S49: England v. USA, 2 July

zdravstvuyte · Jul 3, 2019

My young son told me the following this morning.

“Geez Dad if England hadn’t screwed up so much they would have won.”

BarryfromEastenders · Jul 3, 2019

Something on Phillip changing his tactics for the toughest opponent -

The failure of England's 4-4-2. https://t.co/mFPH31EH2h
— Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) July 3, 2019

MiLLeNNiuM · Jul 4, 2019

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Anyone here have experience with taking video frame by frame and editing it? I've had a bit and that's why VAR scares me.

You could take any close offside and depending on the position of the ball at the foot of the server produce two different images; one that appears onside and one that appears offside. There is a significant amount of play/movement with the ball at the foot of the server:

a) when they are mere centimeters away from striking a ball, and
b) when the passers foot has moved to execute the pass (often considerably in distance) and the ball has come centimeters off it

These sound like they are the same thing or negligible but in practice neither can be isolated with existing technology and the difference can be considerable in terms of body movement of the receiver and defender, especially if one party is moving at pace.

I think these lines on the field are an oversimplification and false science.
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I don't disagree with you, but consider the "science" of what we had before.
We had a running AR who had to "listen" to the ball coming off the players foot and "eyeballing" whether the offensive player was offside. How many "really bad" calls did we see on our HD TV's before VAR took over?
Sure VAR isn't perfect, but it's better than what we had and it will continue to evolve.

blissett · Jul 4, 2019

Just for the sake of completeness: I don't think I had posted FIFA official highlights of the game yet :

kolabear · Jul 4, 2019

BarryfromEastenders said: ↑

Something on Phillip changing his tactics for the toughest opponent -

The failure of England's 4-4-2. https://t.co/mFPH31EH2h
— Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) July 3, 2019

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Jonathan Wilson's an excellent analyst of tactical formations. I just wish he'd write about women's soccer more. But he'd rather watch the cricket. (Seriously. I'm not jesting. He's into cricket)

It didn't become a major controversy but Wilson's also had the best idea on suspensions for yellow card accumulation: after the Round of 16, wipe out the group stage yellow cards. There's never a game (prior to the semifinals of course) where a player can cynically take a yellow card knowing it's wiped out immediately.