yeah lotta people are simply Playing The Hits they always play after the US loses at the world cup where it's about [insert whatever you normally complain about here]. guys who should play better didn't tonight at the worst possible time.

great player for the US but he's 28 in september and has left 3 of his 7 WC starts with an injury. would start figuring out who starts over him and move him to a substitute role the nanosecond the next cycle starts.

stinks that ream is going out as a guy who had that game and not as a guy who really deserves to be remembered fondly for what he did for the NT

belgium jumped them and they never were able to really deal with it, not enough guys up for the fight. oh well!

ok now i find gregg saying this much less interesting lol

as a team they looked like they weren’t totally prepared for how big of a step up belgium is in physicality and tidiness on the ball compared to what they’ve seen. trust that’ll sort itself out, really need both wingers to show a lot more initiative though.

THIS MAN MALIK

dest hasn’t been up for it and the midfield isn’t winning the duels they’ve been winning all tournament

vamos, folks

they put me on the aux at the bar let’s go @scuffed.bsky.social

GOODBYE CRISTIANO

laporte keeping bernardo from fighting rodri

an entire planet rejoices as we probably won't have another 30 minutes of portugal-spain

portugal continuing to limit how good it is by not subbing out its brand influencer for a striker

at the bosnia game i saw one teen in a MAGA hat and one dad in a trump hat. any other time POTUS came up in any way it was just pure disgust over him being president. lotta stereotypes of US soccer fans do not hold up if you interact with one.

i’m not the biggest bellingham fan in the world but last night was as good of a performance by a midfielder that i have ever seen

nothing makes me more convinced that he had nothing to do with it than ted cruz giving him credit for it lol

it’s funny how [gestures] has helped distract me from being absolutely horrified about the game

belgium is in so much trouble tonight dude

I know this is the website where people post like Eric Garland but there is way too much Eric Garland posting about Folarin Balogun and the USMNT right now

the really interesting bit here (assuming it's real, it's the post so worth being skeptical) is that the plan was to challenge FIFA at CAS on VAR misapplication. have wondered why we don't see more of that with FIFA and UEFA and every other federation.

this is surprising to me. i thought FIFA only does strange, opaque, absurd things because the cheeto wants them to. i am a bluesky poster who never thought about soccer until yesterday, when i could make it about donald trump.

memo ochoa 🫡

if i were a mexico fan and my team just lost that game and football's coming home started playing my eyes would roll into the back of my head and 100,000,000 angry hornets would emerge from my unhinged jaw

dan burn deserves a statue for throwing himself at that jimenez bike

england should celebrate every free kick or goal kick they win, those few seconds of rest are worth their weight in gold

pickford will now be employing a time wasting strategy known as "whenever everton had any lead on klopp's liverpool." usually this ended with liverpool scoring in stoppage time to make pickford look silly.

WELCOME TO CONCACAF PEOPLE SOME OF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS I LIVE IT EVERY DAY

keir starmer calling infantino to try and get that red card overturn and it somehow ends with harry kane getting suspended for the rest of the tournament

canelo apparently gave the crowd a pep talk at halftime, in case you are concerned the azteca can't get more amped up

If you can view *anything* through a lens that isn’t politics, it’s trivially easily to see why so many people love the World Cup specifically and soccer more generally. And why they won’t let that fucking guy and that other fucking guy ruin it for them.

one thing i underestimated heading into the world cup is how much people love titanium by david guetta feat. sia

said OH MY GOD and started laughing the second mexico fans started singing this is going to be unbelievable

i really have no idea just how good this mexico team is but they're playing in their own 80k seat ECW stadium at 7k feet above sea level, so they can win very easily

tonight's gonna be fun www.espn.com/soccer/story...

i have been screaming this for idk how long. replace "USMNT" with anything. donald trump is not the main character of the universe and the sooner everyone starts acting like that the sooner his entire political project falls apart.

imagining collinsworth saying "buenos noches, amigos"

thought this was donnarumma

just wait

USMNT Manager And Bluesky Hero Mauricio Pochettino Lashes Out Against Donald Trump

neymar scores and you are gonna see scores of people who played a lot of FIFA in college from 2010-14 get really weirdly emotional (i.e. me)

best CB in the world bailed out by his GK getting a fingertip to the ball

truly, perfect thing he could've said about this

anyway easily the most annoying thing here is they could have beaten belgium without balogun anyway and now this is hanging over it

my problem continues to be the words “clear and obvious,” not that i disagree with them but that it was rolled out as a way to correct clear and obvious errors but is used for way more than that and every official has a different definition of clear and obvious

gold cup in 2027 just wait until you people learn about all that brings

yes Flo Balogun should get the same level of preferential treatment as Messi and Ronaldo. Yes you are an anti 14th amendment supreme court lover if you think this is wrong

it’d be really funny if poch doesn’t start balogun because they’ve spent the last few days putting together a plan without him

on one hand it’s good that FIFA has a mechanism in place to go “yeah that ref was nuts, we’ll overturn that,” on the other i wish this happened without marco rubio almost certainly calling john baby and yelling at him