The World Cup Thread

[daschoo]

Poor result & performance by England.

That said, if we hadn't gifted the US a goal it might have been different

Will be interesting to see how the teams get on against Algeria & Slovenia, especially the US to see how they play when they are favoured to win

quite enjoyed being american for a couple of hours, hopefully being algerian on wednesday is even more fun
not the end of the world for you but you'll need to outscore the americans in the next couple of games or you're probably looking at a last 16 penalties exit against the germans. of course i wouldn't enjoy that at all :

 

[Ren]

wasn't a particularly good performance by the U.S either

pretty poor game for neutral fans

 

[Rampage]

the biggest sporting event in the world that happens every 4 years and games end in a tie? that's lame, why don't they have penalty kicks to determine a winner?

 

[Gzus]

the biggest sporting event in the world that happens every 4 years and games end in a tie? that's lame, why don't they have penalty kicks to determine a winner?

I don't think they do that until the single elimination rounds.

 

[reddyuta]

the biggest sporting event in the world that happens every 4 years and games end in a tie? that's lame, why don't they have penalty kicks to determine a winner?

let it go man,the 2 most watched sports in the world routinely end in a draw and nobody complains.a draw was a good result for us.without Tim Howard this could have been ugly.

 

[Hypnotoad]

the biggest sporting event in the world that happens every 4 years and games end in a tie? that's lame, why don't they have penalty kicks to determine a winner?

Its early in the tournament.

Draw gets you 1 point, loss gets you 0 points, Win gets you 3 points. Divisional ranking is determined by adding up those points.Play everyone in your 'division' - than top 2 in each division have a bracket tourney.

After the bracket is filled, they will play until there is a winner. Including extended time and penalty kicks.

US was lucky to win that. The English attack was picking up, and that goal was a complete fluke. Take the 1 point.

 

[burmafrd]

and that game ladies and gentlemen is exactly why Americans will never be big time soccer fans. Its the freaking world cup and they let games end in a tie.

 

[kmp77]

and that game ladies and gentlemen is exactly why Americans will never be big time soccer fans. Its the freaking world cup and they let games end in a tie.

Oh.....so American Football can't end in ties??

 

[burmafrd]

NOT in the playoffs which for all intents and purposes this is equivalent to. Wrong answer, try again. If you can.

 

[Ren]

NOT in the playoffs which for all intents and purposes this is equivalent to. Wrong answer, try again. If you can.

The actual playoffs (final 16) would be the equivalent to the playoffs

 

[Rampage]

Its early in the tournament.

Draw gets you 1 point, loss gets you 0 points, Win gets you 3 points. Divisional ranking is determined by adding up those points.Play everyone in your 'division' - than top 2 in each division have a bracket tourney.

After the bracket is filled, they will play until there is a winner. Including extended time and penalty kicks.

US was lucky to win that. The English attack was picking up, and that goal was a complete fluke. Take the 1 point.

England is known for choking like that.

 

[burmafrd]

The actual playoffs (final 16) would be the equivalent to the playoffs

There were qualification rds and such to get in to the World Cup, right? So this is the playoffs. No matter how you try to lawyer it.

 

[Ren]

England is known for choking like that.

The announcers on TV here said it best, "we've just seen England do what they always do, disappoint" :laugh2:


England is not as good as people like to think they are

 

[kmp77]

NOT in the playoffs which for all intents and purposes this is equivalent to. Wrong answer, try again. If you can.

The first round is GROUP PLAY. Hence, not a playoff....you go through based on points. So right answer, I tried again because I could.

I swear, the people who talk the most know the least about something.

So bascially, this is just like the NFL. You play group play (Regular season)...then you move to the playoffs where it's win or go home. So basically it's not much different so yeah, that's exactly why american's won't ever get behind Soccer!

 

[Ren]

There were qualification rds and such to get in to the World Cup, right? So this is the playoffs. No matter how you try to lawyer it.

You have to have qualifications when there's 300+ teams trying to get inn

Group stages are, you know, group stages, when they play in groups and try to qualify for,.. wait for it...

playoffs

It's pretty basic and self explanatory stuff, if anyone is trying to lawyer something here...

 

[UKCowboysFan]

NOT in the playoffs which for all intents and purposes this is equivalent to. Wrong answer, try again. If you can.

When you lose a play-off game, you are done for the tournament.

As this is the group stages, even if you had penalties there would still be two more games.

Therefore this is NOT the equivalent of the play-offs yet.

 

[burmafrd]

The NCAA Basketball tournament has 64 teams (actually 65 technically) and that is all single elimination. No reason why this should not be the same. Yeah it is lawyering not to call this playoffs. Nothing else. As was pointed out they whittled 300 down to get to the world cup. The world cup is playoff equivalent whether you want to admit it or not. and that is one of the reasons why americans will not ever consider soccer a major sport here in the us. Allowing ties in playoffs.

 

[kmp77]

The NCAA Basketball tournament has 64 teams (actually 65 technically) and that is all single elimination. No reason why this should not be the same. Yeah it is lawyering not to call this playoffs. Nothing else. As was pointed out they whittled 300 down to get to the world cup. The world cup is playoff equivalent whether you want to admit it or not. and that is one of the reasons why americans will not ever consider soccer a major sport here in the us. Allowing ties in playoffs.

It's a different sport and different type of tournament so they're not equivalent. So there's two stages, so what? At least at the World Cup there's more chance the better teams get out of the first stage.

And I guess since NCAA football doesn't even have a playoff, there's NO WAY people in the USA will get behind that because you have to have a single elimination, non tie playoff to be accepted!!!

 

[Ren]

It's amusing how you try and blame the world cup structure for your dislike of the sport when every major international team championship follows a similar structure, including the once Americans like.

You really haven't given this much thought have you?

 

[Doomsday]

Yes it is POSSIBLE for US football games to end in a tie but that is very unusual and rarely happens. 2 of the first 3 games in the World Cup ended up in a tie. 0-0 and 1-1, really exciting stuff.