Rate your best match ever

Originally Posted by Sash22

02- this is the most promissing and most disgusting and boring tournament ever (except if u are a korean). Teams like France, Argentina and Cameroon with so many expectations failed to show even half of their worth and were out already in first round with very distasteful performance... other european teams seemed tired like Italy or England, and played very boring (and the dutch even didn't make it pass the qualifying round having a very good team).
Germany... lets look their rout to the final: Paraguay, USA and Korea (all games were won by 1 goal)... does it look like World Cup tournament??? And the "awesome" brasilians... Honestly I prefered to see Korea winning that cup, and not that "ego-centric" self-loving unproffesional team. That Brazil was the worst team they had since... ever, and still managed to win the tournament. That tournament didn't produce even one match (or at least one moment) worth to remember, so what are u talking about???

Agreed on 1st part. Strongly disagree on the 2nd. US-Germany was a clash, very good performance by both teams. Korean and japanese teams fought the butts off. Yes, the officials seemed to help the Koreans against Italians, though who would have thought that the hosts will play at this level. And Brazil was just one level above all,
"masterstvo ne propiosh"! I watched their final and the other game while traveling around the globe. It was fun to watch Brazil play, I had no doubts they could defeat anyone starting from 0-1 or 0-2. You are entitled to your own opinion. It will be fun to watch Brazil, Argentine and many others in Germany-06. Anyone going?
P.S. Tunisia just lost on the shootouts to Nigeria in semifinal of the Africa Cup.

I would only mention the games of past three or four years.

Best Milan game: Milan - Inter: 3-2
Best game overall: Manchester United - Real Madrid(CL 2003 Quarter Final): 4-3

Originally Posted by slicknick

I would only mention the games of past three or four years.
Best Milan game: Milan - Inter: 3-2
Best game overall: Manchester United - Real Madrid(CL 2003 Quarter Final): 4-3

Everyone keeps referring to the same Milan-Inters game. What year was that?
And did Sheva play well? I think he did since he has already produced 13 goals against Inter.

Carlisle? Is that the town where Dickenson college is, not far from Harrisburg, the capital of PA?

That game was in 03/04 season...
Inter had 2-0 lead in half-time, but Milan still managed to come back and win with that great goal by Seedorf. It was best derby I think I saw, Kaka had one of his best performances ever and scored a neat goal too.
And as for Sheva he played pretty average, was guarded tight by Inter defence (they always watch him close, and btw he scored 14 goals in the derby) but still managed to create couple chances. We did outplayed them through out the whole match, as not like the two past years that even though we win we aren't the superior team (and lately we even lost the derby... we deserve to loose though).

P.S. I see u don't forget your ukranian roots, tell me how long do u live in US and where are u from originally in ukraine?

Originally Posted by Sash22

P.S. I see u don't forget your ukranian roots, tell me how long do u live in US and where are u from originally in ukraine?

Sash, thanks. Look up in "revelation" thread, i posted there this week.

for me, the two 4-0s are simply the best. they always are. We dominated the match and scored like crazy. and I hope we can have more 4-0 CL final wins in the future.

hitmanq8: i am an italy fan since 94, and been watching closely all their games since then. in '02, italy did put in good performances, but if u really saw all the games they played in, you will understand how badly the referees were. they cancelled 5 goals, in 3 games. 2 vs Croatia, 2 vs Mexico, 1 vs Korea, and we all know about the Korea penalty they had in the 1st half that buffon saved, and im sure many also remember totti's red card.. i thought italy were goin to win it really :/

I don't know, I didn't like italy in WC 02, Trappatoni almost never played Del-Piero - Totti-Vieri... They were in that stage biggest italians stars but somehow never used simultaneously, and even when they were eventually combined together (vs Korea I think) the team still looked heavy and unimpressive.
The best italian performance I saw was in Euro 04, with 2 new faces in the squdra Pirlo and Cassano. Many people didn't notice, but after Totti was sent off against Denmark and replaced by Pirlo against Sweden Italy looked like a different team... much more better I mean.

International Games

England 1 - 1 Germany 1990, we lost on penalties as usual, i cried
England 4 - 1 Holland 1996, the 'SAS' were unplayable that day
England 2 - 2 Argentina 1998, Owens goal, Beckhams kick, out on penalties 3rd tournament in a row !
Germany 1 - 5 England 2001, Revenge! even Heskey scored
England 3 - 2 Argentina 2005, only a friendly but also a great game and a win over one of our many rivals

Club matches

Man Utd 3 - 3 Crystal Palace 1990 FA Cup final, and we won the replay

Man Utd 2 - 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1993, my 11th birthday and Utds first title for 26 years is about to be ruined by Wednesday who hold a 1 - 0 lead until the last minute, when out of nowhere Steve Bruce powers a header in to equalise then in the 7th (yes 7th ) minute of injury time another corner, another Bruce header, and Utd have from nowhere won the game cue a famous moment as Fergie and Brian Kidd (Utds assistant manager) run onto the pitch and start dancing

