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- #681
I wasn't trying to be fair
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World Cup 2026 Thread
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I dont watch much soccer but yeah they went into a shell way too early i would think. Last few minutes yeah ok. But the best defense can be a good offenseI was rooting for England, but the way they stopped playing ball after scoring and pretty much stopped defending too, told me that they never deserved it. And when they were desperate at the end, their attacking play was abysmal.
OTOH the way Argentina did the same thing to England as they did to Egypt, shows they actually have something special as a team. Of the two teams playing today, they are the only one who can make the final interesting.
Spain have to be favourites to win, perhaps easily, but at what point does one dare to count Argentina out?
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- #684
They just defended very poorly, that was blatant.
Because both Kane and Bellingham are not defensive players. Yesterday they became defenders, all players were standing in front of goal keeper. That’s very negative football
I think a lot of teams make that mistake. Something works and then when they take the lead they switch that up. It's dumb. Even being up two goals that might not work. Granted, some teams might make that shift to defense work, but a lot have problems with it.
Bad, bad, bad mistake.
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- #687
They're football players though. That was just a very poor defense guys, sometimes it's not the strategy, it's the player's work and organisation which is responsible.
What I saw was a team that didn't know how to switch to defensive mode properly.
As they obviously didn't know how to play like that, they should've kept playing as they did, for sure. But imo that was poor defense anyway
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- #688
You can't defend for 30 minutes against a team the calibre of Argentina - and more relevantly, one with Messi in it.
That goal was depressingly inevitable, as I stated after 5 minutes of an entire England team besieged within the penalty box. It was 'kin ridiculous.
There is a saying here, maybe elsewhere, "Defense wins games". I always thought it should be balance winning games in many active team sports. England's goal was made catching Argentina off guard and running and Argentina pinned England against the goal and fired away, a numbers game.
On lighter note America's influence and trend setting continues
On lighter note America's influence and trend setting continues
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- #693
I actually liked Tuchel when he was at the PSG, he's not a bad coach, we never really know what's going on behind the curtains. He's definitely better than Deschamps the french coach who, despite the praises I always hear internationaly, sucks. Good to remind Deschamps is the coach with the best players in the world on paper.
There's still a ''little final'' to play for both team.
Next year we'll probably have Zidane coaching the french team aka the dude who came in to coach Real Madrid 3 years, won 3 Champions Leagues in a row, and left like a f*cking king. The dude's aura is crazy.
For the english team, who knows really.
Both can be true
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- #695
Well, when you attack you leave big spaces, which is bad defense per se, but putting pressure on the other team keeps em busy.
Against a team with very fast forwards you're exposed to a counter attack.
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I quite agree with you regarding Thomas Tuchel. Overall, I think he is a very good coach. Which coach never makes any mistakes?
However, I am rather skeptical about Zinedine Zidane. In my opinion, he should have managed somewhere other than Real Madrid. In the end, we don't really know whether his success at Real was down to his own abilities or simply being part of a team with great momentum and chemistry.
It reminds me of Frank Rijkaard at Barcelona. He had a great run and a good atmosphere around the team, but what happened afterwards?
Now, who could we realistically put in charge of the French national team? The same problem exists for Belgium, Italy, and others... It's easy to fire a coach, but then what?
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- #697
You're right. If Tuchel was France coach I'd be happier.
But the thing is, choosing the coach of the french national team is a political matter for the heads of the federation, and Zidane, considered a semi-god here, has expressed the will to coach the selection.
So he's gonna have it. We've had worse, I'm sure he'll be better than Deschamps anyway.
One thing is sure, no player will dare to criticize Zidane: if he says jump, they'll all say "how high?".
Coming back to Tuchel, I think what we've seen Vs Argentina is a team not used enough to play together in certain situations. And the feedback I've had from the french fiasco was pretty much the same, players not applying well the tactics. I can't imagine Tuchel, as smart and meticulous as he is, not having thought about this situation.
Get ready to call it soccer and have half time shows
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Calling it soccer? - impossible, won't happen.
Half time shows, hard to imagine, it would change the game, not a problem for american football, but that would be a big problem with football, players would lose the rythm.
I mean you could have half time shows but max 15 minutes
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