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World Cup 2026 Thread

Horrible for Koné. I’d love to hope it isn’t as bad as it looked, but… yeah.

On the bright side, Jesse Marsch has another way to make it all about him.
 
Leoghann said:
Four extra group stage days plus an entire extra round that takes six. Gotta feed that FIFA cash cow.

As for the matches… Look, I’m still new-ish to being a somewhat serious soccer fan, but I figure Czechia and South Africa needed a win, and probably by multiple goals. Czechia scored early and then… did very little, really. South Africa countered by doing less, somehow. At least the late penalty got things moving a bit. First all US, all female referee crew, so I guess that’s cool.
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Yeah, welcome to the World Cup. For every England/Croatia that explodes into multiple goals, there’s 25 Czechia/South Africas where everybody just sort of decides that a draw suits everybody. So. Korea tried to tempt Mexico into that kind of game last night, but probably underestimated how much crap the Mexicans would take from their home crowd for passively defending for an entire half. I enjoy the World Cup but the soccer is generally pretty dire. Tense but so, so cautious.
 
I understand there's a level of pragmatism in tournaments like the World Cup that don't jibe with the American "win all the games" mentality. It just seems to get pushed past the point of sense. You're Czechia yesterday. South Africa is missing two starters. You come out on the gas pedal and get an early goal. And then you just try to park it for 85 minutes? I guess that works if you think there are points to be stolen against Mexico in the Azteca but... good luck with that.

Speaking of America, can we please just get this Australia match over with already? It's like the entire Commonwealth of Australia decided to read the comments and get triggered. All this because of something called a Mike Grella, who as best I can tell holds the job title of "Dollar General Alexi Lalas" at CBS, decided to be a troll. And now they won't stop feeding him. Hopefully we can all have a beer after this one and get back to the important stuff like annoying the English by calling it soccer.

Say a prayer for Boston tonight. If Scotland somehow manages to pull off the upset, there will absolutely not be enough alcohol in New England.
 
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