2022 WC Qatar: Worldwide Opponents Watch [all R's]

This Portugal kit is really ugly.

 

Weah would have buried that.

 

There’s a peak age for every position based on analytics and for Belgium a lot of their top guys were that age during the 2014 tournament.

Now they had a better tournament in 2018, but tournament performance varies for all sorts of reasons. I don’t have a strong opinion on 2014 vs 2018 though.

But you haven’t really made the case that the 2022 team is comparable to 2014 at all. All their key guys are 8 years older and Hazard is a shell of what he was (which is a huge deal). And there’s the absence of Kompany who was one of the best center backs in the world.

 

Horrific.

This match would have been better played post turkey, considering the walking pace

 

But their training kits….


Those will end up in third world nations where the loser’s pre made “champions” shit ends up.

 

Fun fact. Fernando Santos was the manager who signed Freddy Adu for Benfica.

He was fired several matches into the season.

 

You want to talk about a national team whose fans want the coach fired.....

 

Am I the only one who hits 4pm eastern time and thinks….ok…now what the ******** am I going to do?

 

I can’t believe Nigeria was knocked out by an even worse version of this Ghana side. They really did finish in dead last a year ago at Afcon behind Gabon, Comoros and Morocco.

 

Well if you saw the South Africa v Ghana match they shouldn't have even been there.

 

That was awful. Just awful first half.

Nodded off

 

The 1990 WC has a well-deserved rep as the worst due to the defensive, bunkering soccer on display. This one is going to have one due to all the useless passing side to side.

If possession without penetration is just masturbation, this is one giant circle jerk.

 

1-0 on a Joao Felix goal. Calling it now

 

The 1st round of group stage matches is the "Do Not Lose" strategy.

 

Not a Felix fan

 

Feeling sorry for all my American friends who are forcing their family members to watch the World Cup on Thanksgiving in a failed attempt to convince them that “soccer isn’t boring actually!”

— Carl Carpenter (@CarlonCarpenter) November 24, 2022

 

I... kinda like it? IDK, I'll take big chunks of color over the messy "tech" patterns that are so popular.

 

Our MLS ref is not good

 

hmmmm... really? Feels soft, but that's Elfath for you

 

Nice dive by Penaldo

 

*gumbling* ... somethingsomething"PENALDO"... *inaudible grumbling*

 

Dodgy Penaldo
After all the penalties that haven’t been given in the competition so far

 

That's a lot of red for Ronaldo's penalty record. Don't they have anyone else?

 

Why wasn't that reviewed? Felix got away with the headbutt and now this soft-ass penalty.

The ref has killed this game.

 

He has killed the game by refereeing inconsistently in all directions.