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What a weird comment - you realize it's also Ronaldo's last world cup, right? Messi’s been getting way more attention than Ronaldo for a number of reasons in this World Cup which is where the comment came from.
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If Germany beats Spain they should be fine. They’ll beat CR so they’ll be on 6 points. If Japan beats or ties Spain, Germany is through. If Spain beats Japan, Spain will be through on GD. Then it comes down to GD between Germany and Japan. I like the odds of Germany going through in that scenario. They’re more likely to demolish CR than Japan is. Plus in this scenario Japan has to play a Spain team that needs to win to move on so Spain isn’t going to mess around. Of course Germany was in the same situation 4 years ago where, as the final group games played out, if they just won they’d move on and they lost to South Korea.
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Japan takes the lead in the 83rd minute over Germany.
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They were also two games away from breaking the record for longest unbeaten run by a mens national team. They still have a good chance to win the group really. I was going to watch this recorded but my cousin texted me the result at 6 AM . . . Poland and Mexico looked pretty hapless. Just have to win the next two games and hope Saudi Arabia doesn’t win a game, and if they’re even on points Argentina could still win the group over the Saudis.
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They were also two games away from breaking the record for longest unbeaten run by a mens national team.
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Did not expect to wake up to an Argentina loss.
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Doesn't it come down to goal difference? Am I missing something? I don't think a win against Iran is a given for either Wales or the US. I also am not sure England is ever going to not want to beat Wales. I didn’t mean to make it sound like Iran is just going to roll over and get 0 points. As for England-Wales, I think it matters if one of the teams needs to win and the other one is worried about not picking up stupid cards and avoiding injuries while playing it’s second string. Would be nice if we played before Wales-Iran because then we’d have a better idea on what to root for. And yes, first tiebreaker is overall GD and then next is goals scored.
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So assuming we lose to England, is the worst result from Iran-Wales a draw? England would wrap up the group if it’s a draw and they beat us which would mean they wouldn’t care at all about the last match. At least if Wales wins it requires England to care enough to not lose the last game. And if Iran beats Wales, then Iran will care about the last game against us since they could still advance. So I feel like Wales beating Iran 1-0 might be the best result for us. Then as long as England beats Wales, we’re basically in the round of 16 if we beat Iran, tiebreakers pending.
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Yeah. England is going to need a result in that game unless Wales tied Iran. They might not need to pour it on but they’re not going to want to risk a loss and a runner up spot. Meanwhile Iran might be eliminated already when we play them.
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LOL at that not being a card. Just absurd.
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Yeah, I want to see us at least sort of go for this. Don’t just be okay with a tie.
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I have to say that after watching Spurs under Conte the last few months, it’s really nice rooting for a team that actually tries to score in the first half! Great half. Got the goal we probably deserved based on the play.
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If goal difference matters when they play Oranje in the last group game, we could be in for a treat 8-) Who's going to score? Janssen? Yeah, I might be biased because both flamed out for Spurs but I don’t like for the Dutch that their two forwards are Janssen and Bergwijn.
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Denver would be 9-1 if they just scored 18 points in regulation in every game.
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Same. 11 am (my time) can’t get here soon enough.
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Harry Kane could miss 2 penalties in regulation and another one in the shootout and the English fans would still find a way to blame Saka or Sterling for the team losing.
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In case you all were curious, the committee at the FCS level is trash.
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I liked how in the broadcast when they isolated the players to show the guy was offside, they isolated the defender and not the goalkeeper as if the GKer was irrelevant to the discussion. I guess he could still have been offside but they should have been showing the attacker relative to the GKer.
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The Super Bowl last year nearly swung on what could either have been a face mask or an offensive PI on the Higgins TD to start the second half. It would be tricky but I wouldn’t be opposed to the officials reviewing all scoring plays and turnovers to make sure no obvious penalties directly led to the score/TD, like the two examples above. So I’m not talking about a hold by the OL. It would be tough to implement but I think they could look into it. TD are more common than goals in soccer but not by much. This isn’t basketball.
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Last time Oklahoma lost 5 games in a season was 2014. They went 8-5. Last time Oklahoma lost 5 games in a regular season (before a bowl game) was 2009. They went 8-5. Last time Oklahoma lost 5 conference games was 1998, the year before Bob Stoops was hired.
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I just don’t see any realistic scenario where LSU gets in. If they beat Georgia we’d have two SEC teams with better resumes. I mean I guess if LSU beats Georgia by like 40 but that’s not going to happen. And a close win over Georgia doesn’t outweigh LSU having an extra loss to a decent ACC team and getting absolutely demolished by Tennessee. So if we’ve got two SEC teams in front, I don’t think the committee takes a third SEC team over a 1-loss Mich/OSU loser. And we have precedent for that in 2016 when Penn State won the Big 10 and beat OSU but had an extra loss and got demolished by Michigan so OSU went to the playoff.
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[tweet] [/tweet] EA Sports Fifa predicted the World Cup results. Problem is, the bracket they put out is incorrect because it keeps teams from the same group on the same side of the knockout bracket which means they could meet again in the semis when in the actual bracket, two teams from the same group can't meet until the final. On the positive side, sign me up for a QF appearance for the US.
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2022 MLB Playoffs Discussion
soccer10k replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
If you win half the available titles over a decently long time period, you’re a dynasty. Bama won 5 in 9 years or 6 in 12, however you want to split it up. They also lost 2 other title games in those 12 years. So I’d say Bama certainly is a dynasty. -
Just going by 538 because I don’t have a better site that sorts easily, but of the top 16 teams in the UCL by their ratings, 14 went through. The two that didn’t were Barcelona and Ajax and they were in groups with 2 other top-16 teams. Upsets in the group stage are obviously fun and it’s cool to see teams like Brugge and Frankfurt advance when they haven’t been to this stage ever or in a long time. But when the good teams advance, you get a ton of potentially good knockout round ties.
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Not that I thought the Packers were good before this week but the fact that the Packers only put up 9 points against a Lions team that basically allows teams to score whenever they want is alarming.