Topic: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers - page 12. (Read 35015 times)

In my opinion, Saudi Arabia's victory over Argentina could not be separated from the role of coach Herve Renard, Saudi Arabia is not a big team and only a complement in the world cup except for 94 who qualified for the last 16, but the rest only reached the group stage, but after being handled by Herve Renard, Arab The Saudis shocked the world by beating Argentina, and another achievement from Herve Renard is
2012 AFCON Champion with Zambia
AFCON 2015 Champion with Ivory Coast
2018 Takes Morocco to the World Cup For the first time since 1998 and can this year repeat the 94 take saudi arabia through to the last 16 maybe more

There is many surprises in this World Cup. I have the feeling that European teams dropped slightly in performance comparing to less favourites teams or we are underestimating them.
No need to talk about Argentina surprising defeat or Wales hard draw.. Denmark is also having hard times. There is Poland and France that will have games today, we will see how they could perform.

There's no way that Australia wins against France...

Saudi Arabia played a great technical game with the offside trap, and they were really good scorers. I don't think Australia will end up winning the game, France will easily win with at least a couple of goals in difference.

Unfortunately reverse was the result in favour of saudi Arabia as against your prediction. S.A showcased a strong creative defensive wall one that's well alert in keeping a well professional offside. I believe there was no way Argentina expected a reception of such defeat in their opening game for the WC, especially not from S. A ending their long time undereating record.

Oh how has the GOAT fallen in the first game!  

In the FIFA World Cup, Saudi Arabia shocked Argentina. They became too comfortable after a long unbeaten streak, in my opinion. They should learn from this loss and stop taking wins for granted. I don't know what the result between France and Australia will be, but I think France should not take wins for granted but grab points by putting on a winning performance.

But in reality it was the opposite, Argentina lost 1-2 against Saudi Arabia. And the 2-1 advantage provides an opportunity for Saudi Arabia to break its bad record when it meets Argentina, because Saudi Arabia has faced Argentina four times and in those four matches ended in two draws and two defeats.
and in the game Argentina was much better than Saudi Arabia, and one of the keys to Saudi Arabia's impressive performance in the defense sector was piling up players at the back and that made it difficult for Argentina to score goals.
and this has become commonplace when the top team against the bottom team and the bottom team will strengthen a stacked and solid defense, and only rely on counterattacks hoping for luck and it mostly works.

I guess after watching how Saudi Arabia shocked the world by beating Argentina, France would surely need to be wary of Australia too even though France are clearly the hot favorite to win the match in full time. France recent performance in the Uefa Nations League were pretty horrible, but I think France should still be able to beat Australia today.

They are playing with that fire because they lost the euros and they know that if they end up winning the world cup everyone would forget about what they lost and love them. Plus, they are already all players that worth a lot of money, but they could also get a lot more offers with higher salaries as well if they play well here.

Even players who are very well know such as Kane could become a great player with a lot of salary earned and playing for a bigger club, like Real is having hard time with Benzema, who is to say they won't get Kane? So they all want that fame, that money, and also a way to make themselves forgiven for losing the finals.

30 minutes has passed and argentina was leading the match with 1 goal and i think that argentina will be winning the match with the score at least 2-0 for that. KSA was not strong enough to give a tough game for argentina with so many great players.
I hope that argentina will be making lots of goals against KSA but the important thing is KSA was doing its defensive pretty well from any attack that came from the argentina. this becomes an easy match for argentina until it will not lucky enough and KSA can make the match become draw.

After this match, you can see how much Senegal lacks a real striker, their main player Mane.
With him in the team, I believe that Senegal would not have lost the match against the Netherlands and that they would have fought for the first place in the group.
I think the match between Senegal and Ecuador will decide the second place in this group, while Qatar has no chance and is probably the weakest team in the whole world cup.
Honestly, the Netherlands didn't impress me, I expected a lot more from them. Some members of this forum mentioned them as possible candidates for the World Cup finals, but I'm not really convinced of that.

England are at a higher level compared to the teams in their group. They will pass first in the group with some ease. Then Wales and the USA will fight for second place. Now, it will be very interesting to see England playing against these teams, as they are always very emotional games and surprises can happen. Even so, I think England have the best conditions to win every group game.

Yes indeed England has not received a real challenge. But in my opinion at this World Cup the England squad is more mature and has strength that is evenly distributed on every front. Southgate currently has England's best squad. The big win over Iran is proof that The Three Lions are among the strong candidates this time. Iran is not a weak team in Asia, they are a regular country that entered the World Cup and were coached by Carlos Queiroz. The England national team will go fast in the World Cup this time.

We had 4 games so far. Out of them, two were quite lop-sided (Qatar vs Ecuador, and England vs Iran). I found these matches quite boring. The other two were quite interesting (Wales vs United States and Senegal vs Netherlands). And it will be difficult to select one out of the two matches. I enjoyed the Senegal match, but was quite disappointed with the way they lost it in the last 10 minutes or so. They had a golden opportunity to get 1 valuable point. All they had to do was to keep their defense strong for the last few minutes.

