Topic: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers - page 10. (Read 35015 times)

With the upset many of the bigger teams have gotten in their first encounter/match, I see Brazil trying their best to fall into same category. They would play their hearts out against Serbia and get their 3points. Am not stating a confirmatory win for Brazil. Argentina and Germany matches taught me a better lesson.
I however would opt for an above >2.5 goal margin in my bettings for the day.

That's why making goal is much more important than only getting big percentage of ball posession. As far as i know if any team who have been loosing against underrated team has always good ball possession but these big team like argentina and german have very bad result in the execution at the end of chance. The way of japan was defending its goal from german was so hard. Japan deserves the win against german. Luck can also plays a lot in this case. I do like how MBS was reacting about the win of KSA against argentina as whole of players in KSA got roll royce phantom as bonuses.

At this world cup, we already have a lot of unexpected results and surprises.
Germany and Argentina lost their matches, and Croatia and Denmark failed to win. I was also delighted by Canada last night even though they lost to Belgium unfortunately and undeservedly.
It seems to me that it is very possible that all the favorites will not make it to the knockout stage of the competition. Currently, Germany and Argentina are in a very difficult situation.
Messi's dream of winning the world championship seems very far away at the moment.
Germany now faces a very difficult match against Spain, in which they are not favorites.

Among the UEFA teams, only Germany has so far underperformed, right? I expected Senegal to give tough fight to the Netherlands, but then one of their top players (Sadio Mane) couldn't play in the tournament as a result of injury. Also, I expected trouble for France as well, due to the absence of Paul Pogba and Karim Benzema. But in the end, they pulled out a very easy win over Australia. For today we have 3 matches involving UEFA teams. Out of them the most exciting on will be between Brazil and Serbia. The latter are in very good recent form, but can they challenge the no.1 team in the world?

Basically Portugal is better than Ghana, Switzerland better than Cameroon and obviously Brazil is superior to Serbia. Now considering the performance of African teams and the weird results we see, I wouldn't be surprised if a draw happens, just like Morocco and Tunisia did. I said draw and not victory since Spain and France boosted a little the psychology of European teams after all the bad results.

So far, there are some surprising results in the first match of this FIFA World Cup. Japan was able to silence Germany with a score of 1 - 2 for Japan's victory. This is of course beyond expectations. Considering Germany is one of the favorites in this World Cup. Maybe Japan is not an easy opponent to beat, but yesterday I thought that Germany would still win. it turns out, there are indeed so many surprises at the World Cup this time.

Spain really got an easy opponent. Costa Rica is not a big challenge for them. They could also maximize their every chance to attack COsta Rica. Having a 7 - 0 result is like at another level. They really had a big party with goals.

Honestly too many games are ending 0-0. Last world cup we had just 1 in all of world cup, we had 3 so far already. I am not saying that it’s a "bad" thing but it just doesn't make for an entertaining game. Goals are what makes the football world better, this is why players who play at striker position and score many goals end up being the most valuable players, and ending a game with 0-0 means there wasn't really anything entertaining going on.

I hope that it ends soon and we do not see any more games with that score. I want to see games with 5-4 score line so that we could watch plenty of games and have a lot of fun, that’s the good part of world cup, seeing good results not goalless ties.

Argentina was unbeaten for 36 consecutive matches because of which the weaknesses that were between them did not emerge. But unfortunately, those weaknesses have been exposed during the World Cup. If Argentina want to reach the final, they will have to make a strong comeback and play devastating football, they have no other options.

On the other hand, Germany also lost to Japan today. Japan played fantastic football today and they deserve this win. Maybe many more interesting things are going to happen in this World Cup.

There were many people who were favouring Argentina to win the World Cup especially for the sake of Messi. Because as far as I know this is going to be his last World Cup with the team. But after seeing this result against Saudi Arabia I wonder how many of those supporters are still believing in them. Because making a start like this is already a big trouble in the group stage. They are at least lucky that Poland - Mexico game ended up in a draw. But both of these teams are stronger competitors on paper.

Some people are saying that this unexpected loss might fire them up to play better from now on also. But I'm not thinking in that way now. Argentina need to be better at defending above all else. Otherwise they might not reach even next round.

i think as of today spain is the big favourite in group e. spain deservedly wins the first game 7:0 against costa rica.
germany embarrasses itself against japan and loses 1:2
i am now looking forward to next sunday. then the top game in group e with the match between germany and spain. the winner will then advance to the next round.
if germany loses this game too..... oha... but then .....................  

Germany : Japan  1:2
Spain : Costa Rica  7:0

and how much will belgium win against canada today ? my tip is 4:0

And we thought that the biggest surprise was Argentina having lost to Saudi Arabia, but in the end we have more surprises. Of course, this does not mean that these teams will not qualify, but they made their lives difficult in games that were theoretically more accessible.

