Game On!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

England 1 - 0 Ukraine (Wayne Rooney '3)
France 0 - 2 Sweden (Zlatan Ibrahimovic '54, Sebastian Larsson '91)

Final Results


Czech Rep    6       1/0/2    2 - 3
Greece          4       1/1/1    3 - 3
Russia           4       1/1/1    5 - 3
Poland          2       0/2/1    4 - 5


Germany        9      3/0/0    5 - 2
Portugal         6      2/0/1    5 - 4
Denmark       3       1/0/2   4 - 5
Netherlands   0       0/0/3   2 - 5


Spain             7      2/1/0    6 - 1
Italy               5      1/2/0    4 - 2
Croatia          4      1/1/1    4 - 3
Ireland           0      0/0/3    1 - 9


England         7      2/1/0    5 - 3
France           4     1/1/1     3 - 3
Ukraine         3     1/0/2     2 - 4
Sweden         3     1/0/2     5 - 5

Quarter-final:
Czech Rep. vs Portugal
Germany vs Greece
Spain vs France
England vs Italy

Statistics:
* 44 players have made 60 goals in 24 matches.
* There are 14 goals in group A, 16 goals in group B, 15 goals in group C and D.
* The goal rate is 15 goals/group, and 2.5 goals/match.
* Spain is the team with best goal difference 6 - 1. DiNatale is the only one could score a goal against Spain.

Goal scorers:
3 (3 players from 3 different team)

Alan Dzagoev (Russia)

Mario Gomez (Germany)

Mario Mandzukic (Croatia)

2 (9 players from 6 teams)

Andriij Shevchenko (Ukraine)

Vaclav Pilar, Petr Jiracek (Czech Rep.)

Nicklas Bendtner, Michael Krohn-Dehli (Denmark)

Fernando Torres, Cesc Fabregas (Spain)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden)

1 (32 players from 13 teams)

Robert Lewandowski, Jakub Blaszczykowski (Poland)

Dimitrios Salpingidis, Theofanis Gekas, Giorgios Karagounis (Greece)

Roman Shirokov, Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia)

Antonio diNatale, Andrea Pirlo, Antonio Cassano, Mario Balotelli (Italy)

Sean St. Ledger (Ireland)

Nikica Jelavic (Croatia)

Joleon Lescott, Andy Carroll, Theo Walcott, Danny Welbeck, Wayne Rooney (England)

Samir Nasri, Jeremy Menez, Yohan Cabaye (France)

Pepe, Helder Postiga, Silvestre Varela (Portugal)

Robin Van Persie, Raphael Van Der Vaart (Netherlands)

David Silva, Jesus Navas (Spain)

Olof Mellberg, Sebastian Larsson (Sweden)

Lukas Podolski, Lars Bender (Germany)

Bravissimo! Bravissimo! Sono molto orgogliosa!

martedi, 19 giugno, 2012

L'Italia 2 - 0 L'Irlanda (Antonio Cassano '35, Mario Balotelli '90)
La Spagna 1 - 0 La Croazia (Jesus Navas '88)

La Spagna      7  2/1/0   6 - 1
L'Italia            5  1/2/0   4 - 2
La Croazia     4   1/1/1   4 - 3
L'Irlanda        0   0/0/3   1 - 9

Bravissimo!!!! Uao! Finalmente gli azzurri vanno in quarti di finale!

Sono molto contenta, sono molto orgogliosa!

Italia, my favorite European team, my favorite country, they finally go to the quarter final.
I was worried about them, since they've failed to win the earlier games against Spain and Croatia. While Spain and Croatia both won their matches against Ireland.

Well, I was worried. But logically, Ireland has got nothing to lose. They already lost twice. It's a bit different with Holland. Because both team that won against them have never lost. So, no matter what, Ireland would never make it anyway. Meanwhile, both Croatia and Spain are not save. If Italy won, between Spain and Croatia, whoever lost the game would outta the competition, whoever won would go to the quarter-final.

I'd prefer to watch Italia vs Ireland. But my TV has got no MNC sport 2 chanel. So I could only watch Spain vs Croatia on RCTI. The match sucks. Really. I wasn't enjoying watching them, except for the hottie, under-pressured Slaven Bilic. Yet the goal was not supposed to be counted. I think it was offside! But anyway, if the result was draw 0 - 0 Croatia wouldn't make it to the next round.

