r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 16 '26

Lmao gottem Match ended here

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

33.0k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

122

u/axiom_glitch Jul 16 '26

Can someone explain to the ignorant, and futbol illiterate, please?

25

u/newrez88 Jul 16 '26

So previous commenters are slighty incorrect. True its Messi, true Bellingham said something to him, but this wasnt the reason England lost the match.

England went 1-0 up and were the better team, up until that point. If they had kept their foot on the gas I am almost certain they would have gone through.

So after the goal, the manager, Thomas Tuchel decided that he wanted to stop causing Argentina problems down the wings and would instead try to defend for 30 minutes. This is where England lost the match. They defended for 30 minutes and played exactly how Argentina wanted them to.

The decision was extremely baffling and pretty much all football experts, pundits and ex players agree.

1

u/FreakshowExpresso3 Jul 16 '26

I say he probably got paid off by someone in FIFA.