OT: 2022 World Cup Thread
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Your 2nd paragraph is exactly what happened for France’s 2nd goal. Hard touch and rebound off the foot of the Aussie defender in the last 1/3 led to a turnover and goal.
Which is something no international-level player should have happen. But it's a big f-ing stage, the world cup.
Ugh. That was a horrible sequence. Talk about playing tight.
First mistake was the keeper's in not recognizing the pressure and playing the ball elsewhere. At least 3 huge mental errors combined with some very poor touches. They're lucky only one goal can be scored at a time. LOL
You see the difference, Australia being clumsy with handling vs Mbappe with a quick backpass to facilitate the goal. I mean I just see that as an instinctual finesse play by Mbappe.
Top teams do those kind of things consistently. Whether it connects or not for a goal is another story but the attributes are there for potential plays to be made.
If Iran beats Wales isn't that 3 points not 4?
England does not want to lose to Wales but may be satisfied with a tie.
We need a result against England plain and simple.
England will very likely beat Wales. England's second team is much better than Wales' first team.
Lose by one goal to England, beat Iran (which won't be easy) and I'll take my chances.
This one is laughable: the first three days I’ve seen line judges call offsides for a kneecap or even a nose. Germany just scored a goal with a guy a good 2 yards offsides, smack in front of the goal and it has to go to VAR because the line judge doesn’t see it. Absolutely stunning SMDH
You can score a perfectly legal goal from 10 (or more) yards behind the last defender without violating the offside rule. It only matters where you were at the time the ball was passed to you. I would guess the AR didn’t properly note where the goal scorer was when the ball was passed to him and they had to review that.
This is EXACTLY why I liked our group and wanted nothing to do with Japan/Korea (tactics) or African (speed) sides.
BANZAI!!! 2-1 Japan with 5+ to go!
BANZAI!!! 2-1 Japan with 5+ to go!
If you score a goal you get an ownership stake in Aramco
I root for Germany after the US. I only watch the big tournaments and this is an upset but Japan has struck me as a team that’s been improving over time from World Cup to World Cup. They’re a capable team imo.
Japan looked very good in the second half. Germany also looked very good, despite the result.
Best part of having the WC outside of Europe or South America is it neutralizes the home field advantage for those nations and opens the door for upsets.
HUGE Spanish contingent today. England won in front of about 40,000 or so English fans. Argentina still travelled extremely well but unfortunately had to play a fan-base from 2-hours away. Mexico had about 90% of the fans in a 50(?)K seat stadium. Mexican officials claimed nearly 80,000 travel visa requests (and that doesn't count Mexican-Americans, obviously). It sounded like Azteca and they STILL couldn't score. Germany had a HUGE % of the fans at that stadium today, as well, and they lost scoring ONLY on a PK. Team USA ties in front of about 35,000 USA fans I'd guess (out of 43,000). I'm sure that Brazil and Uruguay will have huge contingents as well. The only side haven't seemed to travel well, which typically do, are The Dutch, Danes, Aussies and The French (from what I could tell on TV).
1st match of group play (when there tends to be more upsets...), more subs, bigger roster, not HFA, seem to be the difference makers here IMHO.
*** HUGE Canadian and good-sized Belgian contingents as well.
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After seeing what happened to Argentina and German (both with 1-0 leads off PK's in the 1st; lose 2-1 in the 2nd) I wouldn't "show respect" to ANYONE at this point. Step on their throats once you get the lead!
Be interesting to see if Costa Rica can make an adjustment or two here and provide a challenge. They’re being killed in the midfield and have to somehow stop that.
Seeing the tactical moves other coaches have made it halftime, and during the run of play in the second half, he’s got him even more pissed off about GB’sdecision to do nothing the other day including keeping Gio on the bench.
Germany has quite a bit of work to do to advance out of the group, seeing Spain up 4-0 on Costa Rica
I kind of think so too and since they’re my team after the US it’s too bad lol. Oh well, if it’s another disappointing WC what can you do.
I mean….no need to give up on USA yet! Likely gonna be a “goal differential” situation between us an Wales.
Lol, I wasn’t giving up on the US. I meant in regards to Germany and not getting out of the group again possibly.
I’ll be watching Friday alongside all the CFB games. I’m sure a lot of people will be. I read the US/Wales game had 8.3M viewers. I figure the England game should beat that.
