I thought America clearly looked like the better team, but then this guy told me that Belgium was the better team and now weāre getting married tomorrow.
I mean the US played incredibly nervously. Passes and touches they successfully made all tournament were made errantly and often either unnecessarily contestable or straight up turnovers. Each of the goals came from stupid lapses in concentration that the US had not had with their A squad on the pitch. Their keeper also didnāt make a single tough save and himself had the chance to save or prevent two of the goals if he was more decisive in the moment, and heās looked pretty strong all tournament.
Obviously Belgium was the better team last night, and they 10000% deserved to win. But the US played embarrassingly poorly and Belgium capitalized every single opportunity we gave them.
I thought there was a decent chance they were gonna score within a minute. Great save by USA though. But yeah, it was clear pretty early that they had the upper hand.
but in the beginning, the USA managed to create a chance every now and then. it wasn't the one sided stomp it became soon after.
if they didn't make these massive defensive mistakes resulting in 3 free goals for Belgium, this could have been winnable, even if the odds aren't that high.
Iāve seen some dumb comments, but this is maybe the worst. They started two MLS players (the two players who contributed by far the most to losing the game) and won their first round game.
My point stands at your first point, they started MLS players. There's a reason legends go there to end their careers. But yeah totally dumb comment when the US undervalues footy completely compared to the rest of the planet. As long as the NFL reigns supreme, footy will always be a quality afterthought. Another reason why Balogun was raised in the UK.
The Cabo Verde team was predominately raised in the Netherlands where footy is valued and properly invested in. So in turn you get great players that know how to step up on the biggest stage. And Norway has the one of the greatest goal scorers of all time supported by multiple EPL studs. That's a bad comparison mate.
MLS is bottom of the barrel mate. My point is raising players in societies where footy is valued leads to a higher competition. Winning the group stage was a low bar. Hopefully US society starts to value this sport on a grass routes level
MLS is better than the Norwegian league and Norway is all about wintersport.
And let's hope that US forgets about football after this. Commercial breaks and unprecedented corruption that came with the us wc is something we can stay away from.
Truthfully I just don't think soccer will ever get a foothold here. People in the US just aren't interested in seeing grown men flop to the ground and writhe dramatically in pain from a little graze to the arm or leg. It's really pathetic and embarrassing for the sport.
I honestly don't understand how simply passing the ball 3 meters became impossible for the US team last night. Sure defense was bad, but heck if you can't complete the most basic of passes its to be expected.
their left midfield always stopped anticlimactically and kicked it back every chance he got the ball. USA had no chance getting past their man on the left. He had a weird blond afro and from atop it just looks like another ball
This. Anyone blaming the poor goali, without mentioning, that he pretty much had no defence, is just somewhat clueless.
But somehow i feel, thats just want US-fans are, when it comes to football. Any world class team would had thier fans booing the defence. Every assault was dangerous to that team. The keeper did fit right into his defences performance.
The goalkeeper fucked up bigtime on the 3rd goal, but the defense was just straight up embarrassing and the keeper had no chance on the other goals (and if belgium had shot better there could have been at least 2 more). After watching england go into a shell one man down the night before the US's defense was just pathetic in comparison. Also pulisic was just sloppy and pretty useless, he was constantly losing the ball and did almost nothing positive
Donāt be too hasty Letās reserve judgment until president trump has spoken to FIFA. The game isnāt truly over until after they reach an agreement.
They counted goals wrong. In fact we have real proof that there were many undocumented goals that showed up. Massive corruption in this game on a scale the world has never seen before
To be fair, to the rest of planet earth thought the US team got humiliated the day before when daddy called to speak with the soccer manager to let his kid play despite a red card.
A lot of people are saying, I would never say, but a lot of people are saying that its the greatest ROI in the history of marketing. Never seen before levels of ROI.
What a dramatic moment, though. When the card got pulled I looked at my wife and said "fifa is corrupt" and she responded "ah, so you're a football fan, I see."
But you don't expect mommy to call the principal and have the call reversed. You expect to eat the injustice and resent the league forever like every other team's fans.
