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[bukie]

Friday's game vs England was the most watched US English broadcast of a soccer game in history, beating out the 1994 World Cup final:

 

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[Rex Buckingham]

Friday's game vs England was the most watched US English broadcast of a soccer game in history, beating out the 1994 World Cup final:

 

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Got a huge boost by being on Black Friday in November. Stick that game on June 20th or whatever and it's still widely watched, but I bet plenty of casuals watched because it was US-England and they were being lazy at home the day after Thanksgiving

[soccer10k]

horrible game. Argentina sleep-walking and Mexico hacktastic.

 

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Didn't get any better in the second half.

 

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[Transmogrified Tiger]

I swear every day I wake up and the early game was either a scoreless draw or a shock upset by a team that was supposed to lose by 3

[Rex Buckingham]

Crazy goal from Morocco. Hard to believe Courtois got beat like that.

[bukie]

Germany saved by Costa Rica, now need a draw today and win vs Costa Rica to advance.

[soccer10k]

Germany saved by Costa Rica, now need a draw today and win vs Costa Rica to advance.

 

Unless Japan beats Spain, right? Then Spain and Germany would be on 4 and Spain probably has the GD. Unlikely but with the way this Cup is going, I'm not ruling anything out.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Germany saved by Costa Rica, now need a draw today and win vs Costa Rica to advance.

 

Unless Japan beats Spain, right? Then Spain and Germany would be on 4 and Spain probably has the GD. Unlikely but with the way this Cup is going, I'm not ruling anything out.

 

A Japan/Spain draw would also make it come down to GD/tiebreakers in that situation.

[bukie]

Canada needs to spend the entire halftime break explaining the concept of marking to their back line.

[UMFan83]

3-1 Croatia. Barring a miracle over the last 20 mins Canada will be out after 2 matches yikes

[Derwood]

Shot it right through the defender’s legs, lol

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Canada continuing their trend of being weirdly bad in tournament play, especially since their play style and strengths should be well suited.

[wvcbxl]

3-1 Croatia. Barring a miracle over the last 20 mins Canada will be out after 2 matches yikes

 

If Croatia plays like this in the final game, they will eat Belgium’s old defenders alive.

[stitchface]

Shot it right through the defender’s legs, lol

 

that's actually very common and intentional

[stitchface]

Canada needs to spend the entire halftime break explaining the concept of marking to their back line.

 

seriously, wth is with their defense?

[Derwood]

Shot it right through the defender’s legs, lol

 

that's actually very common and intentional

 

I'm sure it is, it just hurts watching a replay

[stitchface]

Shot it right through the defender’s legs, lol

 

that's actually very common and intentional

 

I'm sure it is, it just hurts watching a replay

 

hope that didn't sound condescending . . . it was something that surprised me when I started watching a lot of soccer.

[Derwood]

 

that's actually very common and intentional

 

I'm sure it is, it just hurts watching a replay

 

hope that didn't sound condescending . . . it was something that surprised me when I started watching a lot of soccer.

 

It didn't. My comment was just in watching the slo-mo replay and thinking "if the defender barely moves their foot that's not a goal"

[bukie]

Germany scores in the 83rd minute, potentially saving their World Cup once again.

[wolf stansson]

Great news, guys! I caught the RSV going around so I’m going to be home for Iran game. I can barely talk but still extremely worth it.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Great news, guys! I caught the RSV going around so I’m going to be home for Iran game. I can barely talk but still extremely worth it.

 

Oof, get well soon. I took last week off and woke up to 11 goals before I could even caffeinate in my first day back in the office, and now I have a ton to catch up on so I'm limiting myself to only blocking my calendar for the 2nd half tomorrow (for now).

[soccer10k]

Great news, guys! I caught the RSV going around so I’m going to be home for Iran game. I can barely talk but still extremely worth it.

 

Thankfully Tuesday is one of my working from home days so I’ll be able to watch the whole thing in peace.

[UMFan83]

This is bizarre but not surprising

 

[jersey cubs fan]

How are these kids selected to March in with the players pregame? Is it donors or the children of slave labor used to build the facilities?

[imb]

those are the children of deceased migrant workers who died building the stadiums. touching tribute imo