Friday, July 2, 2010

NED leads!

(Watching delayed) Just like that, Holland has scored two goals and lead Brazil 2-1.  A double-header which you rarely see lead to the second goal.  On the first NED goal, a quick restart after Robben tried to shameless draw a yellow card.  The ball crossed in the box slightly deflected off BRA's Felipe Melo's head as he interfered with his own GK.  They gave it an own goal and upon watching on HD replay (HD is soooo nice), it's a 50/50 call.  If we were watching on the small curved, crummy Home Depot monitors, I wouldn't give the own goal since the ball just slightly deflected, the ball was still going in the same basic direction even after the deflection, and it would've gone in even without the deflection.  But in HD replay, Melo was trying to head it away and he interfered with the GK and the ball was definitely a cross, not a shot.

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