FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread

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although I didn't follow up that match, but when I checked Livescore I was surprised, because the score I saw spain beat turkey 6:0 which was never expecting to see such thing because turkey team is not a week team, but there is one thing you guys should understand that in football anything can help, normally nobody was expecting Spain to beat turkey 6:0, because turkey also had good team, and I believe turkey team is still in good performance, but not like the one of Spain. So things like this one of Spain and turkey due happen in football.

in my opinion, the reason turkey conceded six goals and failed to score even one was that their team structure lagged far behind spain's. when turkey briefly had possession of the ball, we didn't see clear passes or a fast attack organization, and they immediately lost the ball to spain. in contrast, spain, when in possession, scored goals by comfortably passing through the midfield and defense in a very organized manner. spain is a team with a fast-paced understanding, and turkey couldn't handle this difference in the team.

[pewboy]

I watched the match, but there were many moments I wished I hadn't.
Spain even beat Bulgaria 0-3 away, but they nearly scored 10 goals against us.
This was a heavy defeat for Turkey. No player showed any real resistance. Only Kenan Y?ld?z tried to force Spain, that's all. There was no team like Turkey on the field, neither defensively nor offensively.
U?urcan prevented the historic deficit.
Turkey thought they were very strong, but they realized they weren't.
And how will this team compete in the Nations League A? With this football mentality, they will definitely be relegated from League A to the lower league.

Spain is a national team that plays a lot and dominates in all competitions, they are really scary, as I wrote in other posts this team if it continues like this can really think of getting very far in the next world championship, and they are also young

[AmoreJaz]

A great start for Portugal, and I don't think Armenia was a worthy opponent. Ronaldo managed to score two goals, which I think will make this big win a trending topic for the next few days. Portugal is favored to finish first in Group F, and I think it's an easy group. Felix also seems to have rediscovered his confidence, and overall Portugal victory wasn't a surprise, they were indeed the favorites before the match.

What was even more surprising was Ronaldo's shot from 32 meters, his second goal against Armenia in the match. I also think Armenia wasn't a worthy opponent for Portugal, but the Portuguese players' performances in the match certainly caught the public's attention because Ronaldo and Felix really made the match more exciting. The victory also made Ronaldo even happier, as he added another goal to his career, bringing him closer to 1,000 goals in his career.

Ronaldo's performance was indeed superb and he is in this position because he plays like there's no tomorrow. Portugal is lucky that they have one of a kind player in this sports. Would be hard to surpass his achievements once he retired from this sports.

After a disappointing defeat in the first match, finally this time, Germany won 3-1 against Northern Ireland. This is what should have happened, Germany does not lack great players, even their substitute players are also top players in European clubs, so, they should be able to win, in the future too, do not let another miserable and lose points. Now, Germany is ranked 3rd, must be able to optimize again so that it can at least enter the top 2, even better can be top 1.
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You won't really have the 100% guarantee that the team will win even if we know that Germany is one of the strong teams. Still, there are some angles in this game that they can't cover. However, with their position right now, I would say, they will have strong motivation to be on the top.

[Fuso.hp]

Unfortunately, I was ashamed of the Turkish national team tonight. We conceded six goals in 62 minutes in our own stadium. Then Spain took off key players. If they had stayed on, they probably could have scored eight or nine. We showed no presence against Spain, and the players had no ambition. It was an absolute disgrace, a defeat that will be remembered for years to come. I'm afraid of what will happen in Spain. I hope we concede fewer goals there.

Spain is a much stronger team than Turkey and the current Spain team has quite a few good young footballers so it was quite natural for Spain to win against Turkey but it seemed unusual to me that Turkey was defeated by a big margin of 6-0 on their home ground. Before the match started, I had made such a prediction that maybe the result of Spain's victory in this match could be 3-1 or 2-0 or at most 4-1 but if we were to catch it, 6-0 means that Turkey could not create any resistance against Spain and could not attack. Turkey is not such a poorly performing team that they will lose against Spain by a huge margin of 6-0. Basically, Spain's defense and strike position performed great against Turkey, on the contrary, Turkey's defense seemed completely shaky against Spain. Because of all this, Spain secured a big win against Turkey.

