Is Paraguay THAT bad? Or, at least, is their Defense THAT bad? In a pro
level game, I've never seen so many through balls to an open guy in the box. And many of those through balls were followed up by multiple passes to another and another guy in the box.
And I know that many teams specialize in counter attacking and really don't care if they lose the possession battle 65/35 or something like that, but when they showed that stat at one point, it was 79/21 US. That's insane.
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1mo
(wink-wink, nod-nod) I mean, it would make sense for US to keep going to sell a few more tickets right?
Or is that the luck of the draw and/or US might actually be pretty good?
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1mo
There are four groups referred to as "pots", pot 1 being the 3 hosts and the teams ranked 1-9, pot 2 with the next 12 ranked teams, and so on. The host nations don't end up with any of the best teams in their group. We got a lucky draw with Australia being the lowest ranked pot 2 team. Paraguay was the pot 3 team. Turkiye qualified through a playoff that happened after the draw and was the pot 4 team due to that, but they are ranked above Australia and Paraguay, so we're a bit unlucky that our pot 4 team is really pretty good. It being an easy or difficult group depends on interpretation. There is no top dog dominant team, but there is also no weak team.
Paraguay usually has a very good defense. We just played an amazing game.
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1mo
other top seeds, er, "pots" in this case ie, 2,3 and 4 in the group round. So the US has done good against a pot 3 team which very roughly means the US is a better than average team in the WC.with one data point in.
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1mo
when Pulisic was on the pitch.
Even in the second half, we probably should have had 1-2 more goals. There were big pockets of space between their midfield and back line that we weren’t able to exploit until Reyna’s trivela.
That said, Paraguay only allowed six goals in qualification. Was the moment too big for them?
Last night was a joy to watch as someone who has followed USA soccer for over 30 years. It have never seen the build up, technical quality, creativity, pressing and finishing put together in a single match. They were pressing well past the 90th minute!
Poch has some flexibility given the goal differential to rest Pulisic or use him as a sub especially if Australia loses today. We can earn a result against Australia without him. Get him 100% for Turkey.
My favorite US WC match since Portugal ‘02.
** Edited by VTDante at 6/13/2026, 11:34:40 AM
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1mo
who is disgusted by the repetitive celebrity sightings and callouts? Are we watching a soccer game or Entertainment Tonight? It’s like, “I went on a celebrity tour and a soccer game broke out.”
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1mo
the game in LA, where you can kinda understand why.
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1mo
fans celebrating dressed as presidents, eagles and just decked out in the red, white and blue.
Executives at these major corporations are operating on an old playbook and more people are tired being bombarded by celebrity culture.
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1mo
the point of my message.
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1mo
he SMH'd to remind himself to not do that.
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