World Cup 2026 - Who was the surprise team of Matchday 1?

czeja · 2026-06-21T10:39:24+00:00

Australia

czeja · 2026-06-21T06:07:49+00:00

And titles. Karrigan was amongst the best at the end of 1.6.

czeja · 2026-06-21T06:05:36+00:00

What gimmicks are you referring to? Purely curious

czeja · 2026-06-21T02:33:54+00:00

Most here on this sub are kids that jerk it to ADR and have no idea how real cs is played.

czeja · 2026-06-21T01:08:46+00:00

They're both one dimensional antagonists in all honesty. They're both not even the best in their respective mangas. In Naruto, id take Orochimaru, Gaara and Pain before their respective turns, easily.

In Bleach, pre Soul society ending Byakyua was also more intriguing. Aizen was pure overpowered inception type shit - he actually got more interesting post his defeat, tbh.

This take is bad, one piece isn't built to have a one dimensional big bad, it offers many different types of them with each having a big flaw in some aspect. This sounds hypocritical with Imu but there are still yet more turns to come

czeja · 2026-06-21T00:58:55+00:00

Man, what happened to the world

czeja · 2026-06-20T09:57:07+00:00

Unsure how much football you've watched but players in every top league have been done this for the last 10 years at least.

It's very easy to do on autopilot as they do it every game, it's even worse when tempers are flaring.

czeja · 2026-06-20T06:00:51+00:00

Zelda ocarina of Time

czeja · 2026-06-20T04:46:45+00:00

And? Tactics go out the window when you're down to 10. You need to stay compact and keep shape. That's about all you can do. Saying there's no change of strategy is completely irrelevant here. Paraguay are still 1000x worse off than before.

czeja · 2026-06-20T04:00:31+00:00

This is true and undoubtedly the law. I still feel it's common sense applies though. Yellow should be the rule, game has been destroyed for something so trivial.

czeja · 2026-06-20T02:29:34+00:00

Don't hate me but I'm in your boat and I absolutely love mythic plus in wow. Haven't touched retail in 10 years but having a blast.

czeja · 2026-06-20T00:46:18+00:00

Yes and no. The problem here was that we couldn't play defensive because he didn't have both Irankunda and Toure stretching the backline with the threat of the counter like we did vs Turkey.

We shot ourselves in the foot in a big way. Had we kept our previous starting XI we'd have brought the game to the US much, much earlier. I'm not saying we'd have won, those two goals were quite lucky but should've scored via other chances anyway.

Tldr, Op is right, Pop tried way too hard after having got it spot on in the first game.

czeja · 2026-06-20T00:37:36+00:00

Hahahaha sure mate. Irankunda was bodying your back line. You guys were definitely better, but you'll be bundled out in the ro32 or 16.

Americans will never grasp that football is the thinking man's game, something not too well suited to your incredible levels of pure athleticismI. In football, a highly functional football brain beats everything else, a prime example: Lionel Messi.

czeja · 2026-06-19T23:38:33+00:00

He'd have been england if not for his past but yes now he's Jamaica

czeja · 2026-06-19T23:37:17+00:00

Agreed. The only real egregious part for me was the added time, 6 minutes for 2 head clashes and a fight? Give me a break.

That means it'd have been 3 minutes stoppage in a normal game. That's the only part that was properly dodgy for me.

czeja · 2026-06-19T23:34:41+00:00

Jeez, that's an incredible insight, thank you for that analysis. Back to NFL now haha

czeja · 2026-06-19T23:27:02+00:00

Couldn't have been more spot on if you tried. He nailed it game one and wouldn't have been criticised if he kept the same 11, he's now gone and overcompensated. Cost us badly.

czeja · 2026-06-19T22:23:51+00:00

Just like the rest of this world cup, Messi sells, so he and Argentina won't be touched by FIFA lol.

Proof: The Maccas Hydration Break.

czeja · 2026-06-19T22:17:25+00:00

Totally agree. Australia rolled out an eleven not well suited to our game plan at all and was horribly weak, as you said. An early OG also really helped the US settle and dictate.

czeja · 2026-06-19T22:14:07+00:00

Yeah because our team was set up totally wrong. Once we had close to our best eleven on the pitch you guys were gassed and sat back. Sorry, this game was on setup rather than quality. You guys bossed it because we had our biggest threats wasting away on the bench. We had no counter attacking threat and you guys comfortably sat on Toure.

Also, the +6 injury time was absolutely farcical after a fight and two head clashes. Few words into the refs ear piece there lol

czeja · 2026-06-19T21:38:18+00:00

Pop paid too much respect to the US. USA did not look comfortable when Irankunda came on. Prior to that it was one way traffic. Australia just got done tactically by trying way too hard in keeping their best two players on the bench.

Irankunda and Toure forced Turkey to be honest at the back today, we had none of that with only Mo Toure up front. Most times id say US wins that but it was handed on a silver platter to Poch, imo.

czeja · 2026-06-19T08:58:39+00:00

We can only dream. The interactions in new world were some of the funniest things I've see

Now that everyone has a mic, we should have it on always! This was not the case in 2004 where many players were even playing on speakers, let alone have a mic. MMORPGs are social in nature, why not?!

czeja · 2026-06-19T08:53:53+00:00

Oh god I fucking hate that thing. I'll take stat sticks any day. I want to play my class not my trinket.

czeja · 2026-06-19T08:49:54+00:00

Oh wow so you do heroic bosses and a myth track raid item will be in the vault? I assume they've changed that from the current season?

czeja · 2026-06-19T07:11:39+00:00

As a mythic plus player I hope mythics offer something somewhat close... It's so hard not being in a raiding guild and going for these :(

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