[dezoel]

I didn't expect Spain to slaughter the Turkish National Team 6-0, it's a disaster for Arda Guler and his colleagues. Actually, looking at Turkey squad depth, they're quite good, and they shouldn't have conceded 6 goals in one match. Turkey defense proved to be very porous, and if it's not fixed soon, they will struggle to bounce back in the future. Spain seems to be heading for an easy journey to secure a ticket to the 2026 World Cup, in my opinion, they are one of the favorite teams.

Vincenzo Montella and every Turk fan surely want to forget this night as what happen to them at Konya Buyuksehir Belediye Stadium Konya was shameful despite having good ball control Turkish team completely fail to score any goal or create any resistance against Spanish which is having impressive win.

Still chances are high for them to overtake Georgia which is now at 2nd spot due to better goal difference but now after one month Turkish team is going to face Bulgaria and Spain will entertain Georgia which will make good and give better chance of comeback after this worst humiliated defeat. Spain score 3 goals in each half with Arsenal midfielder Mikel Merino was at his best with 3 goals Pedri score 2 goals Torres who replaced injured Nico Williams complete the procedure for Spain.

[ashmodeus]

in my opinion, the reason turkey conceded six goals and failed to score even one was that their team structure lagged far behind spain's. when turkey briefly had possession of the ball, we didn't see clear passes or a fast attack organization, and they immediately lost the ball to spain. in contrast, spain, when in possession, scored goals by comfortably passing through the midfield and defense in a very organized manner. spain is a team with a fast-paced understanding, and turkey couldn't handle this difference in the team.

I think the Turkish coach made a mistake in strategizing against Spain last night or another reason is that the Turkish players were not capable enough to match the game of the Spanish players, but in my opinion with the quality of the Turkish players like that, at least they should have conceded a few goals instead of 6, whatever the reason behind their crushing defeat was already a heavy blow because with a result like that their chances of qualifying for the World Cup are getting smaller.

[Slow death]

although I didn't follow up that match, but when I checked Livescore I was surprised, because the score I saw spain beat turkey 6:0 which was never expecting to see such thing because turkey team is not a week team, but there is one thing you guys should understand that in football anything can help, normally nobody was expecting Spain to beat turkey 6:0, because turkey also had good team, and I believe turkey team is still in good performance, but not like the one of Spain. So things like this one of Spain and turkey due happen in football.

in my opinion, the reason turkey conceded six goals and failed to score even one was that their team structure lagged far behind spain's. when turkey briefly had possession of the ball, we didn't see clear passes or a fast attack organization, and they immediately lost the ball to spain. in contrast, spain, when in possession, scored goals by comfortably passing through the midfield and defense in a very organized manner. spain is a team with a fast-paced understanding, and turkey couldn't handle this difference in the team.

I didn't watch the game, so it's very difficult to correctly analyze what happened. But the fact is that Turkey now needs to improve a lot in defense so that in the next game they don't concede many goals against a weak opponent on paper. Because in this group, Turkey is the team that has conceded the most goals

the humiliation that the players suffered could negatively affect them, especially the defense players who will feel guilty. What makes me even more shocked in all of this is seeing that the Turkish national team failed to score at least one goal.

[Helena Yu]

I think the Turkish coach made a mistake in strategizing against Spain last night or another reason is that the Turkish players were not capable enough to match the game of the Spanish players, but in my opinion with the quality of the Turkish players like that, at least they should have conceded a few goals instead of 6, whatever the reason behind their crushing defeat was already a heavy blow because with a result like that their chances of qualifying for the World Cup are getting smaller.

Turkish looks good in their strength because they can still able to match the ball possession and trying to make chances.

But, I believe Turkey will able to enter the next round because they have no struggle against Hungary, they won two times and they beat Georgia in Georgia's home. So, Turkey is good if we compare to weaker countries, but awful against strong countries.

[asriloni]

Despite one of their key strikers, Lukaku, being absent due to injury, the Belgian national team appears to be increasingly prolific in scoring goals.

Just look at the two matches they've played this week. The Belgian national team has scored a total of 12 goals in those two matches, with 6 goals per match. And it seems like there's always a different player scoring. Only Kevin De Bruyne has managed to score in both matches, with a total of 3 goals. I think Belgium is slightly better now.

12 goals from two games are so impressive, though they fought low tier nations. However, i feel to sad to miss Lukaku on the score board. I hope speedy recorvery for him.

