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Post #71 (isolation #0) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:44 am
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 69, zoraster wrote:apparently the 48-team format right now is 16 groups of 3, so each group only has 3 games to play. Top two advance to a 32-team knockout. I actually kind of like that.
better than whatever the hell they did with the Euro
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Post #79 (isolation #1) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:28 am
Postby shaft.ed »
yeah i think this is just a play to get major markets assuredly into the tourney
lot more money to be made if places like US and China are always playing
also avoids the upsets of losing out major teams like Netherlands and Italy
In post 73, Aristophanes wrote:48 is an awful lot, but if that is the way they are splitting it it's kinda nice. I was thinking they'd do like 8 groups of 6 or something and was trying to figure out how that would work!
Also travel time is going to be a bitch! Like, split country games is alright is some cases like Korea/Japan, but like, if a team has a game in Mexico and the next one in Canada it's really going to hinder them, unlike a team who was already in Canada amd doesn't have to fly up! Or if they have a game in the east thn the west (or vice versa) timezones will screw them up!
This should be very interesting.
The flights from New York to Los Angeles are likely longer than the flights from Mexico to Canada. Mexico City to Montreal is a 5 hour flight. It obviously would take a long time if teams were flying commercial and had to connect, but they'll charter planes and go direct.
i just hope the planes can fly high enough to clear the wall
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Post #135 (isolation #6) » Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:59 am
Postby shaft.ed »
that image of Germany's failed clearance directly into the nuts of a Korean player in the 88th minute that led to the corner kick goal basically sums up this German performance in a single strike of the ball(s)
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Post #143 (isolation #8) » Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:13 am
Postby shaft.ed »
In post 135, shaft.ed wrote:that image of Germany's failed clearance directly into the nuts of a Korean player in the 88th minute that led to the corner kick goal basically sums up this German performance in a single strike of the ball(s)
I knew it would exist
keep in mind this attempted pass? led to a change of possession that Korea turned into a corner wherein Kroos had a really nice assist for Korea's go ahead goal
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Post #297 (isolation #17) » Thu Jul 12, 2018 2:19 am
Postby shaft.ed »
I have to say that Croatia's defensive strategy of constantly harrassing the back line and forcing quick/suboptimal passes into midfield was really refreshing compared to all of the teams that just drop 10+ players back in their own box
Don't know how they kept it up for three straight extra time matches
Also super pumped to finally see the red and white checkered kits