The Deuce: Not sure how you can't love the Gold Cup*

Club World Cup - gullit June 15, 2025, 14:23:33

this game has all the makings of one that ends in an avalanche of beer cups* - assassin Yesterday, 21:42:30
oh boy that is a BAD tackle* - assassin Yesterday, 21:30:59
- Hurts just watching it* - OWWDig Yesterday, 21:31:22
FIGHT !* - ATL Yesterday, 21:18:11
- Looked like a 15 yard penalty and potentially targeting.* - ATL Yesterday, 21:26:32
- So these announcers aren’t at the game? Wasn’t Landy in studio? * - OWWDig Yesterday, 21:23:37
  - correct* - assassin Yesterday, 21:23:59
didn't realize Mexico had become LAFC* - assassin Yesterday, 21:00:12
They last replaced the field in early 24. - VIV Yesterday, 20:48:07
Woooooooo* - VIV Yesterday, 20:01:16
- How was the atmosphere? Looked electric* - uofi1998 Yesterday, 20:11:33
  - Great atmosphere. Guate fans were LOUD. I got a bit yell-y. * - VIV Yesterday, 20:44:33
Phew. Mostly outplayed after the 2nd goal* - OWWDig Yesterday, 20:00:13
Not sure how you can't love the Gold Cup* - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 19:59:41

Also one thing i do love is the B team getting their moment* - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 20:02:55
- Cosign 100%. * - harb Yesterday, 21:17:10

hate hate hate conceding possession and going into prevent* - Blazer Yesterday, 19:54:54
So... what version of Canada did these guys play? A team minus Davies, or a B/C team like ours?* - uofi1998 Yesterday, 19:48:01
- David and Buchannan both played in that game. David converted the pen - assassin Yesterday, 20:04:23
  - OK so a decent Canada side... maybe this Guatemala team just has a special sauce... - uofi1998 Yesterday, 20:10:57
    - They seem to have a really good motor and this one has more skill than previous editions.* - ATL Yesterday, 20:38:39
You can carry subs over to the next match, right? - IlliniSax05 Yesterday, 19:47:06
Chris Richards sucks* - Blazer Yesterday, 19:45:57
Jfc* - OWWDig Yesterday, 19:44:27
These guys a tired AF. Poch really needs to stop saving his subs.* - ATL Yesterday, 19:43:50
- Welp * - ATL Yesterday, 19:44:10
bench Agyemang* - Poldark Yesterday, 19:34:24
- He’s completely cooked, nothing left in the tank* - Blazer Yesterday, 19:48:09
  - off after 84 minutes great job Tottenham idiot * - Poldark Yesterday, 19:49:55
- No reason for him to still be in* - OWWDig Yesterday, 19:47:46
This field is garbage* - UIHuskie Yesterday, 18:46:05
- Used to be that we had to go to a cricket ground in Trinidad to get a field this shitty. - ATL Yesterday, 19:20:34
- Really beaten up* - VIV Yesterday, 18:59:26
  - Why is it so bad? Unusually dry and warm?* - Sounder Yesterday, 19:21:56
    - All the goals the STL city opponents have been scoring. * - VIV Yesterday, 19:35:33
- That bounce there. Looks so bad* - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 18:47:56
We’ve gotten too complacent with the lead * - ATL Yesterday, 18:45:41
So... Diego Luna... maybe should've been on the Olympic team? - uofi1998 Yesterday, 18:39:28
- Trump is definitely going to deport that guy - Sounder Yesterday, 19:02:59
- Seems* - OWWDig Yesterday, 18:44:16
Does it sound as pro Guate on TV as it does live?* - VIV Yesterday, 18:36:55
- Sounds quiet so maybe?* - ATL Yesterday, 18:38:43
  - It’s not quiet. At all. Super loud pretty much constantly. Great atmosphere * - VIV Yesterday, 18:57:51
    - Then my mix is effed up. I hear the crowd, but it's not piped in as much as I guess it might be - ATL Yesterday, 19:08:18
      - FS1 must have it highly filtered bc it’s soft on tv* - OWWDig Yesterday, 19:10:51
        
