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This WC had the potential to be one of the best ever but it's starting to lose some of its magic imo. None of the big teams are up to their usual level. Germany was only really impressive against Portugal but it couldn't get past Ghana and is struggling with Algeria. The Netherlands were great against Spain (second half) but could have performed much better in the other games. Brazil needed some luck to beat Croatia and couldn't get past Mexico or Chile. Argentina scraped past all the teams in their group with 1 goal difference (and only beat Iran in extra time). Uruguay was hopeless without Suarez. France was in a relatively easy group but struggled against Nigeria tonight. England, Portugal, Italy and Spain are all out in the group stage. We had Costa Rica vs. Greece in the KO round The WC is supposed to be the stage where the greatest national teams excell but we've seen far too little of that so far. Let's hope it gets better in the coming matches.
Anyone who thinks this is not a foul is simply clueless about football.
Clueless, this was the biggest dive of the game, it doesn't require soccer IQ to tell he flopped. just because Marquez made contact with Robben the PK was called (robben felt the contact and dove). in Brazil's controversial PK there was contact on Fred and just after that contact Fred threw himself back, everyone called Fred out for that, now that Robben did the same thing its all fine because Holland and robben deserved a PK because of the previous kicks given to robben (he admitted to diving) in the box. unbelievable.
A clear PK , please. even after Hector Herrera got kicked in the HEAD, in the box, no PK was called, oh, I know why it wasn't called, because Herrera DIDN'T THROW HIMSELF in the box, and continued fighting for the ball and tried to score. maybe if he would of flopped the ref would have called it, just maybe.
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The WC is supposed to be the stage where the greatest national teams excell but we've seen far too little of that so far. Let's hope it gets better in the coming matches.
(he admitted to diving) in the box. unbelievable. 