What will be tomorrow's surprise? Portugal lose with Ghana? Or a defeat by Brazil?

Congratulations to France and England for being the only European teams to get good results. Netherlands won too but with difficulty. The other teams got a draw and surprise surprise, Germany lost vs Japan with 2 goals to 1!! Teams and fans are speechless
Spain and Belgium next, hopefully they will not continue bad results

Argentina controlled the game, they even had lots of opportunities. but unfortunately, the two goals scored by Lautaro Martines had to be annulled because of the offside trap. after that, Argentina's game pattern seemed very rushed. I saw Messi's expression, which was quite annoyed and frustrated, not to mention his header which the opposing goalkeeper was able to brush away. and yes Saudi Arabia's defense is really tight and very sturdy. the tactic applied by the Saudi Arabian coach was quite effective and succeeded in making things difficult for the Argentine players. It seems that the Argentina squad is very frustrated, so their playing pattern is out of control.

IMO, they were too hasty not as calm as they usually are. and several mistakes were often made by Argentine defenders, and in the end KSA was able to turn things around and be a victory for them. Of course, this fight is a historic match for Saudi Arabia.  This match really exceeded our expectations. and we were really surprised. fortunately, the Mexico vs Poland match ended in a draw. like it or not, Argentina must win the next matches.

Well, since the World Cup has started, I am surprised by some of the news that has been given, especially the news about France, Benzema's injury, although today they made it clear against Australia that France has a tremendous team, for now the results of Senegal, although they were not satisfactory, I think that Mane's presence is greatly lacking, it is something that is very noticeable, I cannot deny that for me, Senegal deserved to win their first game, but when you do not score goals, they score goals.

On the other hand, I think that this World Cup has had many surprises with the number of players who have been injured, I hope they recover quickly and can return to play with their national team.

At this point, possession of the ball is not that valuable, here in the World Cup, like all games, what is needed quickly is to score goals, the more goals the better, it is what guarantees everything, the possession of the ball It's important, it can't be denied, but you have to evaluate that the more you have the ball, that requires a greater expenditure of energy, and all the teams that do this type of technique know this, and if they want to do the tiki-taka more Still, so these are the consequences of playing with pure passing and having the ball, I think all these factors affected Argentina, plus Argentina is one of the greatest powers in the world of fútbol.

This big win is inseparable from the good performance of the French front line. this is very important to improve their mentality and dispel the doubts of many people over Karim Benzema's absence.
I'm not surprised by the big win they got, it's only natural if you look at the squad that these two teams have, of course France is far superior.

in this match what is special is Olivier Giroud who is included in the French national team's top scorer equaling Thierry Henry's record, this is good for Giroud who spearheaded France in this year's Qatar world cup, with this it is very possible for him to continue the positive trend and provide huge impact on the French national team.

Exactly. Yesterday Argentina had the maximum ball possession, but they failed to convert that to goals. And in the end, the outcome will be decided by the number of goals scored by each teams and not by the % possession. To their credit, Saudi Arabian defense was like a iron wall. Argentines were repeatedly frustrated by the strong showing from Saudi Arabian defenders. The big lesson from yesterday's match between KSA and Argentina is not to under-estimate any of your opponents, no matter how poorly they performed in the previous editions.

Ball possession was nothing for me. Goal meant everything. I think that any team must not need to put the ball possession as something that must be done. The team needs to learn about how to win by creating so many goals and it's not about how big ball possession that already acquired. Ball possession meant nothing if you are not even making a goal while your opponent has perfect execution to make so many goals. I think that any team must think about how to win the match.
I didn't like a team that played a lot in the ball possession but it will be losing caused by it was not making any goal.

Saudi Arabia may have taken the accolade of biggest shock ever at the World Cup with this win over Argentina because of the circumstances of the game. They presses so high and were very direct with whatever plan they came with. And Argentina weren't hugely open in the first half, but there were gaps in the defence, and those were exploited brilliantly at the start of the second half. Is that telling of the pressure and expectation on this team?

The new combination worked for France, despite the absence of their key players. France is placed in a relatively easy group, along with Danmark, Tunisia and Australia. Danmark used to be a good team, but recently their form has gone down. And we saw this during their match against Tunisia yesterday. Topping the group should not be a very difficult task for France. Even if they end up with a draw in one of their remaining matches, they will be able to do that. The other team to qualify from this group maybe either Danmark or Australia.

Congratulation to France for the massive victory they got from Australia at the end of the match. France really prepared well for this tournament, because they allowed the Australian players to showcased their strategies in the first half so that they will know the type of strategies to use to defeat them in the second half. France coach introduced a new strategies in the second half that made them to defeated Australia 4-1 for the favour of France, and to alert other teams that they are well organized to win all their matches to stand in a good position in this tournament.