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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yuan-Ti" data-source="post: 228900" data-attributes="member: 4483">Agreed. Italy lost out on another goal opportunity due to a bad linesman call but I really have to say that this happens ALL the time because being a linesman is incredibly difficult. Other than that, I thought it was well called. The call against Totti was fair, as was the penalty kick early on. I do suspect that fans of the big teams are upset that the calls don't always go their way this time around (well, Turkey still got screwed against Brazil, but...). It used to be that Brazil, for example, could punch, bite and kick his way into scoring but it seems this time around that the referees are not afraid to make big calls against the big teams. It was a fun game to watch because the Koreans played so hard for that tieing goal. I understand the tactics of playing defense with 30 minutes to go when you are up by 1, but this seems like one of the few tournaments where so many of the favorites have been burned for playing that way. Can Korea beat Spain? After Spain's performance yesterday and after seeing this game, I would have to say yes. Will they? I may be proven wrong again, but my answer is: probably not. I was joking with my (German) brother-in-law the other day that this could go down in history as the World Cup in which Germany advanced to the finals by beating a bunch of nobodies. Imagine it: Paraguay, USA, South Korea... and Germany is in the final! A more cynical German friend of mine replied: Germany could go down in history as the worst team ever to reach the finals. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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