Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

ahh george weah's goal back in the day in serie a where he dribbled from the edge of his own box was a thing of beauty.

want usa to win this. was a lovely goal.

definitely the type that 2010-2014 US was incapable of.

That's an interesting point as I'd just been assuming this US side were still getting back to that level tbh.

they're definitely greener than those squads, which brings some disadvantages, but the way they create is much better. not really sold on Berhalter as the coach though

need to put in Gio Reyna, and Yedlin for Dest due to the Yellow

slowest counter attack ever right there. had 4x4.

Kind of hoping there's a penalty in this match so we can hear John Hartson trying and failing to pronounce "penalty".

holy shit

last 15 minutes has been all Wales

Aaronson in

Pulisic dead

of course right after he tied bale in knots

how did Aaronsson miss that

looking at 5 mins of stoppage due to all of the injury stoppages and subs, I would guess.

lol fucking awful defending

there's yer pen

The ref has been very quick to blow the whistle so I assumed it might have been soft, but nope totally brainless lunge. Great pen

hoo boy

yeah completely dumb of Zimmerman then.

I have never watched the USMNT win a WC match live, so perhaps the curse continues. will completely change complexion of the group if it stands.

6-7 minutes stoppage i think

I do not understand that sub but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

should have been a yelow there, tactical foul

NINE MINUTES

wHo wIlL bE the sToPpAge tImE hErO?

Sorba Thomas coming on, about fucking time

Good new directive to stop the game any time anyone sits down

^disrespectful to players w/ hemmorhoids

On the evidence of this game England don't have much to worry about.

fitting that the US match starting to now resemble American Football

USA much worse than I was led to believe

they were better in the first half

USA have played better overall, but seem to panic & slip up when Wales do anything unexpected, does not bode well for them when they face a decent team.

Over 10 minutes extra time now. Ludicrous.

one of the drawbacks of having such a young team, with only one player who has played in WC for the US. don't know how to close out matches.

sigh. I still haven't seen the USMNT win a World Cup match live (every tiime we've won I've missed it in years past). must be a curse.

Iran a must win now, and might come down to goal differential unless US can force a draw or better against England.

Qatar paid a lot of money for this tournament, good to see they've demanded value for it

Players have been warned to prepare for more stoppage time at the end of each half in the World Cup, including time to make up for long goal celebrations.

‘Celebrations might last one or one and a half minutes,’ said Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA referees committee. ‘It’s easy to lose three, four or five minutes, and this has to be compensated at the end.’

FIFA want to crack down on time-wasting and are also pledging to add time accurately when play stops for VAR interventions, the treatment of injuries, substitutions, penalties and red cards. It will lead to games regularly lasting more than 100 minutes.

I'm in favour of it

...or until Qatar equalizes

(xp) Aren't you a Man Utd fan?

Lol

Wales are still unbeaten in the group stage of the world cup. 1958 they drew 3, won 1 (then lost 1-0 to Brazil in the knockout stage)

Iran’s World Cup captain: “In the name of God, creator of rainbows… I want to say condolences to all the grieving families in Iran… we want them to know we are with them and by their side and share their pain.” pic.twitter.com/WOOqMqA9k7

— Caroline Darya Framke (@carolineframke) November 21, 2022

I'm in favour of it

― Number None, Monday, 21 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

This is not basketball, come on.

VAR really flung the doors open for referees and former referees to start making significant material changes to how football works. I don’t really care if it’s ‘correct’, it’s fucking boring. These people are the cops of the sport and their power should be curbed.

(xp) I think attempts making football more like an American sport have been going on for a long time.

Pierluigi Collina: what happened? #onethread

Roy Keane there, looking like a Jesuit who secretly ministers to Japanese Christians under the Tokugawa shogunate. pic.twitter.com/I0eEinD5sn

— Fergus Butler-Gallie (@_F_B_G_) November 21, 2022

if it was an american sport the clock would hit 90:00 (or more likely, 00:00) and a horn would blow and play would be dead, right there. extra time that only the ref can clearly perceive is as non-american as it gets imo.

football time is the clock of the heart

OMG at that picture of Roy Keane. I just used a variant of that joke in another context.

he looks like one of garrett dillahunt's deadwood characters