well into the night.

    For this neutral observer, Greece’s play after they took the lead was maddeningly incomprehensible. (Of course, one might claim that even before they led.) With a man advantage, a Nigeria squad likely exhausted and perhaps demoralized, and the need for a third goal to match So. Korea’s total, there was a complete lack of urgency. Happy to pass the ball between defenders, then back to the keeper who lumped it upfield to the midfielders who would wait there until the frappes were served. Samaras’ selfish touchline strike into the side netting from an impossible angle in stoppage time epitomized the Greek effort.

    One may need to turn to the classical Greek tragedians (“The Eumenides,” say) to find a adequate representation of what awaits this team against Argentina.

  36. 36.

    Calouste

    @NobodySpecial:

    Not really.

    Argentina is through unless they lose by three goals to Greece AND South Korea beats Nigeria.

    South Korea is through in most scenarios as long as they don’t lose to Nigeria and Argentina doesn’t lose to Greece.

  37. 37.

    Randy Paul

    @handsmile: I’m a former Astoria resident (28th Street between 23rd and 24th Avenues) and can only imagine what it must have been like.

    While I doubt if it would happen, could you imagine your neighborhood in a game between Brazil and Greece, given the significant Brazilian population there now?

    @Calouste: Right now South Korea and Greece have minus 1 goal differentials. Nigeria has minus 2. If Nigeria beats South Korea by 2 to 0 and Argentina beats Greece by any score, Nigeria goes through. If Nigeria beats South Korea by 1 and Argentina beats Greece by 2, then Nigeria goes through. In the first scenario Nigeria goes through purely on goal differential and in the second on goal differential v Greece and on head-to-head competition against South Korea. Still lots of possibilities.

  38. 38.

    fotis

    vamos grecia.all we want now it is a draw with argentina.and then…it is just history in the making.;)forza greece forza salpi(he transfered to paok thessaloniki yesterday in case you did not know)

  39. 39.

    Antreas

    Why don’t you just RELAX on your sofa..grab a cold beer and watch Greece while beats Argentina in the next match???
    We are gonna get to the next round for sure..Greece is back..

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