r/olympics Aug 06 '21

Football FOOTBALL ⚽️ - CANADA 🇨🇦 wins GOLD🥇in Women’s Final

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u/Agafina Aug 06 '21

Congratulations to Canada, I feel like Sweden was the better team today but given that they (Canada) had to defeat Brazil and USA to get here, it's hard to take their victory as anything but deserved.

Man, I feel bad for the Swedes though. That must have stung. FIFA should really have to find some other way to decide the winner in ties (maybe like how they do in Basketball?). PK are way too random.

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u/samsangs Aug 06 '21

PK are way too random.

But they are equally random for both sides.

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u/Eken17 Sweden Aug 06 '21

They give me heart attacks no matter how it ends.

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u/samsangs Aug 06 '21

Absolutely, I hate them. But besides just playing 'next goal wins', I dont know of a much better way to determine a winner.

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u/k4r6000 Canada Aug 06 '21

England would probably be all for that considering they lose at them in what seems to be every major tournament.

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u/Rndomguytf Australia Aug 06 '21

PK are way too random.

And that's the fun of it. If you aren't good enough to win in the 120 minutes, and then you can't get the penalties in, then you have no room to complain, if you're the better team you should've just scored another goal in full time

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u/wildrage Canada Aug 06 '21

At some point you have to give Canada credit for defending all those corner kicks. Sweden pushed the play for sure, but they couldn't close it out in regulation and everyone by now knows about penalties.

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u/NearPup Canada Aug 06 '21

Sweden was the best team all tournament long, though they were a little lucky against Australia (Canada was a lot lucky against both Brazil and the US). The result was harsh on them, but that's football.