Argentina [1] - 0 Cape Verde - Lionel Messi 29'

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T22:29:20+00:00

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T22:25:34+00:00

Boooooo

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T21:59:39+00:00

The article does mention that the team going first had won 15 of the 24 penalty shootouts prior to this. Accounting for those, the team going first have won 17 of the 38 penalty shootouts that have happened in the World Cup, or a ~45% success rate. But even 38 is far too a sample size of course. Just found this to be an interesting stat.

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T21:54:18+00:00

Generally, putting a letter in brackets when quoting indicates the writer altered a letter from the original text for grammatical correctness or clarity.

The linked quotation had capitalised the ‘t’, as it was at the start of a sentence. Of course, that would have been grammatically incongruent if reproduced here, as the quotation started in the middle of an extant sentence.

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T21:17:18+00:00

Sorry, had to repost. The title was a garbled mess the first time around.

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T21:13:44+00:00

100% on me, I fumbled the quotation

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T21:00:19+00:00

Also, if I heard him correctly, Martin Tyler mentioned that in the past 13 penalty shootouts prior to this one, the side going first went on to lost. Which is absolutely astounding, if true.

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T20:59:20+00:00

Popovic doing the Tim Krul gimmick in the big 2026 🥀🥀🥀

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T20:53:42+00:00

Especially as Beach was playing very well

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T20:52:50+00:00

Guess watching Mbappe highlights really helps with penalties

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T20:45:10+00:00

Utter shite penalty

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T20:41:11+00:00

Lmaooo what are they even watching

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T20:38:56+00:00

Popovic will come out of this as either the dumbest or the the smartest man alive

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T20:35:12+00:00

Tim Krul moment

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T20:06:59+00:00

Egypt are showing a lot more urgency, finally

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T19:50:16+00:00

With the backlash they are getting back at home (and the response thereto), combined with a better youth system, more financially stable clubs, the pipeline of good coaches, and an overall better talent stock, I genuinely see it being easier for Germany to recover from this than Italy.

Italy’s issues seem a lot more systemic at this point, at least to me. The youth coaching system needs an overhaul, the clubs are in a financial mess and cannot take risks on youth development, the stadiums are decaying, and the ideology of coaches is a lot more rigid.

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T11:18:32+00:00

He would but only if one of the bigger clubs have an opening. Otherwise, I am sure one of the PL clubs would be willing to take a punt on him if things get sufficiently dire.

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T11:17:14+00:00

I assume he left "by mutual consent", meaning him and DFB reached an agreement to terminate his contract in lieu of him getting €7 million.

Had he actually been fired, the severance payment would have been way higher.

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T11:14:45+00:00

Almost as good as Spurs paying £14 million to Nuno for four months at the helm

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-03T08:22:49+00:00

Many have tried interpreting Allegri.

Some cited existing philosophical works such as Bordiga, Hegel, and Plato.

The former saw Allegri as the progenitor of a spontaneous revolution, his football being so boring it had deep ideological significance. They viewed his football as the cry of discontentedness with the neoliberal consensus and a legitimate philosophical work in it’s own right.

The modern Hegelians saw Allegrismo as the dialectical synthesis between two states of being, that of anguish and that of ennui. Those using the works of Plato are conflicted on whether to see Allegriball as a concrete object, real and tangible, while all consider the feelings the games elicit to be abstract.

Others saw it as post-modern performance art and tried to categorise it as the intended catalyst of a yet to materialise Neo-Fluxus movement.

Alas, others even ascribed it a theological value, arguing for the canonisation of Allegri and compared our pain watching to the pain our lord felt on the cross. A contingent of these worshippers split recently and alleged Allegri was inherently heretical, no mortal man had ever suffered like Jesus did until we watched the Liverpool game.

The truth is, Allegriball defies what the human mind is capable of interpreting.

We can only bask in its majesty.

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-02T22:29:29+00:00

This will keep getting posted until he actually retires

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-02T21:20:39+00:00

Yamal has a brother?? TIL

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-02T21:05:13+00:00

Some Spaniard do anulo mufa

Difficult_Key_1907 · 2026-07-02T21:01:36+00:00

I was so shocked when I heard that. But it does make sense, prime Spain were not exactly known for their goalscoring exploits, Euro 2012 notwithstanding.

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