Everything Soccer

[MacIrish75]

Great stuff, the USA are safe and through now.
I was holding off on saying this but now they are safe...you fellas who don't think that tackle was a red card are mad - that was a sickening tackle. What was he thinking. Red all day unless I have no idea what you can get a red card for. Also I would have red carded the Bosnian coach remonstrating like a child - horrible look for the game.

 

[Crazy Balki]

Great stuff, the USA are safe and through now.
I was holding off on saying this but now they are safe...you fellas who don't think that tackle was a red card are mad - that was a sickening tackle. What was he thinking. Red all day unless I have no idea what you can get a red card for. Also I would have red carded the Bosnian coach remonstrating like a child - horrible look for the game.

You really gonna say that after watching Senegal lay an egg in the 86th minute?

 

[Crazy Balki]

Aaand of course we're getting TEN MINUTES of stoppage.

Good lord, if I'm the ref, I'm getting out of the country as soon as possible.

 

[MacIrish75]

Can there be additional stoppage time inside stoppage time?

 

[Crazy Balki]

Can there be additional stoppage time inside stoppage time?

If there's a significant delay, then yeah.

 

[ACamp1900]

Aaand of course we're getting TEN MINUTES of stoppage.

Good lord, if I'm the ref, I'm getting out of the country as soon as possible.

This isn’t Mexico,… he’s safe

 

[thekid33]

Pure American guts 🇺🇸

 

[greyhammer90]

ROUND OF 16 BABY.

 

[MacIrish75]

ROUND OF 16 BABY.

Or, for us who choose to bastardize this process…

SWEET 16 BABY

 

[Fbolt]

Fantastic Free Kick. Losing Balo hurts, and I'm unsure how much they can get out of Pepi.

 

[NDRock]

I fucking love Pochettino!

 

[calvegas04]

Let freedom ring!

 

[Dale]

Great stuff, the USA are safe and through now.
I was holding off on saying this but now they are safe...you fellas who don't think that tackle was a red card are mad - that was a sickening tackle. What was he thinking. Red all day unless I have no idea what you can get a red card for. Also I would have red carded the Bosnian coach remonstrating like a child - horrible look for the game.

 

[Punky]

I fucking love Pochettino!

He's certainly been pushing the right buttons. But he is going to have to really pull a rabbit out of his hat for the next match.

 

[greyhammer90]

Seattle is going to be litty titty

 

[Old Man Mike]

Great effort guys. Deserved it all and more.
... but that @@#$% red card for the next game. @#$%^%$#@#$%^%$#@#$%^.

 

[Irish2155]

I’m just going to sit back and listen until someone drops the tits post.

USA!!!

 

[Irish2155]

Great effort guys. Deserved it all and more.
... but that @@#$% red card for the next game. @#$%^%$#@#$%^%$#@#$%^.

*#%€#{ agreed

 

[Bane]

The Tillman free kick was a Ball Don't Lie moment.

 

[Irish#1]

If they make a movie about this team, Russel Crowe is going to play the coach.

 

[MacIrish75]

Great effort guys. Deserved it all and more.
... but that @@#$% red card for the next game. @#$%^%$#@#$%^%$#@#$%^.

When Mike gets angry and breaks out the special keyboard characters you know it’s real.

 

[ACamp1900]

I cannot believe we have to be without Flo for the key game everyone has waited for because of that bullshit,… hopefully El Paso and CP can connect on a couple

 

[greyhammer90]

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When Mike gets angry and breaks out the special keyboard characters you know it’s real.

When the caret symbol is used, somebody's balls are about to be chopped off.

 

[MacIrish75]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

[greyhammer90]

It's nice to see US soccer culture having a moment. Feels like the chants and songs are so much less cringey or copycat than even a decade ago.

 

[notredomer23]

Tillman was one of the weaker players going into tonight I thought but even without the goal he was man of the match for me. The work rate by him was insane tonight.

 

[Bane]

Isn’t tonight the knock out round? Win or go home? Why does Bet365 have odds on a tie?

Soccer is always a three way market for betting. Team A wins, Team B wins, or tie. In knockout round games the "tie" is extras and penalties. You get better odds if you take the 90 minutes bet, but there is generally a "to advance/qualify" option for worse odds because you hit your bet if the team wins in extra time or pens. There is also double chance and draw no bets, too. Soccer has a lot of their own sort of quirky bets.

Great stuff, the USA are safe and through now.
I was holding off on saying this but now they are safe...you fellas who don't think that tackle was a red card are mad - that was a sickening tackle. What was he thinking. Red all day unless I have no idea what you can get a red card for. Also I would have red carded the Bosnian coach remonstrating like a child - horrible look for the game.

Everyone the last week (in America anyways) has been debating offsides, I actually think offsides makes sense, but the real flaw in soccer, in my opinion, the red card system. Way too steep a penalty (down a man the whole match, suspended the next match), for basically amounted to incidental contact. This creates a perverse incentive and it makes immediately obvious why soccer is a sport full of SGA's, if you flop around on the ground long enough and scream in pain you can get a red card if the ref can go to VAR and super slow mo the shit out of the play until it basically looks like the Rape of Nanking. If you're going to have such a terrible consequence there has to be some sort of demonstrable intentionality.

Don't even get me started on the absolute inconsistency of application. Messi straight up intentionally stomped on a dude's Achilles and didn't even get a yellow.

 

[MacIrish75]

It's nice to see US soccer culture having a moment. Feels like the chants and songs are so much less cringey or copycat than even a decade ago.

It’s been stated and restated, but the fact that we took what made American sports special with the “Gameday” atmosphere and applied it to soccer was a huge turning point.

My 6 year old son played Y soccer one season and he’s been enthralled watching the WC. He’s talking about wanting to play soccer again because it’s…cool. It’s what he loves about waking up at 9am in the fall and watching Gameday. The enthusiasm is palpable. The team is young and cool. Soccer is about to take off…again.

 

[pumpdog20]

Sorry for ignorance. What WTF does being offside even mean? That’s 2 goals now taken.

It's the dumbest rule in any sport.

 

[MacIrish75]

It's the dumbest rule in any sport.

I think soccer would be better if any part of your body is even with the defender, you’re onside. The fact that a defender can jump forward to put an offensive player offside is crap, IMO.