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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28796 Posts
Next qualification with the entire team being two years better and hopefully Haaland not being injured is promising, even though the performance vs Latvia+Netherlands was a bit disappointing. (tbh, vs Latvia we were also unlucky to not get a goal - we certainly had enough chances) I get the impression that our performance vs Netherlands seemed a bit lackluster, but even if we've improved, the Netherlands on away field is still too big of a task to expect us to dominate or even play an even match. I do think our best chance of squeezing out a victory was to keep the game tight with few chances going either way - if we say that Norway will on average create 1 chance for every 3 chances the Netherlands creates (up until the 80th minute it was like 0.5 vs 4, but I think that was the basic idea going into the game) then we're way more likely to win if there are only 4 chances total - 1 vs 3, than if there are 16 total - 4 vs 12.. Oh well! | ||
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sharkie
Austria18636 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7195 Posts
On November 17 2021 12:28 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Where the hell did these Canadians come from? https://twitter.com/onesoccer/status/1460810948399226880 I guess Mexico forgot to put on ice skates  | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + We already know how this will play out the Ref's will take it out on the US. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it https://streamable.com/ck6cwi | ||
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Sermokala
United States14116 Posts
The last 20 minutes however Mexico looked like the team people expect them to play as. the game really came down to the differences between the goalies and canadia had the better man between the sticks. | ||
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aseq
Netherlands3999 Posts
On November 17 2021 16:37 Liquid`Drone wrote: Norway has progressed a lot over the course of the qualification - we have a really young team and they've become solid defensively. However - we're way too reliant on Haaland to be able to score goals. Next qualification with the entire team being two years better and hopefully Haaland not being injured is promising, even though the performance vs Latvia+Netherlands was a bit disappointing. (tbh, vs Latvia we were also unlucky to not get a goal - we certainly had enough chances) I get the impression that our performance vs Netherlands seemed a bit lackluster, but even if we've improved, the Netherlands on away field is still too big of a task to expect us to dominate or even play an even match. I do think our best chance of squeezing out a victory was to keep the game tight with few chances going either way - if we say that Norway will on average create 1 chance for every 3 chances the Netherlands creates (up until the 80th minute it was like 0.5 vs 4, but I think that was the basic idea going into the game) then we're way more likely to win if there are only 4 chances total - 1 vs 3, than if there are 16 total - 4 vs 12.. Oh well! Yeah, we all expected a different game than we saw from you guys yesterday. On the one hand, it seemed way too defensive for a must-win game, on the other hand, when you did try and push at the end, we immediately got lots of space, so those tactics might well have been the best option. Glad we were spared the humiliation of not making it (again), but I would've liked to see Norway in the playoffs instead of Turkey. Everyone turns on their set when Ibra or Haaland plays, not so much for Yilmaz... Also, is Canada going to make it? Just found out they only ever qualified for the world cup once...and they're in the continent that's easiest to qualify from, imo. Good to see they're improving! | ||
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28796 Posts
We were also factoring in how Turkey vs Montenegro was going. Montenegro had the lead early on - and they had some really big chances when it was 1-1 - and if Montenegro had won, then we'd get a playoff spot with 0-0. Also we had 9 shots in the post during the tournament, and there were a couple games where we had something like 12 players injured that would have started ahead of the guys who were fielded. Future optimism is high even if the end was disappointing.  The only game we played that was really poorly played was the first game against Turkey (lost 0-3 on home field that wasn't home field, our home field was Spain for that game, due to COVID) - that was also the second game of our new manager and the team barely had any time to practice together. | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9845 Posts
This is what football is these days. Just another way of exploiting people in service of the ultra wealthy. What a sad waste of a good sport. | ||
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28796 Posts
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9845 Posts
On November 19 2021 06:42 Liquid`Drone wrote: I'm real proud of Norway for boycotting this atrocity. Yes, and no offense meant to Norway at all, but they are showing the successful countries how to be a football nation. I wish some of the big name teams would join them. Every country that takes part is taking part in the abuse of these people. Old Brian Clough would be spinning in his grave. | ||
GTR
51595 Posts
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/qx8akt/megathread_romain_molinas_the_guardian_ny_times/ | ||
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8863 Posts
On November 19 2021 17:19 GTR wrote: some more shit that's been stirred over the past 24 hours https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/qx8akt/megathread_romain_molinas_the_guardian_ny_times/ i dont get it. is that list supposed to be a compilation of serious and credible allegations, or just a list of random allegations and accusations being thrown around? some of them i could see being plausible whereas others are either too unbelievable or random that makes me seriously doubt that its an actual issue. if every single one of them was a proper allegation that was being backed by credible sources, then we'd have a major scandal on our hands but i think the likelihood of a single individual bringing forward that entire list of allegations and having the evidence to back each one up is extremely extremely slim | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26775 Posts
It seems an awfully long list to have been researched by one guy, and I’m assuming it wasn’t, just the Reddit thread is listing a lot of the stuff alluded to. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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nojok
France15846 Posts
On November 19 2021 18:30 evilfatsh1t wrote: i dont get it. is that list supposed to be a compilation of serious and credible allegations, or just a list of random allegations and accusations being thrown around? some of them i could see being plausible whereas others are either too unbelievable or random that makes me seriously doubt that its an actual issue. if every single one of them was a proper allegation that was being backed by credible sources, then we'd have a major scandal on our hands but i think the likelihood of a single individual bringing forward that entire list of allegations and having the evidence to back each one up is extremely extremely slim https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romain_Molina Could not find an English page for him but all the published articles linked at the bottom are in English, published by reputable papers like The Guardian or The New York Times. Yesterday he said he'll present something more structured this winter as he's overwhelmed by all the informations he gets. Also he's not working alone. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
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United States41117 Posts
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