ontd_football | Uruguay-France WC-2010 gifspam and review (Reply)

This is the 2nd in the Uruguay gifspam series, and the next one will be about South Africa game.
The 1st one (Mexico & SK matches) is here.

So, I've heard URU-FRA game was boring? Erm, no.
Retarded, strange and silly at times - yes. But it was quite entertaining!

It was like a 1st season of a show, where everyone is slightly OOC, some of the regulars are not there yet and they're still figuring out the concept.
No Fucile, no Cavani, Forlan playing as a forward wrestling for the ball (hmm, he can work that too) and passing it to permanently offside Suarez... Yep, being offside was main Suarez schtick starting the game but he quickly got into character. :D

Also, it was this game, and it was Uruguay, that started French team epic meltdown. Uruguayans frustrated Domenech and Anelka, the coach took the player out and the rest was history.

But who cares when the game had THIS OMG!!!
YOU. ME. SHIRT. SHIRT. :D

That's it, that's all we get?! Senior Forlan you are a tease!

But look - can he be MORE like a Greek god here?

Couldn't resist making an icon, in case someone wants. :D

OK, this is taken care of.
Next important question: there were no goals, but was there any PDA? The answer is YES!

I found the sources showing players going out of the tunnel! And looks like Forlan and Perez are BFFs, they ALWAYS go out chatting together, and sometimes they go like this! XD

And here's Gurkouff being cozy with a teammate. Hmm, doesn't scream ostracism to me...

More of the softer side of Perez:

And more PDA for Forlan.

More silly/cute Forlan. He was so carefree in this first match, not a lot of expectations yet...

And a bit of cute/hot Gurkouff - how could I resist?

He's so fine that even when he pushes Perez it looks like he wants to fly away with him. :)

But seriously, out of all French team he was the best, making Muslera nervous with great long distance shots. He created practically all the moments, except early dangerous cross by Ribery.

While we are at it, let's have some Muslera!

And now back to the game.
Yep, Forlan can fight for the ball too, but it seems too frantic for him to plan his moves.
Nice dribble - he wins it over two players and shoots the ball straight into the 3rd ha-ha, so it ends like this:

Or like this - 'twas a silly game I told you!

And Suarez spent most of the 1st half being offside

annoying Forlan instead of the other team.

But in the second half things started falling into place.

Forlan had some great shots!

Ahh, he's so beautiful like this, can't resist another view:

And Suarez wrestled for the ball and gave great passes:

He even tried to wrestle the goalie, but the ref saw and cried foul.

But mostly it was the other way around, as he switched to his usual: provoking fouls and pimping them to his best acting ability,

and driving the other guys crazy - ouch!

And every time earning this:

More trouble stirring, and he got Ribery rrrreally mmmaaad!

So Ribery pushed him back, but Suarez managed to kick him too and they both went down:

And guess who got the yellow card? LODEIRO! MUA-HA-HA.
It was such a WTF moment that even match reporters were confused and didn't show who got the card for several minutes.

If Ribery got one he would be gone as it would've been his second.
He got his 1st by managing to elbow Rios AND step on his foot at the same time - note it only works on short persons! :)

But instead it all went down on Lodeiro.
People were talking how crappy this WC was for Torres, but look at this guy!
Play for 12 minutes and get a red card. Play another 20 minutes, get your foot broken and spend the rest of WC on crutches. Damn!
Even though his 2nd yellow was totally justified.

Still, poor Lodeiro.

Told you, the game was retarded, and it even had some retarded drama.

Toulalan did an unfortunate tackle on Palito Perreira, sending him flying through the air.
Our guys took it hard and DRAMA erupted!

Of course Suarez couldn't miss the action and demanded red card instead of yellow(it's OK BB you'll get your wish in the next game!)

Failing that, he tried to have a go at Toulalan, but luckily Godin stopped this foolishness:

But it was Lugano who went batshit crazy. My my do we have a temper!
Even Domenech joined the fray, while Forlan was having none of that, hee.

Lugano wasn't at his brightest this game and got himself into another retarded drama.
Here he bitches about the free kick spot for Henry, while Forlan is being all - "you guys are all swell, let's play", ah-ha-ha!

Lugano keeps bitching until he gets a yellow.

And he still KEEPS ON BITCHING! Forlan, a sweetie that he is, humours him with "Bad spot, bad. Can we go now?" Aww.

But the most retarded moment?
Henry complaining to the ref about this here handball. Russian commentators had too much fun with it, as in "You call this a handball? Now yours - THAT's a handball!"

But... erm... Victorino, u r doing it wrong. Here's how to hide your hands, learn from your captain:

So in the end, when both teams couldn't deliver, the ref ended up being this game MVP. :)
He had his hands full and except maybe two WTF yellow cards, was OK.

Let's have some ref.
With Toulalan

With Perez

And just by his BAMF self.

But I also have to commend Uruguay defense and midfield and shed more spotlight on them.

Here's Victorino helping Muslera out. Really, why use hands when your legs can go that high?

And Pereira is so smug here, hee.
"Day 2. Took a ball from Henry w/o touching it. Go me!"

Ha! Godin does the same without even batting an eye!

And here Perez and another Pereira take it cleanly off Gurkouff:

Perez and Lugano taking it less cleanly off Ribery - heh, Lugano was in a fighting mood that night.

And as I wanted to do a Rios gif here's some adorable Rios!

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And as I couldn't stand the lack of Fucile I had to add this, hope you like! :D