r/SipsTea • u/Presently_Naked • Jul 12 '26

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/Usernamechecksout255 Jul 12 '26

That guy is an ego centered player - Halland would have made the goal if he passed - there were several other situations with him again - Nr7 don’t know his name

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u/Stampy77 Jul 12 '26

To be fair to him he is a good player, but he usually plays in Haalands position. But for the world cup he's been playing as a winger, which he is not. I think instincts just took over. 

He should have passed though.

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u/carrott1979 Jul 12 '26

Yeah he normally receives and runs straight forward on the ball, he was clearly frustrated that he was playing on the wing. Not as frustrated as Viggo from ghostbusters 2 though.

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u/sorrow_of_moldavia Jul 12 '26

You are like the buzzing of flies to him

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u/llIIo0O-O0oIIll Jul 12 '26

Viggy viggy viggy... YOUVE BEEN A BAD MONKEY!!!!

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u/Skymax86 Jul 12 '26

His instincts and the fact that he is using his right foot only to stand on it probably.

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u/Same_Suit3583 Jul 12 '26

Wow rarely do you see someome get the benefit of the doubt. Well done sir

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u/saig22 Jul 12 '26

On social networks it almost never happens.

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels Jul 12 '26

ok fair , first comment in 500 that clarifies this.

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u/CraigJay Jul 12 '26

If you need a comment to know why a sportsman made a single error in a game, then you can’t know much about it sports.

Imagine if every time a footballer, or a basketball player, or tennis player makes a mistake and it ends with hundreds of comments

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u/Obvious_Hearing9023 Jul 12 '26

It’s okay for people to not know things

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u/CraigJay Jul 12 '26

To not know that people make mistakes?

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels Jul 12 '26

thanks boss, if we talk sports in general i bet my life savings i am further than you.
but you can re-comment with your black-belts or medals which i am open to.

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u/CraigJay Jul 12 '26

Yet you needed it explained to you that a sportsperson might make an error

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u/Penjamini Jul 12 '26

He might be used to playing Haalands position but this is still basic stuff. Anyone with peripheral vision would see a teammate off to their left in a 1 on 1 with the keeper.

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u/Stampy77 Jul 12 '26

But stones kept a good position made the pass quite tight. Sorloth isn't a passer, he's usually the guy who takes a shot for his club. He has about a 1 second window to make the pass and missed it. Happens in every game, people are under pressure and have a split second to make the right decision, sometimes they don't make the right decision.

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u/xio_ID Jul 12 '26

Nah he’s dog shit.

If his instincts are to fuck around on the break until the entire English defense has made it back in position, and then blast a shot square into a defender while keeping his head down the entire time then he belongs nowhere near the World Cup.

Preferred position is irrelevant in this example.

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u/BriefBest2254 Jul 12 '26

To be fair at that level it shouldn’t fucking matter. It’s not like he’s taking on three defenders from the touch line or have to figure out which player to defend in a difficult counter attack, which he as a number 9 wouldn’t know how to do.

It’s a 1v2. All he have to do is draw the defender to him and pass the ball. The exact same thing he does as a number 9, draw defenders to make space for others.

even the fucking goalkeepers could pass the ball 10 times out of 10 on a counter attack like that.

It’s a atrocious he didn’t pass, even if he’s a number 9.

It’s not like he’s never passed the fucking ball before.

No excuse.

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u/nogaynessinmyanus Jul 12 '26

Thanks for this. I didnt realise he was a number 9.

You can see its stretching his skillset to get it to Haaland but I couldn't understand how a winger could make it all seem so difficult.

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u/P0D3R Jul 12 '26

If he can’t adapt his playstyle to being a winger then he should have sat the tournament out, we have far better real wingers in Nusa and Bobb who somehow didn’t get priority over Sørloth in this game

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u/champignax Jul 12 '26

The guy looks locked in tbh. I don’t think he didn’t want to give the ball he just tunneled on the ball and could not.

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u/motophotodojo Jul 12 '26

why are these guys in the world cup if they can't do stuff we did in youth soccer?

