Good morning folks. The Olympic men’s soccer quarterfinals kick off today with four quality match-ups. the games have taken place or are taking place this morning, but since they aren’t being shown live I am not posting results until later today.
Here are today’s match-ups:
- Brazil vs. Cameroon
- Belgium vs. Italy
- Nigeria vs. Ivory Coast
- Argentina vs. Netherlands
For now, if you can watch the games, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play on the quarterfinals in the comments section below.
Enjoy the matches.
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as classic as the word “Belgish”
Did anyone see the Belgish player hit the Italian keeper in the face with the ball? That was classic. I laughed for a good 5 minutes as they kept replaying that.
Moussa Dembele and the Belgians did what the US couldn’t — comeback from a 1-0 deficit with ten guys and win 3-2! (what is it with all the red cards at these games anyway?). Exciting games all around in the quarter finals despite some pretty awful officiating (maybe the judges from the Boxing tournament were moonlighting) — but you have to expect that when they even end up using an MLS ref in one of the matches!
Nobody with half a brain thought Solano would end up with the Galaxy.
Tot ziens Netherlands. Your arrogance and disrespect towards Japan and the U.S. (who both outplayed your orange asses) was completely foolish. Glad to see the Argies put you in your place. You were gifted into the quarters. Glad to see you gone.
Beautiful pass by Messi to spring di Maria, and Di Maria is cool as a cucumber to slot it home.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOLAZO DIMARIA!!!!!!!!!!!! THE KID IS ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!! Crossing and Passing Machine! VAMOS VAMOS!!!! ARGENTINA! VAMOS VAMOS!! A GANAR!!!
GOL!
Neven Subotic with a goal for Dortmund – they look to have Leverkusen on the ropes. Up 3-1 in the 80th.
Commercial breaks in the middle of overtime are brutal.
Bolton is making life rough for Stoke on their first day up… 3-0 after the first half.
OH MESSI!!!!!!
HOLY COW! ARGENTINA WAS ALMOST OUSTED! WAKE UP! What the hell was Monzon thinking?!
What a sequence with Riquelme and Messi but the Dutch keeper did well.
Messi needs to be in a more forward position. Thats whats missing. He is practically playing side by side with Riquelme.
Did I hear right? Marrufo is reffing?! Oh no. I should have known.
Romero is perfectly capable of replacing Ustari by the way, so I wouldnt fret about Ustari’s absence (hope he is ok though).
Nigeria look set to move into the next round to face Belgium.
Argentine keeper is out – they keep saying it’s his ankle but it was clearly his left knee that was the problem.
this is definitely the best game that the netherlands has played this tournament and argentina is still outplaying them.
Despite Guitraitor Rossi’s 2 pk goals Belgium took Italy down 3-2. They played most of the game with 10 men too!
Hull level with Fulham.
Howard’s conceded his first goal of the season.
Ashton’s already got a brace against Wigan.
Seol Scores, Fulham Leads, Argentina controlling the pace, life is good. But Aguero needs to put that ball away.
Netherlands playing back completely. . . this is Argentinas strong point of attack . . . AND AGUERO JUST MISSES A BREAK!!! VAMOS KUN!!!
Aguero has to put that in!
Clearly the non-qualifying. Nigeria was never a certain win even with 11 on the field.
whats more shocking? tyson gay not qualifying for finals or Team USA losing to Nigeria?
Also starting line ups for EPL etc in. Of note: Dempsey on bench and Johnson not named for Fulham. Convey starting again for Reading and the American goalies all going strong.
Messi’s goal was absolutely amazing.
What would an Ives post be without an update on our own Giuseppe Rossi who has scored twice so far for Italy. Also, Messi’s goal amazing….
So much for Solano to LA within the week… he just signed for Larissa in Greece.
Check the highlights of Brazil’s 2nd goal. It was a sick 3-man combo. Cameroon more than held there own with 10 men.
Ives, not olympic related but it sounds like Johann Smith is coming to MLS?