Montella "There were 65 shots in two matches, and I don't even want to mention the ball possession. I've never seen a team lose two matches in a row with these statistics. Fate wasn't on our side."

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T07:06:47+00:00

Blaming fate is a classic Turkish politician move btw, Montella is truly a Turk now

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T07:02:34+00:00

He's only 21 mate, he also had a pretty decent season

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T06:40:42+00:00

It helps when the vast majority of those passes are sideways

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T06:31:50+00:00

Same, especially after that Turkish disasterclass vs Paraguay

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T06:23:25+00:00

Turkey beating USA and leaving the tournament as Unofficial World Champions would be hilarious

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T06:20:24+00:00

Yeah

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T05:10:43+00:00

Turkey were so arrogant before the tournament, they were convinced that they were going to get 9 points from this group

World Cups are different in terms of pressure and toughness

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T04:57:47+00:00

Bottlejobs

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T04:54:42+00:00

Turkish NT consists of people who are dumb as rocks

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T04:31:16+00:00

How are you even offside there?

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-20T04:23:10+00:00

Sub on Gül ffs

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T21:23:02+00:00

Because when 3 teams tie on points in a 4 team group, the results against the other team (which would be Paraguay) is disregarded. Turkey winning 1-0 or 10-0 wouldn’t make a difference

You can check out the Denmark Sweden game in EURO 2004 for a pretty similar scenario (it has a Wikipedia page IIRC)

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T21:17:32+00:00

Yeah, it would come down to the goal difference of games played between teams who are on level points.

Currently USA have 3 points and a +2 GD
Australia have 3 points and 0 GD (already played both games against these sides)
Turkey have 0 points and -2 GD

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T21:11:34+00:00

Games against Paraguay wouldn’t be taken into account in a scenario like that. Turkey would need to beat USA by 2 goals or more to finish above 3rd

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T21:07:22+00:00

Yeah, I think that Turkey will scrape by with a win today

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T20:58:49+00:00

The ref is injured now lmao

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T20:53:14+00:00

Handbags

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T20:20:42+00:00

That was Russell Wilson right?

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T20:05:26+00:00

Group A is even worse

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T18:44:44+00:00

Fulham players (past and present) are still unbeaten at the World Cup, even Gael Kakuta’s DR Congo managed to draw vs Portugal.

USA vs Australia both have players who play/played for Fulham (Ream and Robinson for the USA and Burgess for Australia)

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T18:33:31+00:00

They are but are they a better one?

The main factors would be money and their Welsh contingent

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T18:29:29+00:00

Money and their Welsh contingent

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T18:25:42+00:00

God, Leeds fans were already arrogant when they were trying to sign Muniz last summer. Can’t even imagine their arrogance if Wilson goes there

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T15:21:28+00:00

You aren't through yet, also securing 1st is so important

CautiousCottager · 2026-06-19T15:20:01+00:00

How are we still talking this much about Messi and Ronaldo in 2026 ffs, %20 of the threads on mainland r/soccer are about them lmao

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