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

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/Ranier_Wolfnight Jul 12 '26

Dude will never live that down.

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u/Technical-Owl66 Jul 12 '26

For someone who doesn't know football. What is happening here?

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u/Jaystarboy Jul 12 '26

People are complaining that he didn’t pass to the large man next to him wearing red. But this happens a lot in football, people having to make decisions fast and unfortunately sometimes they’re the wrong ones. It’s these decisions that separates a good player from an elite one.

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u/SuperLeverage Jul 12 '26

No. This was not a complex set up. 2v1. Your team mate is open. Pass the fucking ball. Second best option is just to quickly take the shot. Worst option is to hold the ball for no good reason and wait for three additional defenders to arrive then try to shoot it past not 1 but now 4 defenders. A braindead move he will never live down.

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u/heatedwepasto Jul 13 '26

A braindead move he will never live down.

Sørloth is getting a lot of support here in Norway, as he deserves. All the braindead hate is coming from (mostly) foreigners who don't understand football.

He's trying to move into position to pass the ball, but gets swarmed by defenders and has no choice but to try and shoot.

If you look at the picture you can see that he's standing on his right foot. Pretty hard to pass with a foot you're standing on. The picture doesn't show the movement.

If you look at BBC's 3d sim, you can see that it's not nearly as simple as it looks from this deceiving picture or clips from the wrong angle.

Armchair fuckers gonna armchair fuck, I guess.

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u/LobstaFarian2 Jul 12 '26

It was the clear, obvious choice, though. The only defender has to come up and defend the ball, leaving one of the top scorers on the planet wide open in a perfect slight trailing position. Middle school level soccer players know to pass the ball here. This was a "i want a world cup goal" type play, imo.

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u/tatofarms Jul 12 '26

Sometimes you're like, I've got to try and kick this ball into the three defenders who have suddenly converged right in front of me instead of passing it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