Football (Soccer)

[Kasi]

Come on England keep rattling them.

[yannis]

They just scored!!!!!

[mclaincausey]

Disgraceful. Tuchel and the team just shit the bed there.

[Tago Mago]

Worst coaching performance in the history of football.

[goosehd]

@Tago-Mago Foooook...yep 30 plus minutes is a long fucking time.

[Kasi]

Hope Spain wins now.

[IrishHeart]

To sit back against a team like Argentina and invite pressure like that was a disaster waiting to happen.

[Tago Mago]

Don’t know what Tuchel was thinking. We had 6 defenders on the pitch for a period there. Suicidal

[Tago Mago]

Normally England going out means tears, today I’m absolutely furious

[mclaincausey]

Yeah benching Gordon and to a lesser extent Rice were egregious decisions. The team has to take some blame but sitting back like that was just weird. Spain keeps the ball even with a lead and hopefully that will be the difference against Argenfifa in the finals.

[Tago Mago]

@mclaincausey almost criminal to allow a free header when you’re playing 5 at the back

[Bridger]

I am not a soccer fan, but I wonder about England's belief that they will achieve anything beyond semi-finals (other than happenstance). I would be keen to hear from more learned colleagues why they ever should have been compared to a team such as Spain.

[Sage954]

Can’t park the bus that long.

[mclaincausey]

In football even with significant talent disparity you almost always have a chance. But you have to get to the game first. I’m just gutted they went out in such a weak way. I think the entire viewership saw the writing on the wall when they benched Gordon.

[Bridger]

Brazil – 5 titles (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)
Germany – 4 titles (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014)
Italy – 4 titles (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006)
Argentina – 3 titles (1978, 1986, 2022)
France – 2 titles (1998, 2018)
Uruguay – 2 titles (1930, 1950)
England – 1 title (1966)
Spain – 1 title (2010)

Other than Uruguay (who also have two titles), seems like other teams have figured things out in the last six decades.

[Jord]

Titles don't mean much, considering the teams change... Brazil is a perfect example of that.

[Nick]

The second half was a war crime to football. Elite negligence from Tuchel. I'm upset, angry. I guess these are better emotions to feel than complete heartbreak. I knew what was coming 30 minutes before it happened.

[Giles]

The pressure was relentless, and we could not do anything about it. Goal(s) were inevitable......

[1WayTrip]

What we missed in both boxes last night

Instead he took players he never trusted to play at all!

[EdH]

@mclaincausey said in Football (Soccer):

In football even with significant talent disparity you almost always have a chance.

Football is almost a coin flip. If you crunch the numbers, the team which should win only wins ~55% of the time. The scores don't climb high enough to allow skill to express itself in the result. (Compare to tennis, for instance, where the better player wins ~80% of the time, because over hundreds of points in a match the skill disparity can come out.)