Ah... another top scorer candidate has gone. First it was Alan Dzagoev from Russia/group A, now Mandzukic from Croatia. They could only hope that Mario Gomez from Germany didn't make anymore goals, and no other player would score more than 2.

Anyway, this tournament is getting really hot! There are so many goals! For now, there are already 57 goals in 22 matches, means.... well 2.59 goals/match. Hmm... okay, not that much...

So, once again, congratulation for all the Italians and the supporters of gli azzurri.

Siamo orgogliosi!

* 42 players have made 57 goals in 22 matches.

Good bye, Holland :(

Monday, June 18, 2012

First of all... Edwin Van Der Sar is in Indonesia...!!! Woowwww....!!
He was on RCTI, watching Netherlands vs Portugal with those creepy Indonesian commentators.

So here is the final results of the last matches of group B:

Portugal 2 - 1 Netherlands (Cristiano Ronaldo '28, '74 - Raphael Van Der Vaart '11)
Germany 2 - 1 Denmark (Podolski '19, Bender - Krohn-Dehli '24)


Germany        9     3/0/0     5 - 2

Portugal         6     2/0/1     5 - 4
Denmark       3      1/0/2    4 - 5
Netherlands   0      0/0/3    2 - 5

You know, watching this group, is like watching American Idol, or some sort of things. You like both contestants. You'd be sad no matter whoever got thrown out from the competition. I mean... OMG, the teams in this group... Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Denmark... Both are great teams. Both are legends. Both have got their own history.

Germany was the finalist of Euro 2008 and semi-finalist of World Cup 2010. Netherlands was World Cup 2010 finalist. Denmark has good record in Euro history. And Portugal... they've got one of the most promising soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, and other soccer stars. We can't really chose any team, can we?

But this group happened to be the perfect hierarchy-ed group, in which one team won over 3 other teams, the second team won over the other 2, the third only won over the one who lost all games. Look at the table above! There are no tied results in this group. Wow! Fantastic!

* 39 players have made 54 goals in 20 matches.

Russia, oh Russia

Sunday, June 17, 2012

What a surprise!
Russia started this tournament convincingly, beating a team as good as Czech Rep. 4 - 1. But then they got tied with Poland 1 - 1 on the second match..., and now..., they lost against Greece!
Greece, who was the bottom after failed to win on their first two games, finally make their way to the quarter final, by beating Russia 1 - 0. Theofanis Gekas was the hero.
...

Czech Rep. 1 - 0 Poland (Petr Jiracek '72) Greece 1 - 0 Russia (Giorgios Karagounis '45)

Czech Rep  6       1/0/2   2 - 3
Greece        4       1/1/1   3 - 3
Russia         4       1/1/1   5 - 3
Poland        2       0/2/1   4 - 5

Alan Dzagoev was the top scorer candidate. He was the first player to make 3 goals in this tournament. Now he's no longer got any chance to make more goals. He could only wish no one would make more than 3 goals.

Ah, football... nothing is predictable. Football is never predictable.

* 35 players have made 48 goals in 18 matches.

Another Great Goals from Another Games

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Italy 1 - 1 Croatia (Andrea Pirlo '39 - Mandzukic '72)

Spain 4 - 0 Ireland (Torres '4, '70, Silva '48, Fabregas '83)

France 2 - 0 Ukraine (Menez '53, Cabaye '56)

England 3 - 2 Sweden (Carroll '23, Walcott '64, Welbeck '78 - Johnson '49-og, Mellberg '59)
Damn! Johnson made the own goal! Lucky that Walcott and Welbeck made another two goals for England.

Euro 2012 is getting HOT!!!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Euro 2012 is getting hot! Each team from Group A and B had played for their second matches.

Group A
Greece 1 - 2 Czech Rep. (Theofanis Gekas '53 - Petr Jiracek '3, Vaclav Pilar '6)
Poland 1 - 1 Russia (Jakub Błaszczykowski '57 - Alan Dzagoev '37)

From group A, Russia is now leading with 4 points, after they beat Czech Rep. 4 – 1 at the first match, and then tied with Poland 1 -1 in the second match. And Czech Rep., who was the bottom of the group after losing the first game from Russia, now is in the second place after winning the game against Greece 2 – 1. So now Poland and Greece are the 2 in the bottom. Poland has failed to reach the 3 points.