        It’s loud as shit here. * - VIV Yesterday, 19:38:15
Also not too impressed with Berhalter, the set piece specialist* - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 18:31:42
- Seriously. Find the tall guy. Their CBs are my size. * - VIV Yesterday, 18:38:22
Guess I shouldn’t have bet on Guatemala* - timmer Yesterday, 18:26:51
What a shot by Luna. * - harb Yesterday, 18:21:44
- Fantastic!* - OWWDig Yesterday, 18:22:52
Wow Luna. Have a game* - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 18:21:19
LUNA IS ON FIRE* - VIV Yesterday, 18:21:04
At the gold cup match. This is a Guatemala home game. - VIV Yesterday, 17:51:11
- Full moon in the Lou!* - ATL Yesterday, 18:21:06
- I went to a good cup final in LA against Mexico. It was more like 90/10. - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 18:13:38
- Nice goal on the rebound. * - harb Yesterday, 18:12:14
- Whoooo* - OWWDig Yesterday, 18:10:26
- lol I thought I just heard 90% on Fox sports* - ATL Yesterday, 18:07:18
  - They were making like 80-90% of the noise, but it was pretty close to even. - VIV Yesterday, 20:51:59
- Not a shock. Enjoy!* - OWWDig Yesterday, 17:52:55
  - Ha! Nice shot of the blonde chick vaping on the opening* - OWWDig Yesterday, 17:58:57
    - It is still STL. * - VIV Yesterday, 18:03:39
      - You’d think the director would cut away immediately, but she was the tv shot for a good many seconds - OWWDig Yesterday, 18:04:54
        
        Maybe he liked her * - ATL Yesterday, 18:07:43
Let’s go America! Beat *checks notes* Guatemala!* - ATL Yesterday, 17:49:56
I know this tournament is poorly run...but the concept of Dortmund - Monterrey - assassin July 1, 2025, 20:13:38
- Yeah agreed - much better than the Confederations Cup which was just a watered down - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 8:38:47
  - IDK, 2009 CC was pretty damn awesome from a US perspective… - uofi1998 Yesterday, 8:41:40
    - Ha yes but that was very US specific* - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 8:49:38
- If they get less greedy and have less teams, it will succeed long term. Ideally they do it every... - gullit Yesterday, 8:33:06
  - [Stannis] ... [/Stannis] - IlliniSax05 Yesterday, 9:30:09
  - No way can they do this every year. There’s already way too many games for these players.* - Carl Spackler Yesterday, 8:48:34
  - I think they have the number of teams right. 32 is a good number and you want to have - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 8:36:30
    - Might be better to do it the year after the WC instead of the year before. - uofi1998 Yesterday, 8:43:32
      - I think part of the rationale is to have something as preparation for the country - CoronaTheirAss Yesterday, 8:49:17
        
