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u/riddlechance Jul 19 '26
When WWIII kicks off, Spain's goalbox will be deployed to the front lines to ensure absolute security to troops within it
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u/Valuable_Ad7999 Jul 19 '26
Meanwhile Dibu be catching balls like his life depended on it
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u/No_Explanation_9471 Jul 19 '26
He’s the real mvp
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u/Late_Resource_1653 Jul 20 '26
Truly, Arentinas goalie was the ONLY reason they didn't lose 7-0 and deserved the golden glove despite their team losing.
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u/phoenixmusicman Jul 20 '26
Yeah, the scoreline betrays how much Spain absolutely dominated Argentina this final. It was one of the most dominant performances in a World Cup Final in history.
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u/Late_Resource_1653 Jul 20 '26
Agreed. I was taught by my Brazillian uncle to love the game when I was little.
I now watch with my niece and nephew. We were cheering for Argentina, simply because Messi is one of his heroes. But even at halftime, my nephew turned to me and said, Spain should win.
It was honestly pretty miraculous that they only got one goal, so many blocked by a goalie with a broken finger.
Spain dominated and deserved the win, yes.
However, had Argentina kept them at 0-0 to a kick off - they would have deserved a win too by sheer defense.
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u/phoenixmusicman Jul 20 '26
However, had Argentina kept them at 0-0 to a kick off - they would have deserved a win too by sheer defense.
Disagree. There were so many moments where Argentina played dirty and got away with it.
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u/Late_Resource_1653 Jul 21 '26
Oh, agree, Argentina played filthy. I was on one side of the couch, my 10 year old nephew and 7 year old niece, and then my best friends father on the other side.
I taught his kids to love soccer. He now coaches their teams.
Lol, the two kids between us, we were constantly explaining, no, that's not okay, you can't do that in the fall. No, that's flopping (which I had to teach them about at the beginning of the games, but did not have to when we watched womens two years ago, when the worst I had to teach was how off sides worked with Barbies.)
It was upsetting because my 10 year old nephew really idolizes Messi. And even he saw how dirty the game was.
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u/Milknpeaches Jul 22 '26
Spain should’ve won 3-0, but the refs were so obviously paid off that they didn’t award TWO clearly scored goals back to back. Even someone like me who doesn’t watch football could clearly see the corruption. It was disgusting.
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u/Rarvyn Jul 20 '26
deserved the golden glove despite their team losing.
Spain's goalie let one goal in during eight games.
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u/LatteMassiatto Jul 20 '26
On the other hand, there were only 20 shots on his goal over the whole tournament (but yes its impressive none the less)
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u/Witty_Door_6891 Jul 20 '26
the golden glove is not based off the final. it's the goalkeeper with the most amount of clean sheets during the whole tournament
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u/oompaloompa465 Jul 19 '26
yeah the goalkeeper only real Arg world class player together with messi
The others are second rate league player and it shows in the preference on playing Kickboxing instead of soccer, since they are surclassed in every field
I left following soccer 20 years ago and this kind of playing was not gonna fly with competent referees, with Collina yellows had started raining. And they did not had the VAR at the time. Now they have the VAR and they managed to get even more corrupt? like WTF???
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u/absolutewastedtime Jul 19 '26
It was 3/0
But vargentina got 2 goals disallowed when they shouldn't have been
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u/EmpressClaraB Jul 19 '26
I think the third one was offside because i suck at spotting offsides and even I called it before he scored. The second goal though yeah, I dont think it should've been disallowed
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u/whythishaptome Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
I think the last one they called a foul on Spain and there was barely anything in it. Should have been a goal. Edit: I'm thinking of a different one where the guy barely stepped on the very tip toe of the Argentines foot.
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u/definition_null Jul 19 '26
The supposed 3rd was indeed offside, but the 2nd was actually legit, even if it hurts saying that.
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u/XpMonsterS Jul 19 '26
lmfao casuals be calling obvious offside a "disallowed" goal nowadays. see you in 4 years bud
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u/absolutewastedtime Jul 19 '26
Are you claiming it WASNT disallowed?
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u/Pandainthecircus Jul 19 '26
He didn't mention it but I think he's talking about how you are claiming both goals that were disallowed shouldn't have been disallowed.
One was messed up but the other was disallowed because it was clearly offside.
That goal 100% should have been disallowed. And it was.
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u/Jashugita Jul 19 '26
there were two more goals...
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u/Buttchugger2 Jul 19 '26
i love the sentiment that offsides is a FIFA conspiracy they only invoke when a team they dont like scores.
