Just to add a few more observations - not every shot is clearcut as to whether or not it is on target. Goalkeepers often make saves where due to...
Look, I made my point several times now, I leave it at that. Now you’re throwing cultural stereotypes at people and this is where it stops for me....
No, no and no again. Deciding a football match on the number of shots completely and utterly perverts the fundamental idea of football which is to...
Actually happens more often than one thinks Number of non-WC winners in the semi final 1994 2 1998 3 2002 2 2006 1 2010 2 (they even...
Not sure, haven’t thought this through. Other team sports often have punishments for lack of initiative. In Ice hockey the attacking team gets a...
I take it you haven’t watched much football before
The fact that even poor national sides can be very effective at bunkering makes you wonder whether football at some point needs a rule change of...
That is nonsense. The core objective of football is to put the ball in the net and score, a principle that a penalty shootout honours. You can’t...
Nah, you keep saying this but we must stop using shots as main indicators. Germany had three times the number of shots Mexico had but Mexico was...
But the irony is that Conmebol has gotten stronger. uruguay, Chile, Colombia play siginificantly better football now than most Euro nations....
So if I touch your face with my finger will you then fall to the ground and scream in agony?
If you look at Top 3 finishes (the medals if you wish) Europe will now have won 11 of he last 12 medals in World Cups. This is especially...
True but aren’t 90% of football games like that? Fairly even in open play and ultimately decided by one or two moments of brilliance or one or two...
True. Of course I didn’t mean the entire European continent.
Uruguay have proven themselves to be extremely solid defensively, perhaps the best in the tournament, so before today’s match everybody was...
Well, to be honest, that’s a fairly strong excuse
In the seventies/Eigthies/Nineties the WC certainly was not much more than Europe plus Brazil/Argentina. But recent years have really seen other...
I expressed many times that I don’t understand it either but perhaps Europeans will never fully grasp why people from other continents often have...
Why are we debating again which continent is greater? I’m European but I never felt a particular affinity with other European teams just because...
France v Argentina I actually favour Argentina here mainly because they’re my favourite team left in it now that my home nation is out. I hope...
Sorry, i seemed to remember a 0-0, my bad
I think Uefa and Conmebol are virtually impossible to compare directly because they’re structurally so different. Conmebol is a tiny Confederation...
I wish we wouldn’t look at it purely from the perspective of this binary choice (qualified or not qualified) when there can be huge differences in...
One European semifinalist already guaranteed and Colombia the only team that could prevent a Uefa finalist in that half (the other seven teams in...
Conmebol have the greatest depth. It definitely deserves at least one more spot. Chile is clearly the best team that didn’t make the WC