For the foreseeable future all the games seem to be starting no later than 3 p.m., which is a disaster for Professor Ceiling Cat. There’s a couple of good games today, including Italy vs. Uruguay. . . Here’s today’s schedule.
But let’s liven things up: guess the winners and the scores of all four games. Deadline is 11 a.m. Chicago time (3.5 hours from now), when the first games start. The first person to win gets a Jerry Coyne the Cat keychain, emblazoned with my eponymous felid getting a belly rub. If nobody gets them all right (and nobody will), the person who comes closest will win using the judge’s yet-to-be-determined algorithm. If nobody even predicts all four winners, everyone’s a loser. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON, PLEASE!
Sadly, I watched no games yesterday. 🙂 But here are some highlights (as usual, the videos are poor); as reader pktom64 noted in a comment, the highlights of all games played are archived, in high quality, at TSM Plug.
Spain crushed Australia, 3-0:
Netherlands 2, Chile 0 (am I wrong, or there are an inordinate number of goals scored by headers):
Brazil 4, Cameroon 1
Mexico 3, Croatia 1. One lovely goal by Mexico, and another from a double header
To top it off, the Google Doodle (now changed every game) is boring this morning (click to see the lame animation):
Costa Rica 2 – 1 England
Italy 1 – 0 Uruguay
Greece 0 – 2 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 0 – 3 Columbia
This WC has a lot of goals ; I think Neymar scored the 100th goal of the competition yesterday, for the 100th game in the finals for Brasil.
Once again, I’m not affiliated with the website, but here the highlights are great!
Also note that yesterday The Dutch team had no ‘van’ in for the first time in 221 internationals! 🙂
The resolution is smashing.
Thank YOU for posting this site !
Blue
CRC 2-2 ENG
ITA 1-2 URU
GRE 2-3 CIV
COL 3-1 JPN
USA were robbed the other day with that late goal.
They should make a truce with Germany.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/23/jurgen-klinsmann-vows-usa-wont-be-playing-for-a-draw-against-germany
Remember 1982…!
That is highly irrational of Klinsmann. I hope he is just lying.
I read about the “Disgrace of Gijón” in 1982. I have no problem with a pact USA-Germany. Just think about the injuries that would be prevented. One US player already got a broken nose.
Costa Rica 0 – 2 England
Italy 0 – 0 Uruguay
Greece 1 – 0 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 1 – 2 Colombia
Costa Rica 2 – 0 England
Italy 1 – 2 Uruguay
Greece 0 – 2 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 1 – 3 Columbia
All games, 1-1 draw.
Costa Rica 2-1 England
Italy 1-1 Uruguay
Greece 1-2 Cote d’Ivoire
Japan 0-2 Columbia
CRC 2-1 ENG
ITA 2-1 URU
GRE 2-3 CIV
COL 3-1 JPN
Wow – Greece to score?! 😉
Yesterday one of the games was on channel 60 and the other was on channel 66.
Mike Illich
Yes, thanks, but I’m on a book deadline and can’t spare 90 minutes during the day. If I put on a game on my laptop and then put it behind me, and turn the sound down, I still can’t work!
That sounds worse (more distracting) than having it playing on a big screen right in front of you.
I need silence to work. This is why I violently oppose open concept work environments.
Same here!
With me it depends on the character of the noise and my state of mind. Sometimes the slightest noise will piss me off, sometimes a tornado would not distract me. Also depends on the work I am doing.
Could I just point out that a World Cup goal was scored by a Norwich City player?!
🙂
Why could’t he score more like that for us last season???!!!
🙁
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Fer
Costa Rica 3 – 0 England
Italy 2 – 2 Uruguay
Greece 1 – 1 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 0 – 1 Colombia
I hope there are more gooooooaaaaalllls so would be happy to be wrong!
