I know Brazil's a bit lackluster but surely it's not bad enough to warrant a coaching change, right? That seems a bit absurd to me, even given the number of draws against lower-tier South American teams they've played
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I know Brazil's a bit lackluster but surely it's not bad enough to warrant a coaching change, right? That seems a bit absurd to me, even given the number of draws against lower-tier South American teams they've played
International break happens once every 3 months bro let me be excited
Brazil vs. Argentina is gonna be a banger, don't get me wrong, but in the grand scheme of things it's not that important, is it? I get watching it for the quality and the players, but Argentina is in 1st, Brazil is in 3rd with 1 point less than Ecuador... there's realistically no chance for them to miss the World Cup, so there's not really that much drama to be had other than player-to-player beef.
There have been (and will be) several VERY important games today, though, ones that have/could make or break World Cup runs. (I should probably make this a separate thread but I'll just put it here)
Iran 2-2 Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan had a 2-1 lead heading into the last 10 minutes. If they had held on, both teams would've almost certainly gone through. Iran equalized, though, which means Iran is officially the 3rd team to qualify for the World Cup (excluding the host nations) along with Japan and New Zealand, and the UAE are only 4 points behind Uzbekistan now, which means there's a chance that the best team in Asia to never make a World Cup might miss another one.
Nigeria 1-1 Zimbabwe
With half of the 10 qualifying matches played, Nigeria were in a horrible spot, 4th place in their group behind South Africa, Rwanda, and Benin. Today's match was essentially a must-win for them to keep their chances of automatic qualification realistic, but bottom-of-the-group Zimbabwe equalized in the 90th minute to end the game in a draw. Nigeria, having 4 matches left to play, are 6 points off the top of the group, and unless South Africa fall off catastrophically, there's a genuine risk that Nigeria won't be coming to North America next year.
Other important games that aren't as monumental + games to look out for that are coming up:
Angola 1-2 Cape Verde
This puts Cape Verde at the top of their qualification group, which includes Cameroon. Cape Verde haven't lost a match to anyone who isn't Cameroon, and if they keep their incredible run alive, they could become the 2nd least populated country to ever qualify to a World Cup (the record is held by Iceland at the moment).
Morocco vs. Tanzania (starts in 10 minutes)
Morocco is the one team in all of African qualifying that is comfortably in the lead in their group. Currently at 12 points with 4 wins in 4 games played, if they win this game, they'll be at most 1 point off of becoming the first African nation to seal their place in the World Cup next year.
Venezuela vs. Peru (starts in 2 hours 30 minutes)
With only 5 matches each left to play, Venezuela and Peru sit in 8th and 9th with 14 and 12 points respectively. This is a do-or-die match for both sides; whoever loses is virtually out of it.
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Wait, does Hamilton not have basically the same car
Saadhak - me :D
For one thing, we're hosting the World Cup next year
Nah the USA 100% cares about football nowadays (not as much as the more popular sports, but still quite a lot)
*judge users
And rightfully so
Stopped reading at Dasnerth
What's wrong with solo Viper on Icebox?
I don't think 24 hours is quite enough, tbh. Double that and we're good
Ok but what about tech pauses? What then?
The meta is to start watching half an hour later, so that you not only skip every tech pauses, but also the breaks between halves/maps
https://i.imgur.com/38MvpQV.png
What now, huh?
Also crazy that the diehard Primmie fan is saying this
Clove is just Reyna with smokes instead of movement, pretty much the same thing. I'd rather have Clove because then at least you have, uhm, abilities
Horrible agent, doesn't deserve to be in the game
TS goes 1-4 in Stage 1 you heard it here first
They might've said "nothing new is working for us, old comp works great for us, let's just stick to it." Kinda like LEV last year with their Icebox comp
Spike rush but without the orbs and it's first to 8 and you get a random agent every round (duplicates allowed)
Because he's probably casting it (maybe idk we'll see)
TMSC is banned
dort hasn't been here since January
Azzelastia has been inactive for 3 weeks as well
unknown_trash is a nicer DRX fan than you
yellow_donkey is the same case as unknown_trash
You aren't qualified to hate on z12
DSGFan isn't very active either
Conceit is goated
And you got ButterflyEffect23's name wrong
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But PRX lost to Team Secret, so Team Secret won Champions 2024 (Achilios is upset)
But FPX lost to LOUD, so LOUD won Champions 2024
So what you're saying is FUT won Champions 2024
That's just Yoru ult but worse (debatable, but at least in Yoru ult you get guaranteed value)
You forgot the apostrophe in y'all
I think he means the Autumn from Australia (the one on FPX)
Duo with me this evening and I'll prove you wrong
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nataNk is a victim of getting imported into a team that still hasn't figured out its roles
He's mad because Team Liquid now have 2 Poles instead of 3
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