<p>Just finished watching the Netherlands vs. Russia and I'm heartbroken. Unbelievable. This is even more surprising and unexpected than the Croatia vs. Turkey game. What's next? Spain goes home?</p>
<p>I hated the Russian team so much, Turkey on the other hand I was hoping would win. Spain has David Villa and Italy is already so weak, My bets are Spain wins!</p>
<p>Russia totally deserved to win yesterday. Why do you hate them so much? Maybe if they had fluked a win you could be disheartened, but I think Russia were worthy winners (even though I wanted Holland to go to the semis before the match started).</p>
<p>Maybe he still holds a grudge from the cold war.</p>
<p>Netherlands took out Romania, so I'm glad that Russia won. Netherlands got owned from what I saw.</p>
<p>Russia was way better than Holland... I was hoping that they would win and they did!!
I also wanted Turkey to win. I couldnt believe that they managed to equalize in the last second and then win in penalties!
Today, i think that Spain is going to beat Italy- hopefully without extra time...</p>
<p>However, I think that in Germany vs Turkey, Turkey stands very little chance because:
1. the Germans are a better team, and have all their starters
2. The turks are missing a lot of their players</p>
<p>I think that the final will end up being Germany vs Russia and Germany will probably win. Who knows though, anything can happen</p>
<p>Russia definitely deserved their win. If they had been half as aggressive within the penalty box as they were taking the ball down the field, the score would have been 5 or 6-1. They simply played better.</p>
<p>I'd give Germany a 95% chance of winning against Turkey. Turkey isn't really one of the top teams to begin with; they've had a lot of luck (their tenacity does help too) in their previous games, but now that they're missing Nihat, Volkan, and a couple other of their first string players, their luck is going to run out.</p>
<p>Italy lost a fair amount of their best players to injury before the tournament even started and predictably haven't played so well, so I really don't think they have it in them to win against Spain. I would have liked the possibility of an Italy vs. Germany rematch revenge. It's always possible that Spain will catch the dropping out disease that has seemed to affect the group winners. Funny that they're the last one in the tournament.</p>
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<p>Wow OMG Germany's only -750 at the books!!!1 With a 95% chance of winning, that's an average profit of $57.5 for each $750 you plunk on the Germans--Vegas is so dumb!!!11 Free money on the Germans everybody!</p>
<p>Italy really put up a great fight in that game, i was afraid that Spain might have lost it. Once again, though, penalties have to decide the winner.
Spain won it!!!
so it will be Germany vs Turkey and Russia vs Spain</p>
<p>what does everyone else think will happen?</p>
<p>Italy dominated the game, but lost due to PK. What a shame. Why isn't anyone taking off their shirts (Luca Toni, I'm talking to you) ?</p>
<p>Spain Italy
4 Goals scored 2
3 Yellow card 1
0 Red card 0
6 Shots on goal 3
15 Shots wide 5
26 Fouls committed 25
8 Corners 3
3 Offsides 4
49' 13'' Ball. Poss. (time) 37' 35''
56% Ball. Poss. (%) 44%</p>
<p>I don't see Italian domination there.</p>
<p>It was no where near an italian domination...</p>
<p>I wanted Germany to win all along.</p>
<p>They should have won in the world cup two years ago and this is their chance to show themselves.</p>
<p>I HATE ITALY. Germany is going to win. and very sad that the dutch and france lost.</p>
<p>France sucks. One of the most overrated national teams ever.
I'm sad Netherlands is eliminated. Robin van Persie is so cute.</p>
<p>france does not suck. and i dont think they are overrated, theyre rated fine. brazil however is wayy overrated.</p>
<p>Each major tournament I always ponder who's overrated. I start rattling off teams in my head "France... Germany... Brazil... England... Portugal..." until I basically cover all the major powers. They're all over-hyped it seems, but the trick is to determine which ones are relatively more overrated than the others.</p>
<p>I think Brazil is the most talented team but no one on that team likes to do the dirty work.</p>
<p>Brazil is definitely not overrated. Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Cafu are easily the best footballers in the world.</p>
<p>I saw the Holland team in the Frankfurt airport on Thursday. Just a random thought.</p>