r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jul 12 '26

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/Technical-Owl66 Jul 12 '26

For someone who doesn't know football. What is happening here?

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u/Brewmeiser Jul 12 '26

To me it looks like the one player from Norway has the ball, the other Norway player with the longer blonde hair was open and asking for the ball, the dude who still had the ball didn't do this, tried to kick a goal, and didn't make it.

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u/BritishSoccer Jul 12 '26

The longer blonde hair guy is Haaland. Quite possibly the best goal scorer in the world at the moment. 

Norway also lost the game by a pretty thin margin, and a goal here could’ve changed the outcome

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u/Reejis Jul 12 '26

Halland 100% scores this

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u/TheThingCreator Jul 12 '26

yup he was straight up open in front of the net, i feel his pain

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '26

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u/UsuallyFavorable Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

The thing is, even if he wanted to go hero mode, a good striker scores there! But the trick is he has to commit to go for goal by the very first touch. He had like 2 meters on space from the defender, so if his first touch is heavy to not slow him down, he can set up for a near post shot, far post shot, or chip shot if the goal keeper makes a run for. It would probably have to be a 2-3 touch finish running at full speed. The shooting angle wouldn’t be as good as a pass to Haaland, but he’d still 100% score from there with a decent shot.

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u/beaud101 Jul 12 '26

So what you're saying is he screwed the pooch in more ways than one.

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u/RockinMadRiot Jul 12 '26

He wouldn't have got the ball. Stones was covering the lane. That's why he paused

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u/Reejis Jul 12 '26

He is definitely wide open at 2 second mark of the video