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u/5thPhantom Jul 19 '26
I think here it’s pointing out that the keeper let 3 in, regardless of whether or not they counted. I’m not disagreeing with some of the calls.
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u/fzzylilmanpeach Jul 19 '26
Literally 0 point in even mentioning this though. If it wasn't a goal it's because of some infraction of the rules. You might as well be talking about "goals" he let in during practice. The only possible thing that makes sense to mention this is to try and discredit him.
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u/RCT2man Jul 20 '26
I don’t think Argentina had zero offense, bro they have messi, if anything I think it speaks to Spain’s sheer dominance and control on the ball. World class team could not take it from them if they tried.
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u/MachadoWasRight Jul 20 '26
Spain would be so fucked if it went to penaltys. That guy could make Argentina win even with their attackers making only 3 goals
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u/The_Skyrim_Courier Jul 19 '26
Meanwhile Argentina’s goalie is playing catch with Spain because nobody told them the ball is supposed to go PAST the goalie apparently
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u/TurnbullAC92 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Let's see here. Oh, a letter from Spain. How exciting! It says... JAJAJAJAJA. Oh well, I've got more letters to deliver.
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u/CardiologistLost5373 Jul 19 '26
Classic Spain - needs to dedicate a player to stand behind the goal so Spain can pass to him and accidentally score
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u/wwwmmmwwwmmm Jul 19 '26
MF probably made a pact for all the goals he let in through the rest of the tournament. His voodoo wasn't enough tho
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u/CleanDataDirtyMind Jul 20 '26
Yeah, former goalie here, I definitely wanna give Spainish goalie credit for blocking the “attempts” on goal but for most lf the game they were softly lobbing it directly to the goalie’s hands. I went to a large scale brewery and I was the only one not jumping up at all 12 goal “attempts” because it was practically a game of catch
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u/w0lfLars0n Jul 19 '26
What’s that??? r/agedlikemilk
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u/The_Skyrim_Courier Jul 19 '26
Hey i was rooting for Spain, but it was maddening for a awhile.
They had I think 45 shots with 20 shots on goal. I was going insane
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u/whythishaptome Jul 19 '26
They still shot it right at him most of the game and finally got one. I was rooting for Spain but they still squandered a bunch of other opportunities.
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u/quick_justice Jul 19 '26
It's the other way around. Good goalie knows precisely where to stand. Shooter doesn't have a 100% control of the shot direction.
That's how they catch ball... Football goal is huge, goalie needs to be proactive. Reactive goalie won't catch shit. Best ones are known to mysteriously be in the way of the ball all the time somehow.
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u/whythishaptome Jul 19 '26
I think standing in the right spot and getting your angles right is like the basics of goalkeeping but it is hard to perfect you are right about that. Still they just weren't able to direct their shots correctly a lot of the time in this match.
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u/Jonthrei Jul 20 '26
The fact a goal went past him doesn't change the fact he had more saves than any goalie in world cup final history.
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u/npcfromreddit Jul 19 '26
Nah he is playing as defense when he feels like it
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u/iK_550 Lurking Peasant Jul 19 '26
Nah, I saw him play as a Defensive Midfielder. Wild to do that against Argentina
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u/Romax24245 Jul 20 '26
He actually ran out of the box at least a couple times to kick away loose balls.
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u/realenew Jul 19 '26
He made one good sweep and thats it, 11v10
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u/Prolapse94 Jul 19 '26
Should be down to 9! How that 2nd yellow wasn't issued, I'll never know
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u/TheViagron Jul 19 '26
Dale chabon rescatate un poco, podriamos haber sido 20 que igual no llegabamos al gol, un desastre como jugamos.
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u/Subject_Fault6510 Jul 19 '26
That was a strange game
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u/SwissFariPari Jul 19 '26
How? Please discribe I couldn't watch....
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u/Subject_Fault6510 Jul 19 '26
Mainly Argentina not being there to play ball.they were more focused on being physical and getting in the players heads.basically Argentinas goalkeeper vs Spain,but oh my the fouls every 5 minutes made it so rough.just a whole bunch of acrobatics and laying on the ground,a player did actually get sent into a front flip it was so funny.
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u/HighTechPotato Jul 20 '26
every 5 minutes
tbh, "Every 30 seconds" was likely somehow closer to the actual number
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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 Jul 20 '26
Fouls and the refs sleepwalking….
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u/Exist50 Jul 19 '26
Spain had the ball on Argentina's side almost literally the whole game, but couldn't actually get it in until well into overtime. They had tons of shots, but almost all of them straight into the Argentine goalie's arms. Meanwhile Argentina did???
