EPTOn June 12 2026 16:01 evilfatsh1t wrote:
theres been a lot of negativity and doubt about korea this year (and rightly so) within korea but im glad we didnt choke this first game. if we had lost to czech the entire squad and coaching staff would be forced to swim back to the country
theres been a lot of negativity and doubt about korea this year (and rightly so) within korea but im glad we didnt choke this first game. if we had lost to czech the entire squad and coaching staff would be forced to swim back to the country
Isn’t that what the Iranian team have to do between games?
I’m assuming you’re an Aussie of Korean extraction then aye? Must be quite nice to have a World Cup where you’ve two teams to root for!
My da being called Angus one can probably guess which team that isn’t the sadly Northern Ireland may be my pick
How was the atmosphere at that game? It was pretty banging for Mexico but I mean, it’s a host game in Mexico so that’s to be expected. I’m worried with all that’s swirling around that stadiums won’t be really pumped in a lot of games, and yeah one is just watching on TV but you really do notice its absence
Gotta echo Drone, man South Africa really were dreadful. You could see aspects of the gameplan, but even playing ‘Dycheball’ (a term a bit unfair to Sean Dyche), there just didn’t seem a way into the game for them. If you wanna play that style, I think it’s a totally legitimate albeit not sexy option, but you have to execute. When they did have opportunities on the break, or even were just trying to pump the ball up to forwards, they were massively misplacing passes. Mostly overhit, the odd one in the other direction.
The amount of balls they hit like 20 metres too long and straight to the Mexican keeper to just sweep up and chill was mental.
Maybe just a bad day at the office for them, these things do happen. And I think a World Cup should have a healthy mix of the world at it, so no sour grapes here. But even relatively shite European sides like Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland could play better than that with a similarly less ambitious gameplan.
Hopefully for the Saffers it’s just an aberrantly poor performance and not indicative of their actual abilities. And hopefully for the tournament it’s not reflective of too much either. I think given how the expansion of places was done and how they’re distributed geographically we might see quite a few mismatches in this group phase
