This was a great game. Argentina scored early and it seemed like they were sitting on their lead and they took out their best offensive players to try to hold the lead. Their goalie also got hurt so that took a sub away. Then Germany tied it in the 80th minute. So they had a backup goalie and no good offensive players. When Germany trailed I really thought the refs were going to make a bad call to get them back in it. But that didn't really happen. Germany kept battling and made an honest comeback, and won it on penalty kicks. The German goalie was awesome on the PKs, he stopped 2 of 4 and even the ones he didn't stop he guessed right about.
Italy over Ukraine:
Please don't come to my house and smash my RISK board, but it turns out Ukraine was weak. Or at least over their head at this stage of the tournament. Italy just killed them.
Portugal over England:
This game actually wasn't that exciting. Nothing much happened. The best part was the crazy English fan in the pub who was making ridiculous faces the whole time. Portugal had two top guys missing due to red cards from the last match against Netherlands; Beckham was subbed out early for England and Wayne Rooney was red carded for stepping on someone's nuts. After that neither team tried much. Penalty kicks are a tough way to decide a winner, so I feel very badly for England, but I don't think they ever played great throughout the whole tournament.
France over Brazil:
Now this was an exciting game, especially at the end. Brazil just never got their offense going. I admit I don't know much about soccer, but I've watched a lot over the past few weeks and Zinedine Zidane is by far the best player in this World Cup. Ronaldinho didn't do shit last night. Zidane is a magician. His free kick right onto the foot of Henry was a thing of beauty. And I told you all before the tournament that France would win this game. You told me this game was going to be like "Rugrats in Paris" when "France never had a chance." You said "Ronaldo and Ronaldinho will be like Chucky and Tommy, and Kaka and Kafu like Phil and Lil." You were wrong. Vive le France.
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