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2024 Summer of Soccer - Euro's, Copa America, Olympics, WCQing (1 Viewer)
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CletiusMaximus
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As far as I can tell Draftkings and Fanduel still have England as the favorite to win the tournament. That is unthinkable to me after what we've seen so far. Maybe its just because the English love to gamble and are all massive homers?
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Deamon
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They've hosted Euro's in Spain in the summer and plenty of teams/players/kids have played a LOT of football games in weather over the 81 degrees it will be at kickoff.
You think Argentinian and Chilean players are new to 80 degree weather?
Deamon
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I think it is because their path to the title game is so much easier.As far as I can tell Draftkings and Fanduel still have England as the favorite to win the tournament. That is unthinkable to me after what we've seen so far. Maybe its just because the English love to gamble and are all massive homers?
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Germany, France, Spain, Portugal are ALL on the other side of the draw which drastically decreases their odds of making it to the final. If it's England vs Any of those 4 teams in the finals, England will not be favoured.
TennesseeJed
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Deamon
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thanks...damn that's confusing lol
Desert_Power
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They're lower odds than they were pre-tourney. I don't have them all memorized, but looks like most are in about the same place. I did put some money on England as a hedge against how annoying it will be if they finally win something.As far as I can tell Draftkings and Fanduel still have England as the favorite to win the tournament. That is unthinkable to me after what we've seen so far. Maybe its just because the English love to gamble and are all massive homers?
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Moe.
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Quite a few people moved at half. The GA section where the Cauldron is normally located went from sunny and empty in the 1st half to shaded and mostly full in the second. The announced attendance was just under 12k which is around 60% capacity, which felt accurate to my eyes.
Moe.
Footballguy
felt like nobody played particularly well other than Jake Shaffelburg, who had a laughable amount of space after the red card.
Nick Vermeil
Footballguy
Looks terrible.
jabarony
Footballguy
Sure does. But that only hurts the players' eyes. Their knees, ankles, heads, all probably prefer the grass.
SpurrierisisGod
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Chile displaying why Americans in general won't latch on to soccer. Just get up and play....
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
Ref needs to just go ahead and tell Chile he's adding 10 minutes of injury time.
Nick Vermeil
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Oh I’m sure. But as far as grass fields go, this one looks amateurish.
Dinsy Ejotuz
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Might save some time to just go ahead and red card someone from Chile too.
ETA: Odds it's Romero that gets the hook for retaliation?
The Gator
Footballguy
Ref is definitely asking for trouble in the second half lol. Letting everything go
Long Ball Larry
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the summer of late goals continues
SpurrierisisGod
Footballguy
Normal run of play = goal 100%
Now with VAR = 50/50 because of a dude not involved being lazy. Goal stands and deserved.
Now with VAR = 50/50 because of a dude not involved being lazy. Goal stands and deserved.
Long Ball Larry
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No, they play from like August to May
SpurrierisisGod
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Costa with the concacaf on full display.
Honestly, I'm torn about what to do with a superior opponent on paper, but they parked, and delayed as much as they could. A just decision imo.
It almost worked for a point.
On another note, both games today, the refs for the most part have been told not to fall for the dramatic concacaf knee hold foul scream/roll. ARG did their fair share but it's apparent the refs have been told to let them play on. I like it.
Honestly, I'm torn about what to do with a superior opponent on paper, but they parked, and delayed as much as they could. A just decision imo.
It almost worked for a point.
On another note, both games today, the refs for the most part have been told not to fall for the dramatic concacaf knee hold foul scream/roll. ARG did their fair share but it's apparent the refs have been told to let them play on. I like it.
SpurrierisisGod
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And as a current high school coach/former club coach... the constant in-your-face response from players whether it's a yellow or pointing "out on them" is so draining. No player in the history of ever has changed a ref's call. Just.shut.up.
NewlyRetired
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Goals are tough to come by in the Copa. The brutality of CONMEBOL mixed with the hi-jinx of Concacaf is just this side of ugly 
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basketball and soccer are the worst offenders.
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26 of Jonathan David's 27 goals for Canada have been scored in competitive matches.
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This has to have been one of the largest crowds supporting one team in either tournament. This is insane for a team playing in a different continent. Argentina's tonight was also crazy but did not pop quite as much for on screen due to the colors Colombia has.
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FreeBaGeL
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And yet our players have scored just as many goals in the Euros during the run of play as theirs have.
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Redwes25
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I felt like I drove to Argentina to see a game vs just driving to Jersey. An amazing atmosphere through and through. Will post more about it in the morning.This has to have been one of the largest crowds supporting one team in either tournament. This is insane for a team playing in a different continent. Argentina's tonight was also crazy but did not pop quite as much for on screen due to the colors Colombia has.
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according to UEFA's own stats, they were both -6
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oh I think I now understand the confusion.according to UEFA's own stats, they were both -6
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Wiki explained it.
The yellow cards on the field were actually 6 and 6, but the difference was that some how, Slovenia's technical director also picked up a yellow card during one of the games.
NewlyRetired
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I was reading an article today that made the interesting case that Argentina may have now passed Mexico as the most popular national team in the US.I felt like I drove to Argentina to see a game vs just driving to Jersey. An amazing atmosphere through and through. Will post more about it in the morning.This has to have been one of the largest crowds supporting one team in either tournament. This is insane for a team playing in a different continent. Argentina's tonight was also crazy but did not pop quite as much for on screen due to the colors Colombia has.
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Sadly this likely makes the US 3rd now.
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The Z Machine
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And been doing that same thing, making grown *** men look dumb, since he was 17.
NewlyRetired
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I can't get over how bad the bracket played out in the Euro's.
Germany vs Spain should very well be the finals match up but it is now likely to be only a quarter final game....
Germany vs Spain should very well be the finals match up but it is now likely to be only a quarter final game....
NewlyRetired
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the weird thing about this is that some of these refs are Euro refs and even they are swallowing the whistles. There could easily be twice as many yellows in these games.
TennesseeJed
Footballguy
England are back to betting favorites to win Euro 2024 on the back of that scintillating draw against Slovenia.
Or maybe it's the insanely favorable draw in the knockout stage. Its definitely one of those things...
El Floppo
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Bookies-
They won their group and literally can't play any worse... It's gotta go up from here?
TennesseeJed
Footballguy
It helps that 4 of the top-5 favorites are in the other bracket...
El Floppo
Footballguy
Totally. But the way they've played, I don't know that it matters
NewlyRetired
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Hopefully the Netherlands lands for England in the round of 16 to help balance things a little.
Italy are the wild card game for England. If England are having problems scoring against teams with significantly weaker defenses than Italy, that could make for an interesting quarter final match up.
Other than Italy, even if England continue to play poorly, they should still be favored in every game up until the final.
Dinsy Ejotuz
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I thought it was a credit to the deep experience of both teams that things didn't boil over last night. There were quite a few tackles that could have gone wrong and some of them weren't even whistled. Romero bulled into one tackle like he was planning on killing a Chilean at the peak of the chippiness, but both players let up at the last second.
Dinsy Ejotuz
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England is favored because they're on the good side of the bracket and are almost impossible to score on -- only 6 goals against in their last 15 Euro and World Cup matches, and 10 clean sheets. Fans hate it, but it's really effective.
TennesseeJed
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Is England's defense that good, or are they facing weak attacking teams?
Goals scored:
Group A = 17
Group B = 14
Group C = 7
Group D = 15
Group E = 10
Group F = 12
E and F still have 1 more round to play.
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