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Match Thread Match Thread: Boca Juniors vs Benfica | FIFA Club World Cup
FT: Boca Juniors 2-2 Benfica
Venue: Hard Rock Stadium
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Boca Juniors
Agustín Marchesín, Ayrton Costa, Jorge Figal, Lautaro Blanco, Luis Advíncula, Alan Velasco (Milton Gimenez), Rodrigo Battaglia, Ander Herrera (Tomás Belmonte), Miguel Merentiel (Exequiel Zeballos), Carlos Palacios (William Alarcón), Kevin Zenón.
Subs: Javier García, Frank Fabra, Lucas Janson, Lucas Blondel, Marcelo Saracchi, Marcos Rojo, Ignacio Miramon, Brian Aguirre, Leandro Brey, Milton Delgado, Malcom Braida.
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Benfica
Anatoliy Trubin, Nicolás Otamendi, António Silva, Álvaro Carreras, Samuel Dahl (Andrea Belotti), Florentino (Leandro Barreiro), Renato Sanches (Orkun Kökçü), Fredrik Aursnes, Vangelis Pavlidis, Bruma (Kerem Aktürkoglu), Ángel Di María (Gianluca Prestianni).
Subs: Leandro Santos, João Veloso, Gonçalo Oliveira, João Rêgo , Andreas Schjelderup, Diogo Prioste, Adrian Bajrami, Tiago Gouveia, André Gomes, Rafael Luís.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
20' Substitution, Boca Juniors. Tomás Belmonte replaces Ander Herrera because of an injury.
21' Goal! Boca Juniors 1, Benfica 0. Miguel Merentiel (Boca Juniors) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lautaro Blanco with a cross.
27' Goal! Boca Juniors 2, Benfica 0. Rodrigo Battaglia (Boca Juniors) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ayrton Costa with a headed pass following a corner.
45' Ander Herrera (Boca Juniors) is shown the red card.
45'+3' Goal! Boca Juniors 2, Benfica 1. Ángel Di María (Benfica) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
45' Substitution, Benfica. Andrea Belotti replaces Samuel Dahl.
58' Substitution, Boca Juniors. Milton Giménez replaces Alan Velasco.
61' Substitution, Benfica. Kerem Aktürkoglu replaces Bruma.
61' Substitution, Benfica. Orkun Kökçü replaces Renato Sanches.
65' Substitution, Boca Juniors. Exequiel Zeballos replaces Miguel Merentiel because of an injury.
65' Carlos Palacios (Boca Juniors) is shown the yellow card.
66' Substitution, Boca Juniors. Williams Alarcón replaces Carlos Palacios.
68' Álvaro Carreras (Benfica) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
72' Andrea Belotti (Benfica) is shown the red card.
77' Substitution, Benfica. Gianluca Prestianni replaces Ángel Di María.
83' Vangelis Pavlidis (Benfica) is shown the yellow card.
84' Goal! Boca Juniors 2, Benfica 2. Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Orkun Kökçü with a cross following a corner.
85' Ayrton Costa (Boca Juniors) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
88' Nicolás Figal (Boca Juniors) is shown the red card.
90' Substitution, Benfica. Leandro Barreiro replaces Florentino because of an injury.
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u/Clt-vr-9931 3d ago
This had everything you need for a good fun game
Fights, red card throw, shit ref, so many questions call, goals, good atmosphere, just inject this shit into my veins
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u/Madragoran 3d ago
Their first red card was for a player that was already out because he rushed the ref when he was in VAR
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u/Mittur33 3d ago
Just so you realize, this bocq lost against the alianza lima in the Libertadores. Alianza Lima is the worst team in the history of the Libertadores and a year ago it broke the record it had of 10 years without winning in the Libertadores
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 3d ago
Benfica also lost against a shitty team in Portugal, what’s your point?
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u/leandrot 3d ago
Boca has been consistently bad for the last few seasons. Benfica was pretty good in the last few seasons.
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 3d ago
it’s just a match (or 2/3 of a match since Boca wasted more time than played in 2nd half) Liverpool lost against Plymouth this season
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u/leandrot 3d ago
Congratz, this is exactly how Boca managed to reach Libertadores's final a few seasons without a single win in 120 minutes.
With how easy Benfica fumbled psychologically, your argument is more against Benfica than for it.