        Makes sense * - uofi1998 Yesterday, 10:15:23
- Correct.* - ATL Yesterday, 7:46:15
- Co* - OWWDig July 1, 2025, 20:39:04
- I feel like they will learn from the mistakes and make it better - Sounder July 1, 2025, 20:20:47
while scoreless 50 min in, Real Madrid v Juve has been back and forth and wild* - assassin July 1, 2025, 15:15:44
- hey just spoke a goal into existence* - assassin July 1, 2025, 15:16:50
Man City out* - reggiedunlop June 30, 2025, 22:51:33
It is going to be interesting to see the best clubs in the world next year with 0 rest. - Carl Spackler June 30, 2025, 22:23:50
- Hoping to see PSG win it all given they'll have like one week of training in advance of the European - ATL July 1, 2025, 8:49:15
- When I first heard about this, I assumed these were B or C teams being sent over - OB25 June 30, 2025, 23:11:25
  - Good money, especialy if you go far in the knockout rounds - dk June 30, 2025, 23:19:18
the club world cup is good, actually* - assassin June 30, 2025, 22:21:48
that's a ridiculous header going away from goal* - assassin June 30, 2025, 22:11:50
LOL that wasn’t even called a foul* - Carl Spackler June 30, 2025, 22:01:17
So annoying that Chelsea is playing July 4th at 8pm* - reggiedunlop June 30, 2025, 21:54:54
Second half of Man City-Al Hilal is bananas * - AintHatin June 30, 2025, 21:21:14
- the cameras make it feel like it's at the Alamodome or something - assassin June 30, 2025, 21:28:50
  - and why in the world is Man City dressed like they're Egypt?* - assassin June 30, 2025, 21:31:08
Going to see PSG v Bayern ==========> - ATL June 30, 2025, 17:46:36
Whoa, Leverkusen buying Malik Tillman for ~$40MM* - Carl Spackler June 30, 2025, 16:17:42
- They were taking about it on Caught Offside. See him as a Wirtz replacement. Crazy.* - ATL June 30, 2025, 17:45:06
Lazio signs Mussolini - ATL June 29, 2025, 21:39:28
That was entertaining * - QcIlliniFan June 29, 2025, 20:48:58
Also is it just me or did Navas dive insanely early on that last PK?* - Carl Spackler June 29, 2025, 20:24:56
Someone needs to explain this to me. Is the gold cup just not a big deal at all? - illini21 June 29, 2025, 20:21:33
- I always love it. But yeah, usually a B or C team playing and they have - CoronaTheirAss June 29, 2025, 20:36:51
  - Are the “A” teams usually playing Copa America?* - illini21 June 29, 2025, 20:49:10
    - Copa America is the Gold Cup but for South America. - assassin June 29, 2025, 20:54:37
      - The every 2 years thing needs to stop* - CoronaTheirAss June 30, 2025, 6:28:30
- It’s a watered down Continental championship. We’re using it as an audition - assassin June 29, 2025, 20:23:03
Who are these US players?* - Carl Spackler June 29, 2025, 20:17:25
- oooo - Blazer June 29, 2025, 20:19:03
  - Yeah I'm with ya* - Carl Spackler June 29, 2025, 20:20:59
Navas v Freese not what you’re lookin for. * - assassin June 29, 2025, 20:00:42
- Freese gonna get laid* - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 20:21:06
- Freese looks damn good at reading shooters. At least he can do that. * - uofi1998 June 29, 2025, 20:19:26
  - Certainly has the build as well * - assassin June 29, 2025, 20:20:46
- Or, maybe it is. * - assassin June 29, 2025, 20:18:51
Death, taxes, Pochettino sitting on his subs.* - Carl Spackler June 29, 2025, 19:50:30
Terrible defending and goalkeeping* - UIHuskie June 29, 2025, 19:39:06
- Tillman stepped to mark the scorer but then stopped and left the guy wide open - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 19:41:05
Tillman’s a baller* - AintHatin June 29, 2025, 19:15:11
That was good. * - assassin June 29, 2025, 19:14:20
- Arf arf * - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 19:14:39
That's a red and penalty* - UIHuskie June 29, 2025, 18:39:51
- Can’t believe it wasn’t a straight red * - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 18:50:41
- lol. Of course.* - LovetheChief June 29, 2025, 18:44:47
  - I’ll take a deflection.* - LovetheChief June 29, 2025, 18:49:03
I remember a time that I thought the USMNT might have a shot at being relevant internationally. - LovetheChief June 29, 2025, 18:21:53
- I don’t get the angst about our C team* - Blazer June 29, 2025, 18:45:03
  - Only thing for me is that we so rarely see the A team, hard to tell what we really have.* - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 18:52:07
    - Yeah, I’m not saying there are no questions about next year - Blazer June 29, 2025, 19:44:02
      - Agree on that but I wouldn’t mind the As getting experience together * - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 20:22:07
