Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete

[concise]

In the WC all teams will be playing in pitch-perfect conditions. No point in playing in sub-standard conditions for WCQ. If the USMNT is that much better than Honduras then a game in Miami at 75F even with deep Central American support shouldn't faze them.

If you can't beat these teams, you don't make it to the World Cup. You are supposed to use every advantage you have, whether it is cold, heat, altitude, whatever.

And why would you schedule a world cup qualifier in Miami? That's one idiotic suggestion Especially after playing in Canada a few days before? Put everyone on a long flight for no reason? Then the Euro based players have a longer flight back to the clubs?

 

[phcitywarrior]

If you can't beat these teams, you don't make it to the World Cup. You are supposed to use every advantage you have, whether it is cold, heat, altitude, whatever.

And why would you schedule a world cup qualifier in Miami? That's one idiotic suggestion Especially after playing in Canada a few days before? Put everyone on a long flight for no reason? Then the Euro based players have a longer flight back to the clubs?

Miami was an example of a warm-weather place folks could play in. I just think the whole play in -10F kind of weather ain't it. The players will play their best games in the best conditions.

 

[concise]

Miami was an example of a warm-weather place folks could play in. I just think the whole play in -10F kind of weather ain't it. The players will play their best games in the best conditions.

Even so, all World Cups aren't always played in ideal conditions. Pretty sure there will be matches needing cooling breaks in Qatar and there definitely will be in 2026 if they pick Southern US cities that summer and optimize kickoff times for the European audience like they did in 1994.


Scheduling in the States is different from almost everywhere due to immigration and low overall popularity in the country. They're never playing a WCQ match in Miami unless it's against Canada or some small island nation with a population under 100k.

Matter of fact, as much noise as was made on the failure to qualify for the last WC for failing to get a point against T&T, more noise should have been made about losing at home to Costa Rica in New Jersey.
USMNT venue selection deserves some scrutiny

 

[MikelArteta]

It's a formality at this point. Too many emotional fans that got caught up in the "Wenger out, Ole out" culture got our manager ousted in the midst of a qualification cycle for someone who isn't better. We never making it back to the world cup unless they expand it to 100 teams.

what jamaica needs to do is continue to grab english dudes with jamaican ties and then get a good coach
last time jamaica made the world cup they had a brazillian head coach, go back to that well

 

[Givethanks]

Canada man

9/9

 

[thatrapsfan]

@thatrapsfan we clinching tonight?

@TradePascalSiakam Mexico better do the right thing

Ugly game but 9 points in 3 is all that matters and with no Alphonso

We are going to clinch either by a point of our own in the next window or through dropped points by other teams. It’s a formality now though we are 99.9% qualified.

 

[Miggs]

Ugly game but 9 points in 3 is all that matters and with no Alphonso

We are going to clinch either by a point of our own in the next window or through dropped points by other teams. It’s a formality now though we are 99.9% qualified.

Theyre in second gear in these games against Honduras/El Salvador they know they dont have to bring it to win....these games arent even a good test.

Were at that stage where were beating these teams and barely trying....

 

[Sukairain]

We never making it back to the world cup unless they expand it to 100 teams.

Do you think it would be stronger if the English-speaking Caribbean nations got together and formed a united West Indies team like they do in cricket? Individually, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, and Leeward and Windward Islands would have a tough time qualifying for the cricket World Cup. But as West Indies they qualify every time and won two World Cups as recently as 2012 and 2016

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Do you think it would be stronger if the English-speaking Caribbean nations got together and formed a united West Indies team like they do in cricket? Individually, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, and Leeward and Windward Islands would have a tough time qualifying for the cricket World Cup. But as West Indies they qualify every time and won two World Cups as recently as 2012 and 2016

Wouldn't work too much politics and phuckery from the administrative side of things. Every couple of years the WICB fall out with the players for one reason or another.

 

[JDH]

Thoughts on this top 10

 

[African_brehda]

Wasn’t it just this season Pogba had like 500 assists in his first 3 games and nikkas were gassing him?

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Thoughts on this top 10

The Bayern one is BS.

All they wanted to do was get Barca on top and see how they had to add the class players part to put Barca as #1. But Real cannot make top 10. Nor PSG

Chelsea over Sporting look at this nonsense. Chelsea only been doing it for 5 minutes.

Sporting Ajax Benfica Lyon D-Zagreb River all better. Why because they give players careers not just at the highest levels but at lower ones as well. Like that's why United academy is well regarded they might not of had the high quality like the class of 92 in recent times but you look at the lower leagues many teams are filled with ex United academy players. That's the true test of an academy. Players year in year out not every 10 years or so.

Want to know the difference between Barca and Real academies. Barca make footballers only for their style Real make footballers for all terrains.

 

[TobiOT]

 

[thatrapsfan]

 

[JDH]

The Bayern one is BS.

All they wanted to do was get Barca on top and see how they had to add the class players part to put Barca as #1. But Real cannot make top 10. Nor PSG

Chelsea over Sporting look at this nonsense. Chelsea only been doing it for 5 minutes.

Sporting Ajax Benfica Lyon D-Zagreb River all better. Why because they give players careers not just at the highest levels but at lower ones as well. Like that's why United academy is well regarded they might not of had the high quality like the class of 92 in recent times but you look at the lower leagues many teams are filled with ex United academy players. That's the true test of an academy. Players year in year out not every 10 years or so.

Want to know the difference between Barca and Real academies. Barca make footballers only for their style Real make footballers for all terrains.

West ham should be in the conversation at least among british clubs, from Ince, to the Rios and Lampards to Rice etc been producing top british players for decades