Milan 4 - 0 Barca 1994, Total destruction of Cruyff's side and healed the wounds of the previous years final

Man Utd 9 - 0 Ipswich 1995, Andy Cole went crazy and scord 5 Sparky got a couple too as Ipswich were put to the sword

Liverpool 4 - 3 Newcastle 1996, probably the best game i've ever seen as a neutral, both sides totally attacking with the game being decided in the last few seconds

Liverpool 4 - 3 Newcastle 1997, Not quite on a par with the previous clash, maybe because this time everyone expected a 7 goal thriller

Chelsea 3 - 5 Man Utd 1998, they were lucky it wasnt a lot more than 5 and we gave them 3 consolation goals too !

Man Utd 3 - 3 Barca 1998, twice Cole and Yorke tore them to shreads but we had no answer to Rivaldo's genius, excellent attacking games.

Juventus 2 - 3 Man Utd 1999, 2 down and going out, but Keane turns things around spectaularly even though he knew he would miss the final. Truly immense performance from a Utd legend

Man Utd 2 - 1 Bayern 1999, "Sheringham, and Solsksjaer has won it !!!" i think that commentary is etched into every Utd fans memmory

Spurs 3 - 5 Man Utd 2001, usual story, Utd are 3 down and heading for defeat at half time, only to come out and score 5 in the second half

Milan 6 - 0 Inter 2001, seems like it happened only yesterday

Milan 3 - 2 Inter 2004, Utd style against the odds comeback made all the sweeter by it being against Inter

Arsenal 2 - 4 Man Utd 2005, Arsenal go gung-ho trying to get revenge on Utd for ending their 49 game unbeaten run, Utd know whats coming and destroy them on the counter, even after having a man sent off

There are many more of course but this will do as a starter

Russia 6 - 1 Cameroon
(Palo Alto, California, USA; 28 June 1994)
That was a GAME! I didnt like football those days, but even I was sitiing and watching this game with my mouth opened...If I remember correctly Salenko scored 5 goals...Jeasus, that was a super match!

And the game on 21 May 2001 Milan - Inter (6:0)...destroyed!

Galatasaray 2 Milan 0

Hagi Jardel

Turkey 0-3 Ukraine

Gusev Sheva Sheva

Originally Posted by Egoistka

Russia 6 - 1 Cameroon
(Palo Alto, California, USA; 28 June 1994)
That was a GAME! I didnt like football those days, but even I was sitiing and watching this game with my mouth opened...If I remember correctly Salenko scored 5 goals...Jeasus, that was a super match!

And the game on 21 May 2001 Milan - Inter (6:0)...destroyed!

It was a good game, and as usual we , the russians, had nothing to lose or win in that game... pretty much so - only miracle in other games could put us through.
The last time I experienced that with our National teams was
during Euro-04 watching Greece vs. Russia.
In the hindsight, I would want that we scored that 3rd goal and eliminated the champions to be.

Turkey was stuffed on the thanksgiving day last year!
STUFFED TURKEY! anyone cares for white meat?

I also think that the punishment that turkey got for the fight after the swiss game was not severe enough.

Originally Posted by Egoistka

Russia 6 - 1 Cameroon
(Palo Alto, California, USA; 28 June 1994)
That was a GAME! I didnt like football those days, but even I was sitiing and watching this game with my mouth opened...If I remember correctly Salenko scored 5 goals... that was a super match!
:

yes, Salenko from Zenit of course, your favorite team and this is why you liked this much...

Egoistka,
have you ever seen USSR-Hungary in WC-86, 6-0 start of the group turney?

you can find a goal by Rutz in the next game of WC-86, France-USSR, 1-1, at
fifaworldcup.com under "classic football" / "video archives" / "Goal of the Century" (down in the middle) then find Rats, USSRvFRA.

Originally Posted by ukrainian_CA

yes, Salenko from Zenit of course, your favorite team and this is why you liked this much...

Egoistka,
have you ever seen USSR-Hungary in WC-86, 6-0 start of the group turney?

you can find a goal by Rutz in the next game of WC-86, France-USSR, 1-1, at
fifaworldcup.com under "classic football" / "video archives" / "Goal of the Century" (down in the middle) then find Rats, USSRvFRA.

No I didnt see that one..I was 4 years old... But thx for a link..I ll have a look now... Cant find it there, can you give me a link?
And true, that we had nothing to loose in the games with Cameroon and Greece...and what a performance we shown!!! Maybe they psychologically cannot take that pressure..to play for Russia is actually to represent Russia in the world..amybe its too much for them.

Originally Posted by Egoistka

Cant find it there, can you give me a link?

It disappeared from there. What a goal that was!
I'll find another site.

However, there are 2 Brazil's goal in the USSR's net.
Socrates and Eder, WC-1982.