Sunday, June 22, 2008
Haha!!! How
jack can
jack be? Hmm... I must be feeling for Croatian rocker coach Slaven Bilic. After seeing his side battle for 119 minutes and then seeing them score, he ran up and down the touchline in celebration. I don't see no wrong, it's just letting your feelings and emotions out... I would think even the calmest managers would do that, like Harry Redknapp or Rafael Benitez... I wouldn't be surprised seeing Jose "
Ego Hungry" Mourinho do that though. Haha back to the quarter final match, and with like immediate effect, Turkey villian Rustu Recber pumps the ball upfield towards a group of players, and with some scrambly effect, it falls to the Turk hero and he lashes the ball home. It was 0-0 after 118 minutes, and now its 1-1 after 120+minutes. 2 minutes. 2 goals. Wonderful stuff.
So and like how football likes to play with us... After Luka Modric converted his spot kick in the group stages, he slides it wide. Ivan Rakitic can't hold his nerve either. And Rustu Recber turns hero after he saves Mladen Petric's spot-kick. With that, Turkey went against the odds and will hope to do so against Germany, without Tuncay and Emre and Arda unfortunately...
Well done to Russia. Holland, on a high, after 9/9 in the Group Stages, couldn't find their rhythm against Russia. Guus Hiddink totally outclassed his younger compatriot Marco van Basten. His subs did the trick too... Spain vs Italy next, the one we're all waiting for...
Bye~!
my thoughts at 11:38 am