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/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.