Rough start for the Qatar keeper. The bounce left him little choice but to charge, but for his good effort, he suffered a heavy blow to the head and neck, took a yellow card, and gave up a penalty kick.
World Cup Thread
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I follow EPL closely too. After CFB, it's the sport/league I watch the most of. NBA is unwatchable. If I die never seeing another 3 point shot I'll die happy. Ruined the game imo. No one tries to work the ball inside because the reward isn't there.
I've been a Newcastle U fan since the days of Alan Scherer - EPL all-time leading goal scorer. I'm not a frontrunner. It's why I've stayed true to UK football.
Delusional take, Gle{n}/n*n. Soccer field is usually about 110 x 75 yards. Players would be run ragged.
I agree with J-Nunn, I’ve always thought offsides should be done away with. It’s like prohibiting fast breaks in basketball. Feel the same way about hockey. Let the players go wherever they want…then you‘d see a lot more scoring
If they not gonna do away with it, then stop the offsides by the hair on your chinny chin chin. Make it so if any part of the offensive player, any part, is even with the defender, then he is onsides. Would open up the game so much.
Soccer was the first organized sport I played and it's fun as hell to play. But they always played me at fullback (last line of defense before the goalie). My last year they moved me to forward and I led the league in goals. I hat tricked in the championship game in the first half so my coach moved me to goalie and I told him that wasn't my thing. Long story short even with a tie we'd of won the championship. There was no overtime. Well they scored 3 goals on me. With 4 minutes remaining the dude playing fullback stopped the ball and was gonna boot it down field. The dude turns around and kicks it towards me and I was screaming at Coach to put me back at forward. Well that kid scored the game winning goal and we lost the championship to a team we'd beaten 6-0 and 5-1 in the regular season. No team had stayed within 3 goals on us the WHOLE season in the final scores. I was so pissed I quit soccer that day and went to football. Never even went to the banquet. Sadly coach and his wife who was an assistant and pregnant were killed in a car wreck literally a month later. Their son, a teammate and later a classmate, is now coaching it and killing it. I loved soccer with all my heart but that championship loss crushed my love for it and then coaches deaths really drove me to football. Plus my brother always called me a sissy for not playing real football.