World Cup and European leagues

[Hopkins92]

Cape Verde is such a cool story. Played one of the all-time best games ever in WC in losing to ARG. Tied eventual finalist in the first game in their WC history.

Epic.

[Kuiper]

Argentina comes back against England in epic fashion! Tuchel tried to avoid losing and failed.

[kevdog]

Wonder if Beckham tells the Miami's coach to make Messi run extra laps at practice for breaking England's heart, lol.

[Kuiper]

Wonder if Beckham tells the Miami's coach to make Messi run extra laps at practice for breaking England's heart, lol.

Messi tells Beckham and Miami's coach (Guillermo Hoyos) to run laps

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Yet again it's not coming home. First half was some street ball. Second half was absolutely fantastic though. The US and Mexico have "dos a cero", is Argentina-England going to have "dos a uno"?

Two teams have faced both finalists in this World Cup. Cape Verde drew Spain 0-0 in the group stage and lost 3-2 in extra time to Argentina in the round of 32. Austria lost to Argentina 2-0 in the group stage and to Spain 3-0 in the round of 32.

Argentina has been a late scoring team. They've scored in the 10', 17', 19', 29', 31'(p), 38', 60', 76', 79', 80', 83', 85', 90+2', 90+2', 90+5', 92', 111'(og), 112', and 120+1'. Argentina has nearly scored as many goals after the 75th minute as Spain has the entire tournament.
They've played in Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City twice and Miami once.

[Kuiper]

Caltech getting into the World Cup by having students explain the physics behind certain shots

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaivjHGBonC/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

More Caltech soccer science for the World Cup.  This time, they explain the physics behind the knuckleball.

[Gray Fox]

Apparently, even in soccer, the "prevent defense" prevents you from winning.

[Ejay]

Apparently, even in soccer, the "prevent defense" prevents you from winning.

I turned the game on in the 68th minute with England up 1-0. I hardly saw them touch the ball for the next 15 minutes and said aloud "this isn't going to end well for them".

[Hopkins92]

I saw a stat that after ENG scored, their possession was something like 12 percent.

And Tuchel is catching a ton of grief, but the players started backing off before he made any subs. It's a mentality thing with ENG.

[SierraFD3soccer]

So England had 2 shots on goal of which one scored. Not great. Parking the bus was a shaky decision imo and just asking for it. Pickford did his best saving balls that he should have. Would have liked to see England with more possession and looking for the 2nd goal.