Six Goals and Still Not Impressed
I was personally left breathless yesterday after Argentina put six up against Serbia and Montenegro. I thought the first half performance by Argentina was the best display of football we have seen thus far in the tournament. While I am not ready to hand the trophy to Argentina quite yet, I can’t help but think they are going to advance far in this competition. Which is why I was so interested in the following post that was emailed to me from a reader named Piotr. He breaks down each of the six goals and comes to some interesting conclusions. You can decide if you agree or disagree.
Piotr’s thoughts:
Being strangely appalled by a 6-0 win of Argentina over S&M (not that it really matters to me as I said in numerous posts on the website), I just couldn’t’ help to watch the replays of the goals one by one in slow motion and from different angles. Contrary to the excitement of fans and the rave about a superior win, here are some materials for you guys if you would ever consider opening a topic of “MOST CONTROVERSIAL CALLS/GOAL/GAMES OF WC 06”
As such, the win over Serbia seems to be somehow strangely affected and skewed in time’s perspective.
Why?
Goal #1 – Opening goal, looks like nothing special but a mistake from the goalie. Well, let’s just look how the goalie positioned himself and in which direction he dived – totally opposite to the direction of the goal (he was diving toward side line!) despite the fact that he was already past the goal’s outermost line! No biggie, I guess that can happen to everyone, but keep in mind the style of diving he does on this goal
Goal #2 – Notice how he gives up reaching as soon as the ball is close to him! In the replay video, he clearly retreats his hand not to interfere with the ball’s path (not to mention that my 2 year old could do a better job at jumping to the ball). Oddly, he knew exactly where the ball was going, but stayed glued to the ground with no intention of reaching the ball!
Goal #3 – The most controversial goal of the game. First, the Serbian player gets fouled right in front of the ref (no free kick is called!), then the ball is played toward the goal. After the goal keeper dives to “stop” the ball, he is not too quick to get up and run to where the action is. As a matter of fact, he decides to stroll down there instead of running. Now, to top the pie, check out how the ball ricochets from the post and runs along the goal line only to be kicked in by no other than GAVRANCIC who jumps up right after kicking it. What happened to saving the goals by kicking the ball out, not in? Beats, me, but FIFA officially gave this goal to Argentineans instead of a self-goal.
Goal #4 – Another self-punishment. This time STANKOVIC nails this one in, and official report says that Crespo did it, even though he did not even touch the ball!
Goals #5 and 6 are just repeats of the same kind of dive as #1. Funny how JEVRIC dived in the opposite direction of where the ball was actually going always lifting his leg up so that the ball slips right between his legs.
Now, I am not saying that this was fixed, perhaps poorly played, but definitely controversial. Again, not that it matters to me one way or other but I just don’t like to see how the public is getting fed infatuated lies to elevate the status of something ordinary (or even appalling if you would try to believe that there could be a foul play at hand such as bribery to top the group or other insane ideas…)
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By Mariano | June 17th, 2006 at 11:50 pm 
Argentina was amazing! this post is ridiculous
Posted from 
Spain
By Santi | June 17th, 2006 at 11:58 pm Porque no me tirás la goma pedazo de nabo, futbolero de play station, hacete garchar por un barrabrava con sida hijo de una gran puta, seguro tu vieja te pegaba de chico y tu papá se travestía y por eso quedaste resentido pedazo de pelotudo.
By Pablo | June 18th, 2006 at 1:04 am Yeah, yeah, you’re right. Also the serbians let us do the 25 touches before Cambiasso scored his goal.
Obviously, you’ve never played football in your life.
By the way, in the 4th goal, Crespo touched the ball with his left foot, and in the 3rd there is no foul.
It’s a pity that you can’t enjoy when a team performs like this.
By Stupid like a fox | June 18th, 2006 at 2:00 am You should try stepping out on the pitch instead of over-analyzing argentina’s goals. That’s the only way you’ll see how much bullshit you are saying here.
Posted from 
Argentina
By piotr | June 18th, 2006 at 3:04 am btw… some pics for you to enjoy of the above….
(after all, a picture is worth a 1000 words that I don’t intend to write as it would be a waste of my precious time to dig deeper into this trash)
http://piotrs.scriptmania.com/
btw… great insults, keep them comming! It really shows your passion (that and the lack of arguments).