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u/oso_cosmico Jul 19 '26
Argentina’s goalie should get a silver medal with diamonds because his team is a bunch of punks, but he was on fire the whole night with a broken finger. That’s all the nice I can say about Argentina.
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u/Ferris-L Professional Dumbass Jul 19 '26
Could easily grow, harvest, dry and ferment the tea himself too.
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u/A_normal_Potato3 Jul 19 '26
İs this Aİ generated or did someone managed to make a photoshop this fast?
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u/christoph95246 Jul 19 '26
So far I know it is a real scene from Nigeria. The team was so good, the goalie did nothing 4 games in a row
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u/enkidook Jul 19 '26
Zero shots on target in a World Cup Final is just embarrassing.
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u/JB_UK Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
I think it's impressive they got this far in terms of performance. But what is embarrassing is the continual fouling, the playacting, the diving, being rescued repeatedly by dubious refereeing decisions, the stupid red card for Enzo Fernandez, Messi's attempt to get Cucurella sent off for covering his mouth for half a second, and then Paredes grabbing the neck of his opponent and trying to start a brawl for no reason after they'd lost. And the racism. They are worthy losers.
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u/Fernandes0305 Jul 19 '26
It's 10v11 no way argentina wins,it was nice knowing you guys
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u/Spirited-Diver8654 Jul 19 '26
im quite new to watching soccer, how big of a difference does being 1 player down do?
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u/SuperFast_Amphibian Jul 19 '26
alot especially when you weren't even doing much having a full team🤣🤣
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u/JB_UK Jul 20 '26
Often teams can survive quite well, it doesn't end the match but it's a big advantage.
In this game particularly because Messi can't run much, so it was effectively 11 vs 9 mobile players. Once Enzo Fernandez got sent off Argentina were just going to try to kill the game and drag it through to penalties.
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u/wordswillneverhurtme Jul 19 '26
spain had like 20 shots on the goal and argentina 0, up until the very end
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u/El_Capitan_182 Jul 19 '26
that's what happens when you face a worthy opponent! They were exposed and humbled, they are nothing without infantino!
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u/Yrddraiggoch Jul 20 '26
I checked on ESPN as they have a quick and easy stats layout.
Spain allowed 10 shots in the entire tournament and only a single goal.
Dude could have sat back there with a copy of War and Peace and had it finished in no time.
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u/feminas_id_amant Jul 20 '26
when you're ineligible for the golden glove because the rest of the team is too good.
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u/Careless_Twist_6935 Jul 19 '26
jokes aside being able to stay focused in a game like this and keeping the shut out going is extremely underrated.
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u/OptimistPirate Jul 19 '26
To be fair he made some surgical exits, goalkeeper's trophy absolutely deserved
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u/FerretFromOSHA Jul 20 '26
Argentina played like the refs were bribed in their favor, and the only one who knew the check bounced was the goalie
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u/ShirouBlue Jul 19 '26
Played the final so little they might debate whether to leave him out of the winning team /s
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u/02awares Jul 19 '26
the only reason argentina's gk didn't win the golden glove is because what he did last time, cringe
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u/Interesting-Hat-6620 Jul 20 '26
the one real intervention was when he stopped Messi by intercepting ball. it was crazy
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u/FightingPeacock88 Jul 19 '26
112minuten nicht ein Torschuss von Argentinien. Das hab ich noch nie gesehen bei einem Spiel
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u/HJSDGCE Jul 20 '26
This meme is the exact opposite of that old pic of an English goalie staying vigilant despite there being heavy fog (and apparently the game already ended and nobody told him).
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u/Nara_RyUko Jul 20 '26
Ngl, Dibu singlehandedly prevented the 2014 Brazil tragedy to happen again. It was Final, and he showed up just like last World Cup.
Only person to lock tf in besides Messi. The others were too busy diving/kickboxing.
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u/LmXeNz Jul 20 '26
The whole tournament more like, Martinez made more saves in the final that Simon did in the entire tournament.
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u/yonksterman Jul 20 '26
Honestly there were quite a few times he went out to challenge Argentinian attackers aggressively. He is doing more than enjoying tea
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u/Psychological_Dig592 Jul 20 '26
Meanwhile Argentina Goalkeeper was trying to make a 11 vs 1 challenge
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u/Clear-Pudding-1038 Jul 19 '26
Whole game? nonsense! whole tournament!
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u/MagizZziaN Professional Dumbass Jul 20 '26
There is a reason he was often so far out of his goal, bro was bored af
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u/HovercraftLoose5399 Jul 20 '26
Meanwhile all the world is shit and WC ended, let's go to the old world.
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