Current Events > 'USA Wins 0-0' trends on Twitter as US ties England.

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https://twitter.com/Salty_PAX/status/1596250421042872320

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I don't actually watch soccer is this a thing or is it satire

i bet pubs were a riot in ingerlund during the match

omg i didnt realize 0-0 is still win for usa nice

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Irony posted...

I don't actually watch soccer is this a thing or is it satire

Satire/making fun of England for drawing (again) in a game that should be an easy win.

Damn, imagine being a country that's passionate about futbol and still drawing (losing) to a country that collectively does not give a fuck about soccer.

Lmao

England four hours ago: lol, yanksre gonna get crushed, mate. Its coming home!
England four minutes ago: well actually, a tie isnt a win. *fighting back anger tears*

Oi! Oi! Oi!

Was it a good game? I don't watch soccer/futbol

If you arent losing, youre winning

#usawins

Pitlord_Special posted...

If you arent losing, youre winning

#usawins

The best way to win is to not play so the US should just stop playing

Dreepapult posted...

Was it a good game? I don't watch soccer/futbol

https://www.espn.com/soccer/report?gameId=633804

Apparently, the US looked more like winning than England

Irony posted...

I don't actually watch soccer is this a thing or is it satire

It's a joke because England is supposed to be a much better team so tying against USA is basically the same as losing

England has never besten the USA at the World Cup

1 more point and legally England would have to go back to SOCCER.

What an exciting sport.

Reminder that England has never beaten the USA in the World Cup. In fact, in 1950 the so called powerhouse England team lost to bunch of American scrubs.

Hah that does make me laugh.

Good job USA. That draw is impressive and the memes so far have been sensational.

Irony posted...

I don't actually watch soccer is this a thing or is it satire

yes and no lol

England was a huge favorite to win and tying is a massive let down.

the USA wins on a tie thing is a meme from a headline from a non soccer paper from the 2010 world cup

A tie wasn't much better than a loss for the US here. Only way to avoid needing to win against Iran was to get a win against England.

In the US-Iran game, if it is a tie, Iran would beat the US x-x since the US would be eliminated and Iran would advance unless Wales beats England.

Pitlord_Special posted...

If you arent losing, youre winning

#usawins

If you aint first youre last

I4NRulez posted...

the USA wins on a tie thing is a meme from a headline from a non soccer paper from the 2010 world cup

https://i.redd.it/vfoqfuba8zq81.jpg

AloneIBreak posted...

What an exciting sport.

If ties were rare they would be interesting. However, since soccer is such a low scoring game, ties are very common. It is ridiculous that they allow ties in an event that only happens every 4 years. Hell, literally half the games played on Tuesday were an infamous 0-0 tie.

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America's good players go to play for international teams. They have to come back for the USMNT world cup. This is basically the only reason we qualify at all.

YellowSUV posted...

If ties were rare they would be interesting. However, since soccer is such a low scoring game, ties are very common. It is ridiculous that they allow ties in an event that only happens every 4 years. Hell, literally half the games played on Tuesday were an infamous 0-0 tie.

Ties are allowed in the group stage because it's basically just a round robin. Matches can't end in a tie in the knockout stage which comes next.

Wow, a 0-0 tie. Riveting. No wait, the other thing. Boring.

Mizznox posted...

Ties are allowed in the group stage because it's basically just a round robin. Matches can't end in a tie in the knockout stage which comes next.

I have no problem with the round robin format on paper, but having a game end in a tie is very anticlimactic.

YellowSUV posted...

I have no problem with the round robin format on paper, but having a game end in a tie is very anticlimactic.

You can have exciting ties.

YellowSUV posted...

I have no problem with the round robin format on paper, but having a game end in a tie is very anticlimactic.

Not in context. Sometimes you get a team that's taking like a shot on goal every 5 minutes and they always come super close but just never get it in. You have to actually watch the game. Just looking up the score and going "wow 0-0 nothing happened" is not an accurate assessment.

That tweet in OP is pretty hilarious, but no its not a huge deal.

We have to beat Iran either way. It is nice that we didn't LOSE to England which would've sucked, cuz fuck em.

uwnim posted...

You can have exciting ties.

todays game was really exciting. Its like watching a good boxing match where two fighters have solid defense.

England has a 0-2-1 record against the US in the World Cup

LMAO

A draw isnt a win. But more importantly England should be embarrassed and ashamed that they couldnt beat America.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Not in context. Sometimes you get a team that's taking like a shot on goal every 5 minutes and they always come super close but just never get it in. You have to actually watch the game. Just looking up the score and going "wow 0-0 nothing happened" is not an accurate assessment.

I never said "nothing happened". What you just described is closer to anticlimactic, which is what I stated a tie was.

Admittedly that first picture is funny.

From my experience those who find draws "anticlimactic" generally lack an understanding and/or appreciation for the game outside of goals. Not a single English fan would tell you they deserved to win.

I was going to watch the match, but there is a dumpster outside my house from the roofers, and I wanted to get some trash in it before it gets hauled away, so I did some cleaning.

Colonized

YellowSUV posted...

If ties were rare they would be interesting. However, since soccer is such a low scoring game, ties are very common.

