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[jersey cubs fan]

7 hours ago, scarey said:

Whatever.

Take em all out back and shoot them. They're worthless. Shouldn't have even played.

That’s a normal and healthy response.

[Old Style]

I don’t know horsefeathers about this game but it sure looked like the ‘27 Yankees against a high school JV team last night. 

[UMFan83]

28 minutes ago, Old Style said:

I don’t know horsefeathers about this game but it sure looked like the ‘27 Yankees against a high school JV team last night. 

Belgium is certainly the better team but the US players all seemed to have their worst games last night.  Like discussed above, all 4 of the goals seemed to be US blunders not necessarily great plays by Belgium.  So many times it looked like the players were out of sync, went the wrong way when a player passed it, or just had poor first touches.  It was a completely different team than we saw the rest of the tournament.  Certainly Belgium deserves credit but it was just jarring how much the US seemed to beat themselves.

Edited 1 hour ago by UMFan83

[CaliforniaRaisin]

11 hours ago, soccer10k said:

We won the possession because Belgium let us win it. It was 53-47 Belgium in the first half and 64-36 US in the second. Belgium didn't need to score, they knew they had another game in 4 days, and the knew we posed basically no threat offensively to score. So why would they press to try to win the ball back when they can just let us have it and do nothing with it?

And that's the only stat we won. 2.15-0.67 in xG, 15-7 total shots, 7-2 shots on goal, 21-12 touches in opponents box, 4-0 big chances created. All in favor of Belgium. The second half was pretty even because Belgium allowed it to be. They had more good chances to score (1) in the first minute than we had in 90. They dominated the first half and didn't need to do much the last 1/3 of the game.

Our goal was fluky as well. There's a decent chance Courtois saves that free kick if there's no deflection. And even if Belgium had two fluky goals, they also had multiple other chances that could very easily have turned into goals. Oh, and they didn't even start de Bruyne (had started all four games) and Doku (started 3 of 4).

100% this. Well said.

[cl smooth]

mo salah don't let me down!

[Soul]

The first clue to how this was going to turn out happened very quickly.  The ball pops up in the air after a weak header, deep in our zone, and we sit there watching it as it falls at the feet of a Belgium player.

I don't know soccer but even I could see it's a genuine WTF moment.  Did they come to play today...

Edited 44 minutes ago by Soul

[CaliforniaRaisin]

7 minutes ago, cl smooth said:

mo salah don't let me down!

God my 9-year old son needs this after last night 

(Liverpool supporter)

[cl smooth]

egypt scores

messi gets stuffed on a penalty kick

1-0 egypt

[CaliforniaRaisin]

[Derwood]

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