  - I guess.* - LovetheChief June 29, 2025, 18:48:16
Arfsten is consistently overmatched* - AintHatin June 29, 2025, 18:20:17
- Two huge mistakes in a matter of 30 seconds that lead to a completely avoidable goal * - ATL June 29, 2025, 18:33:47
- He’s been decent offensively * - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 18:21:45
Guatemala taking Canada to PKs in the Gold Cup Quarters. * - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 17:11:19
I’ll say one thing, Vanda pharmaceuticals really likes anime* - ATL June 29, 2025, 12:04:22
LOL one of the Miami players nearly has two OGs in the match - ATL June 29, 2025, 11:50:28
Woof* - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 11:50:21
What a goal * - ATL June 29, 2025, 11:07:21
- Nicely run combined with lazy marking * - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 11:15:29
“A big crowd inside this stadium” - ATL June 29, 2025, 10:55:22
- Bigger issue seems to be the weather. I don’t recall weather being such an issue with past - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 11:00:30
  - Global warming* - Sounder June 29, 2025, 11:08:37
    - The greedy FIFA geniuses decided to do all the games in the South. - gullit June 29, 2025, 11:13:28
      - “Being cool” is not how these things are decided. * - assassin June 29, 2025, 18:03:01
      - Sucks that there aren’t games in Chicago this summer or next* - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 11:14:48
  - Chelsea's Maresca slams 'joke' Club World Cup weather delays - gullit June 29, 2025, 11:07:58
  - I saw Hercules Gomez dragging BVB for complaining about 85 degree weather in cincy - ATL June 29, 2025, 11:06:48
    - Yea, seems the heat and the lightning are causing angst. * - OWWDig June 29, 2025, 11:14:12
These idiot organizers can't even put the names on the screen for the individual introductions.* - gullit June 28, 2025, 10:59:57
- Darn…gonna miss saying Botafogo* - OWWDig June 28, 2025, 13:48:32
This el Salvador vs Canada game is peak concacaf* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes June 24, 2025, 22:01:42
- I just watched the Honduras goalie essentially punch a corner backwards into his own net* - assassin June 24, 2025, 22:08:06
  - Saw the replay on fs1. That's pretty awful* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes June 24, 2025, 22:10:53
Ulsan just went 2-1 up over Brazilian powers Fluminense. Second goal was - ATL June 21, 2025, 17:49:15
- Welp The Brazilians look like they’re about to eliminate Ulsan. Lead 3-2 in the 84th.* - ATL June 21, 2025, 18:43:47
  - Brazil definitely having a moment in this tournament. * - assassin June 21, 2025, 18:55:23
Bayern-Boca is fun* - AintHatin June 20, 2025, 21:41:53
- Best game of the tournament by far.* - gullit June 21, 2025, 8:38:21
Jeez…mostly empty stadium for the USMNT gold cup game in Austin* - OWWDig June 19, 2025, 20:45:27
- You paying $92 for that? I’m not.* - SurfTheBoneyard June 20, 2025, 7:09:37
  - Charging $92 for a MLS heavy team that could hardly get off a shot vs. Saudi Arabia is nasty work* - OrangeSox June 20, 2025, 7:21:23
  - Yep. People aren't paying 92 dollars a ticket to see the C team.* - ISeeDeadHawkeyes June 20, 2025, 7:19:00
    - Plus 18% in fees. * - assassin June 20, 2025, 11:06:00
- This ref is worthless - IlliniSax05 June 19, 2025, 21:56:16
Do we really need another competition?* - voiceofreason June 19, 2025, 17:36:56
- I watched some of the Miami game today at the gym. I'm always a fan of having soccer to watch* - OWWDig June 19, 2025, 19:54:15
- No. - SurfTheBoneyard June 19, 2025, 17:45:48
  - At some point some of these players are just going to fall apart - ATL June 21, 2025, 17:54:42
Miami just beat Porto* - assassin June 19, 2025, 16:33:04
- Seattle managed a goal vs Atletico* - QcIlliniFan June 19, 2025, 19:27:43
- Just realized that was another 3pm weekday Atlanta game. Great scheduling!… - shua June 19, 2025, 18:39:32
- Messi with another great free kick for the win!* - OWWDig June 19, 2025, 17:03:11
fun game at the Bowl tho. It could be 50K in attendance and it'd still look empty* - assassin June 15, 2025, 15:24:55
- Looks packed to me. - AintHatin June 15, 2025, 15:47:17
  - They said 80k* - QcIlliniFan June 15, 2025, 16:28:57
- hm, maybe less fun with that goal called off - assassin June 15, 2025, 15:27:19
Headed to Lumen Field in a few hours for Sounders vs. Botafogo. - DocWalk20 June 15, 2025, 14:52:23

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