World Cup: Group L: Ghana vs. Panama, 6/17/2026

[koyvoo]

He's in the wrong business

I’m not the biggest opponent to bringing a defensive structure to a team, or even a team being mostly defensive minded, but quality of opposition should dictate some of that.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

England are going to kill both of these teams.

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

I don’t think Columbia’s playing today.

Actually Columbia is playing next, whoops.

 

[BMOK33]

This may end up 0-0 in this weather

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

We call this tjongboll over here.

It’s that powder, damnit!

 

[Summer Rose]

England are going to kill both of these teams.

That's a little rude of them. They should settle for scoring more goals than they do; that would be more polite. This is the World Cup after all, not a war.

 

[robertmac43]

Maybe put on Williams and Fatawu.

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

Messi has to be making a killing off all these ads.

 

[Live in the Now]

Ghana: 0.03 xG Panama: 0.13 xG

 

[robertmac43]

Also more Semenyo on the ball in general. They started going up the middle with im but it needs to be more.

 

[Sweetnut]

 

[Jack Straw]

Messi has to be making a killing off all these ads.

And he doesn't even have to speak

 

[Summer Rose]

So Panama is one of six national teams I've actually seen in person. I saw them in a CONCACAF Gold Cup match against Nicaragua one year. Two of the others are Mexico and Guadeloupe, who played each other in the match afterwards (it was one of those things where one ticket got you into two matches played back to back at the same venue).

Then the other two are when I saw a USA vs. Venezuela international friendly once.

 

[Sweetnut]

I have to go now, busy day tomorrow. I'll try to watch the Switzerland and Canada games tomorrow if I CAN make it.
Always a pleasure hanging out with y'all.

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

They were going apeshit in Manchester.

 

[koyvoo]

TSN panel lamenting, as others have, that the weather hardly calls for a hydration break, but more notably the game has seemingly evolved from one of two halves to one of four quarters.

 

[Summer Rose]

I have to go now, busy day tomorrow. I'll try to watch the Switzerland and Canada games tomorrow if I CAN make it.
Always a pleasure hanging out with y'all.

Sleep well! Always a pleasure.

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

TSN panel lamenting, as others have, that the weather hardly calls for a hydration break, but more notably the game has seemingly evolved from one of two halves to one of four quarters.

Surely they’re not daft enough to not realize it’s a euphemism for “commercial break”.

 

[koyvoo]

Surely they’re not daft enough to not realize it’s a euphemism for “commercial break”.

It clearly has become so, but the first tournament that introduced them (I forget which) was played in extremely hot weather, and the intent was a more honest one.

Although, if I remember correctly, it was still dependent on exactly how hot it was on a particular match day, and not every game featured them.

 

[cgf]

TSN panel lamenting, as others have, that the weather hardly calls for a hydration break, but more notably the game has seemingly evolved from one of two halves to one of four quarters.

Yeah, this should be the last time America is allowed the World Cup. If your country is so inhospitable to the sport that it needs to be bastardized, then you shouldn’t host a football tournament.

 

[koyvoo]

Yeah, this should be the last time America is allowed the World Cup. If your country is so inhospitable to the sport that it needs to be bastardized, then you shouldn’t host a football tournament.

Like a winter World Cup in Qatar?

 

[Summer Rose]

It clearly has become so, but the first tournament that introduced them (I forget which) was played in extremely hot weather, and the intent was a more honest one.

Although, if I remember correctly, it was still dependent on exactly how hot it was on a particular match day, and not every game featured them.

I recall them from the 2014 World Cup. Don't remember the exact details, but it was something like at the referee's discretion if the temperature was above 25C, they only lasted one minute, were taken around the half hour mark of the half, and obviously the television coverage didn't show commercials during them.

 

[Summer Rose]

Yeah, this should be the last time America is allowed the World Cup. If your country is so inhospitable to the sport that it needs to be bastardized, then you shouldn’t host a football tournament.

In my home country's defense, this doesn't seem like it's being done because of the weather conditions here (it's a very large country with all sorts of climactic conditions around the nation), it's more like FIFA being greedy and they'd probably have done it anyway even if it was hosted somewhere else.

 

[cgf]

Like a winter World Cup in Qatar?

Yeah, that was disgraceful. Hopefully we can get a real World Cup again some day.

 

[koyvoo]

I recall them from the 2014 World Cup. Don't remember the exact details, but it was something like at the referee's discretion if the temperature was above 25C, they only lasted one minute, were taken around the half hour mark of the half, and obviously the television coverage didn't show commercials during them.

Sounds about right. I don’t think it’s a surprise that fifa and advertisers took it to where it is now.

I’m old enough to remember hockey night in Canada games that only had a single commercial for an entire period.