Quarter-Finals by the Numbers

hollllllland what about some fair play … and stop crying…. next time better get ready for some great team like portugal

Portugal and England have also won all 4 games.

Portugal also won all four matches…

2 – Number of teams that have won all four of their games. They are Germany and Brazil.

I believe that this should be 3.
Portugal has also won all four.

Coincidentally, I’ve also done a post with some numbers on this WC, but focused on Brazil:

http://brazil.worldcupblog.org/group-f/records-exist-to-be-broken.html

Portugal 1:0 Angola
Portugal 2:0 Iran
Portugal 2:1 Mexico
Portugal 1:0 Holland

Wink, wink Bob.

3 are the goals Argentina scored and got wrongly disallowed. Grrrrr

Against Ivory Coast, against Serbia & Montenegro, and (worst of all) against MEXICO.

In the whole number game, someone forgot to mention uruguay as one of the former champions (1930 & 1950). Long time ago, I agree, but still, they did it.

What about the number of terrible decisions made by the refs? The number of teams robbed by the refs?

Screw soccer and its absolutely inconsistent and down right shitful referee’s. After watching Brazil v Ghana, I am utterly disgusted. This game
had a very similar incident to the Neil penalty that resulted in Italy robbing Australia.

In the case of Brazil v Ghana we saw Ghana’s keeper fall over in front of the Brazilian striker, motion towards him whilst on the ground and trip him up – the result – a yellow card against Brazil for diving.

This incident was much much worse then Neil’s, who allowed the Italian more time to go avoid him and made no attempt to leg him. These two incidents highlighted the terrible inconsistency in the game and would make it impossible to interpret the rules of soccer.

Awww. Lennon’s just a little guy.

Boo Bob! Numbers are interesting, but the agenda of random numbers is sometimes suspect. There were many other numbers in this cup to highlight.

How about the number of fouls suffered by Portugal? I bet it way up there.

too bad that last game screwed up the statistics for Portugal, they didnt get a red card for around 50 games before that match.

19 – the number of fouls suffered by Figo in 4 games and I didn’t even count tackles suffered. The full tally is impressive indeed.

1 – Number of unpunished head butts by Fido; the most by any player left in the tournament.

0 – Enlgand’s chances of winning!

Joe – were you asleep? Was that an imaginary card, he got?

In the number games, somebody forgot about one former champion. Uruguay. They won the cup in 1930 and in 1950. Long time ago, I agree. But they were there.

Portugal has the most yellows due to the Netherlands game, also lets not forget that Portugal wasn’t suppose to have gone this far so the cards were given to make sure they didn’t. Guess Fifa took one in the culy this time cuase they are there and should of been there many times before.

Portugal tied with the Netherlands, penalties simply determined who advanced.

Yeah, it’s a technicality, but Bob is right :)

Nice collection of numbers! If you guys want to display other numbers, comment about them here.

53 are the fouls committed by Brazil, the least among the remaining teams in the World Cup. Fair Play is working fine for us until now.

Bob, you might want to add Portugal in there for “teams that won all four games.”

This WC seems to be much more competative than the last one…Anyone has a legitemate chance from now on.

Ta – England tied Sweden 2-2. Luis the problem with Figo is that the FIFA rules call for a red card for a headbutt and not a yellow card. I think that’s what Joe’s point was.

Figo is probably the guy that sufferd most fouls, nobody has yet allowed C Ronaldo to actually play the ball (probably cos he’s just a worthless show-off bluf, not a world class talent), Figo already took a boot in his face and the world was silent (MEX or IRA, can’t remember) and no matter if he plunged into the ground against HOL, the elbow WAS in his face/nose. The head-blow was no more than a “kiss” (I’m not saying it’s right) and it was the first time I saw him do that in my life. van Bommel decided to feel that blow half an hour later, when the ref turned around. POR are the actors, right…?

How dare people talk about that after the sand bag battering POR was tacking by the dutch, and has been taking since day 1? POR is a bunch of thugs? And yesterday Spain’s suporters whisseling FRA’s anthem? What about yesterday’s excellent dive bt Henry (there was no foul and if there was it was in the stomach, not in the face), slashing the spaniards mind and giving them the lead, at a crutial moment? What about the card against SWE that didn’t exist? Or Italy’s penalty…? C’mon…

Let’s just play ball AND WIN IT! FORCA PORTUGAL!

More nrs… In 4 matches (official FIFA site):

PORTUGAL suffered 72 fouls, so far, FRA and BRA 74, UKR 78, ITA and ARG 83.

ENG suffered 69.

HOLLAND suffered 53.

I rest my case…

All you “porty” fans.. enough with your “we were foulded ” CRAP… your still there and unjustly soooooo… Your Capt. Figo got a pass with only a yellow.. he should be out “red card ” manditory for a headbutt(soft or not), fifa rule PERIOD. And I hear they are appealing other red carded players as well, feeling they were unjustly carded.. You should be out of the tourney and I HOPE that England sends you all back to your homes so you can whin about it for the next four years…

Hi Rew. Thanks for the positive input. :-) If we win, I’ll send you a Port bottle…

You’re the ones whinning since 1966, my friend…

Just something I’ll still show my grandchildren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euj9V7_hoVA&search=figo%20england%20

As you might remember, it was 2-0 for ENG, and we came back to win it 3-2. This is just how it started…

FORCA PORTUGAL!

rew – get a clue

Martinez – what game are you talking about? That’s not the game I saw.

2010 – the next year in which the world cup will be played, coincidentally also Ronaldo’s belt size.

lol zico very funny

Hey Pedro P, I don’t recall Portugal winning the 1966 world cup. England beat Germany 4-2 at Wembley. However, the 1966 world cup did see Pele get knocked out of the cup by a Portugal side that decided to take him out. Morais of Portugal chopped down Pele in brutal fashion. I guess they figured that Eusebio wasn’t enough to guarantee the win. I wonder if Morais was Figo’s role model.

1 – number of fifa officials that need to get off england’s d***
3 – of the best goals in the tournament that were scored by england
2- amount of goals thie-fa have disallowed sol cambell for scoring
0 – tournaments won by portugal
15 – packets of kleenex c.ronaldo has been billed for

legend callum lol, was a bit more than 15 boxes of kleenex he ordered though lol, hes crying now as an adult because as a kid he got molestered by his parents if he cried, so hes letting out all thoses tears now lol