Posted from 
United States
By JJ | June 18th, 2006 at 3:26 am Piotr - pics don´t reinforce your argument at all. You obviously have never played football on a consistent basis in your life. Every move the goalie made is perfectly logical. With regards to goals # 1, 5, and 6 - When you are being shot at from such a close range you have to guess pick a side of the goal in order to have any chance at all of making a save (that is why goalies when penalties are shot sometimes dive towards to wrong side)
As for goal # 2 - the ball is already past the keeper when he pulls down his arm. Goal # 3 - might have been a foul. The defender lifts his right leg, he touches it with his left and regardless of that he does so because he is standing on the goal line and knows that any contact will send the ball in. As for goal # 5 - Crespo touches it, it has been confirmed.
As for you - you debutted with a boy
Anyways, stop wasting everyone´s time
By Mariano Dekadente | June 18th, 2006 at 4:45 am che loco el que no sabe de futbol y escribio eso es PIOTR, no BOB, no lo bardeen.
“MOST CONTROVERSIAL CALLS/GOAL/GAMES OF WC 06″
JA!
PIOTR: go to play winning eleven with your boyfriend (?)
Posted from Argentina
By Wine store | June 18th, 2006 at 4:53 am Argentina played very well. Don’t search “controversial” things at that game, please.
We are not the champions yet, but we’re at the right way playing like this
By Maxi | June 18th, 2006 at 4:57 am Piotr: You are from the United States, aren´t you? So, why don´t you write a nice article about baseball or the Superbowl, instead of begining a debate about a topic (football)that you obviously don´t understand?
Anyway: You debutted with a boy!
Posted from Argentina
By Jack | June 18th, 2006 at 5:19 am Just one word for this: Jealousy.
Posted from Argentina
By Florchis | June 18th, 2006 at 6:20 am Piotr!
1) Saviola is 5.4″ and Gavrancic 6.5″… also Saviola tacckled the ball , not the player, (a totally legal play, by the way).
2) For your information Tevez is used to score that kind of goals, passing a couple of players from left to right and into the box before shootting (exactly like the 5th goal)
3) It’s obvious that you are not used to watch real Football very often…
Anyway you can start by watching Argentina’s matches. Why don’t you tape next wednesday Argentina-Netherlands, so you can analyze the three goals Argentina will score?
Cheers!
PS: Piotr, and if you find nothing to be analyzed, PLEASE! ANALYZE THIS! (¡analizame esta!)
By MartinL | June 18th, 2006 at 8:52 am Boy + Piotr = debut
By IAS | June 18th, 2006 at 12:42 pm Piotr . I Know, You Know , And the World Know Argentina Played Good Football on that day . this Argentina Match might Look contoversial to you . But to most of the fans it doesnt. to me, I dint found anything As you mentioned on the article Above.
Posted from 
Malaysia
By Cio | June 19th, 2006 at 10:26 am Oddly, he knew exactly where the ball was going, but stayed glued to the ground with no intention of reaching the ball!
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U r watching in slow motion… The back heel pass was totally unexpected, imagine in real time…
Anyway… This post is just a waste of bytes… and I have a word 4 it…
jealousy !!!!
By mightie | June 19th, 2006 at 8:56 pm hey “BOB”
as you predicted for CIV & S&M to top the group http://www.worldcupblog.org/group-c/big-question-whos-going-to-win-group-c.html but these six just destroyed your topper of the group.
“piotr” i wonder wats wrong with ur eyes look at the 4th goal its not the defensive slide that takes the ball in but a poke by crespo which is so hard that it hits the top net and comes out of the goal as well, take look at it again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiiA6RCPCsw&search=crespo%20goal%20serbia
we havent won anything yet and so much jealousy!
“LET THEM HATE AS LONG THEY FEAR”
go argentina!
Posted from 
United Arab Emirates
By mightie | June 19th, 2006 at 9:07 pm another nonsense post (”Six Goals and Still Not Impressed”) by some ignorants.
u pple will never be impressed as long as its argentina.
