06-12-2019, 03:46 PM
(06-12-2019, 03:16 PM)82lsju Wrote: and Thailand has experience with high scoring games having won two games in pool play in the 2015 AFF tournament by large margins (10-1 over Indonesia and 12-0 over Laos)The OFC has a wide range of talent levels across the national federations. That forces teams to run up the score because it is likely top teams will enjoy a few massive wins that may play a role in goal differential tiebreakers. So big wins and big losses are more common than in UEFA or CONMEBOL.
The France, Germany and Canada could all beat that Thailand team by 10 or more goals. As the outcome was not unexpected the excessive celebrations after goal 6 or 7 were in bad taste. Scoring, especially in game 1, needs to continue, but they could have done it with a lot more class.
I expect many in the stands that are not USA citizens will now be quick to cheer against them in the upcoming games. Sure hope they are prepared to hear lots of whistling for the rest of this tournament.

