The first of the quarter final events gets underway today, with the winners of Group A taking on the runners up of Group B. Portugal have so far used the same starting line up in each of their three matches, presumably believing it a winning formula. Captain of the Czech side, Tomas Rosicky, is suffering from an Achilles injury that he sustained during their match against Greece. He's not likely to start the match but might be available as a substitute. Whoever wins this will go on to play the winner of Spain against France.
Czech Republic vs Portugal (Quarter-final)
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New idea, instead of the match, we get 90 minutes of listening to Jurgen Klinsmann.
AND Clarence Seedorf.
Evening. Cheering for the Czechs.
Juergen klinnsmann!
He just quit Milan, apparently.
I don't care about him, Klinsmann is the greatest German of all time.
I'll never forget the first game he played for spurs. Legend.
Contract ran out.
Too slow to catch it?
The four against Wimbledon meant so much, brilliant, so brilliant.
i feel like i've missed something?
This could be the best game- two teams who have matched/exceeded expectations.
The one and a half years Jurgen spent in England. Ahhhhh.
I estimate he spent at least 80% of his time diving.
i... you must have a post about this?
Brilliant.
I don't, but he's in the BBC studio and its good remember the great things he did for us.
i'm going to struggle with that :)
Anyone else having problems with twitter tonight?
yeah, it's broked.
Cheers. Wonder how many matches it will miss for injury? ;)
someone probably about #glt and then *boom*, no more twitter ;(
tweetdeck stole half me comment!
hi guys, I'm kind of half watching
What's #glt?
An NFL basketball player.
What are you other half doing?
Oooooh.
she's gone out for a m.. oh wait :)
I'm just writing some notes for work so it's kind of background noise. But commenting is always fun anyways of course.
This game has lived up to the "Mark doesn't have the first clue what he's talking about" rule. DULL AS ANYTHING.
Same, if that. It's just on. Don't care about either team and expecting Portugal to win. Would be nice if the Czechs did. I don't know if I'll bother with tomorrow's at all.
Cooking dinner, sorting out bookings for things (gave me a headache working it all out but I think I'm there).
Hi there
This game is threatening to get interesting.
I don't think the Czechs will win, but if they do, I'll be happy, because I have plenty of them in my Fantasy team :)
goal line technology. bad comment typing ruined my sarcasm. ignore me.
interesting. shouldn't a competition build up to a crescendo? how has it lost momentum after just a day off?
I think its more down to two very uninspiring games. France v Spain should be interesting.
That's the one I'm waiting for, and England of course.
Germany will win easily tomorrow and I just don't really care about today's teams.
ahh, true enough.
Nani, diving? Never.
Because I'm knackered!
Hoot suite just tweeted me to ask if I was having any problems using the app. I never even contacted them - how awesome is that for customer service?
BT do that, it's a bit freaky sometimes especially if you've had a real go at them
Hi all
One of these days Ronaldo is going to try and shoot from a goal kick.
Just drop by to say I'm out for a last-minute-arranged meal. More than likely see you FP1.
Ronaldo's acting classes must be really good
He's almost Italian in his gestures and reactions.
I already have a picture in my feed reader of Ronaldos attempted bicycle Kick. That's freaky quick!
The Portuguese have been worse than the Italians in this tournament IMO.
Offside
I thought Portugal had taken the lead
By a country mile.
What a waste. Great break from the Czech
Portugal don't have the patience of Spain to pass the ball round and create an opening
Cech, Cech, Cech, you're meant to take the opposition player out.
At least he was positive and got the ball. Was the perfect chance to take out Ronaldo though
Caught his studs in the ground. Bet that hurt
How was that foul not given?
*wakes up*
At last.
1-0
Love the reaction from the Portuguese manager.
just checking back in for the last five minutes. that shot was miles over.
Dive
portugal shouldn't be allowed to play in that shirt. who's crazy design is that?
What's wrong with it?
Do the Portugese players have a pool running on who can miss by the greatest distance?
it doesn't continue round the back and goes right from top to bottom. poor use of space.
hehe. i've seen them shoot at the roof twice since i tuned in.
4 minutes? 4 minutes?! Torture.
Awful game. Portugal have made a meal of this team.
all tangled up. what the...
There are far worse examples. There are teams (not this tournament) who have stripes over the whole front and a plain colour on the rear
did they get the person behind toro rosso to draw that?
:)
Please don't equalise
keeper seems to have forgotten his role.
So wanted Portugal to score there.
Commentators getting tongue-tied trying to concemn the Czech player while trying not to criticise the English referee
Condemn
now i am confused. we like them now?
#hardtokeepup
Keepers always go up when the team is behind. Sometimes works too, who could forget Jimmy Glass scoring on the last day of the season to keep Carlisle up...
Because Cech ran up for it. Would have been funny.
oooh phew. agreed.
Don't think I will ever forget that
Why didn't he send him off?
cheers all. will catch you for more tomorrow. should be far less busy then.
Final score: Ronaldo 1, czech republic 0.
:)
Good win for Portugal. Now for
the Battle of ThermopylaeGreece v Germany tomorrow.Beats me. BBC started saying that it was ridiculous behaviour and clearly they thought he should go. Almost criticised the ref then remembered he was English and in the space of two sentences it was a good decision not to send him off because there was no time left in the game
Seriously though, whoever gets to the semis just needs to take out Ronaldo and they've beat them.
See ya tomorrow
Just let him shoot from a million miles out. That would do the trick.
Or at least mark him. He is one of the best two or three players in the world but when he scored he was not only not marked but none of the defenders had a clue he was anywhere near the box. They had four defenders in the middle marking one attacker and Ronaldo blindsided them
I'm going to miss tomorrows game as I'm going out for dinner them I'm off to see wolfmother.
Who or what is Wolfmother? A Danish relative? A show/film?
Australian heavy rock band, with clear influence from led zep, black sabbath and deep purple.
3 guesses and I never got remotely close
Points for effort at least!