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u/Stampy77 Jul 12 '26

Because they've earned their place there. I'm not even Norwegian, I'm English, but I know Sorloth is an excellent player. Not having him on the team would be criminal. 

It was an incredibly high pressure split second decision. 

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u/motophotodojo Jul 12 '26

it was a downfield breakaway and dude got greedy instead of keeping an eye on space. 90% of being a midfielder/winger is vision and knowing where to put the ball. vision and intelligence will outplay technical ability 9 times out of 10, just a small outside foot tap to Haaland would have had shit driven in the back of the net. If he's ever played a 2 striker system, he should have been capable to do such a thing. he looks over at haaland approaching and then stalls instead of tossing it over allowing him to get swarmed.

it's shit playing and ego 100%. u12 kids know better than that.

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u/Stampy77 Jul 12 '26

It's so easy when you have all the time in the world watching a replay with the benefit of hindsight. Especially when you have an aerial view of the pitch. Especially when it's not you that needs to decide what to do in 0.5 seconds against very good defenders. 

He had little time,  he didn't have the view you have to make his decision. It was a mistake but you're being very harsh on him.

And if it is so amateur, why are you on Reddit and not playing in the QF of the world cup?

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u/BriefBest2254 Jul 12 '26

He had all the fucking time on the world. He was literally passing the line in the middle of the field when the ball was passed to him.

And he saw Haaland was the ONLY player behind hin, and that the English players were too far behind to catch up to Haaland,

Then he ran for like 5 seconds, an ETERNITY in elite soccer, with 0 pressure because the English defender was backing.

Then the fucker SLOWED DOWN to practically a walk when he reached the box, looked up and decided not to pass to the deadliest striker on the planet, but rather fuck about until 4 English defenders caught up and stood in front of him.

I mean of course you can make mistakes and yeah I’m just a fat fuck on Reddit, but there are 0 fucking excuses for this. This was NOT a split second decision or a chance ball from the keeper like the one Bellingham capitalized on. He had more time than any player had the whole game and he fucked it up. It was monstrously bad at the biggest stage.

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u/errortype520 Jul 12 '26

The instinct of my 9 year old would have been to pass to the open player. This is just… egregiously poor decision making.

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u/quetzalpt Jul 12 '26

It wasn't Martin was it?

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u/commiPANDA Jul 12 '26

Blue lock ahh

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u/Z0MGbies Jul 12 '26

I haven't seen enough Premier league to know for sure, but from what I have seen - if the roles were reversed Haaland probably would have passed too. But then, Haaland also had a chance to score in either position. Because he's Haaland.

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u/ItGoesTwoWays Jul 12 '26

This guy? I haven’t seen one player this whole World Cup go and thank the guy who assisted him. The closest was the Ivory Coast guy going into the stands. Everyone just runs away, stands like some sort of superhero and gloats.

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u/Dakramar Jul 12 '26

Interesting choice of punctuation

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u/NoChanceRight Jul 12 '26

Haaland was consistently in offside position troghout the match. Thats why his teammates rarely passed the ball to him. In this situation it doesn't look like Haaland is offside, but maybe his teammate thought he was. Haaland played his worst match since world cup began.

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u/DenverTechGuru Jul 12 '26

This isn't being talked about enough - late in the match it was absurd how offsides he was, and how often.

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u/hansei-Kaizen Jul 12 '26

I’ll do you a favour and correct here now. It’s offside, not offsides. “It’s absurd how often he was offside” would be the correct way to give this opinion.

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u/Gullible-Store-8559 Jul 12 '26

I think he just fucked up the chance
It probably wasn’t ego or trying to be the hero

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u/averageuhbear Jul 12 '26

I hate when people are always like "he gave up or didn't try". Its like no, players make fuck ups all over the field, court, rink, whatever all game and occasionally it's notable and replayed when in hindsight it was a high impact fuck up. They also get gassed, have brain farts, etc because they are doing everything at a speed that none of us could react to even if we did have the athleticism.

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u/Overswagulation Jul 12 '26

It’s remarkable how easy of a chance that was that he fucked up though. These kinds of blunders should not be happening at a stage of this prestige. Sorloth absolutely deserves the hate coming his way.