Futbol/Soccer thoughts

[Starsky]

Huge win for Team USA last night
USA 3 Honduras 0
Big step towards qualifying for World Cup

Last three games are tough but we are in a good position

https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup-qualifying-concacaf/story/4584839/2022-world-cup-how-united-statesmexico-and-canada-can-qualify

[vansmack]

A big win would have been beating Canada.  Beating the worst team in your group in subfreezing temperatures?  Not as much....

[Starsky]

big win in terms of qualifying for the World Cup…opponent doesn’t matter, three points do

[sweetcell]

canada ranked #1 and having won its last 6 matches in a row (7 wins, 4 draws, no losses) is causing my mind to short-circuit.  pure cognitive dissonance.  they're on the verge of their first appearance at the WC since Reagan era.

[notme]

nice thing about soccer is that it is usually over in 2 hours

[vansmack]

canada ranked #1 and having won its last 6 matches in a row (7 wins, 4 draws, no losses) is causing my mind to short-circuit.  pure cognitive dissonance.  they're on the verge of their first appearance at the WC since Reagan era.

Until the convoy gets in the way...I mean, come on convoy, GET IN THE WAY!!!!

[grateful]

This is cray.

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1505805602152456196

[Starsky]

Yup


I didn’t know that went down in the Netherlands though!

[24hourpartypooper]

world cup draw at noon (EDT).

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Not sure about this mascot

Ghost of the all the workers that died building the stadiums

[sweetcell]

CANADA!!!

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Jez how'd the US get in with all the world class teams in Pot 1 and 2
is it me or do the 'pots' seem very skewed and not evenly spread

[Starsky]

Great draw for the US! Very doable group

Decent to good draw for Argentina

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Obviously misunderstood the Pot thing, kinda thought I was the board SME on that

[Starsky]

US faces England, Iran and the winner of Scotland vs Wales and Ukraine in group stage

Argentina faces Mexico, Poland and Saudi Arabia in group stage


If US gets by group phase it would probably face Netherlands or Ecuador or Senegal in round of 16

Argentina in round of 16 likely faces France or Denmark

The top half of draw (A-D) where Argentina and US are is noticeably weaker than bottom (groups E-H)