What political idea or side am I pushing with that post?

Lol. Zach. Come on bro.

You are the only one who seems to care I posted that hours ago. It is not even political its just funny.

We’ve had plenty of arguments before. Never have you been dishonest. We disagreed.

Ok man. Well do whatever you need to do.

Don’t douche up a perfectly good thread with your passive aggressive bullshit.

I have talked as much soccer in this thread as anyone. I think you are just being really sensitive for some reason. Regardless this is my last post on something that was just funny and is not a big deal. Bitch as much as you want.

"In play" LMAO

GTFO. That ball was completely unreachable. Just because it hasn't crossed the line yet, you somehow justify that bullshit PK.

USMNT advanced. Youngest team ever (sans Ream). Our midfield dominated England, Wales, and Iran. We shut all three opponents except for a PK.

But yeah you’re just joking around with a dumbass fox news post. The **** out of here bro. You douched this thread up.

What's the specific political opinion/issue that has offended you in that post?

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Lol don’t play dumb

I get it, but the other half of that is how would we even enforce it? 80% of the board posts that tweet and it's funny... Zach does it and he's poking fun at Fox News.

I personally thought it was funny and pretty damn relevant to the thread, whether it was Fox News or CNN or ESPN.

Yea, it is funny and honestly not political in nature. The funny part is non soccer people talking about soccer. It works as a post coming from any TV entity. Which should be a glue Mizzou is being a drama queen here.

Also, if Mizzou really wants to get worked up he should look at every Carr4MVP post in this thread.

I don't see that post as political. It's funny in the same way as all the hilaribad ideas posted here for improving soccer. Someone who doesn't know anything about the sport finds it bewildering and that's funny.

I identify as republican and Zach just hated on me a post earlier and his dumb fox post didn’t bother me if that adds any consolation to our female conversion we have going on.

Zach has great soccer takes, he just had a weird moment is all.

I don’t have any idea who carr4mvp is.

Did he post Fox News threads and I missed it?

80%? Ok prove it.

God damnit dudes, shut the **** up. We are all American and would protect eachother on the street if any other country came dropping In from the sky like some garbage ass movie called the remake of red dawn.

We are playing the Dutch this Saturday, get your mimosas and brunch ready, we are stretching all their holes come Breakfast time.

I admire your passion, but huh?

Speaking of which I am not really that knowledgeable on the current iteration of this dutch team only generalities. I need to sit back and look at what they have been up to.

Put this in my veins.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Definition of a team goal 🇺🇸 <br>Winning a first and second ball, build out under pressure successfully, moving together up the field, numbers centrally and out wide beating a low-block with quality movement and positional details. Fantastic work by the USMNT<a href="https://t.co/5RjfN0Wqgf">pic.twitter.com/5RjfN0Wqgf</a></p>&mdash; Rodrigo Carvalho (@rodrigoccc97) <a href="https://twitter.com/rodrigoccc97/status/1598002074545180672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Check Fox News.

LMAO

A lot of hate thrown CP way. Especially by EPL fans.

Dude was running almost full speed. Knew there would be a collision. Composed himself and scored.

Say what you will about his injury history, but there’s nothing wrong with his heart.

I only check this thread for the Fox News posts so keep them coming

Cody Gakpo is on fire and the defense is still one of the best in the world. Going to be tough, but if we can keep playing the way we have in the midfield we have a shot against anyone.

I’m fearful that Greg has a talk with Robinson and dest and stops them from playing so aggressively. They set up pulisic and weah, imo. We need to just be a balls out team. Only 1 team is winning this tournament.

Yeah gakpo is insane. Never heard of him prior to the World Cup. He’s really good.

There will be no slowing Dest down this game. This game is his moment playing against his childhood country. I think Tyler Adams ability to cover the whole field will be enough to allow our fullbacks to continue doing what they’ve been doing. No need to get too aggressive early though in a knockout stage game. I think we have enough depth and substitutes to be dangerous in the knockout stages. I worry about how and when they’ll be used, but we have the depth there. Hoping to see more Reyna and Scally! I think West and Dest will continue to be subbed out every game with the yellow card accumulation and their fitness in question coming into the tournament. Aaronson is the perfect one to takeover and create more opportunities, but the Shaq Moore nonsense must stop. ****ing free Reyna and Scally!

Ake, Van Dijk, and Timber/De Ligt are a very strong back 3. Dumfries who's at Inter is very good. De Jong and Depay play together at Barcelona and are great. Bergwijn has a lot of pace. Gakpo is always a threat. Honestly, apart from the usual favorites they seem like a team you might pick who could win the whole thing.

From ESPN Article about why Netherlands can win it all and why they won’t:

Why they will win it all: They turn you over. Louis van Gaal's Dutch team is active. They lead the competition with the fewest passes allowed per defensive action (9.3) and despite leading for the majority of each group stage match, they started 29 possessions in the attacking third to opponents' 17. Midfielder Frenkie de Jong leads the team in ball recoveries, but the pressure is a full-team effort: Netherlands have commanded 57% of overall touches in the attacking third with a 57% possession rate.

They've got the raw defensive talent -- Virgil van Dijk, Nathan Ake, Jurrien Timber, Matthijs de Ligt -- to safeguard them while pressing heavily (goalkeeper Andries Noppert has been excellent, too), and they put the ball in more dangerous areas than opponents.

Why they won't: No creativity. For such an active team, the Dutch sure are stolid in attack. Despite all that possession in dangerous areas, they managed just 10 shots worth 0.7 xG against Senegal and two worth 0.1 against Ecuador; they were fortunate to win the former match and draw the latter, and if Cody Gakpo hadn't scored with his only shot in each match, they wouldn't have.

