***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

[cyclonespiker33]

How is a draw possible in the knockouts?

It means a draw at the end of regulation. If you lose in PKs, you technically draw, but don't advance.

 

[Cmonwhatarewedoinghereman]

Those aren't apples to apples. Draftkings is to advance and Ceasars is to win in regulation. People were saying USA was 9/2 to win against Bosnia. That was to win in the first 90 minutes. USA was like +700 to advance.

Not plus 700

 

[Bigman38]

Belgium is good, but their golden generation is getting pretty old. They aren’t nearly as formidable as when they knocked us out in 2014. We can get at these guys.

I couldn’t believe Lukaku was only 33, feel like I was watching him in the premier league a lifetime ago.

Doku scares the crap out of me.

 

[BryceC]

Yup, this is the ruling. The controversy is whether it was intentional or not, which it wasn’t based on game speed.

Intention has nothing to do with it.

It’s under the “Serious Foul Play” section in Law 12.

Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.

I don’t agree with the call but I don’t think it’s terrible on its own. In the context of the game earlier I don’t think it makes sense.

I don’t know anything about the ref yesterday but even good refs can lose control of games when one team wants to be crazy physical. Frankly we see it sometimes with TJ’s teams.

 

[Letterkenny]

Intention has nothing to do with it.

It’s under the “Serious Foul Play” section in Law 12.

Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.

I don’t agree with the call but I don’t think it’s terrible on its own. In the context of the game earlier I don’t think it makes sense.

I don’t know anything about the ref yesterday but even good refs can lose control of games when one team wants to be crazy physical. Frankly we see it sometimes with TJ’s teams.

By the letter of the law, there should be about 12-15 red cards per game.

 

[BryceC]

By the letter of the law, there should be about 12-15 red cards per game.

Give me another example of one that should have been one in that game?

Leg injuries are a real problem in soccer and contacting the legs and ankles has always been extremely dangerous.

 

[Cyhig]

 

[Clonehomer]

Give me another example of one that should have been one in that game?

Leg injuries are a real problem in soccer and contacting the legs and ankles has always been extremely dangerous.

So are concussions, yet contact to the head is only a foul.

 

[BryceC]

So are concussions, yet contact to the head is only a foul.

Again, red cards can be given for contact to a head, give me an example of one you think should have been.

 

[cydnote]

I just think this is so awesome and I'm not even a fan soccer. It's great that people from all over the world will leave here with a positive experience in our country--something that a few Americans can/should learn from

 

[enisthemenace]

This is pretty great. The end with the horses hit me in some sort of way.