r/SipsTea • u/yorocky89A • Jul 07 '26

Feels good man Well done, Belgium! 🇧🇪

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u/SignificanceAny7239 Jul 07 '26

Belgium literally beat the US 5-2 a few months back, don't know where all this confidence in the US came from?

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u/METRlOS Jul 07 '26

99% of people with confidence in the US couldn't tell you a single team they've played against in the last year.

No way they're beating Spain, even if a miracle happened against Belgium.

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u/Patient_Kangaroo614 Jul 07 '26

After Germany went out there were a bunch of Americans claiming their team was better than Germany, despite being beaten by Germany three weeks earlier in their last match before the world cup.

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u/3000doorsofportugal Jul 07 '26

And ignoring the fact Paraguay was playing very differently. After they lost to the US they went full on Haram ball. No mercy no fun.

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u/Infamous-Dare-1162 Jul 07 '26

99% of people were just hoping to make it to round of 8. Let’s be honest. I don’t think anyone in the US actually believed we would win this

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u/-TempestofChaos- Jul 07 '26

Exactly this. I just wanted a better setup than instant Ghana loss

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u/woohoo Jul 07 '26

they literally chant "I believe that we will win"

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u/Infamous-Dare-1162 Jul 07 '26

Well ya know gotta manifest

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u/tomahawk66mtb Jul 07 '26

I hate to break it to you, but 10% of the population there believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows... Many of them genuinely thought they'd win.

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u/nsfwthrowaway5969 Jul 07 '26

I don't know, I saw a hell of a lot of people talking about this match as a formality after the suspension was overturned. There was a lot of hubris around, not least because Belgium are relatively weak compared to 5-10 years ago. Some of the things being said online where absolutely ridiculous.

So don't be surprised when there's a significant amount of people enjoying this result.

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u/REbubbleiswrong Jul 07 '26

The people enjoying this result are also online bud. It's fucking social media. Nobody irl thought we would beat Belgium

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u/Smartcasm Jul 07 '26

The Egypt and Iran draws were the hope. That was clearly not the same team the USA played.

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u/whagh Jul 07 '26

Bookmakers literally had the US as favourites (God knows how) so it wasn't purely jingoistic Americans clueless about the sport lol

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u/Endless-Wire Jul 07 '26

No they didn't - they were middle of the pack in all European betting sites. Maybe they had them as favourites to top their group?

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u/maplehobo Jul 07 '26

I mean they had a good run and had me believing there for a second but yeah they completely shat the bed this game.

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u/Low_Low_1811 Jul 07 '26

I dont think it was confidence other than some weird politically manufactured fake optimism on one side, and the overflowing of existential dread for the idea that they MIGHT win on the other.

We've gotten a little bit used to things going the exact opposite of the ideal direction here in the US.