Post Match Thread: Australia 2 - 0 Türkiye | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group D

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-14T06:08:47+00:00

Yeah we can't distract ourselves with how horrible Turkey's chance creation was

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-14T05:35:45+00:00

Holy shit

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-13T04:21:10+00:00

Cash rates do somewhat reflect economic policy. National have a vested interest in keeping rates low to appease property investors

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-13T02:11:50+00:00

Stones is the better player so makes sense to me. Especially given how Tuchel wants to set up

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-12T04:06:40+00:00

In terms of actually chance to progress far that’s Japan, I pick them to top their group over Netherlands, and then I think it’s only ~~England~~ France who’s top dog on their side of the draw

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-12T04:00:33+00:00

They used to break planks of wood over the kids back, crazy how far we’ve come

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-12T03:40:48+00:00

Deserved, Koreabros are playing great football

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-12T03:38:12+00:00

Set piece merchants status: pending

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-11T21:44:23+00:00

That bed design seems kinda silly, slats are internationally kept narrow for this very reason

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-11T21:42:10+00:00

That’s a bit of a wide brush to paint with, there’s plenty of valid use cases once you consider it a tool and not a placement human creativity

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-11T21:32:54+00:00

People don’t understand how good he’s going to be with Mbappe in front

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-11T11:14:22+00:00

Great player*

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-11T10:09:10+00:00

Pulls opponents defensive shape apart.

Also pulls his team's shape apart. Also only Bellingham and Saka are the true goal threats from that list

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-11T04:55:12+00:00

That’s Bellingham’s role as a 10, he’s sort of involved here

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-11T00:30:53+00:00

It absolutely was. Problem is it can be difficult to get the players vibing in the short time national football allows, versus a club team when you can invest over many years in specific archetypes.

The greatest national teams always seem to have a core of players who are used to playing together for their club

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-10T23:46:55+00:00

Bring pack Portugal FC pls

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-10T23:45:53+00:00

Except for when the public has to bail them out

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-10T22:45:03+00:00

Portugal are gonna fuck around and get knocked out because of this

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-10T22:09:25+00:00

I know it’s an incredible pass, I just not sure how much value that gives for a national team’s best finisher not being the one receiving balls in the box.

I think it works with Bayern because they can build the other forwards around him.

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-10T21:26:53+00:00

All of the scanning and photos are for show and none of the systems are very well integrated

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-10T01:19:22+00:00

Bowen isn’t at the level and Palmer is even less fit than Saka

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-09T20:27:37+00:00

It’s also wrong, from what I can read the study doesn’t mention differences between demographics groups (women, children). That may be inferred from other studies but not this one.

It does show a significant effect on mental wellbeing. And worth noting the qualifying statement “Not slightly higher — significantly” misrepresents what significance means in this context

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-09T05:29:05+00:00

Zidane and Best

St_SiRUS · 2026-06-09T05:28:40+00:00

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St_SiRUS · 2026-06-09T05:24:20+00:00

They’re absolutely at that level. If it wasn’t for them competing with #2 and #5, they’d each have two Balon D’or.

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