{"id":45954,"date":"2018-06-18T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45954"},"modified":"2020-08-07T21:30:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:30:36","slug":"a-wise-man-once-said-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45954","title":{"rendered":"A wise man once said"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A futbol team cannot win a futbol game unless they score goals<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore, a futbol team cannot score goals unless they take shots.\u00a0 Although I counted two times where Sweden\u2019s goalkeeper actually had to move in the box, the box score in Korea\u2019s World Cup 2018 opening loss to Sweden<\/a>, credits them with zero<\/em><\/strong> shots on goal.\u00a0 ZERO<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

How the fuck is it remotely possible to win a game when a team doesn\u2019t even take a single shot?\u00a0 The answer is that it\u2019s not.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure Sweden\u2019s goalkeeper doesn\u2019t even take a shower after the game and is able to meet up with whatever model of a wife\/girlfriend for dinner without even having to reapply his deodorant, that\u2019s how much of a day off today\u2019s game was.\u00a0 As for his teammates, they were basically in the Royal Rumble in a game that saw over 40 fouls called, but a big fat zero for shots on goal for Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I know that getting in position to even take shots on goal is like 75% of the battle in the first place, but that just exemplifies Korea\u2019s general lack of adaptability or creativity to even bother trying anything different from what wasn\u2019t working throughout the span of 96 minutes, to where they could even take a shot.\u00a0 Sweden\u2019s defense was no slouch, but Korea wasn\u2019t making anything harder by constantly having guys in telegraphed positions, or all the players essentially giving up once their routes were blocked.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not going to get too salty over this loss.\u00a0 Korean soccer hasn\u2019t been the same since the 2002 World Cup, and even then, they had the mother of homefield advantages throughout the entire tournament.\u00a0 They were also coached by the legendary Guus Hiddink who was easily worth several of their wins by himself alone.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been good enough to qualify for all subsequent World Cups by virtue of a globally weak Asian pool, and once they get in, they\u2019ve regularly been exposed as a class below the usual powerhouses from Europe and South America, and have been getting bounced routinely.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It doesn\u2019t help that they\u2019re in the officially recognized Group of Death™ with Germany and Mexico, but I figured if there was one game in the group stage that Korea might have an opportunity to not get embarrassed in, it would\u2019ve been against Sweden, especially with news that they\u2019d be playing without their biggest star<\/a>, Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting bounced from the Group of Death is expected by all for Korea, but I would really, really like to see the team at least go out with a little<\/em> dignity and not go out without scoring a single goal.\u00a0 But at this point, I\u2019d be simply pleased to see them actually take a fucking shot on goal, and stop with this tired Korean style of nothing but defense and trying to burn out opponents and then trying for the epic cross-field counter.\u00a0 If they can\u2019t even get a single ball into the box, they\u2019ll never even have a chance to take a shot.<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst part about this post was that I really wanted to write about how Korea totally capitalized on an epic pre-game tactic of deliberately trying to confuse Swedish and other countries\u2019 scouts by swapping the numbers of their players because \u201cthey have a hard time telling us apart anyway<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 I mean, considering clubs all around the world seem to have the permanent green light<\/a> to mock Koreans<\/a> and other Asians<\/a>, why the fuck shouldn\u2019t Korea try to capitalize on the intellectual ignorance of others?<\/span><\/p>\n

But that post was completely contingent on Korea getting a win against Sweden, because then it validates the tactic as being legit.\u00a0 Instead, Sweden just fouled everyone in sight just as Korea did, and by the end, everyone was probably too bruised to be able to tell each other apart anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, barring any earth-shattering upsets against Germany or Mexico, and a miraculous advancement out of the Group of Death, there probably won\u2019t be any more World Cup posts again.\u00a0 Unless Brazil gets completely emasculated again<\/a>, to which I will gleefully take great enjoyment out of, again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man, and I was going to title the post \u201cO PILSUNG COREA, MOTHERFUCKERS\u201d too.\u00a0 But alas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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