Posted from United Arab Emirates
By maria | June 20th, 2006 at 7:37 am to whoever the hell believes piotr the moron
no 1 in real time as someone said, it is much more difficult for a goalie to decide where to go. saviola was coming towards him and could have shot- he passed it to maxi
no 2 again in real time, the goalie makes mistakes. your mistake equals someone elses gain yes? if there were no mistakes, and all the plays were perfect, then no one would ever score. he probably thought crespo was going to shoot. he didnt react fast enough to guess that it would be cambiasso. that’s art- the whole point of futbol is to outwit your opponent and beat them to the punch. you dont just do that with physical force- it requires intelligence which you clearly lack.
no 3 saviola went for the ball, no foul there. im sure youve seen people have the ball taken from them, they fall and it’s not considered a foul- no different here. saviola had no intent of injuring or stopping the player- he wanted the ball
no 4 it is difficult to tell whether that was crespo or stankovic- but at that speed it didnt matter- the ball was going to be hit by one of the 2 and both went for it. and at the speed they were both going, it was definitely going in.
no 5 was fucking amazing and if you dont think so, you’re an idiot who does not deserve to watch futbol at all
no. 6 was too quick for the goalie i suppose.
ps did i mention you’re an idiot?
Posted from United States
By dcoy | June 20th, 2006 at 8:52 pm piotr, your predictions for group C and your analisys (you like that word don’t you) of the 6-0 clearly show that faggots can’t talk about sports. Gay and pretending to know anything about football… hope aids finishes you and bob off soon.
By Native Son | June 21st, 2006 at 2:05 am Piotr, I have a few words for you but just before I do so, I’ll give 2/6 of the goals the beniefit of the doubt. THat leaves 4/6 clean goals.
Crespo scores, is noside but is ruled offside and worse still, is yellow carded. THta makes it 5/6 clean goals.
Crespo is brought down in the box, a clear opportunity for a penalty, but since Arg., the team that I support (and I am Kenyan) is I believe 4-0, finds no reason to drive a dagger in their chest thus denying Arg. the penalty. Could it have gone in had it been awarded? The probability is 0.5
If the answer is no, Arg. could have ended with 5 goals.
If yes, they’d have been 6 goals.
But that is not what I wanted to tell you.
What I meant to say is;
1. The truth is the truth whether one chooses to believe it or not. Yours is more of consipracy theory.
2. The Chinese (I believe it is) have a saying that goes something like this; THE SKY IS NO LESSER BLUE JUST BECAUSE THE BLIND MAN CAN’T SEE! Piotr, I didn’t call you blind.
3. The dogs bark but the Caravan (Argentina) moves on.
Piotr, I didn’t call you a dog and would never do so.
Piotr, GIVE IT UP!!!!!!!
You seem to have a bruised ego.
Yours is a case of sour grapes.
This world has so many skeptics and cynics.
Just give it up my friend.
Posted from United States
By contemporary times —– the MESS » Blog Archive » HELLLO | June 21st, 2006 at 3:24 pm [...] A good way for me to start my blog I was thinking would be a quick preview on what I think is the best group match yet, yes you know what im talking about, Netherlands’s V (totally overrated) Argentina. I could tell you why every single one of Argentina’s goals v S and G were “controversial”, but I wont Ill just give you a link instead, http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2006/six-goals-and-still-not-impressed.html [...]
By Piotr | June 21st, 2006 at 6:32 pm Ah, finally some more attention to details…
now, just a friendly reminder, look on the top of the article, it says:
I am not saying that this was fixed, perhaps poorly played, but definitely controversial - why? It wasn’t all that great!
No one said that there was a foul play, just
infatuated lies to elevate the status of something ordinary — 2 of the goals need to be credited to S&M as self goals.
And for those who can’t figure that one out just yet, too bad that you’re too blind to see that (yes I saw the replays 1000 times fram by frame).
Keep dreaming.
By T | June 25th, 2006 at 12:16 am I’m from Serbia and that game broke my heart
Posted from 
Kuwait
By T | June 25th, 2006 at 12:17 am Oh, and I wish Mexico beat Argentina today haha ;D That was an awesome game.
Posted from Kuwait
By bobbie | June 25th, 2006 at 5:51 pm your comments are quite appaling…argentina is a great team that will challenge the best…maxi rodriguez proved that with an absolute stunner…what is really pathetic is to watch the espn commentators in the us…they comment on players clothes and apperances…simply because they do not understand the game…
Posted from United States
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