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^^^ Nah, I think Portugal will find out that Morocco knows defense. It will be like nothing Portugal expects. They may end up not possessing the ball as much as Spain did, and so could concede some goals to Morocco too. I am rooting for a Morocco upset and an African nation making the semifinal for...

^^^^ Sorry, since US exited too early in R16 (the 1st exit from R16) that i got carried away with thinking it didn't make out of group. The thumping it got and the disappointment didn't help either :p By the way, Portugal looked pretty ordinary until yesterday (actually got defeated by S Korea) but ...

Haven't the matches and draw gone pretty much as per rankings in this world Cup? If being in Top 16 and not making it to round of 16 can be considered as matches not going per rankings, then #2 Belgium, #10 Denmark,#11 Germany, #13 Mexico, #14 Uruguay and #16 USA didn't make it to R16. #6 Italy did...

Why should the elite teams play the lowly ranked teams? i thought all Bengalis are communists...with BJP getting stronger there, not any more huhh ?! :D On a serious note, i think the matchup with elite soccer nations helps other nations scale up faster.Let's say the rookie nation gets a thrashing ...

When excrement hit the fan, the Japanese turned to excrement and the Europeans won. Damn Croatia. But the 3 missed penalty kicks by the Japanese (that even my mother would save, as a goal-keeper) were such a downer. What a choke job in the end. They didn't deserve to make the QF for sure. So, as us...

WC 2026 is expanding to 48 teams and it appears that AFC will have either 8 or 9 spots. Yes. Posted it couple of pages back. BTW, in the 2026 WC, the UEFA quota only goes up from 13 to 16. Considering that the #16th ranked UEFA is #32 in the world it is grossly unfair to the UEFA. It would seem so,...

srini wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:26 pm Was rooting for USA( actually for all the teams I consider as underdogs) and pretty disappointed so far

Quota for CONCACAF should be scrapped and combined with CONEMBOL ( South America) those 3 appalling nations keep returning to play for cup without any tangible improvement

Was rooting for USA( actually for all the teams I consider as underdogs) and pretty disappointed so far

Sorry, i only looked at 3 out of 6 for AFC i re-read the original 3 out of 4.5 and get it now! I guess this makes case for increasing the quota further for AFC.

Relative to the allocated spots per federation AFC did best. 3 qualifiers (from groups) out of 4.5 spots. Of course, Australia converted the 0.5 and Qatar got b in as hosts. Even 3 out of 6 was excellent. CONMEBOL has only 2 qualifiers from 4.5 spots. UEFA has 8 out of 13. Africa has 2 out of 5. CO...

That ball clearing by Mitoma actually helped me understand the rule about when the ball would still be considered to be in play. Seems its not the bottom of the ball but the curvature of the ball to be within the line to be in play. Clearly the bottom of ball was out from all possible angles...but F...

Germany is knocked out, and Spain were on the brink, #2 Belgians also are shown the exit door. What total mayhem at this World Cup - see saw battle if there was ever one. Bound to happen with so many piddly european nations getting VIP quota to play for cup. But need to see how much of this mayhem ...

after a gap of 2 years China will be finally hosting World tour Finals this December and will require strictest measures of bubble to let players participate. I think players won't be amused to go through all that non sense just to participate! The BWF World tour finals has been moved out from Chin...

Srini, thank you for explaining. You wouldn’t believe it—many immigrants to the US use the English language better (grammatically correct and properly spelled) than the born and brought up here. :Offtopic: I know it only too well having resided in US for 10 years :-) . Between (Oh my..old habbits d...

P.S. Mods—We can move this post to “know your English” thread. Also, Srini, not directing this at you. I’ve been meaning to ask this for many years and just used your post as an example. Athithee, Glad to be corrected. I tried to introspect why i have used 'Between'..It was a lame attempt to connec...