justOnePersistentKbinPlease

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  • No, they should not.
    In the initial phase of the tournament, only Canada wasn’t the top seed in their group of 4(behind the Swiss)
    The US barely topped their group and in doing so guaranteed that their round of 32 match was against the third seed in Canada’s group, Bosnia which isn’t in the top 60.

    Canada’s round of 32 game was against either a similarly ranked South Korea(~28 as I recall), or against the near-60th ranked South Africa. So Canada wasn’t guaranteed to get out of R32, but always had a good shot. Canada was never going to get out of R16 short of an actual miracle, the matchup was Netherlands or Morocco.

    For the US, their 2nd R16 match v Belgium will be their first game against a peer-or-better opponent of the tournament where statistically they can lose.






  • Hey, as Canadians we’re ecstatic to be in the round of 16, but it isn’t much of a surprise.

    The US paid for a good team and they’re in a decent group with little surprise that they’re on top.

    Mexico was in an abymsally easy group and its no surprise they’re where they are.

    Canada was also in a group with little surprise that we ended up proceeding. Only real surprise was tying the higher ranked swiss.

    Given that S.Africa beat the better ranked South Korea, they put up a great show but were still dominated by a sloppy but effective Canada yesterday.

    I will be surprised if the next game v Netherlands/Morocco is anything but a blowout, but we made it to the 16 and I’m happy with that.