Russia                   4             1/1/0     5 – 2

Czech Rep.          3             1/0/1     3 – 5

Poland                  2             0/2/0     2 – 2

Greece                 1             0/1/1     2 – 3

I love to see the points: 1, 2, 3, 4. That is just perfect!

Russia is still undefeated, they got 3 points on the first match and 1 point from the second match. Czech Rep. lost once and won once, so they got 3 points. Poland is always tied, so they got 2 points. And Greece, lost one match and only got tied in the other match, making them only got 1 point until now. But anyway, the chances are still wide open. Each team still can fail or make it through the quarter final.

Even the leading team Russia is not save yet. And the chance for Greece is still big. The last matches for this group would be Greece vs Russia and Poland vs Czech Rep. If Greece won against Russia, and Czech Rep. won against Poland, Czech Rep. and Greece would go to the quarter final.

Group B
Portugal 3 - 2 Denmark (Pepe '25, Postiga '36, Varella '87 - Bendtner '41, '80)
Germany 2 - 1 Netherlands (Mario Gomez '24, '38 - Van Persie '73)

From the group B, Germany just made their chance to go to the quarter final bigger. They've reached 6 points after winning 2 games in a row. After beating Portugal 1 - 0 on the first match, now they beat Netherlands 2 - 1. It made it harder for Netherlands to go to quarter final. Meanwhile, Portugal beat Denmark 3 - 2, making them have the same 3 points, with the same goals aggregate 3 - 3.

Germany              6             2/0/0     3 – 1

Portugal               3             1/0/1     3 – 3

Denmark             3             1/0/1     3 – 3

Netherlands         0             0/0/2     1 – 3

Germany got happy and celebrate their success to win 2 games. They celebrate as if they already go to the quarter final. But in fact, they're not save yet. The next matches would be Germany against Denmark and Portugal against Netherlands.

Madagascar 3

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I went to Lippo Karawaci with Adrian and Nadia. Wow! That town is always surprising me. It's always very nice, and I wish I could live there again someday.

We had some snacks and drinks at Law's Kopithiam, while Nadia did her thesis revision and I helped Adrian do his log book report. What is a log book? That's a pilot's book to record their flying hours. Flying hours? Is that the right words? Yeah whatsoever.

At 2 or something we went to ice cream Oom at Taman Diponegoro. Oh, I was there some couple of years ago. That was my favorite place. I saw so many wonderful house, the environment is very quite and peaceful.  So many trees, so many beautiful house, children playing around, the wind blows... ah, perfect!

You've got to try ice cream Oom. The taste is very unique. They've got unique flavors, such as 'Olive and Parmessan' and 'Peanut Butter'...nyummy!!

Then we went to have some late lunch at Tegal Rotan, near Bintaro. I called Deany and asked her to join us. But Deany asked us to watch 'Madagascar 3' at night.

So, at night, I went to PIM 1 to watch 'Madagascar 3' with Deany, Adrian, and Nadia. And it was such a great idea to spend your time with. ;-)

Just like the first and second, 'Madagascar 3' was such a mood booster. I looooovvvee it!! What a great movie! It was funny, smart, entertaining, the visual was great, the music was great, perfect! the movie!

As you know--if you watched it since the first movie--Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Gloria the hippopotamus, and Melman the giraffe are stranded in Madagascar. From 'Madagascar 1' and 'Madagascar 2', they've been trying to go back to New York, to the zoo where they believe they belong to.

In the end of 'Madagascar 2', they were still in Africa, waiting for the penguins. In 'Madagascar 3', they decided to catch up with the penguin, that happened to be in Montecarlo, Monaco. So, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, and the lemurs (that they met back in 'Madagascar 1') went to Europe! They traveled through Europe, chased by the slick animal hunter Chantal Dubois, joined the circus with Vitaly the Russian tiger, Gia the Spanish jaguar, and Stefano the Italian seal.

Oh they're so cute! Chantal is slick, ambitious, fast, and crazy. Vitaly is cold and sad, Gia the sexy and passionate one, and Stefano is the funniest, and so dumb. My favorite is the circus scenes, and the Rome scene. Oh it was very funny!

You've got to watch it!

Title: 'Madagascar 3'

Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, David Schwimmer, Sascha Baron Cohen, Jessica Chastain