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LDOG · January 31

Group B

:URU 3-0 :PER

:CHI 0-5 :ARG

Standings

:ARG 7 (+7) Q

:PAR 7 (+2) Q

:URU 3 (+1)

:PER 3 (-5)

:CHI 3 (-5)

LDOG · January 30

2 hours ago, vinipereira said:

I don't really know the players but I'm surprised by how terrible and are doing.

Uruguay is heavily understrength, Colombia a bit too. But tbf that's the case of all the teams except maybe Bolivia, Chile and Venezuela.

LDOG · January 30

Group A

:BRA 2-1 :ECU

:COL 0-1 :VEN

Standings

:BRA 9 (+3) Q

:ECU 7 (+4)

:VEN 5 (+1)

:BOL 1 (-3)

:COL 0 (-6)

LDOG · January 28

Group B

:PAR 1-0 :PER

:URU 0-1 :CHI

Standings

:PAR 7 (+2)

:ARG 4 (+2)

:CHI 3 (0)

:PER 3 (-2)

:URU 0 (-2)

LDOG · January 25

All the teams are a disjointed mess, the tournament is really low level. The pitch in group B stadium is a potato field on top of that.

Paraguay has an horrible team but with a bit of order and good set pieces have a foot in final round.

LDOG · January 24

Group A

:BOL 0-1 :BRA

:ECU 1-1 :VEN

Standings

:ECU 4 (+3)

:BRA 3 (+1)

:VEN 2 (0)

:BOL 1 (-1)

:COL 0 (-3)

LDOG · January 22

Group B

:PER 1-0 :CHI

:ARG 1-1 :PAR

LDOG · January 21

Started...

Group A

:ECU 3-0 :COL

:VEN 3-3 :BOL

LDOG · January 19

Really curious to find out what the knockout stage bracket will be like.

LDOG · January 16

36 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

In case it matters, I actually am aware of my tendency to overreact quite often in the moment and regret it a few days later

I think that's a common feeling in a good number of people.

Sometimes I'm happy the old forum is gone because I'd cringe at anything I posted back then.

LDOG · January 7

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Fraud investigation going on around (among other things) the very, very questionable 2021 Ballon d'Or for Messi.

https://www.essentiallysports.com/soccer-football-news-psg-reportedly-lobbied-for-lionel-messi-ballon-dor-win-amid-ongoing-legal-investigation/

Watch out, it's not just very questionable, it's very very :lol: now i'm convinced, heywoodu.

LDOG · December 8, 2023

Draw results

Group A

:ARG

:PER

:CHI

Concacaf 5 ( :CAN or :TTO )

Group B

:MEX

:ECU

:VEN

:JAM

Group C

:USA

:URU

:PAN

:BOL

Group D

:BRA

:COL

:PAR

Concacaf 6 ( :CRC or :HON )

Edited December 8, 2023 by LDOG

LDOG · November 17, 2023

It was probably the best performance I've ever seen from Uruguay.

LDOG · November 15, 2023

2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

How that ??? What exactly is not sufficient ? In the video the stadium looks more than fine to me , even in Slovakia I swear half of our top league clubs have much worse venues ...

I'd guess capacity, quality of pitch or maybe some details that aren't so visible to spectators like changing rooms, access security, VIP areas and such.

LDOG · October 28, 2023

Bellingham is the best player in the world right now. Unlike Mbappe and Haaland he can do everything in attack, like all the goats from the past did.

LDOG · October 17, 2023

Highly likely it will be Georgia vs Greece for a place at the euros.

LDOG · October 4, 2023

33 minutes ago, hckošice said:

and by the way, why exactly Paraguay ?

I keep thinking about it and I can nott find a single reason why. It is like someone threw a blind dart at the map and hit somewhere next to Asuncion

Because Conmebol HQ is in Paraguay and its president is almost always a paraguayan. They have a lot of political power. It's pretty telling that Chile doesn't get any game despite they were in the south american bid too.

Edited October 4, 2023 by LDOG

LDOG · October 4, 2023

This is:

1. Stupid.

2. Humilliating (we're being given "scraps" by the europeans).

3. Logistically a nightmare for our teams cuz it will worsen our chances to perform in the competition.

LDOG · September 10, 2023

27 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Good god ...

To describe your "analysis" (didn't know that you were a close follower of german football, where did you get your expertise?) with "absurd" would be underselling it. You said that the main reason was the lack of quality and i brought up Morroco + Argentina (current world champion) + Croatia (finished 3rd at the world cup) to prove that you can easily contend for the title or at least make the semifinal with less quality than Germany has. When you say something like "Germany usually had its star players ..." i have to assume that you are either trying to troll or just have zero understanding of german football and still somehow feel qualified to give your opinion. Germany pretty much never had the most amount of talent, they always relied on "german mentality" and great teamwork. When they reached the final in 2002 or 3rd place in 2006 they had a bunch of nobodies that outperformed teams with tons of stars (France, Brazil, England, Portugal).

The players that started the last world cup final for Argentina played for the following clubs:

2 x Benfica

2 x Atletico

Brighton

Lyon

Aston Villa

Juventus

Tottenham

City (Alvarez was mostly a bench player for City if i remember correctly)

PSG

Only 2 of their starting players played for top 10 clubs and one of them (Alvarez) wasn't even a starter (if i remember correctly).

The players that started the 3rd place match for Croatia at the last world cup played for the following clubs:

3 x Zagreb

Bayern (Stanisic was lightyears away from being a regular for Bayern)

Leipzig

Tottenham

Rennes

Chelsea

Real

Hoffenheim

Split

Only Gvardiol, Modric and Kovacic would have (maybe, not sure if Kovacic would have started over guys like Kimmich/Goretzka/Gündogan) started for Germany.

Alvarez is a substitute sometimes only because Haaland is in the same team, he starts for almost every other club in the world.

I do wonder which are those "top 10 clubs" you mention though.

I'm guessing Bayern, Madrid, Barcelona, City, United, Liverpool, Arsenal, I guess you're including Chelsea and PSG and?

LDOG · September 10, 2023

The lack of quality in defense is appalling.

Even the only good defender (Rudiger) looked like a scarecrow in the 3rd goal.

But maybe they were trying to get the coach fired, who knows.

LDOG · September 8, 2023

I wouldn't write off anyone this time. Paraguay, Peru and Chile are very weak. Venezuela will 100% have a better campaign than the last time (for a variety of reasons).

The top 5 are clear. There's a big distance in my view.

LDOG · August 11, 2023

40 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yes, the fact that this chance even exists is weird. Group games should not be possible to be repeated until the final.

It's done so to make almost impossible for one of the two hosts to have to play in the other country.

The situation you mention happened in (men's WC) Korea-Japan 2002 when Brazil and Turkey played a semifinal after meeting each other in group stage.

Curiously that time Korea could have played in Japan had they advanced to the final.

LDOG · August 2, 2023

57 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Argentina is world champion on the men's side and irrelevant on the women's side. Belgium is also nowhere to be seen (and of course eastern european and most african countries as well).

We're making progress, league went pro 4 years ago and since last year all clubs must have youth teams all the way to U14 (before they had nothing).

These girls playing for the senior team now basically had no club academy instruction and their technical deficiencies are evident.

I'm hopeful because a lot of girls play football here and they are more and more every year. And obviously there's no shortage of coaches and facilities. It was just a matter of actually caring. The results will be seen in 10 years.