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Germany-Serbia Open Thread

by Randinho|  June 18, 20107:25 am| 41 Comments

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Wonder if Serbian Coach Radomir Antic will use Nikola Zigic or if Serbia’s defenders will be able to contain the German attack.

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  1. 1.

    Bobby Thomson

    June 18, 2010 at 7:39 am

    I think you mean Austria-Hungary.

  2. 2.

    J.W. Hamner

    June 18, 2010 at 7:49 am

    Wow, yellow cards are raining. 3 I think? And we’re 20 minutes in?

    EDIT: 4!

  3. 3.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 7:58 am

    If German coach, Joachim Löw were wearing a tutrtleneck I would be wondering if he were going to dance and where his monkey is.

  4. 4.

    stuckinred

    June 18, 2010 at 8:07 am

    OMG he’s been sent off!

  5. 5.

    stuckinred

    June 18, 2010 at 8:08 am

    Don’t you get a card for jumping into the stands?

  6. 6.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 8:09 am

    Wow! Klose sent off. Funny about Spanish referees, I went to a game at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona with FC Barcelona against Villarreal. The referee gave 16 yellow cards in that game.

  7. 7.

    stuckinred

    June 18, 2010 at 8:10 am

    @Randinho: So are these undeserved?

  8. 8.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 8:17 am

    @stuckinred: Not automatically, no. If the referee determines that it’s delaying the restart of play he could caution him.

  9. 9.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 8:17 am

    @stuckinred: I think most of them are, yes.

  10. 10.

    Alex S.

    June 18, 2010 at 8:23 am

    When Serbia plays against Germany, it’s always World-War 1, World-War 2 and the Balkan Wars revisited.

  11. 11.

    Morfydd

    June 18, 2010 at 8:24 am

    I just asked my coworker exactly what the ramifications were… then realized he was wearing a Klose jersey. Ouch.

    (In Hamburg, where no work is getting done today)

  12. 12.

    DecidedFenceSitter

    June 18, 2010 at 8:29 am

    Having fun texting with my German-raised friend – I just root for whoever is playing Germany to give her someone to cheer against/rant at about the yellow cards.

    Now I’m all about “Cinderella, cinderella”.

  13. 13.

    Breezeblock

    June 18, 2010 at 8:32 am

    I’d think Klose’s World Cup career is over.

  14. 14.

    wengler

    June 18, 2010 at 8:33 am

    This ref isn’t being uneven in distribution of cautions. It is up to the players to adjust to him just like pitchers have to adjust to an umpire’s strike zone in baseball.

  15. 15.

    Joe

    June 18, 2010 at 8:36 am

    @Breezeblock: I doubt it. This will only be a one match suspension so he will be available for the 2nd Round assuming Germany qualify. If he had been ridiculously stupid like the Nigerian the other day then he would get dropped, but I think Low will bring him back in after he serves the suspension.

  16. 16.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 8:36 am

    @wengler: I don’t think that’s the issue. I think it’s a question of over aggressive awarding of cards.

  17. 17.

    Violet

    June 18, 2010 at 8:39 am

    Since it seems like all the favorites are tanking in their opening matches, is Germany going to have it’s bad “opening match” in its second match, just to mix things up?

  18. 18.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 8:41 am

    Lahm just got the ball cleanly and Mallenco calls a foul. I hope that this is his last game.

  19. 19.

    PaulW

    June 18, 2010 at 8:45 am

    if Serbia’s defenders will be able to contain the German attack.

    World War I references in 5… 4… 3…

  20. 20.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 8:45 am

    Well the referee gets one right.

  21. 21.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 8:46 am

    Save by Stojkovic. Weak attempt by Podolski

  22. 22.

    Stroszek

    June 18, 2010 at 8:46 am

    Serbia: So dumb, soooooooo lucky.

  23. 23.

    Miss Kitka's Comrade Wayne

    June 18, 2010 at 8:47 am

    Will there be enough yellow left in the world after Don Alberto is done with the day’s work? Jeez.

  24. 24.

    Morbo

    June 18, 2010 at 8:48 am

    @Randinho: It looked like he really telegraphed that one.

  25. 25.

    wengler

    June 18, 2010 at 8:50 am

    English announcers aren’t good arbitrators of what should be a yellow or not. It looks like the ref hasn’t been hesitant to reach to his pocket, but the EPL isn’t exactly a great example for what is and isn’t considered a yellow on the international level.

  26. 26.

    wengler

    June 18, 2010 at 8:53 am

    So far it’s been Post 2, Goal 1.

