** World Cup 2026 - USA, Canada, Mexico Thread **
Saw no thread was active yet while it starts tomorrow so I'd gave it a go
No real time for an extensive write-up but lets
2/5 gg worst **** penalty takers ive ever seen in my ****ing life
Koeman might want to start looking into real estate in Curacao.
And of course our ****ing captain didnt take one
Its 6am here... this is what you kept me up for. Disgraceful
the best player in the dutch league knocks the dutch out
netherlands .23 xg counts the penalty shots I think
Well deserved Morocco. You werent great but at least you werent pussies like us.
Please somebody run over Koeman tonight
Im out
Hard to argue with the ultimate result. Morocco was the better side for most of the match.
also surprised at the dutch list to take them but I don't know anything about that team to know who should. Other than surprised the captain didn't, cause ya know, he should unless he sucks at it.
HAHA LOL
UP PARAGUAY
tomorrow:
ivory coast vs norway (in arlington)
france vs sweden (in east rutherford)
mexico vs ecuador (in mexico city)
wow i just looked up the germany squad. who the hell are these people
no wonder they keep getting humped out of every tournament after 5 mins
Koeman said he didnt regret the gameplan and wouldnt have changed a thing
I for one never even knew Koeman was Moroccan
He is a disgrace and should **** off asap
France - Morocco is gonna be good
fwiw MAR were elo #15 entering yesterday's game
Should've been red imo if he didn't manage that, and perhaps even already 5 minutes prior, but not with the current WC leniency
don't think it would've been a red
there was a covering defender in the sequence
MAR will take CAN to the woodshed. it's not going to be pretty
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55% of the shoot-out PK attempts y'day were successful
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great news for the Yanks. we're able to celebrate 250 without worrying about missing anything important in the WC that day
I've read this tweet about a guy suggesting that we do the penalty shootout before ET and winner of the shootout gets a 0.5 goal lead heading into ET and I can't stop thinking about it for some reasons - make it happen
wow i just looked up the germany squad. who the hell are these people
no wonder they keep getting humped out of every tournament after 5 mins
To be fair you could say the same about 2002 (especially) and 2006
Even 2010 English people couldn't believe their luck facing Germany since they'd only heard of like 3 players in the team.
[Bild] There were difficulties to find a sixth taker in. Leon Goretzka, Waldemar Anton, Nathaniel Brown and Malick Thiaw hesitated and dodged the challenge due to the immense pressure. Jonathan Tah, who had never taken a penalty in his career before, stepped up and missed.
The fact that there weren’t enough players in the penalty shootout willing to confidently step up to the spot is reminiscent of Bayern’s “Finale Dahoam” (Final at Home) in 2012. In that lost Champions League final on their own stadium against Chelsea, numerous players similarly ducked away, meaning goalkeeper Neuer ended up taking the third kick (successfully). Bastian Schweinsteiger ultimately failed on the fifth penalty, beaten by Petr Cech.
yeah you could see that on the game broadcast, kimmich was barking at everyone trying to find the next shooter and they were all just kind of shrugging at him. wild
I wouldn't blame Thiaw, Anton or Brown too much due to their youth/centrebackness/both. Goretzka should've stepped up though, he's been a regular penalty taker before.
I wouldn't blame Thiaw, Anton or Brown too much due to their youth/centrebackness/both. Goretzka should've stepped up though, he's been a regular penalty taker before.
yeah, for sure. apparently goretzka was putting himself 9th, insane amounts of wil. idk why neuer didn't say **** it and step up again. guess they were all just shitting themselves...
Kimmich: "We didn’t play well against any opponent. On three occasions we had major problems against teams that are not world-class. That’s a fact. We fully deserved to be eliminated"
yeah that's what i was gonna say, they looked pretty bad outside of the walkover curacao match
Koeman "We chose to play this way because we conceded too much in three matches. The whole of the Netherlands has said that we should play with five men at the back. So we do that, and I get criticism for it. Well... I don't give a damn. If I could do it over again, I would do exactly the same."
you heard it here first folks, everyone wanted 5 at the back haramball
