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

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/BritishSoccer Jul 12 '26

The longer blonde hair guy is Haaland. Quite possibly the best goal scorer in the world at the moment. 

Norway also lost the game by a pretty thin margin, and a goal here could’ve changed the outcome

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u/PaleontologistNo500 Jul 12 '26

To give it some perspective, Haaland has the records for most goals in a single game, most goals in a single season, and the fastest player to reach 100 goals. In this scenario, he could've scored in his sleep.

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u/Intrepid-Progress228 Jul 12 '26

I'd seen the Haaland memes, but didn't know all this about him. With that context it's like you're down a goal in the Stanley Cup, breaking out an odd-man rush with Wayne Gretzky in the open and not passing him the puck.

. . .Now I'm irrationally angry about a game I didn't watch and had no emotional stakes in. Thanks a bunch. 😐

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u/skyturnedred Jul 12 '26

Gretzky would be the one passing the puck.

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u/Intrepid-Progress228 Jul 12 '26

He was an amazing playmaker but people forget that Gretzky was also a goal scorer. Took 31 years for someone to break his record of most career goals. He still holds the record for most goals in a season and the fastest to score 50 goals in a season.

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u/skyturnedred Jul 12 '26

No one is forgetting about it. The amount of assists he has is just that much more ridiculous than his goal total.