  27. 27.

    damn good mr. jam

    June 18, 2010 at 8:54 am

    Hmm, maybe finishing second in Group C wouldn’t be so bad after all.

  28. 28.

    Miss Kitka's Comrade Wayne

    June 18, 2010 at 8:55 am

    /reaches in pocket and shows yellow card to wengler for calling the Premiership “ee-pee-ell.”

  29. 29.

    Rob

    June 18, 2010 at 8:56 am

    I’ve never seen anyone get a yellow on Klose’s 2nd call.

  30. 30.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 8:59 am

    @wengler: Derek Rae is Scottish. I might add Mertesacker just fouled someone from behind and Mallenco did not pull out a card.

    Marko Marin is in the game. Will Bosnia now avenge itself against Serbia?

  31. 31.

    wengler

    June 18, 2010 at 9:04 am

    @Miss Kitka’s Comrade Wayne

    I’m certainly not going to call it the Barclay’s Premier League.

    @Randinho

    Scots and English have the same attitude toward cards. If the leg isn’t dangling off it’s not a red.

    The ref has been far more hesitant in the second half. Maybe someone from the FIFA head office called him at halftime.

  32. 32.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 9:06 am

    @wengler: True, but you don’t want to call a Scotsman English.

  33. 33.

    Randinho

    June 18, 2010 at 9:08 am

    That foul on Cacau would have been a yellow card in the first half.

  34. 34.

    Miss Kitka's Comrade Wayne

    June 18, 2010 at 9:16 am

    I suspect Alberto Undiano’s business cards are printed on dayglo yellow cardstock. I also suspect we won’t be seeing much of him in this tournament after today’s fine performance.

  35. 35.

    wengler

    June 18, 2010 at 9:21 am

    Germany were a little hard done by in that game.

    This group is really open now for the taking.

  36. 36.

    joe from Lowell

    June 18, 2010 at 9:42 am

    Serbia’s defenders will be able to contain the German attack

    The historical record is not so good.

  37. 37.

    cmorenc

    June 18, 2010 at 9:53 am

    I’d wager that the referee for the Germany v Serbia game has called his last game in this World Cup. I seriously doubt he’ll be one of the refs selected to call any of the knockout round games. (Completely aside from any conflict rules between referee nationality and whether his country’s national team is still in the running, see next paragraph). Every World Cup referee’s performance in every game gets rigorously analyzed in great detail by a team of expert assessors. He’ll get feedback all right from them.

    OTOH, I’ll wager that the referee for yesterday’s Mexico v France game DOES have a good chance of getting another game further on, depending on his nationality (there are rules about whether you can move on to the knockout rounds as a referee and how far, depending on whether your own country’s national team is still in the competition and in which bracket).

  38. 38.

    Tokyokie

    June 18, 2010 at 9:56 am

    Germany are going to have a difficult time advancing, as Serbia and Ghana both have wins in hand, and neither’s played Australia yet. Germany’s going to have to beat Ghana without Klose and then hope to get by on goal differential.

  39. 39.

    Dex

    June 18, 2010 at 10:01 am

    Germany’s game was hindered by a pathetic, overzealous ref. That said, the Germans still managed to minimize the damage even with ten men. Too bad luck didn’t turn their way…

  40. 40.

    handsmile

    June 18, 2010 at 10:32 am

    Despite their loss today to the Spanish referee, I was actually quite impressed by Germany’s performance. A man down for almost sixty minutes, they managed to boss much of the match with creative offensive forays and impressive midfield control. And it wasn’t as if Serbia chose to collapse into a defensive posture to protect their lead.

    Yet permit me to observe that not content merely to squander his penalty kick, Lukas Poldoski had a wretched game overall…but not nearly as awful as the appropriately-named Holger BADstuder, the German right back. I trust he will enjoy updating his Twitter feeds during the remaining German matches, rising from the bench only to get his teammates a clean towel.

    As to what teams in this group will go through, I suspect Germany’s thrashing of Australia will prove decisive in terms of goal differential.

    While off-this-particular-topic, those savoring French humiliation will relish Paul Hayward’s column on the end of the Domenech era in today’s Guardian Online.

  41. 41.

    Onkel Fritze

    June 18, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    What Löw said: in a game with 9 yellow cards and one yellow-red, you would think it was particularly brutal – but it wasn’t. Players fought hard, but it was a fair game overall.

    That ref just sucked. But the USA didn’t have any better luck today, either.

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