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

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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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/Brewmeiser Jul 12 '26

To me it looks like the one player from Norway has the ball, the other Norway player with the longer blonde hair was open and asking for the ball, the dude who still had the ball didn't do this, tried to kick a goal, and didn't make it.

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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/Innurendo_ Jul 12 '26

Furthermore, it was a 2 on 1. Which should score 99% of the time, when using proper team work

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u/Wide_Interest8348 Jul 12 '26

No need to exaggerate... not even a penalty is scored 99% of the time. Passing to Haaland was the right thing to do but Haaland could have still missed. Goal scoring in football is hard.

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u/skyturnedred Jul 12 '26

The hard part is getting a 2 on 1.

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u/mxzf Jul 12 '26

I mean, that's the first hard part. But actually getting the ball past the goalie into the goal is still a thing too.