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I think UNC might be my new favorite college basketball team. Ruins K’s last home game and sends him into retirement.
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France is the same. Their group was Denmark, Peru and Australia in 2018. This year they have Denmark, Tunisia and whoever wins the playoff between Peru and Australia.
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I can't wait for the inevitable "if only they were healthy all year" stories after the season ends. Nevermind that the Clippers have gotten a combined 28 games from George and Kawhi (the Lakers are at 94 games for Lebron and AD) yet they are 6.5 games better than the Lakers and are nearly locked in to the 8 seed.
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Mexico set up nicely for their patented Round of 16 exit. Finish 2nd in the group and get handled by France in the knockouts.
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Well that first game is almost a must win. Lose and you have to beat England or hope for some chaos. Win and you’re sitting pretty.
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We got the UEFA one.
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Yes! We get Iran!
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I don’t know why they’re even drawing from that pot in the first place.
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Group B is pretty enticing also with England, pending who the second team in Group A is.
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the arrogance of England has no bounds. I would take England out of Pot 1 outside of Qatar Yeah. I’m not sure if England would be my #2 pick but I’d say they’re somewhere in the 2-4 range after Qatar. Definitely rather have them than Brazil, Belgium, France and probably Spain.
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The spirit of your point remains, but Poland is in Pot 3 too. I’m less worried about 2 UEFA teams than I am of drawing Poland and/or Wales instead of the more manageable teams in those pots. Outside of Qatar there isn’t a huge difference between drawing France or drawing Brazil. If you made me pick one non-Qatar team for the group I guess it’d be Spain? So if we're worried about drawing a UEFA team in Pot 3 and/or 4, we probably want to get a UEFA team in Pot 1, right? Unless we get Qatar of course. That way at most we only get one UEFA team from Pot 3 and 4.
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Pulisic had a hat trick like 3 days ago... And two were penalties…
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I don’t see the downside right? Maybe pisses off their club teams a little but at the end of the day we haven’t clinched however unlikely it is for Costa Rica to score 6 times on the US. They get 5 subs so they could always start a first team defense and then bring on attackers as necessary.
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Pels play the Lakers tonight. And as an extra bonus, if the Lakers finish with one of the ten worst records in the league (currently tied for 10th worst) NO gets the pick as part of the AD trade. Go Pels indeed. Lakers blow a 23 point lead and lose to NO. I’m a Lakers fan and at this point even I think it would be hilarious if the missed the playoffs. The Westbrook trade was awful when it happened and it’s played out as poorly as possible. They deserve to miss the playoffs for that stupidity alone.
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If that happens do you play the game in Costa Rica with a neutral strategy and then go uber conservative if they go down by a goal or two, or do you bunker from the start? I think you just play. The US's defensive excellence comes from squeezing opponents well before they get to the goal so you don't need to bunker or go to 5 in the back, but you also don't need to try to press a bunch of goal kicks either. Once you get into the 2nd half or so maybe you drop lines a bit or add another CB, but even if the US is uncertain to win @CR in neutral circumstances, they are abundantly good enough to not lose by 6. And there will be plenty of chances to hit CR on the counter if they’re really going all out to try to beat us by 5. We should be able to get some good chances on that alone and I’d bet on us finding the net in that scenario.
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YES! 3-0! Pour it on!
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Good to know two hands to the neck, shoving a player over and the ball hitting the arm is actually a penalty in CONCACAF, even if VAR was needed to give it. Glad to get an early goal.
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Obviously just winning is fine, but it would be nice to win by 2 just to get an extra goal on the GD buffer.
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That one is going to sting for a while for Houston. They only lose by 6 despite going 1-20 from 3.
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It would be a semifinal game.
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LOL Purdue. Also, I'm pretty sure there's never been an Elite 8 without a 1 seed so if Kansas goes down, that would happen this year.
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Well, Mexico City is higher in altitude than any major American metro, and by a fair amount. I have to assume they train there. And yeah, training at altitude is basically legal blood doping. Your body creates a bunch more hemoglobin to compensate. Wouldn’t that only matter to the guys who live there though? All the guys playing in Europe for 9 months of the year all of a sudden aren’t going to be used to the altitude when they’ve been back for 3 days.
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The later game time is good for us from a GD perspective also in this scenario. I know we’ll want to win by a bunch anyway, but the necessity for a big win is greater if CR wins by 4 vs by 1. If CR wins by 1, if we can even win by 2 that puts us at +8 over CR. And we’re currently +7 on goals scored over CR which is the next tiebreaker so if we finish tied on GD, we’d still have the goals scored tiebreaker. So being at +8 on GD going into the last game would mean CR would have to beat us by 5 to pass us.
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There are only 3 of the top 8 seeds remaining. Only three combined 1's and 2's in the EE has happened before, though it's fairly rare. But if Kansas loses to Providence, it will be the first time there have only been 2 of the top-8 seeds in the EE since 2000.
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Well a draw isn't awful for either team, especially with Panama tying. If the US beats or ties Panama, they're guaranteed 4th. If they beat Panama, Costa Rica has to make up at least a +8 GD in their last two games, so realistically, we'd just have to keep it close there. Mexico is essentially in the same boat knowing they have Honduras and El Salvador left, who are both eliminated. One win and they get 4th at least. Win and a draw and they get 3rd at least.