Football (Soccer) Thread

[Tamas]

World Cup nerds, a little help here:

So in exciting Group F action, Morocco and Croatia tied 0-0.  But Canada is in Group F, and realistically to make the next round have to finish ahead of both teams.

So was a 0-0 final a good thing or a bad thing for Canada?

Yes. The 4th team in your group is Belgium which is the guaranteed group winner. Canada needs to grab 2nd place. You'll have zero after the Belgium game, but Morocco will also have zero points from playing Belgium on Sunday.

If you can beat Croatia on the same day, then you'll be second place with a 2 points advantage, and in the last round with Belgium beating Croatia you only need to hold Morocco to a draw.

[FunkMonk]

Yeah. You generally just want the big fish in the group to win their games. Your rivals are the other two. If they drop points that is generally good for you.

[Gups]

World Cup nerds, a little help here:

So in exciting Group F action, Morocco and Croatia tied 0-0.  But Canada is in Group F, and realistically to make the next round have to finish ahead of both teams.

So was a 0-0 final a good thing or a bad thing for Canada?

Good.

[Barrister]

Canada needs to grab 2nd place. You'll have zero after the Belgium game,

Germany and Argentina just lost, so hope spring eternal!

[FunkMonk]

Germany are going to go out in the group stage again, aren't they 

[Duque de Bragança]

Next up: Can Costa Rica defeat her former colonial master? Or just tie them like the USA did?

threviel just jinxed them, again, as most teams playing Spain.
3-0 for the "Hispanics". 

[Duque de Bragança]

Germany are going to go out in the group stage again, aren't they 

Careful, you could do a reverse jinx à la threviel, with (too much) Schadenfreude.

[Josephus]

World Cup nerds, a little help here:

So in exciting Group F action, Morocco and Croatia tied 0-0.  But Canada is in Group F, and realistically to make the next round have to finish ahead of both teams.

So was a 0-0 final a good thing or a bad thing for Canada?

Yes for sure.

[Grey Fox]

World Cup nerds, a little help here:

So in exciting Group F action, Morocco and Croatia tied 0-0.  But Canada is in Group F, and realistically to make the next round have to finish ahead of both teams.

So was a 0-0 final a good thing or a bad thing for Canada?

As the others have mentioned, yes.

They turned a 3 point game into a 2 point one and they have no goals for(2nd tie breaker).

While Canada's defeat this afternoon is all but assured. The team mission is to score goals & hopefully remain within 1 of Belgium.

[Barrister]

While Canada's defeat this afternoon is all but assured. The team mission is to score goals & hopefully remain within 1 of Belgium.

Are you just trying to reverse-jinx the Canadians?

I wouldn't be betting on the Canadians, I certainly aren't predicting they'll win, but they have a fighters chance.  Belgium is playing a game everyone tells them they're supposed to win, versus Canada wanting to show the world they belong on the world stage... stranger things have happened.

[alfred russel]

German protest before their current game.

The message: speak not of the game they are about to play.

[Duque de Bragança]

5-0 for Spain now. Costa Rica completely dominated with 85 % of ball possession for la Roja.
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[Josephus]

So Canada lost 1-0 in Costa Rica during qualifying.  Just putting this out there

[Duque de Bragança]

6-0 now, with 8 minutes of stoppage time. Maybe Hispanics should stop the carnage against fellow Hispanics. 

Well no, Morata scored. Almost all shots on goal are are goals.

[celedhring]

7-0

The Empire strikes back.