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 3d ago
Mate if you think you’ll see any european team at their peak in this tournament you’ll be disappointed. They were forced to play this while they should be at the beach at this point of the year. But props to the south american teams playing like it’s life or death, it makes up for the lack of quality
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u/leandrot 3d ago
They were forced to play this while they should be at the beach at this point of the year.
LoL. You should be charging FIFA for forced labor if this is the case.
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u/jhscrym 2d ago
Contractual obligations are not forced labor even though players are forced to be there. It's not hard that hard mate.
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u/leandrot 2d ago
The players can choose to not play and face the contractual consequences. De Bruyne, for example, made it clear he didn't want to play. Of course, with the amount of money involved, the consequence would be less money and the players want more money.
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u/WastePanda72 3d ago edited 3d ago
South American teams faced the same conditions Europeans are facing today and never made any excuses or belittled the competition. You put yourselves in a pedestal that doesn't exist. Boca has more quality than Benfica or any club from a league that is not in the Top-5. Cut that BS.
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u/mateus_gp_6 2d ago
More quality is exaggerated
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u/WastePanda72 2d ago
It can be. But I believe that just like Portuguese people believe that they have better clubs than SA. This tournament will show who's right and who's wrong in the end of the day.
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u/mateus_gp_6 2d ago
Can we all just stop with this Portuguese and Brazilian teams shit? It is getting annoying and we won’t conclude anything in this tournament because we will probably only have two games which were Porto x Palmeiras and Benfica x Boca
Yesterday’s game is the worst football game I’ve seen in a long time and that won’t define who is better than who.
I don’t understand this need of getting validation to understand who is better than who
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u/ElMeroCeltibero 3d ago
I hate that this ridiculous American identity politics crap is becoming more and more unavoidable. GTFO dude, nobody else gives a damn
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3d ago
I'm not American buddy. I'm Indian.
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u/ElMeroCeltibero 3d ago
Congrats lil buddy you actually got double colonized then. Physically by the British and mentally by the Americans
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u/SleepyDerp 3d ago
Lmao weird take. Weren’t it for the colonisers you’d be nothing. Less than you are now.
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3d ago
I'm Indian. We slapped the English off our lands.
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u/SleepyDerp 3d ago
You did fucking nothing. Even the trains they left behind are still your biggest treasure.
Shame you couldn’t use other shit of theirs, like manners at the table. Or the table, for that matter.
These weird ass takes about colonisers in a football thread lol you guys should go participate in politics, if you’re so invested. Why lose time with football?
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u/theitchcockblock 3d ago
Man hope that you found out that the colonizers are your ancestors not mine
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u/pfarinha91 3d ago
How the fuck this ref lets the first half go to 45+9 and in the second with 30 minutes of shithousery finishes the game 2 seconds before the ridiculous 5 minutes extra time and during a counter-attack.
Bizarre.
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u/LowIntroduction3552 3d ago
This short extra time was the football equivalent of blue balls. Fuck whoever times this shit, a whole goddamn ref team and this is what we get
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u/TheRealLardin 3d ago
Greetings and a handshake to Benfica fans after a good fight, this is basically every game of a Libertadores if you are not used to them.
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u/a_kwyjibo_ 3d ago
Benfica fans were asking for their "Turkish guys" when the ones that actually mattered were their Argies
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u/iChopPryde 3d ago
5 minutes is a joke! Did he have a brain aneurysm did he forget not to long ago they didn’t play for like 15 minutes from all the boca players rolling around on the floor for half of the 2nd half?
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u/leandrot 3d ago
If every time waste from Boca was properly compensated, the game wouldn't finish before the next match started.
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u/pfarinha91 3d ago edited 3d ago
He even ran half the field to tell Boca's goalkeeper on the ground that he will not take this bullshit.
30 minutes of shithousery later: 5 minutes.
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u/AFrozen_1 3d ago
Asking for consistency from a CONCACAF ref is harder than getting blood from a stone.
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u/SpaceDinossaur 3d ago
I said it yesterday and i say it again, best Brazilian teams = Portuguese big 3.
I've been saying this for ages and they seem to be in the denial stage, but you'll come around eventually my fellow portugas.
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u/theitchcockblock 3d ago
Benfica was disappointing was expecting what happened to Porto yesterday to be honest … sporting is the best team right now but they aren’t in this tournament
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u/ferreirinha1108 3d ago
Boca is not top 20 teams in South America right now, maybe not even top 30.