Other than that their big results against Kazakhstan and Liechtenstein is not justify how strong they are. I'm still waiting them to fight against stronger opposition, then we can rate how good they are. I'm still concerning with their defending, which is still a bit shaky. Debast and Theate are not entirely good in defending.

[DaNNy001]

although I didn't follow up that match, but when I checked Livescore I was surprised, because the score I saw spain beat turkey 6:0 which was never expecting to see such thing because turkey team is not a week team, but there is one thing you guys should understand that in football anything can help, normally nobody was expecting Spain to beat turkey 6:0, because turkey also had good team, and I believe turkey team is still in good performance, but not like the one of Spain. So things like this one of Spain and turkey due happen in football.

in my opinion, the reason turkey conceded six goals and failed to score even one was that their team structure lagged far behind spain's. when turkey briefly had possession of the ball, we didn't see clear passes or a fast attack organization, and they immediately lost the ball to spain. in contrast, spain, when in possession, scored goals by comfortably passing through the midfield and defense in a very organized manner. spain is a team with a fast-paced understanding, and turkey couldn't handle this difference in the team.

There is absolutely no excuse for their lose and performance because they were totally dreadful as they failed to even make the game a little bit competitive as Spain was all over everywhere and was playing the game as if they were playing a training match. Well kudos to Spain on their well deserve victory as they played and performed very well.

[Velvet78]

What a horrible day it was for Turkiye yesterday... I never thought the final score would be a huge one. Probably many gamblers bet on BTTS and got really sad about this one-sided game.

Spain are the best in the world. I still didn't expect this many goals from them though. But after watching the game I can just say they could have scored even at least 10 goals. They just wanted to slow down after finding such a goal gap.

[LTU_btc]

Whole World is waiting for battle of football giants tonight - Gibraltar vs Faroe Islands. Despite playing away, Faroe Islands is favorite and and I put some money on their win.
But seriously, difficult to find game which would be worth to watch. Maybe Greece - Denmark might be interesting.

I still think we will finish our group in the 2nd place but I'm very disappointed now.

I also think so, but it won't be easy. That your win against Georgia was very difficult, I doubt that it will be much easier at home. Though, Georgia still have both games with Spain remaining.

[Despairo]

Less than 30 minutes the match Switzerland vs Slovenia will begin.

Probably another easy win for Switzerland? Slovenia was struggle against Sweden in their own home, Switzerland is stronger than Sweden. Although both teams have a good recent history, it automatically reminds me with Spain vs Turkey lol.

Since Spain humiliated Turkey, Switzerland should be the same.

[Just Say]

Argentina will face another Club World Cup match tomorrow, namely they are going to face Ecuador in this match we have all observed before that Messi played his last match on home soil against Venezuela they even won that match comprehensively. So Argentina will definitely have a chance to win this match and through this match, Ecuador will work towards winning on their home field. The Argentine manager has already mentioned that Inter Milan's best forward might be able to play against Ecuador, we also noticed that they have young players which will give them options. Since they humiliated Venezuela in their previous match, Cristian Romero's team will be back even stronger in this World Cup qualifier.

[Roseline492]

What a horrible day it was for Turkiye yesterday... I never thought the final score would be a huge one. Probably many gamblers bet on BTTS and got really sad about this one-sided game.

Spain are the best in the world. I still didn't expect this many goals from them though. But after watching the game I can just say they could have scored even at least 10 goals. They just wanted to slow down after finding such a goal gap.

Spain is just making all the country with them feel the strength of there team,  just two match already clocking 9 goals they scored, first was 3:0 the second came out more bigger and overwhelming of 6:0,  if Turkey took this much that means Bulgaria fought Spain better than them, from all the four countries it has now become Georgia turn to face the hero on there group that has been making other countries with them see nothing of there meetings, since Georgia is still under this category they would either conceived higher than Bulgaria or similar because the Spanish are too capable.