God, what a disaster of a sport. People make fun of baseball for being boring, but imagine watching an entire 90 minute game of dudes straight up running back and forth kicking a ball without ever scoring a single point.

Sphyx posted...

For someone who plays the 'don't care' card a lot, you put considerable effort into being pissy at them.

Ngl, but if me typing up some half-assed paragraph was your go-to definition of effort, then you have a very low threshold, shallow grasp of the word.

Besides, it's not as if the rest of the world hasn't been collectively mocking England for their underperformances at world cup events for decades already.

I don't give a fuck about the rest of the world nor the lore of the world cup enough to take that into consideration.

I laughed because that was some funny shit. Deal with it.

It a big fan of the sport myself, but I get tired of my fellow Americans assuming that a low scoring affair is automatically boring. Good defense can be as exciting as a ton of offense.

mustachedmystic posted...

I get tired of my fellow Americans assuming that a low scoring affair is automatically boring

I've seen several 0-0 soccer games in my years. I have a friend who's very into it, and sometimes we'd go out to eat at a sports bar or something and watch the soccer game of the week or w/e.

I can tell you without a doubt that a 0-0 soccer match is extremely boring.

Edit: a 1-0 soccer match is boring, too. In fact, a 10-10 soccer match would also be boring because soccer is a boring sport.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I've seen several 0-0 soccer games in my years. I have a friend who's very into it, and sometimes we'd go out to eat at a sports bar or something and watch the soccer game of the week or w/e.

I can tell you without a doubt that a 0-0 soccer match is extremely boring.

Not always.

I find football boring as hell, even at the best of times, but I can see the excitement created from how great set ups and "almost goals" with scrappy defenders furiously working to get the ball out can be.

But when teams play very passively/safely, it's just good material to send me to sleep tbh.

Funkydog posted...

I find football boring as hell, even at the best of times, but I can see the excitement created from how great set ups and "almost goals" with scrappy defenders furiously working to get the ball out can be.

I think this can be interesting, too, but...most of the time those moments are few and far between. If I had to pinpoint one reason why soccer is so boring, I think it's because the field is just...massive. It's as big as a football field but without any of the rules that make football interesting to watch. Football feels much more intimate because of how yard gains/losses factor into field position, so a 10 yard gain feels huge and nets a first down.

In soccer it's just...~80 yards of neutral territory with only a scant few spaces on the entire field that actually feel like high-tension zones. A game with a huge field like soccer or football cannot use the entire field at all times and still be interesting.

Just my opinion, obviously, but the action has to have some way of progressing without just being a shoving/kicking match in the middle for 90% of the runtime. Soccer feels boring because it looks boring. I'm sure the players are running their hardest and doing insane stuff with ball handling and positioning and whatnot, but to the average viewer it really does just look like a bunch of small dots on a huge field chasing a ball back and forth for 90 minutes straight. With way too many penalties.

In baseball, good pitching/defense can be very exciting. The kind of person that only wants to see endless dingers doesnt understand the game,

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I think...

Maybe? As I said, I find it boring so I can't really comment much on it. But it's the most popular sport around the world for a reason, and clearly are many matches that are adrenaline pumping, including draws.

But like any sport, it can be filled with lazy/passive playing which makes for boring matches.

And it's called "the beautiful game" for a reason as well. When it's played well, even I can admit it is very stylish. Good defence, tackling, getting past defenders etc with fancy footwork is impressive as fuck.

Ronaldo posted...

From my experience those who find draws "anticlimactic" generally lack an understanding and/or appreciation for the game outside of goals. Not a single English fan would tell you they deserved to win.

Draws being "anticlimactic" and otherwise unacceptable is a very American (and to a lesser extent, Canadian) mindset.

For example, MLB plays extra innings until there's a winner in every game. Hell, there have been games that went so long they suspended play for the night and resumed the next day rather than just calling it a draw. However in Japan and Korea's baseball leagues there's a 12 inning maximum. If it's still tied at the end of 12 innings, it's a draw.

And if you look at sports common outside of North America but rare here, such as cricket, ties are usually seen as fair and acceptable outcomes unless it's like a single-elimination tournament where a winner obviously is required.

mustachedmystic posted...

In baseball, good pitching/defense can be very exciting.

Very true. Baseball has a lot more going for it than soccer, imo. Baseball might be a 'slow' game by a lot of definitions, but something interesting is happening with every pitch. The same 'might' be true for soccer for those who are very interested in the sport, but the difference is that soccer takes place on this huge barren wasteland of nothingness.

In baseball, you know every pitch can lead directly to a run being scored, or even multiple if the bases have runners on them. There's an ebb and flow, where you set up good positions to make huge gains and the pitcher has to plan very carefully not to give away runs or walks or any of that.

Soccer is too binary. You're either in scoring position or you're not, and 99% of the time it's not.

Another game that's relatively low-scoring is Hockey, with soccer being something like 2.74 goals per game and hockey being something like 3 goals per game.

But hockey is exciting to me, because it's on a smaller play area, the players are all skating and handling sticks, and the goal is very small so it feels like the players have to be more precise to actually score. Soccer mostly just feels like a very, very long game of tug-of-war, and that can be cool for some people but definitely not for me.

even if we find it boring, americans are natural athletes and there's a lot of us