| carlos3652 |
12-04-2022 02:29 AM |
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Originally Posted by TripleThreat
(Post 16642200)
Hold up, if you want to go into specifics such as “minutes” vs Ghana, I lost $200. Because 20 something old Ronaldo tied the game in the 90th+ minute. We should have finished 2 wins and 1 loss, but we didn’t, but we damn near should have if we are debating minute by minute garbage. I digress.
You’re right, the World Cup is hard, but us as fans, us as a nation, we have a level of accountability and expectation just like all these other countries do. If Brazil spent 50 years going to the R16 to get knocked out every time, they wouldn’t be very happy, that’s the bottom line. We as a nation are sick of being the weakest team that qualifies into the R16. We want to be a team that coming into the tournament is feared.
Think of it this way, would you rather spend 50 years qualifying every year to be knocked out in the R16, or would you rather spend 50 years winning 3 world cups while being eliminated time to time in the group stage? It doesn’t matter if Germany got eliminated in the group stage, if they had qualified, they would be feared by every team in the R16, whereas we qualified yet every team would prefe to play us over Germany. That’s what needs to change.
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Those are all fair points. And I remember being super excited about the US in 2014 getting out of that group (a/ because I hate Ronaldo, b/ because I hate Germany who would go on to defeat Arg in the final) -
It is interesting to read about Germany's academies drying up in terms of talent pool and their struggles since 2018. 2 WC Group Exists and a R16 Euro exit would make anyone panic. |
