Brazil is playing selfish soccer, not attractive to watch but enough to win. The Black Stars had their chances and they played great soccer. Ghana must be disappointed that they did not get at least a couple of them back. Their offside trap was not in sync either and Ze Roberto was able to beat it for the third goal.
Tilam is right. We have so focused on the red cards and yellow cards but they have been some really terrible offside calls from the linesmen. The Ghanians were right to protest the Adriano goal, for which Ratomir Dujgovic got thrown out.
This really calls for TV replay and challenges. The standard of play has gotten closer between teams and to allow games to be entirely decided on the whims and highly subjective standards of referees is plain wrong. FIFA has to adapt to the new world of soccer, a much faster, more contested world.
One comment on “Fulltime: Brazil 3 Ghana 0”
The Brazilian game might look selfish when it comes to scoring the goal, but before actually getting close to the opponents goal, it takes a lot of teamwork. Ghana did very well, they really held up. Maybe Adriano’s goal was offside, but even if it was de-merited Brazil would have won.
All in all, I guess next game will be much more tense.
Anyway, peace! 😀