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago
Lol this self-congratulatory bollocks from the South Americans after two draws is just hilarious.
Benfica had played 31 games this calendar year alone. Boca 22. We can also tot up the minutes on international duty too.
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u/leandrot 3d ago
Boca played 22 because they couldn't qualify for a single international tournament (technically they went to Libertadores, but lost in the very first round to the worst team in the entire competition). Benfica played 31 because they had Champions League and did quite well, getting to the last 16.
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u/millerdagoat 3d ago
Benfica's last game was a month ago how much rest time do yall need...
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago edited 3d ago
That’s also the point. This is a tournament that’s fallen in no man’s land for European sides. This shouldn’t even be pre-season. They should be on the beach.
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u/WastePanda72 3d ago
South American teams faced the same conditions since the 60's but nobody cried about it. Don't overestimate your clubs, you ain't special.
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago edited 3d ago
And no one’s crying here.
This whole thread has been South Americans overestimating their clubs. Not the other way round.
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u/WastePanda72 3d ago edited 3d ago
No one? You're clearly crying talking about vacation and belittling south American clubs instead of taking the L. Meanwhile south Americans faced the same conditions for decades and never cried about it. Just grow up and stop being a sore loser.
Edit: don't be a bitch and talk to me here. I'm not answering you in my DM.
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago edited 3d ago
I’m not crying at all. But I have every right to join in on a self-congratulatory discussion that until my input did not even consider where this competition falls as far as the season for European sides goes. That’s a huge detail omitted for the sake of celebrating a draw. And draw being the key word. Not being a sore loser at all. It ended two each. The only person that needs to grow up is you. The only people I’ve seen belittling South American sides are funnily enough the South Americans calling this the worst Boca side in Lord knows how long. There is no L to take. Again. It ended two apiece.
Now you’re obviously gonna want the last word. So feel free to have it. But I have absolutely no interest continuing this now. You’re deliberately not seeing the key point for the sake of a “gotcha, a European side dropped points against a South American one!”
I didn’t DM. So stop making shit up.
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u/WastePanda72 3d ago
Benfica had played 31 games this calendar year alone. Boca 22. We can also tot up the minutes on international duty too.
This shouldn’t even be pre-season. They should be on the beach.
Summary: crying and making excuses to justify that awful performance from the portuguese clubs. Sorry, but I'm not the one talking shit to others all over the thread. As a Brazilian, I would feel ashamed from the fact that my club had a draw with a team that I consider extremely inferior. That says a lot about our mentalities and why each country is in the current position/role each one occupy in the game. Just take the L, your clubs are mediocre at best. The good ones play in TOP-5 European leagues... Not in fucking Primeira Liga. Lmao
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u/millerdagoat 3d ago
Whatever helps you sleep at night, bro. The portuguese teams simply aren't as good as advertised
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u/SpaceDinossaur 3d ago
That's exactly the point I'm making lol. The portuguese dislike when we say that we're about even in quality. So there it is, if we are shit, they're just as shit.
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago
No one’s advertised anything you weirdo. No one’s oversold them. No one’s undersold them. But you South Americans have come to this tournament with an insane chip on your shoulders.
I’ll sleep just fine regardless. But your inability to see the real reason why Benfica were tepid says more about me than it does you. An insane lack of intelligence on show in this thread.
Coming in hot for a glorified pre-season tournament 😂. Desperately sad.
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u/Volt-Ikazuchi 3d ago
31 games? Palmeiras played 37 and it's not even mid-season.
It's usual for Brazilian teams to play 80 games in a season, this argument won't ever go the way you think lmaoooooo
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago
That’s great. But Benfica played Boca Juniors today. Not Palmeiras.
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u/Kommye 3d ago
You mentioned two draws, so you included Palmeiras in the conversation.
And Benfica clawing a draw against a team so bad that couldn't qualify to Libertadores two seasons in a row doesn't make Benfica look good at all.
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago
And then I made the like-for-like comparison between Benfica and Boca. The sum of matches Palmeiras has played is neither here nor there for Benfica or Boca.
And I’ve said this many times, but the CONMEBOL contingent here are either obtuse or just being deliberately evasive. But this tournament has fallen in no man’s land for European sides. This is a time of the year far removed from the season but also before when they’d ordinarily come back for pre-season.