The match ended up for the favour of Netherlands to defeated Senegal 2-0, because they really displayed what made them to achieved the victory from the Senegal. The two teams really performed well from the beginning of the match but Senegal missed many opportunities that could have made them to defeat Netherlands but Netherlands defenders made their defense stronger for Senegal strikers not to achieve a single goal till the end of the match. If Netherlands coach can work on their strikers before their next match, I think they will definitely achieve victory that will make them the best in group A.

That's true, but England did show that they're in good shape, they all played very well and fast. Wales also is in great shape. The Wales vs US game was probably the most fun match to watch so far, and I'm sure there will be better matches soon.

Don't get overexcited with a win over such a weak team. AFC teams are not very strong and the real challenge for England will come once they face other UEFA and CONMEBOL teams. They have a match against Wales in group stage and let's see how they perform. And in the next stage, most probably either Ecuador or Netherlands will be their opponents. And that is going to be a lot tougher compared to their match against Iran. And don't forget the fact that England conceded two goals during yesterday's match. They were so focused on attack, that they ignored their defense.

Yes, that's why I have more confidence in England because I have seen how England's past was in the world cup so that this year England already have more great players and also have good skills on the field. England's proof against Iran was indeed extraordinary where England was able to win a lot without having pressure in their game. And if you look at the way the Iranian players are playing, I don't think England is the right opponent for Iran.

Well, in today's game of England 6 Vs Iran 2, it is worth noting that those who were always saying that they did not believe in the England team, won with a very good margin and are based on the fact that they are positioning themselves very well, for now I understand that even Maguire played well (which is hard to believe, because he is a player who most of the time doesn't do it that way) although I didn't see him as very brilliant, he just assisted a goal that didn't look bad, but I think he was injured, however it caught my attention because the English team had said that Kane would come out with the Capital bandana with the colors of LGT +, but it was not like that, he came out with his blue bandana. but it cannot be denied that for me, in my personal opinion, the player of the match was Kane.

But just as he was, I hope he doesn't have a very strong injury:

Harry Kane injury latest as Callum Wilson shows England World Cup class




Source: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/harry-kane-england-injury-wilson-25572750

It should be noted that the Iranians did everything they could, but there is no denying that it was an excellent game.

With regard to the game of Snegal and Holland, it seems to me that although Senegal was 0 and Holland 2 it was a very exciting game, the truth is that I could have ended up with Senegal winning by quite a bit, what happens is that they were not accurate, in My personal opinion I think that the Netherlands was lucky and Senegal really missed Mane, it was sad, the truth was that it was for the African team, although they still have a very good chance of going to the second phase to the round of 16, it is very possible that they can arrive, what I can think of is that Holland is very good, I saw Virgil very well in defense, they made a tremendous shot on goal and he headed it, I think it would have been Senegal's goal and that would have changed the direction of the match.

Well things can get out of control due to a few opinions from some 'relevant people:

Louis van Gaal admits Netherlands were "shoddy" despite World Cup win over Senegal




Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/louis-van-gaal-admits-netherlands-28550145

I wouldn't say that about the Dutch team, but the truth is, as I said, I think they were very lucky.

Finally, to finish today's session with USA 1 and Wales 1, the truth is that the USA played very well in the first half, they had the opportunity to score up to 3 goals, within which only 1 was conceded and for the second half it was believed that the USA I was going to crush Wales with everything, but it was not like that, I saw a quite activated Gareth Bale and with all his captaincy quite clear, for me the player of the whole match is him, besides Bale's goal came from a moment in which the Galés was going to make a good feint to be able to shut down the goal, (probably it was going to be a goal) but the defender took his support foot and penalized him, although Bale shot him from the same side as the goalkeeper, it was a great goal .


USA vs Wales, FIFA World Cup 2022 Highlights: Gareth Bale Helps Wales Hold USA To 1-1 Draw




Source: https://sports.ndtv.com/fifa-world-cup-2022/fifa-world-cup-2022-usa-vs-wales-football-live-score-updates-3541311

Well this is something that I liked, the fact that Gareth Bale scored for his country after Wales did not go to the World Cup, approximately 70 years that he did not go to a World Cup, I think they did very well.

The game got more interesting in the last 30 minutes of the second half. Both teams attacked each other and pressed both through counterattacks and others. Wales finally managed to equalize the score at 1-1 after Bale was fouled in the penalty box, that was Wales' advantage in this match. But who would have thought, USA turned out to play better than Wales even though in the end it failed to maintain victory.

USA looks like they will take the lead in the group stage if they put in a really good performance like this one. Maybe they won't win against England, but it's very possible to win against Iran.

The young English players gave a brilliant performance in this match but indeed this can still be said to be reasonable because it is certain that many have predicted this and of course this will be an easy match for England.
As for the title challenger, maybe we should look at a more equal match first.

In another match USA and Wales were very unlucky my bet was lost in the 82nd minute due to a penalty from Bale. Even though at first I was quite comfortable with the bet I had.