Costa Rica 1 – 1 England
Italy 0 – 1 Uruguay
Greece 1 – 3 CIV
Colombia 3 – 1 Japan
Costa Rica 2-1 England
Italy 2-1 Uruguay
Greece 1-3 Cote d’Ivoire
Japan 1-3 Columbia
Costa Rica 2 – 1 England
Italy 1 – 2 Uruguay
Greece 0 – 1 Cote d’Ivoire
Japan 0 – 2 Columbia
Costa Rica 1:1 England
Italy 1:3 Uruguay
Greece 0:2 Cote d’Ivoire
Japan 1:2 Columbia
Costa Rica 1 – 2 England
Italy 1 – 2 Uruguay
Greece 2 – 1 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 1 – 3 Colombia
Costa Rica 0 – 2 England
Italy 1 – 0 Uruguay
Greece 1 – 0 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 1 – 2 Columbia
Costa Rica 1 – 0 England
Italy 2 – 1 Uruguay
Greece 2 – 0 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 0 – 0 Colombia
Costa Rica 1 – England 2
Italy 1 – Uruquay 1
Greece 0 – Cote d’Ivoire 3
Japan 0 – Columbia 2
CRC over ENG: 2 to 1
ITA over URU: 2 to 1
CIV over GRE: 2 to 1
COL over JPN: 2 to 1
Wanna wager, 2 to 1, that I do not win ?!
Lovely fun ! Thank you, Doctor !
Blue
Costa Rica 1 – 1 England
Italy 0 – 0 Uruguay
Japan 0 – 2 Colombia
Greece 0 – 1 Cote d’Ivoire
That double header by Mexico was stylish.
Costa Rica 4 – 0 England
Italy 1 – 2 – Uraguay
Japan 0 – 3 – Colombia
Greece 0 – 0 Cote d’Ivoire
Costa Rica 0 – 2 England
Italy 1 – 1 Uruguay
Greece 1 – 1 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 1 – 3 Columbia
Costa Rica 0 – 1 Eng
Italy 2 – 2 Uraguay
Greece 0 – 3 C Iv
Japan 1 – 3 Col
Thanks! For several decades, I never paid any attention to football, and now I’m hooked.
Costa Rica 1 – 2 England
Italy 2 – 1 Uruguay
Greece 1 – 3 Côte d’Ivoire
Japan 1 – 2 Columbia
Costa Rica 0 – 3 Englang
Grece 1 – 1 Cote d’Ivoire
Itay 2 – 1 Uruguay
Japan 1 – 2 Colombia
The probability of getting this right is staggering low, but let’s do it just for fun sake.
Costa Rica 0 England 2
Italy 1 Uruguay 1
Greece 1 Cote D’ivoire 3
Japan 2 Colombia 2
Yes, there are an inordinate number of goals from headers, from long balls and from defensive mistakes. Also, by modern standards, lots of players caught offside.
In many ways the tournament feels like a throwback to the eighties, both in (entertaining) style and (low) quality of play.
Costa Rica, Uruguay, Ivory Coast and Colombia all to win 3-0.
Here we go.
I don’t know if you non-Canadians can get this, but cbc.ca has all the games on VOD, in high definition, so if you miss a game, it’s easy to go back and watch them (they also stream the games live on their site in HD)
http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/soccer/brazil2014/video/match/1260807 > for the England game
To me, Costa Rica is the biggest surprise so far (maybe tied with Spain laying an egg, probably from predictable exhaustion). Of course there have been other surprises like the way the Netherlands looks so far, and even the play of the US for that matter, who should advance if they don’t totally collapse against Germany.
The contest is CLOSED now.
Sorry predictions:
Costa Rica 2 England 1
Italy 1 Uruguay 0
Cote D’ivoire 2 Greece 0
Columbia 3 Japan 0
Bet against this, you’ll probably do great with my luck.
The big question is … did Suarez bite the Italian dude or not?
Looks like he did. Fifa might ban him on this one….stupid git.
What’s his deal with biting opponents? This wouldn’t be the first time he did it.
It looks like a bite.
Found this link: http://www.cbssports.com/world-cup/eye-on-world-cup/24596235/watch-uruguays-luis-suarez-appears-to-bite-italy-defender
@Gravityfly
He did it twice before already and each time got about 10 games ban. I’m guessing this time it is going to be very serious.