The score should actually read Brazil 1 Ghana 0. Adriano was clearly offside. The atrocious refeering continues.
Ghana is playing great soccer and Mensah should have got the equalizer but somehow Dida was able to stick his foot out. Ghana has been denied at least 3 goals because of Dida. Addo is competent but Ghana is missing Essien in the midfield.
Great footwork by Ronaldo, to lose Kingson and score his record breaking 15th goal. Ronaldo took 17 matches to do reach 14, Gerd did it in 15 matches. Congratulations to Ronaldo.
But I am now a fan of the Black Stars. They are playing delightful, free flowing soccer, one- two stuff.
I wish the Germans had lifted the visa restrictions, only about 400 Ghanians are watching the game, in that 67,000 seat stadium.
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Shourin, we have been arguing about ref calls and Grosso’s dive/fall/whatever, but I do think an underreported tragedy in this WC is the abysmal offsides calling.
There were (arguably) two offsides on the second goal, the first one you could argue that Adriano was not part of the play, but the second, he was part of the play and clearly offsides. What is going on?
On the other hand, there have been plays call offside that were not even close.
The lineman have been no better then the referees this year.
the worst is offside calls where the assistant referee was 10-15 yards behind the play.
FIFA needs to up their fitness requirements to match the players fitness, this will help with some of the poor offside calls.