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Taillon doing Taillon things I see. 3 homers in less than 3 innings.

I didn’t realize the Pirates had a top 5 offense this year.

Good eye, Seiya.

They’re going to overturn this aren’t they.

Will be interesting to see how it all works out. 45-37 last year despite George and Embiid playing 37 and 38 games. Not sure how much you can expect from Embiid at this point but Brown will almost certainly play more than George and be more productive when doing so. Then you add LeBron. Maybe you get a little jump in play from Edgecombe in his second year also.

Pretty sure it's 0 steps forward and multiple steps back.

This must be what it’s like for other teams to face Taillon.

First time I read this I thought you mean Javy Baez. Which to be fair, probably would have been better than Taillon's first inning effort.

Fake rally meter rising here.

Missed our shot in the 9th. Now we’ll be lucky to keep this a 2 run game after that error.

It's a style thing. Spain plays a heavy ball control game. They've got good defenders and a good goalie, but they prevent teams from scoring by possessing the ball and then when they lose it, they don't just retreat back defensively. Instead, they try to win the ball back immediately. Also, Argentina tends to struggle at winning the ball back when they don't have possession. Kind of a problem against a team that possesses the ball well. That's what made England bunkering and not even trying to possess the ball so confusing in the semi. In their semi, against a much more talented French front line (France had 20 goals in 8 games, Argentina had 19 but had 4 in extra time and France played a tougher group of opponents), Spain shut them down too. France had 0.04 xG in the first half and 0.31 xG for the game. xG is expected goals, which is basically how good your chances are based on where your shooting from. For example, the xG of a penalty kick is around 0.75, It seemed as if Argentina knew Spain's strength and knew their own weaknesses and probably just hoped they'd be able to get a few chances here and there. So they maybe played into it a bit and got too conservative going forward. Or maybe the Spanish strengths worked perfectly against the Argentine weaknesses, exploiting them and leading to what happened today. I was expecting the game to play out sort of the way it did, just not to this extreme. Like nobody figured Argentina would have 0 shots through 90 minutes. On the other hand, Argentina scraped by against Cape Verde (1-1 in regulation, 3-2 after extra time), needed 3 goals in the last 12 minutes plus injury time against Egypt, 2 goals in extra time against a 10 man Switzerland and two goals after the 85th minute against England just to get here. So maybe we should have seen this coming. The other day I heard Argentina compared to the 2024 Chiefs team that won like 10 1 score games, had an awful point differential for a 15 win team, made the Super Bowl and then got their ass kicked by the Chiefs. This might not have been an ass kicking by the score, but in every other facet of the game it was.

Trump curse strikes again. Pretty lame effort overall by Argentina even before the red card. Spain was the best team this tourney and deserved winners. Glad it didn’t go to PKs too and that the winning goal was a nice one rather than a goalkeeper error or something else lame.

Argentina with 0 shots through 90 minutes is shocking. I figured Spain would dominate the ball but not like this. Extra time will be boring unless Spain scores. Argentina will bunker, waste time and try to provoke Spain into getting a red. Hopefully Spain gets one because they deserve it.

Trump is backing Argentina. Drake also placed a huge bet on Argentina. Which means Spain is going to win.