Qatar World Cup 2022

Thelonious Monk · 09-12-2022 05:58PM

lmaoooooooooo at neymar crying

Star Bingo · 09-12-2022 05:59PM

220 odd mil soccer lunatics are crying. David must always keep Goliath at bay 💪🏻 never succumb

zig · 09-12-2022 06:00PM

Random idea: could they not do a boxing style points system for shots on target, possession and other well defined and calculated stats (would need some thought obviously to stop ridiculous crap going on).

Then after extra time it’s settled on that. I believe most people are agreed that everyone wants to see attacking play.

…. awaits abuse…

dxhound2005 · 09-12-2022 06:02PM

BBC viewers in the North have a football choice later. Argentia Holland on BBC1, Coleraine Crusaders on BBC2.

archfi · 09-12-2022 06:03PM

Croatia for a small population are something else!

Ireland look and learn.

PS Neymar's goal was superb

BattleCorp · 09-12-2022 06:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976391#Comment_119976391

Morocco are a very good side. I'd expect them to beat Portugal.

09-12-2022 06:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976452#Comment_119976452

I'd imagine Coleraine v Crusaders couldn't be any worse than the normal 90 minutes of Croatia and Brazil.

I would like to see Croatia win it now all the same but I do feel that it's a poor spectacle looking at them play.

Thelonious Monk · 09-12-2022 06:05PM

i think holland can do it this eve

.Donegal. · 09-12-2022 06:07PM

Brazil had more end product in front of goal but were still poor with their finishing. Croatia dominated midfield. Brazil have lots of lazy players. I don’t know how Brazil justified the bookies favourites tag to win the World Cup. Perhaps Partly because of their name and their unbeaten qualifying campaign, they only played Argentina once in that yet still an impressive record but Peru lost to Australia in the qualifying and Uruguay and Ecuador went out in the groups so maybe not as impressive as it first seemed.

Either way I’m really glad to see those arrogant showboaters go out. They took the piss against South Korea , a bit more humility might do them good but I’d doubt that current team would ever learn. Who’s dancing now.

ArmaniJeanss · 09-12-2022 06:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976440#Comment_119976440

Honestly a terrible idea when they have a perfect 'football' way of deciding it via who scores the most actual goals from the penalty spot.

Why would you instead introduce something from 'judgement' sports like boxing or figure skating (which have incidentally seen some incredibly corrupt scoring by judges)

walshb · 09-12-2022 06:08PM

What’s with this grown men crying over losing a soccer match. #wuss

Say Your Number · 09-12-2022 06:09PM

If it wasn't for Neymar being so unlikeable, I would have loved for Brazil to go on and win it.

walshb · 09-12-2022 06:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976480#Comment_119976480

He’s not alone!!

zvone · 09-12-2022 06:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976440#Comment_119976440

You missing a true beauty of football. Statistic is unimportant. Just balls in the net counting at the end.

nullzero · 09-12-2022 06:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976457#Comment_119976457

Croatia don't have anything like the GAA nor are they competing in international Rugby.

The Netherlands and Belgium are similar to Croatia and Ireland in size and they have great football teams and leagues, we're the odd ones out because there's no way we can possibly have a soccer set up anything like those countries because there's far too much competition in terms of sporting participation. Apples and oranges essentially.

Mad_maxx · 09-12-2022 06:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976420#Comment_119976420

Yes but Yougoslavia had a great sporting tradition

mattser · 09-12-2022 06:14PM

Just in the door. Did they do their little gobshite dance after Neymar scored ?

Say Your Number · 09-12-2022 06:14PM

Was expecting Brady to call Neymar a cod, and wasn't dissapointed!

09-12-2022 06:15PM

Bit too much glee on display here imo about Brazil going out and delighting in their players being in tears etc

Brazil have always had those sort of extended team celebrations after a goal (the form has varied over the years) and anyone who has ever been to Brazil itself would know that it's a cultural thing tbh rather than anything to do with going out to annoy or belittle opponents.

South Korea were beaten out the gate in any case within 30 minutes

Croatia fair play but they are pretty blunt and the xG (expected goals) stat for the game was 2.71 vs .66 in favour of Brazil based on the opportunities created in the match - on most days Brazil would have won that match comfortably enough

zvone · 09-12-2022 06:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976498#Comment_119976498

True, there is no GAA in Croatia but Croatia competing in Rugby.

The Croatia national rugby union team is governed by the Croatian Rugby Union. Croatia have been playing internationals rugby since 1992, they have yet to qualify for the Rugby World Cup. The national side is ranked 39th in the world

And we are definitively NOT similar in size with Netherlands and Belgium.

Netherland - 17 000 000

Belgium - 11 500 000

Ireland 5 000 000

Croatia 3 900 000

archfi · 09-12-2022 06:24PM

https://twitter.com/insoniascarvao/status/1601272333796507648

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ArmaniJeanss · 09-12-2022 06:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976498#Comment_119976498

There's more to team sports than Soccer, GAA and Rugby. They have medalled at the Olympics in sports that Central/Eastern Europe take ultra seriously like Water Polo, Handball and Basketball. Just a 'sport billy' nation possibly.

Star Bingo · 09-12-2022 06:25PM

One thing I’ve come accustomed to, those checkerboard shirts of Croatia are filled with much more intrigue than the canary yellow of brasilian heads

cmac2009 · 09-12-2022 06:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976508#Comment_119976508

Ah, the auld xG stat argument.

CalamariFritti · 09-12-2022 06:31PM

Thought Croatia were excellent. Rode their luck a bit in the 2nd half but the way they managed this game with skill stood out to me. A little limited without a striker of note but overall some massive performances. Modric fantastic no other word, got a little tired in the end but still put his peno away. Fair play Croatia.

mattser · 09-12-2022 06:32PM

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Brilliant 😂

09-12-2022 06:33PM

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well it does give a reflection of the match in terms of attacking opportunities created.

there were some frantic goalmouth scrambles and throwing bodies around that were more in hope than anything else at times.

in addition, we've seen penalties given for less than that hand-ball.

But there is no need for that really in this case as the obvious way of summarising it today is that Croatia had a grand total of 1 shot on target over the 120 minutes (a deflected shot at that)

zig · 09-12-2022 06:39PM

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Because it’s not perfect, it encourages team to play for penalties. If every team played like that it would make for woeful viewing.

odyssey06 · 09-12-2022 06:45PM

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They should be booked for time wasting.

In American Football excessive celebrations is an offence and penalised.

Brazil seem to think there should be one set of rules for them. It is disrespectful and annoying and adolescent and they need to cop on. Celebrate victories.

How would they have felt if Germany had celebrated like that when they had Brazil defeated after 30 mins?

I think the answer speaks for itself

09-12-2022 06:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119976532#Comment_119976532

Uruguay have won 2 world cups (a while ago yes) and been to a semi in 2010 with less than 3.5 million

On the rugby point - very different really - only 10 national teams globally are at the races in terms of being competitive with there even being a designation for them - The Tier 1 Nations and they are always going to make up the 1/4 finalists in the world cup but there is more competition in soccer in terms of who makes the 1/4's

Also very different sport - you can train a meathead to be reasonable at rugby - there is a lot more innate and technical skill in soccer so the outcomes are very much tied-in with having a league and schools system in tandem with the correct coaching for rugby more so than population

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