[Jatiluhung]

Spain is a national team that plays a lot and dominates in all competitions, they are really scary, as I wrote in other posts this team if it continues like this can really think of getting very far in the next world championship, and they are also young

The Spanish national team is truly fortunate at the moment. They have an exceptional young squad that will keep them strong for the long term. They'll even become stronger as they gain experience in football. And yes, they're dominating the game, and we can see no signs of this team weakening. In fact, this team seems to be getting more solid over time. The strong attacking partnership in the Spanish national team is also balanced by the excellent cooperation of the midfield and defense, which are equally impressive. This creates a solid team. In the previous World Cup, Spain only advanced to the round of 16. But I'm confident that in the next World Cup, they will go even further and even become title contenders.

[Cryptoprincess101]

Italy and Israel turned their match today into a goal scoring festival as the match ended in a 9 goals thriller. I think  Gattuso looks like who's going to revive Italy because this is his second game in charge of the team and he could get two wins despite that this game against Israel they conceded many goals but if Gattuso can work on the defense, he won't have many challenges since they are good at goal scoring. Israel tried to score the first goal but Italy equalized before half time then coming to the second half Israel was ahead again before Italy equalized and won them by a score of 4:5.

[GbitG]

Turkey 0 - 6 Spain

How the hell did Turkey concede 6 goals? We are talking about a very important game, a World Cup qualifier, but they conceded 6 goals, they couldn't score at least 1 goal. How was that possible? Turkey was supposed to be the second strongest team in that group, but after that defeat, I see them with little chance of qualifying.

I was overconfident with Turkey before the match, but they couldn't prove anything, losing badly at home. Arda Guler couldn't replicate his club form for the national team, and even Calhanoglu, a senior player, couldn't do much. Meanwhile, Spain proved once again that they are a team with consistent strength. Now, Turkey goal difference gives Georgia a chance to compete closely with Spain.

Hahaha that's sounds funny !!!
I think you are just denying the fact. Turkiye is not a big team despite Spain being a big team, they gave good players, and because of this, Turkey just lost the match with a pretty big numerous of goals. Only one or two players can't carry on the entire team. In Spain, all players have extraordinary quality, while in Turkiye, there are only a few good players.

So if someone is still arguing that how does it possible that Turkey has conceded 6, then probably he is dim-witted because he didn't know that their opponent was Spain, not an ordinary team. Spain is 5 start team and Turkiye is 4 star team…

[Franctoshi]

although I didn't follow up that match, but when I checked Livescore I was surprised, because the score I saw spain beat turkey 6:0 which was never expecting to see such thing because turkey team is not a week team, but there is one thing you guys should understand that in football anything can help, normally nobody was expecting Spain to beat turkey 6:0, because turkey also had good team, and I believe turkey team is still in good performance, but not like the one of Spain. So things like this one of Spain and turkey due happen in football.

in my opinion, the reason turkey conceded six goals and failed to score even one was that their team structure lagged far behind spain's. when turkey briefly had possession of the ball, we didn't see clear passes or a fast attack organization, and they immediately lost the ball to spain. in contrast, spain, when in possession, scored goals by comfortably passing through the midfield and defense in a very organized manner. spain is a team with a fast-paced understanding, and turkey couldn't handle this difference in the team.

Normally, when it comes to head-to-heath comparison, strength and tactical system of play, and experience, don't expect Turkey to march the strength with spainish team, the one time world cup champions, Spanish football team, no matter how decline in form they, it never gonna be an easy game for the Turkish team as usual.

[Stepstowealth]

Italy and Israel turned their match today into a goal scoring festival as the match ended in a 9 goals thriller. I think  Gattuso looks like who's going to revive Italy because this is his second game in charge of the team and he could get two wins despite that this game against Israel they conceded many goals but if Gattuso can work on the defense, he won't have many challenges since they are good at goal scoring. Israel tried to score the first goal but Italy equalized before half time then coming to the second half Israel was ahead again before Italy equalized and won them by a score of 4:5.

I commend Israel for making the game to be entertaining and not allowing Italy to dominate the game all through. They took the game to Italy in a manner that you will not know that the difference in quality and ranking of the teams is so much. Italy ranks 11th and Israel ranks 75th. If Italy had to dig deep to win this game, should that be something to worry about? This should have been a game they won easily, but at a point where they had the two goal advantage, they lost it very easily and the game quickly became 4-4. Against a better side than Israel, Italy may not be able to do better because it looks like they have a lot of defensive challenges, that is something clearly that Gatuso will need to work on. Retegui center forward play was excellent, Tonali's confidence got them the win.