In terms of it being competitive, a decent watch and a decent atmosphere that's the best match so far.
Day 2: England vs Iran | Senegal vs Netherlands | USA vs Wales
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Can understand why it would be awful for you having to watch England and Wales at the WC as an Irishman.
Suck it up. Focus on getting there in 4 years yourselves instead of the negativity about the teams who were good enough to make it now.
If you look at the groups they've all got awful teams in them. That's what happens when you make the world cup 32 teams. Some groups are worse than others, but that's luck of the draw.
On paper it looks really obvious which teams will go through, but it usually doesn't pan out exactly how you'd think
On paper it looks really obvious which teams will go through, but it usually doesn't pan out exactly how you'd think
I think it was just a 50-50 game and a draw was about right. I don't think it's an awful result for either team. As bad as we were in the first half and as much time and space as you were given on the ball, you didn't really create much outside of the goal even then.
If anything, I think we probably shaded it in terms of real chances with the Moore and Davies headers, at least one of which should really have been scored.
They don’t count as they don’t fit the narrative! Keep up
It's a money making thing in the USA. To play on a youth club team costs parents thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars a year for just club fees let alone travel costs. It's ridiculous.
It is the only group that has all 4 teams in FIFA's top 20 ranking
Good game that, enjoyed it, especially the second half when it was in the balance. First half USA looked streets ahead. Wales did well to fight back in the second half. All to play for in that group now.
It wasn't embarrassing for the US. That's about what I expected. Wales aren't bad, they got their tactics really wrong first half and then fixed them and got on top of the game.
I expected a Wales draw or win before the game tbh. They always show up in tournaments.
I expected a Wales draw or win before the game tbh. They always show up in tournaments.
You're bringing up a game scraped through in extra time with a penalty won from a shocking dive as evidence of not being jammy?
England have the hardest group as you say
They will have exceeded expectations if they can get out of it tbh. Especially after looking so poor today against Iran.
That's weird. From what age onwards? Surely it can't be that much for u12
Blood of christ there are 4 games tomorrow
Absolutely no work will be getting done in my house
Absolutely no work will be getting done in my house
Might have missed a reference there. And elorating is better than FIFA, there the teams are 11th-30th.
Phillips is very average. He at least measures at 3 Kalvins.
The question was not about being jammy, it was about England crumbling under the slightest bit of pressure which is clearly not true.
There's definitely a recurring theme of people saying oh Englands next game will be very difficult, it won't be easy at all and then if England play well and win those same people say ah well the opposition were rubbish, your next game will be difficult, it won't be easy etc.
For club soccer, it starts at 9 years old for travel soccer:
"The average cost of playing youth soccer is $1,472 per child, but elite clubs may range upwards of $10,000 per year.
Worse yet, those fees do not often cover travel expenses, additional tournaments, or uniforms."
https://soccerblade.com/youth-soccer-clubs-money/
I don't think England's group is the hardest at all.
Group E has Spain and Germany, and in group H I think all the teams are fairly well balanced and anyone could win any game. Portugal look strongest on paper but they're often lacklustre in reality
Tomorrow? There are 4 games the next 11 days.Blood of christ there are 4 games tomorrow
Absolutely no work will be getting done in my house
Well that's truly bizarre.
Blood of christ there are 4 games tomorrow
Absolutely no work will be getting done in my house
I've booked 10 days off work
Ah, fair enough. My mistake.
That's interesting, but also very, very strange. Almost everywhere else in the world, football is the game of the poor. You can literally play it with a rock, as my group of friends used to in primary school during the break times when we weren't allowed a ball. That's before you consider the parade of legends who have lifted themselves out of abject poverty through football, especially in South America and Africa.
Baffling to me how it's apparently some kind of middle class sport in America. I figured there'd at least be a strong culture of poorer latino kids taking up the game, but I guess they're more likely to opt for baseball?
To be fair, yes, relatively easy for them. The US has a good team, but they lack too much in experience. England will probably secure the first place on Friday night. Still open for the second place (I think one of the 2, more likely to be Wales, will fail to beat Iran and lose it there...)
Jack Grealish dancing after scoring goal number six is not showboating and disrespectful over for other team?
Just asking cause all pundits got crazy when Antony did a spin at no one once
Just asking cause all pundits got crazy when Antony did a spin at no one once
Van Gaal should have selected Danjuma & Brobbey instead of fecking Janssen.
He did it because a young city fan he’s in contact with asked him to celebrate his next goal like that…
Epic fail here!
England
Algeria
Slovenia
Yanks
Was the reference, but seems like I am the one with terrible memory. They just struggled in the first 2 matches but still qualified
It’s celebrating.
A young City fan with cerebral palsy too.
He was doing a celebration that he promised to do for a young fan
Portugal group is certainly most balanced in tournament. But again are South Korea really much better than US, could they really beat England if Son was kept quiet? Ghana have some good players in their squad but could struggle to gel together.
It's much easier to compare knock out routs, England certainly have ended up in the kinder side of draws recently at tournaments when you think France reached the world cup final beating Argentina-Uruguay-Belgium in knocks outs and Italy had to get past Belgium and Spain just to make the euros final.
Would love England to potentially have Holland-France back to back as then you'd have a real measure of their quality but unlikely to happen now.
He celebrated like that due to a promise he made to a fan with cerebral palsy.
Was a great thing to do. They’ll have loved it
Yeah, very nice thing to do.
Thems fightin words.Is it because you watch Dutch football ?
And there was me complaining about my team having €70-100 registration fee and me having to shell out 20 quid a game for the referees.
I'm off work from Weds but going away with my wife for my birthday so won't be much time for watching gamesI've booked 10 days off work
Should be able to watch the late games most days.
Wales must be absolute muck then.