Group B's General Discussion Thread

No, my stance is the same as what I said before 2022. That Canada has decent players and can play decently, but not experienced or tactical enough to close out results. That happened in 2022, and it happened today so far.

Canada is at home so I get starting off with energy, but they needed to chill they are Canada at home not Brazil at home, let the game settle a bit. They went all out in the heat and sun and did not have an end product as Bosnia expected this and played tactical and shut them down where it mattered, then remained patient and punished Canada with their own goal. However, I was not surprised when Canada scored in the 2nd half because Bosnia became too comfortable with the lead and gave Canada too much respect. And Canada showed they had the potential to score and have home advantage. So unsurprisingly it did lead to a goal eventually. The goal itself was a metaphor for the 2nd half. Bosnia completely sitting back and Canada finally/eventually finding a way through.

 

I told you all this game was going to end in a draw!

 

Game is now over. Overall the scoreline is fair. I think on neutral soil Bosnia would have won, but Canada pulled through to draw with the home advantage. If Bosnia continued playing the way they did before they scored they could have won it. At this point I think Canada and Bosnia will end up with same amount of points, but Canada might score more on Qatar which might edge them to 2nd place.

 

Bosnia will be happier with the point than Canada which Bosnia owe to some good defending and Canada wasting chances..

 

Canada had a good play, but missed so much occasions. It'll be more difficult than I expect.
It was a good operation for Bosnia.

 

Canada the better side (again as others said, probably home side advantage in some way). I would say 1-1 is a fair result. Finishing truly awful from the Canadian side. Bosnia barely threatened after their goal.

 

If Cyle Larin had started and Alfonso Davies also played this would have been a whole different game

 

Bosnia vs Switzerland will be the decider. It is difficult to see this Bosnia not lose against Switzerland, but overall I fancy Bosnia's chances against Switzerland more than Canada's. But I also think Canada can score more on Qatar compared to Bosnia. So overall really tough to call who will take 2nd. But it may be a moot point as the 3rd place team has a good chance to qualify as one of the top 3rd place teams.

 

Very cheap goal for Canada to concede, disappointing not to get 3 points.

 

I agree, but you're kinda contradicting yourself. No way CHE x Bosnia is the "decider". Its now gonna depend on all the remaining matches who comes 2nd.

 

I still personally feel Qatar is outright awful. Canada and Bosnia should be able to take care of business there to secure 4 points which will almost definitely be enough to make the R32.

 

Bosnia performance proved the quality of UEFA teams.

They are a candidate for the weakest UEFA representative but played solid against a testing Rest of World team.

Very likely now that Bosnia qualify for the knockout stage!

 

Bosnia are a limited team and Canada was very wasteful. That's all I really took from the match tbh.

 

Happy for my neighbors to have gotten a point at least. A chance for 2. place exists.

 

Feeling confident about our (Switzerland's) match against Qatar today.

We've only played them once before...and lost 1:0 at home in Lugano in 2018. It was during the inaugural UEFA Nations League (where we reached the semis) and in that edition there was still room for friendlies as only four matches were played in the autumn group stage. This was such a friendly, and Qatar celebrated like they had won the World Cup.

Here we are at the actual World Cup. Time to set the record straight.

 

My prediction for today is Qatar 0-4 Switzerland!

I think this Switzerland is top 12 in the world at least. Very good team with chemistry, structure, and organization.

 

Penalty Switzerland!

 

That looked clearly offside

 

Yes, it did to me too.

Beautifully taken though.

 

Well I guess VAR is not going to be impartial and choose when they want to make calls.