Costa Rica just squeezed into the World Cup through a playoff. We were atop of the group. We’re a fair bit better than them. So yes.
The Actual World Cup 2022 Thread
I understand your Canadian pessimism (how very Canadian of you) when it comes to the beautiful game, but it’s time to start believing. We’re here and can do this.
At this stage we should be in the lead based upon how we’ve played.
loopdokter but like any good Canuckian I know how to skate
And to think I almost just called you a faux Canadian 
loopdokter It wasn’t an actual question, loopy but cheers anyway.
loopdokter That didn’t age well. 
Fuck!
LOL!!!
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yous were absolutely killing it until Loopy started giving it the big un! Textbook!
Gotta admit would love to see Canada win this!
303abuser Probably not worse. I actually watched very little of the qualifying so hopefully I’m wrong, I just don’t see how we’re competitive in this game.
Whereas I watched all of it outside of the minnow teams like Bermuda and the like… Although to be fair, we’ve lost to those kind of sides in recent history too.
loopdokter We played as well as we could have hoped in the first half, but it clear they have more talent at every position and tournament experience. The few qualifiers I watched looked like glorified mls matches.
C_J yous were absolutely killing it until Loopy started giving it the big un! Textbook!
Yeah, I’ve gotta cool the jets.
I’m still happy with the half despite the late half goal from Belgium. It’s been promising so far.
303abuser We played as well as we could have hoped in the first half, but it clear they have more talent at every position and tournament experience. The few qualifiers I watched looked like glorified mls matches.
Are you watching the same game I am?!
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Former Irish international Kevin Kilbane is on our analyst panel and just said ‘we’ should have had a penalty. He’s married to a Canadian and lives outside of Toronto. …Says the man with an English accent who played for Ireland. I wonder what his mornings look like when he tries to figure out where he is. 
Canada were absolutely murdering them, the Witsel foul was a cast iron penalty and Canada should score about 3 in the second phase!
loopdokter Yeah. We played as well as we’re going to, they played as poorly as they’re going to, and we’re losing. Our defense has been pretty poor on the counter and we don’t look like we have a natural forward. Like I said, very happy to be proven wrong.
C_J in the second phase
My soccerball detector just blew up
Are we winning @loopdokter ?
Wally Loopy laughing with his mates ‘well at least we’re not going to get beat as bad as that’ before nervously looking around and sighing.
I’m not going to say never, but based upon the first half…
We’ll leave it at that.