Group A Thread - Russia, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, Egypt.

[OFFSIDE_1]

and for those who put so much emphasis on ball possession,

https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/russia-saudi-arabia-95587/

Saudi - 61%
Russia - 39%

meaningless passes to the backline and GK
hopefully we can put this stat to rest

[beevee]

Asia at the most should get 2 spots and that is it.

Ok lets see how smany times have the Danes, Norwegian, The Serbs, Kosovans, Belgians etc. etc. have graced the WC with their prowess, in reality I like our chances against any of them. Please do not compare Iran to the likes od Saudi Emerati or such, oh I almost forgot thanks for your kind consideration.

[Tehranto]

Apparently, not just us who wanted Saudi to lose...

Moroccans making fun of the Saudis and discussing their humiliation

https://twitter.com/dmsportofficiel/status/1007305348015968256

[YeCheesi Tala]

Anyone remember the memes+Gifs that were made when Iran was drawn with spain,por,morocco?
...Looks like those memes was made for the wrong team

[Roozbeh-G2006]

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The funniest part of this picture is the grin on the face of the Russian player directly behind the lounging Saudis.

[diz]

and for those who put so much emphasis on ball possession,

https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/russia-saudi-arabia-95587/

Saudi - 61%
Russia - 39%

meaningless passes to the backline and GK
hopefully we can put this stat to rest

Let's also include another important statistic for the Saudi's in this game: they had zero shots on goal!

[Leopard]

One can start a new poll: How many goals saudis will receive in the cup? a) one dozen, b) more than a dozen, C) A dozen and half,

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Let's also include another important statistic for the Saudi's in this game: they had zero shots on goal!

and last time it happened to a team was apparently in WC 1962! lol

[forzatm]

https://www.foxsports.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup/russia-saudi-arabia-june-14-2018-match-stats-108549

Distance covered
Russia - 118
Saudi - 105

The Saudi players are so lazy. It's like they were playing with 10-men.

[khodam]

This is also a worrying sign for having 42 teams in the WC. The quality will diminish.

[Kaveh Ahangar]

Yet again, the 5-0ers have brought shame upon themselves and Asia.

[Roozbeh-G2006]

This is also a worrying sign for having 42 teams in the WC. The quality will diminish.

And also a time of humiliation for some nations. Nah I would say let's stick to the current format.

or have another qualification stage added to the current system where the lower seeds play each other and the winners of their groups advance to the final stage. For example in the current finals the bottom two teams from all continents would play in say 8 groups of 4 (mixed from all continents and add 16 more teams. a lower tier world cup if you like since it would be inter continental) and 16 of them advance to the finals to join the top seeds. That final tournament will then be a very high quality tour and a joy to watch.

[Philosophy_King]

and for those who put so much emphasis on ball possession,

https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/russia-saudi-arabia-95587/

Saudi - 61%
Russia - 39%
meaningless passes to the backline and GK
hopefully we can put this stat to rest

Dude they are diffrent situations where one could have more possession.
If f.e. one team leads 2-0 from minute 40th, than its clear that most teams
give the ball to the opponent and wait for counterattacks. If the loosing
opponent have 60-70% possession that truly means nothing since
their domination were not caused by technical-passing domination.
Another meaningless case is, when one team from beginning plan to park
the bus and wait for counterattacks like iran did against argentina our
many Teams did against Barca.
BUT Possession definitly counts when you have to even match up teams where
both try to win and dominate the game. The Team with more possession has in this
case a higher chance to score.
So when someone give sou stats about possession, you have to adapt it
to the game-history.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

LOOOOL

https://mobile.twitter.com/mikeelchingon/status/1007311969181884416

[Ardalan]

Saudihaa amalkarde BESYAAR zaifi neshon dadan, ham az narare fanni, ham az nazare taktiki.

Amma man maskharashon nemikonam, chon dost nadaram ke kesi ma ra maskhare kone agar ye rooz amalkarde zaifi dashte bashim.