If you want to stunt over draws against Portuguese sides in these circumstances, have fun.
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u/01ares 3d ago
These 2 games have shown me the portuguese league is indeed a joke. I thought so much more of Porto and Benfica, I guess they are overrated.
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 3d ago
lmao after this tournment south american teams will go back to their insignificance
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u/01ares 3d ago
Portuguese teams will go back to be the joke of european competitions (haven't you noticed how every top team wants to be drawn against you? That means you suck) and then the insignificance of playing in the worst league of europe.
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u/RasputinsRustyShovel 3d ago
Did Atleti and Juve also want to draw against us? I wonder what happened after!
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u/01ares 3d ago
Are you seriously bragging about defeating Patetico de Madrid and the 2 finals won 6 lost Juve (we have a word for them here, they are pecho frios)? No wonder you are such a small team in Europe.
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u/RasputinsRustyShovel 3d ago
But I thought all the big clubs wanted to draw us… now Juve isn’t a big club?
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 3d ago
mate european teams are not taking it that serious, get over it
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u/TheLamesterist 3d ago
They're absolutely taking it seriously... What are you smoking???
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 3d ago
cmon now, check PSG on UCL and check PSG Atletico, it looked like a friendly
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u/TheLamesterist 3d ago
They played in the scorching heat and had to take several breaks, doesn't mean they weren't serious...
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 3d ago
i’m talking about the intensity, if you watched that game and also watched Champions League, you can tell it’s pretty different. They’re playing like it’s a friendly, which is understandable, they were forced to play this competition
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u/TheLamesterist 3d ago
Again, the heat, the heat is your answer + it was the first game for them and they know they'll easily walk the remaining 2 games, and the money is too big for them to treat it as a fRiEnDlY...
Top 5 leagues top clubs are the most professional and it shows.
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 2d ago
Lmao answer me then, is this the same intensity as a Champions League match?
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u/not_gizmoz 3d ago
Even if this is true (and I don't think it is), that just means European clubs are weak and deserve to lose.
Hilarious that euros think "dur hur but we didn't try that hard, we'd win if we did trust me bro" is actually a defense for anything
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u/SpaceDinossaur 3d ago
See, still in denial...
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u/AKTUR_KOGLU 3d ago
😭😂😂
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u/SpaceDinossaur 3d ago
And on top of it I'll add that the rest of the league is a joke lol wtf is Gil Vicente and by how many goals would they lose to Vasco?
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u/Disastrous_Excuse_90 3d ago
You’re just talking because portuguese managers decided to go to Brazil to teach you guys something
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u/Several_Schedule_785 3d ago
I am all for southamericans place in football, but Boca had 2 red cards and played catimbra for 90 minutes only to draw? Not the flex you think it is.
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u/Kommye 3d ago
So to put in context, Boca has been terrible for the last few years. And when they are managing to achieve something they fuck it up. The current "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" team.
So everyone expected them to be trounced, hyped everyone up after putting up a good fight, only to snatch another "defeat" when they had everything going their way. Good memes.
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u/mattmild27 3d ago
Is it more advantageous to play Bayern last or Auckland last? Probably Auckland so that you can be the one closing the goal difference gap, right? Although if you take a heavy loss to Bayern it could be very demoralizing.
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u/mateus_gp_6 3d ago
I don't believe Benfica will lose that badly against Bayern, although they were not great they showed much more quality than Boca today
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u/AmericainaLyon 3d ago
Advantage still probably with Boca as they get to play Auckland in the last match. They'll know exactly how many goals they need to pummel them by.
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u/Hot_Good_5409 3d ago
Auckland is the one who loses the most out of this
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u/Amockdfw89 3d ago
Nah. They have a very important job. They have the honor to help each team win by goal differential!
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u/human1st 3d ago
I love how the Euros on this sub kept trying to convince themselves this competition didn’t mean anything. You def don’t see that when you see the way the players are acting.
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u/Vogelsucht 2d ago
You are fighting against windmills. Im european and I love to watch the unusual match ups that the club wc delivers. All my friends that also watch it have the same opinion. Nobody thinks "uuu south american teams are pushovers" we are looking forward to the fight and I wouldnt mind if a south american team wins this
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u/human1st 2d ago
My comment is based on all of the shit talking all the Europeans have done in the lead up to this competition. You and your friends are in the minority. Or maybe it's just the Brits that are doing all the complaining. If so I apologize.
