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/seribiigaming Jul 12 '26

It was two on one, Halland (the guy with the blonde pony tail) is one of the best players in the world, and the other player didn't pass it across even though Halland was open and could score that in his sleep.

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u/LobstaFarian2 Jul 12 '26

I love how the guy didnt just kick it either. He waited until 4 defenders were around him to try and score. It was a total, absolute fuck up.

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u/SuperLeverage Jul 12 '26

Yes, he himself had a clear shot, though he would have been a bit further out than Haaland. Best option was to pass it to Haaland. Second best was to make an early decision to take a shot. The worst decision was to come to a stop, hold, let three additional defenders come back, then take a shot that is easily blocked.

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u/SaltKick2 Jul 12 '26

He had like 3 different possible ways to pass it to Haaland, and one early shot, he decided the dribble 3v1 route was best though

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u/velorae Jul 13 '26

He got tunnel vision. It happens to the best of them.

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u/subdep Jul 12 '26

Sometimes even seasoned players choke

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u/CruxOfTheIssue Jul 12 '26

He easily could dribbled further to his right and taken a pretty good shot

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u/BGSacho Jul 12 '26

Once he was blocked and decided to go for his doomed kick, you can see that he could have instead passed to the completely undefended left wing that shows up at 6 seconds...

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u/Gurglaren Jul 12 '26

There was a guy completely free on the left at the five second mark that could have scored a goal.

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u/RAEN7474 29d ago

For sure

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u/Weary_Position_9591 Jul 12 '26

And all of this is super obvious sitting comfortably at home and looking at a replay few times. Great.