World Cup Thread

[Runt#1969]

Little Maestro : World Cup Goal #20. When he gets in behind the defender and collects the ball, you cannot stop him. Just unreal. Cape Verde is a tough team, I'll give them credit. But Messi is simply ... Messi.

 

[Drogon]

Cape Verde goalie saves it with his 3rd leg. What a save.

 

[Beatle Bum]

Smokey Robinson has done a fantastic job orchestrating this battle.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

Holy fugging equalizer.

 

[Drogon]

LFG!!!!

VER-DE!!!
VER-DE!!!
VER-DE!!!

 

[Runt#1969]

Just an amazing game !

Can Messi save them ?

 

[Drogon]

Verde, you hade a man streaking down the middle and you kicked it out of bounds wide. WTF are you doing.

 

[Drogon]

That should just about do it for Argentina. That went off a Verde defender

 

[Runt#1969]

Pressed the world champs to the limit

 

[theBlues]

great game!

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

Heroic effort from Cape Verde. What a memorable team.

 

[Drogon]

Holy **** that was intensely fun.

 

[TeamAmerica]

That's part of the psychology of it. Given how it's set-up, you should score. It's a whole lot of space to cover for just one guy. If you hit to a top corner accurately, the goalie has no chance of stopping it. It's basically impossible. But because of that, guys are tempted to try to be perfect, and in the process, lessen their margin for error. And suddenly you see shots getting sprayed over and around the goal.

Seems like the best spot to kick it a lot of times is straight down the middle.

 

[*Fox2Monk*]

Just an amazing game !

Can Messi save them ?

Messi is a such a beast.

 

[Laparkafan]

If they drew Spain and took arg to ET how are they 67th in the world?

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

If they drew Spain and took arg to ET how are they 67th in the world?

Can't believe they will be much longer.

 

[mjj_2K]

Seems like the best spot to kick it a lot of times is straight down the middle.

I sort of agree. But if you do that and the goalie doesn't move, it's going to be a bad look, like you kicked the ball right into his hands.

 

[Laparkafan]

I sort of agree. But if you do that and the goalie doesn't move, it's going to be a bad look, like you kicked the ball right into his hands.

Ya but it does seem like the goalie always dives

 

[mjj_2K]

Ya but it does seem like the goalie always dives

Pretty much 99% of the time. But I did see one game that went to penalties (can't remember when) and the goalie somehow intuiting that a center shot was coming. He basically just stuck his hands out and ended with a big smile on his face.

The safest shots are low left or low right. The goalie has a chance on those if he guesses right (unlike top corners), but that chance is really small if it's hit well and there's far less chance of it sailing than trying for a top corner blast.

Pressure is still real, though. Consider this- Steph Curry is almost indisputably the best shooter who has ever played basketball. You can find a video of him hitting 101 threes in a row in practice, and I'm sure he's capable of hitting twice as many FT's. Yet his career FT% (which is the best ever) still involves him missing 7/100 in game situations.