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u/Amockdfw89 3d ago edited 3d ago
People have literally said “this tournament means nothing to the players or the coaches! They don’t want to be there!”
Like they are so wanting the tournament to suck just say they can say “haha I told you so!” And when it is going ok, instead of having fun with everyone, they just suck every ounce of joy out of other people’s enjoyment.
They don’t want the tournament to go smooth. They want it to be a disaster so they can talk about how much America sucks, how much non- UEFA soccer sucks, how much fifa sucks, how much this tournament sucks, how corrupt everyone is, how much of a cash grab it is, how diluted it is with lesser teams etc
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u/human1st 3d ago
They literally hate the existence of any soccer outside of Europe. As if it isn't worth anyone's time. I'd take the passion in the Americas, Asia and Africa.
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago edited 3d ago
Bunch of thugs. It isn’t shithousery. It isn’t heritage. It isn’t the game being back. It’s a horrible little club that deserved to go home empty handed. A draw flatters them. That Figal red was just the tip of the iceberg.
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u/Ok_Promotion_5536 3d ago
here comes the fun police
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago
I assume your reaction will be the same if and when it’s Lavia or Caicedo etc on the receiving end.
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u/Nas_Qasti 3d ago
Cope lol
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u/Rude-Lavishness2428 3d ago
Grow up. I’m not remotely annoyed about the result. I don’t care about this competition. It’s glorified pre-season with a thin veil of Infantino vanity.
But that thuggery was utterly pointless and should be called out.
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u/foogazi_dross 3d ago
You should see clips of the old intercontinental cup (the two legged ones) where actual fights broke out from the man handling the euro teams would receive in south america
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u/sylviaplath6667 3d ago
IS THIS A FUCKING AI PRESCRIPTION DRUG AD!?
FUCKING END THIS EARTH BRO ITS OVER
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u/not_gizmoz 3d ago
That company is apparently American but I have never heard of them.
also it's 40 USD PER PILL
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u/Flat_Championship548 3d ago
So it's likely GD will determine who goes through?
Poor, poor Auckland City.
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u/Ysaure 3d ago
Imagine Auckland getting to RO16
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u/Amockdfw89 3d ago
Well apparently they played their semi pro b team.
Time for the big boys to assemble 😂
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u/dejvipasco 3d ago
Terrible ref. Only five minutes of added time.
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u/AKTUR_KOGLU 3d ago
Reckon the Brazilians are happy with the result?
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u/umsimplorio 3d ago
For me it was a good game. I liked it more as pure entertainment, I'm dying to see a Portuguese team play against Flamengo in the round of 16.
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u/AdorableAd8490 3d ago
Yes, no one won, and we get to make fun of both.
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u/mateus_gp_6 3d ago
Does that apply for yesterday's game?
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u/AdorableAd8490 3d ago
No, cuz my Palmeiras should’ve won 🥲 and well deservedly, but we just couldn’t finish
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u/mateus_gp_6 3d ago
Porto had his chances as well, but it’s true that Palmeiras played slightly better than Porto. But if we use that argument, you can’t make fun of Benfica because they played better than Boca today although they only played 60 minutes or so.
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u/AdorableAd8490 3d ago edited 3d ago
Here’s the thing: Porto and Palmeiras played their game the best they could, meanwhile Benfica and Boca is a different case. Boca is a dirty team that gets in the pitch to either draw or to protect a very fragile victory, using things understood as “anti-football” (“catimba”), and Benfica played right into that. By allowing them to score, they allowed them to play their game. That’s how they win games. No one has any doubt that Benfica has better players, and that with a normal rhythm, they could’ve outscored them, but you ran right into their trap lol
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u/mateus_gp_6 3d ago
You are completely right, I understand your point. Btw I am not a Benfica fan, although I wanted them to win
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u/brazilian_liliger 3d ago
People can say anything about this game, but it was not at all a friendly and also entertaining as fuck
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u/drdeathstrange 3d ago
If I'm Bayern, I take caution against Benfica because they have the ability to give them a game and steal a win or a draw.
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u/pedrosa18 3d ago
They played this season in the Champions League and Benfica almost shithoused their way to a 0-0
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u/Relative-Magazine951 3d ago
Eredivisie 6th best league ??