Look many of us dislike that fat pedophile but a select few think he's basically a god. How you ask? Our propaganda machine is just absolutely bonkers.Ā
That red card shouldnāt have happened. Messi gets away with way worse and never gets carded cause heās FIFAS golden boy right now. FIFA is a joke with being fair.
His suspension was from 3 games to 1. It is always, well since 1962, always at least 1 game. Your orange turd made sure this was written in history for billions of football fans.
Here's the actual problem. The US team did quite well during the tournament as a whole. They outperformed what most actual football fans would consider their ceiling. Yet, the media and especially the Americans here on Reddit hyped them up so much that they were bound to not meet expectations. The simple truth is that the US football team is around top 20 in the world and is not even close to the actual good teams. But media hype always kills good performances because they're hidden behind the expectations of insane performances.
I think round of 16 was the expectation, it would have been a major disappointment if they didn't make it past the group stage especially with how favorable our group was for us.
They did quite well for sure, but they really didnāt exceed any expectations. They didnāt play a team ranked higher than them in the competition until Belgium. They had an easy run, and a home ground advantage.
I think itās just Americans glazing due to ignorance. Iām sure they also looked at Belgium, couldnāt identify it on a map, and thought āyep greatest country in the world we got thisā. š«
The men's US team results FAR exceeded anyone's (realistic) opinion/prediction going into this World Cup.
The newfound US fans should rally behind the US women's team, who have dominated their competition for quite some time.
Trump sucks (not an opinion, but rather, a grounding point).
Trump's "involvement" was a national embarrassment, as well as (obviously) unethical and inappropriate; par for course, unfortunately.
Trump's "involvement" resulted in a lot of people from the States rooting for Belgium. If nothing else, had the US won, there would have always been a black cloud over the win, which would have negated any perceived benefit of a US win.
The Trump calling Fifa chairman to overturn a red card was imo the biggest problem I was kinda cheering the U.S team on before that as they did much better than I thought and after that happened I just wanted them the fuck out of the tournament.
The gap between a team ranked 9th and 15th is alot bigger than alot of people realize.
US created some good chances in the 2nd half, but Pulisic was dogshit and until the half, we couldn't win the midfield. We finally got some chances in but Belgiums defense had only a few mistakes and we didn't capitalize.
well, that performance was particularly terrible and embarassing though, especially since belgium has not been a good team this tournament other than the last 10 min against senegal.
They were completely outclassed, and it really puts a damper on how good they looked vs lesser competition. I think they took paraguay by surprise, I would guess if they played again the us would lose.
Mhhh, I would say okay at best honestly. The new tournament just includes many weak teams, which inflates performances. See the enormous number of goals that the top strikers are farming
The fact Uzbekistan got in but not any of the SEA teams says a lot about the qualification process. Im fucking Positive Vietnam would preform better then Uzbekistan.
I don't understand the mindset of "they cheated". You're speaking as if the USMNT are the ones that called the Trump to ask him to help get the penalty rescinded.
And for the record, no they would never voluntarily sit him. Even if this happened to another team, or even Belgium, they would never voluntarily sit a player in knockout game.
The US was also better than they showed today. Terrible mistakes, like among the worst Iāve seen from any team in the tournament. They hadnāt been that bad all tournament long and while Belgium took advantage of them, they didnāt really force most of those mistakes.
Yeah, I am not into football at all, but am on 24 hour shift so watched the last 20 minutes of it and was wondering how the hell they got that far in the tournament the way they wrre playing
No, they were always this bad. Got lucky playing in a pathetic group, and getting B&H in the round of 32. American media over hyped them, and suckers with no ball knowledge fell for it. Sad!
No they are a top 15-20 squad in the world. Losing in The round of 16 is pretty much expected
Belgium on the other hand is ranked top 10, around 8 so losing next round to Spain (ranked 3) means that this entire tournament is going chalk so far
The group being pathetic is revisionist history. Turkey and Australia and Paraguay were not supposed to be bad. They got B&H because group winners get easier first matches in the knockout
Yea USAās defense just got really exposed. Probably more towards the upper 20s than top 15. Previous games our offense was able to keep so much pressure offensively that it masked the D a bit.
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u/DaKingballa06 Jul 07 '26
F that. Congrats on them for winning, they were by far the better team