FIFA World Cup

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA World Cup:

Turkiye not qualifying was a surprise

They never recovered from losing to Australia

@canefan

i thought iran, korea, scotland uruguay, panama were quite good, and woudn't look out of place in the 32

you could say only tunisia saudis qatar really bombed (and turkey)

the rest of the goin homes are not really unexpected

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA World Cup:

Turkiye not qualifying was a surprise

Turkey would've.

@MiketheSnow

england may have to go thru mexico brazil and argentina to get to the final
great effort if they can do that

france and germany; portugal and spain early collisions, maybe

maybe
france/spain semi
argentina/england or brazil semi

@canefan said in FIFA World Cup:

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA World Cup:

Turkiye not qualifying was a surprise

They never recovered from losing to Australia

Agreed

But coming into the tournament you would have backed them to advance

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA World Cup:

@canefan said in FIFA World Cup:

@MiketheSnow said in FIFA World Cup:

Turkiye not qualifying was a surprise

They never recovered from losing to Australia

Agreed

But coming into the tournament you would have backed them to advance

I was surprised

@mohikamo I get your point but we will have to agree to disagree.

Teams who just stack their penalty box leave the opposition not much choice but to pass it around

Well we were ahead against Iran and Egypt for significant periods of the game but in the end only manged a draw and a loss from being in a winning position both games.
Our parking of the bus seemed to consist of letting the other team have the ball and come at us, which seemed to have an air of inevitability about it.
It's also fair to say that our qualifying path for the WC now in no way prepares us for the WC, and unless we can get a diet of high class international friendlies or involvement in some kind of competition higher than beating the likes of PNG and Vanawatu it's going to be hard for the All Whites to do much better than what they are doing now.

Fucking brilliant

Paraguay through on penalties

That wasn't in the script - Germany losing on penalties.

The Netherland Morocco game is full on physicality wise. I was surprised to see there wasnt - or didn't seem to be a concussion protocol when the Nlands player copped a boot to the skull. The on field medic whipped out a stapler to repair the damage.

I haven't seen the stapler gun used on field since state of origin years ago

This is exciting - another penalty shoot out. Go Morocco!

Damn, I may have jinxed them.

Wow, awesome.

Damn

Germany and the Netherlands out. This is the risk of not attacking enough and having to negotiate the PK shootout

I love to give krauts shit as much as the rest of us but it’s hard to take it seriously after such an awful var decision. Properly robbed.

@MajorStokes

i get your point too

but those passing/possession teams need to be more direct

I note Spain (who are best at it) are much more direct this time around
what they did at the last WC was ridiculous (and tedious)
just shoot it/cross it
back yourself with a high press to get a turnover, with the defence now discombobulated
the primary aim to be getting a scoring opportunity, possession being secondary

that ticky tacky shit has had its day