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We still can't score. Both (our only 2) goals were scored on counters. Our final third build up play flat out sucks. Our set pieces suck too, but I can see the various breakdowns in service and attacking the ball coming to some anti-suck convergence and delivering a goal as a possibility. I have zero hope of one pf these crosses being delivered on time or the ball not getting caught underfoot or being yeeted out of bounds by one of our many thunderfooted attackers.

The Dutch do have vulnerabilities, they're giving up a ton of shots. Comparisons are being made to the 2014 Belgium game. We weren't the better side, but we had a chance to win or at least take it to penalties.

I'll sign up for penalties right now.
 
Refs doing everything to help Arg. Where was the goalies hand supposed to go there? At least he saved that penalty

And re- US not performing well on set pieces. 1 we are short. Not many big hogs taking up space or able to head it
2 delivery hasn't been good
 
LIuconn said:
Refs doing everything to help Arg. Where was the goalies hand supposed to go there? At least he saved that penalty

And re- US not performing well on set pieces. 1 we are short. Not many big hogs taking up space or able to head it
2 delivery hasn't been good
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I was thinking that a combo of the weird electronic ball and the poor turf is a possible cause of the inconsistency. Players are saying that it is possible to hit the ball too hard, that might explain the inconsistent crosses.

On the failed US short corner it looked to me like the ball got hung up on the turf. It appeared to skid and wobble instead of rolling true. Could still be a bad kick by CP but he was usually pretty good before the WC.
 
So Argentina and Poland will advance. Saudi's just scored to put Mexico behind on goals. They were behind on yellow cards anyway.
 
Mexico dominated the games today, should have scored like 5 goals.
 
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Viet Vet said:
I love Poland, but they had no business advancing today. They were awful.
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Argentina is looking better and better and Szczesny had a monster game for Polland, has blocked 2 amazing PK's
 
Anyone watch the France match today?
Did they play their scrubs? I was amazed when I saw the score
Great for the Aussies
 
Viet Vet said:
I love Poland, but they had no business advancing today. They were awful.
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Poland is a fun team to watch but much like the USA there is very little offense with the exception of one player
 
gtcam said:
Anyone watch the France match today?
Did they play their scrubs? I was amazed when I saw the score
Great for the Aussies
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Yes. 9 new starters. Rested people. Smart. Still look like possibly the best team to me.
 
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gtcam said:
Anyone watch the France match today?
Did they play their scrubs? I was amazed when I saw the score
Great for the Aussies
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Scrubs is a relative term. Most of their "scrubs" would walk into our team. ;)
 
Morocco is putting it to Canada. As I commented before, Canada is one of the more reckless attacking sides I've ever seen. About as different from the old Italian sides that defended like mad and countered as I can imagine. Simply can't get away with it at this level.
 
Watching Croatia/Belgium. De Bruyne starting to do De Bruyne things. But Lukaku....OMG. Missed 2 sure goals. (ok one wouldn't have counted because it was out before the cross)
 
The one cross was clearly out of bounds but he had 2 amazing chances. Good on him for getting out there not having played any games this year but man, those were golden OPPS...
 
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I enjoy watching the World Cup but I am not as educated as others regarding World Cup. I have read that the 2026 World Cup will have three teams in each group and no ties will be allowed since the field will be expanded to 48 teams. How do you see this change affecting play?
 
Biggest change with 3 teams is there's going to be an unbalanced first game for some teams. The second game for the group will end up being 1 team coming in fresh against another team who just played their first group game. The flip side is the team playing game 2 also knows exactly what result they'll need based on how the first game went for them
 
Ok the last 20 mins of these games are going to be nuts. All 4 teams hopes in the balance
 
Japan tops the group. Beats Germany and Spain. :eek:
 
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Costa Rica enjoyed approximately two minutes of thinking they would advance...and then the wheels fell off.
 
Pretty bad showing for CONCACAF.

Mexico couldn't find the extra goal they needed. Costa Rica was behind the 8-ball after basically losing the GD tiebreaker in the first match. Canada, yikes.
 
Really don’t care about COCCACAF’s showing. It is the World Cup. Mexico’s issues are their’s own to deal with. US in the top 16 is great. Top 8 would be better. This isn’t like college hoops or football where you care one bit about your “conference”
 
UConnRock said:
Really don’t care about COCCACAF’s showing. It is the World Cup. Mexico’s issues are their’s own to deal with. US in the top 16 is great. Top 8 would be better. This isn’t like college hoops or football where you care one bit about your “conference”
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Agreed. It's not like having better teams in our federation helps the USA at all. If anything when it comes to world soccer I would rather the USA stay strong and the rest of our federation stink that way we do not miss anymore world cups in the future. They can always play better competition in friendlies if the worry is not getting challenged enough.
 
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