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I don't want to laugh at L Tri too much so I don't jinx the USA, but I'm sure Haji Wright will score in stoppage time to save Gregg's job or something like that.
 
cypocryphy said:
I don't want to laugh at L Tri too much so I don't jinx the USA, but I'm sure Haji Wright will score in stoppage time to save Gregg's job or something like that.
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Please no. I am fine with the US getting blown out so Gregg gets fired. I am sure the new president of US Soccer has a brother we can hire in his place
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Please no. I am fine with the US getting blown out so Gregg gets fired. I am sure the new president of US Soccer has a brother we can hire in his place
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Berhalter should have never been brought back in the first place. I am pleased that the lie that is El Tri once again gets exposed for the fraud that it is, and the seething from Mexican media will sustain me for a long time.
 
I know it's been said Ad Nauseam, but Jesus Christ that England performance. Half the players looked like they've never played football before, and the other half looked like they didn't want to.

As for Southgate, I don't think I could explain his reasoning/tactics if you paid me to. Making only one change to the starting lineup, and then consistently refusing to use subs, despite having multiple available, the players on field being absolute shitters and being on the verge of going out anyway? The dude had absolutely nothing to offer that entire fucking game.

Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Can't wait for Spain to beat the shit out of England in the final.
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Given how we've been playing, with no sign of changes/improvement, getting to the final would be a damning indictment of the entire rest of the tournament tbh.
 
East_Clintwood said:
Given how we've been playing, with no sign of changes/improvement, getting to the final would be a damning indictment of the entire rest of the tournament tbh.
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Onni Kalsarikännit said:
England will go to the finals bc of the tournament bracket. Their anti-football terrorball is perfect for it. The final will be either Spain (who will beat Germany in the quarter finals) or France vs England and England will lose it again.
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It's the torunament bracket.

All the big names that could beat England are either already out bc they performed even worse than England (Croatia, Italy) or are on the other side of the bracket (Spain, France, Germany, Portugal).

Switzerland and then Romania/Austria/Turkey or Netherlands in the half final can all be beaten with a 1:0 or 2:1 or in penalties (especially the Swiss, Yan Sommer absolutely sucks at penalties). The Swiss team might be the biggest threat for England.

The England offensive performs shit but the English defense is rock solid. Offensives win matches, defensives win titles/tournaments.
 
East_Clintwood said:
I know it's been said Ad Nauseam, but Jesus Christ that England performance. Half the players looked like they've never played football before, and the other half looked like they didn't want to.

As for Southgate, I don't think I could explain his reasoning/tactics if you paid me to. Making only one change to the starting lineup, and then consistently refusing to use subs, despite having multiple available, the players on field being absolute shitters and being on the verge of going out anyway? The dude had absolutely nothing to offer that entire fucking game.


Given how we've been playing, with no sign of changes/improvement, getting to the final would be a damning indictment of the entire rest of the tournament tbh.
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Bellingham needs a humbling too, what with his post-match comments on 'silencing the boo boys'. He was one of the worst on the pitch until he gets lucky 30 seconds from the end. Honestly baffling how everyone in the camp has gained such delusions
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Switzerland and then Romania/Austria/Turkey or Netherlands in the half final can all be beaten with a 1:0 or 2:1 or in penalties (especially the Swiss, Yan Sommer absolutely sucks at penalties). The Swiss team might be the biggest threat for England.

The England offensive performs shit but the English defense is rock solid. Offensives win matches, defensives win titles/tournaments.
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Possibly, although I'm personally not so sure. Given our disturbing habit of sitting back too much I could see a team that presses us putting a couple of goals in eventually. The other problem is, while our defence has been good, for the next game we're going to be missing at least one, and possibly two defenders. Guehi is suspended, and Trippier went off injured and might not be back in time. Our one potential hope is if Shaw really is fit again we can have an actual left back for once.
 
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I know Italy was shit this year but Switzerland is a proper team. I don’t think Ingurlund will get past the quarterfinal considering the way they’ve played so far
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Austria has been really damn good this tournament as well. I get it, this half of the bracket doesn't have the big names (with Italy out) that the other half has, but I wouldn't be shocked to see a Austria-Switzerland semi either.
 
Yuuichirou Kumada said:
One between Venezuela and Canada will be at the nominative top 4 teams in the Americas. Let that sink in.
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Mexico: That was supposed to be me.

Mexico hasn't been in semis in almost 17 years.
Mexico hasn't been in the final in almost 23 years.
It has been 8 years since the last time Mexico got to the knockout stage in Copa America. They got anally raped in Santa Clara.
The US can't beat big nations Mexican pundits say. Mexico hasn't beaten the US in 4 years.

Mexicans used to say that in America 'only Brazil and Argentina were better'. This fails to take into account the major slump most of CONMEBOL went through in the 2000s. After being BVLLED by Australia, Uruguay gets into the process that gets them to semis in 2010 and win the Copa America in 2011. Chile wins a double in 2015 and 2016 with peak Sampaoli and then proceeds to fail in the qualifiers twice to then try to get in the WC via desk. Paraguay manages to get in the WC in 2010 and they get to the quarterfinals, they haven't returned since but they got farther than Mexico with Tata Martino. Peru gets back to the WC after 40 years of futility. Ecuador gets back after about 15. Bolivia has that 6-1 they gave to Argentina in the 2009 qualifiers. Venezuela has the future and that time in 2011 when the got to semis.
USA got the quarterfinals in 2002. Costa Rica got to quarterfinals in 2014. At this rate Canada will do it at some point.

It has been almost 12 years since that Gold Medal in London, all the players from then are phased out. Those same guys were sent to Argentina back in 2011 to be brutalised.
It has been almost 6 years since the last time Mexico managed to get to the knock-out stage.
The golden generation was almost 20 years ago and those guys got as far as the fuckers that barely sneaked in back in 2014.

Yesterday was the 10th year anniversary of Robben taking a dive at Fortaleza, they are still seething about it. And funny enough they were denied a penalty yesterday.

Watch as they learn absolutely nothing from this. Maybe they get to the Round of 16 in two years?
 
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Just trying to catch up on the club news from this weekend and apparently Barcelona announced the departure of Joao Felix and Joao Cancelo, then retracted it the next day, and now say they are working to retain both players for another season :story:

Absolute shambles
 
Aurelio_Baldor1875 said:
No, I prefer this system with milimetric lines and strict rules.
I've witness and suffered countless bad (and complicit) ref decisions that i'm not willing to let anybody have fun any longer.
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There's no solution, really. I'm not totally against VAR. We've all seen countless examples where offsides is called/not called where video evidence clearly shows that there was/wasn't a penalty. It sucks. VAR fixes this but the cost can be significant. If they did something like I suggested (make it so it's only offsides if the attacker is X centimeters in from the defender), what about matches played without VAR? No human ref can calculate that. What else can you do? Have two sets of rules depending on whether there's VAR? FIFA wouldn't like that. Or just say it's fine, all the matches everyone cares about have VAR so what's the problem?

Ultimately it's probably something we'll just have to live with and continually seethe about goals being taken away.
 
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the No Era Penal at 2014 World Cup.


Then, against Equador, in the last minute of the match, the referee gives a penalty to Mexico that could allow them to go beyond in Copa América. It was their chance. finally to go to beyond the group stage.

Then the VAR called.

He changed his stance, instead of a penalty, it was nothing.

No Era Penal indeed.

I wanted México to win because Enner Valencia plays at my club and holy shit we need him so fucking bad right now.
 
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