Yeah, essentially. And slow starting/late results. I can’t think of many (tournament) games outside of minnows at Asian Cups where we hit early, other than France 2022 and I guess Uruguay 2005

That’s traditionally an Australian thing though, isn’t it?

Yeah that’s basically my point - would be like if Mitchell Starc and Alyssa Healy had a kid, but Mitchell was the one shilling pregnancy vitamins

Must be big plans for Turkey then

Tim Payne?

Question: why is Tameka Yallop the spokesperson for a pregnancy thing, if she isn’t the pregnant one in her relationship?

I’m ok with the attacking 3 in the first half in general (Irankunda, yengi and Volpato). Defence got better through the half - but Cheeses Christ the midfield performance…

I’d still take him off with 30 or so to go perhaps - he’s still looking like he could/should start against Turkey, so would be good to give a bit of a rest and not risk it

Wa s thinking that too - but probably deemed a “legitimate play on the ball” and still in SPA region given the direction of play

M Must Have just been the reflection of the light on the plastic - the pics on Facebook look normal

I mean… lots of Mexican migrants/diaspora. Wouldn’t say there’s much Swiss.

I need to wait for the next close up - but the coat of arms on the shorts looked funny to me just before - almost as if it was yellow on yellow

Oh that’s very easily only a yellow. Still has quite a bit of distance and defenders in front of him

I was too busy looking for toy story gifs - I will take a look at half time or I might even rewind now

Sometimes it works though

This does very much look like (midfield and defence changes at least) like the 3rd choices

Which difficulty?

yep - I think the Mexico friendly we were only allowed to list 26 - thus with more than 26, some had to be omitted

yep seems much, much too easy to score. Have set up a tournament playing as Socceroos and All Whites - no tactical changes other than the line up. 6 min halves, Professional AI, and was 4-0 up at half time v USA, won the game 7-2, with a Velupillay second half hat-trick off the bench...

Every simulation I've done has had 3pts and -2 GD as the cut off (either the first team not progressing has more than -2 GD, or multiple teams have -2 GD and some progress, and some don't) https://greenandgoldfc.com/threads/simulations-2026-fifa-world-cup.954/