Gakpo, the increasingly sought-after PSV Eindhoven attacker, has scored three goals from four shots worth just 0.3 xG. The rest of his teammates have scored just two goals from 21 shots worth 2.5. They neither create high-quality or high-volume shots -- they averaged just 0.3 big chances created ("a situation where a player should reasonably be expected to score," as defined by Stats Perform) in the group stage; only two teams averaged fewer, and that will eventually become a clear issue if it does not change.

This makes their matchup with the United States an interesting one: the teams have a lot of the same strengths and same weaknesses.

Eh.. that’s a stretch. Upsets are possible but we probably don’t have anyone who would get into their starting 11.

I thought it was funny too

Saying that they have the same strengths and weaknesses is not comparing the talent level of the rosters. It’s simply saying that they have the same issues we have in finishing chances. They also like to press high with a lot of trust in their back 3 so I think Carter Vickers will get the start again and I almost wonder if that’s why Berhalter started him last game was to get him some playing time for this match. Zimmerman was looking a little shaky with some of his touches and passes on the back line and that weakness would get eaten alive by this Dutch team. The midfield battle will be key, but I don’t think anyone can really complain about how West, Adams, and Musah have looked so far and I think they can definitely hold their own against a solid Dutch midfield. Hopefully Ream can control our back line and get some good passes away to break their high press a few times for some good counter chances. I think it will definitely be a great match.

Watch out . . . Pointing out when a certain side gets political means YOU are getting political which will get you banned.

Morocco up 2-0.

So now its inevitable, this Croatia/Belgium game can be considered a knockout game for both teams.

Wouldn't Belgium need a win?

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Yeah, but then Croatia is eliminated. So in a sense it’s a knockout game for either team, win or go home except Croatia can tie and move on.

I thought the point of making up stuff was to help get over being butthurt by making other people seem irrational. Not sure what other purpose it serves if it doesn't help the raging case of butthurt months later, but still doesn't make it any truer outside the comfort of your own noggin.

Holy Shit Canadadia!!

First off, I was advising another poster how to get along without drama on CP, not talking to you. If anything, my post should be a welcome caution.

But on that response, I'd point out how wrong you are, but we know how 'ragingly butthurt' you get when countermanded and you are the one empowered to impose consequences, so I'll take the advice of marriage counselors everywhere and simply say 'that's right, honey.'

Croatia is just yet another team showing us why you continue to play high pressure and don't just go into a 5 back formation. Croatia moves on with a tie but they are still playing a normal formation and trying to get that 1-0 lead for comfort.

Of course right as I post that they start going super defensive, but still, they didn't start it until past the 80th minute. Still don't know why we did it so early vs Iran.

oh my god lukaku

Honestly feel bad for Lukaku after that one and all of Belgium.

Crazymaking Goalie antics in the closing minutes of CAN/MAR

Man, Belgium had some chances...

One of the most incredible feeds of the match squandered, but it didn't matter since the game was done immediately after.

If you manage to find footage of the last feed of the game in CAN/MAR, it's worth a good look. Full spint cross at from the right midfield to the center at 18, and it was absolutely perfectly bent around the trail defender right onto the striker's foot. Amazing to see in isolation, even if it came to nothing.

He's basically the more talented, "European" version of Altidore. Belgium is a massive disappointment as usual.

How about Morocco though? I doubt anybody picked them to advance, let alone win the group.

A full-strength Lukaku is amazing, . . . like near LeBron, Mahomes amazing. But he wasn't in game shape today, just enough rust to make a difference. Bad timing.

JFC you are a moron. Next time Mahomes gets laid out after the ball has left his arm if you get upset then you should just end yourself.

US had to fight to the very last minute of the third game to move on when they were put in a bracket that was designed for them to make it through much more easily. England should have been the only challenge in this bracket but GB did his best to mismanage lineups and subs and it was almost a disaster.

dont be a douche. keep that shit in DC

when is our game against Nederland?


oh crap just found it - saturday at 9:00 AM, KC time..


7:00 AM my time. guess ill be making some breakfast and watching this shizzle and not getting anything done


GO USA

Germany with a BEAUTY!!

So smooth

EDIT - and Spain almost concurrently!!!

Any soccer fan should watch Spain as much as they can. They put on a technical soccer clinic virtually every game.

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I LOVE the way Japan is playing Spain

Such HIGH PRESSURE

Tense moment in japan-spain.

Wow

Wow.. I was sure they were going to say it was out. But hell yeah Japan!!

As long as any part of the ball is still over the outside edge of the line it is still in. Be interesting to see what pictures leak out that give cleaner view.

The very early on slow replay made me think it was out, but the above angle made it look like it was BARELY in....

They called it so it must have been on that line in some angle.

Unfortunate banter in the GER game

"I'm really surprised we're NOT SEEING GERMANY push forward here. . . '

:eek: ;)

Japan has swift, crisp and creative offensive play, always have


HOLY SHIT - CR ties GER!!!!!

when do the top 16 all get determined?

Last 4 group games are tomorrow.

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All female referee crew in CRC-GER are doing a good job from what I have seen so far. Pretty sure she has ref'd these two teams in the past which helps.

AGAIN!

"The Germans are tearing through the midfield as though it's the Ardennes!!"

Japan is FAST.

All Gone Pete Tong for Germany

OMG CAN YOU IMAGINE SPAIN AND GERMANY DONT ADVANCE?!?!?!?!?

lol aren't spain and germany better ...by alot than japan and costa rica?

Raise your hand if you picked Costa Rica and Japan do advance from this group over Germany/Spain.

Yes, Spain destroyed Costa Rica like 7-0 lol.

Japan just matches up well against teams that want to control the ball. Costa Rica and Japan are both fast off the ball.

And now tied back

Insane!!