2024 Olympic Football

[Gotham Gator]

Men's tournament starts today (July 24). Women's starts tomorrow (July 25).

 

[Gotham Gator]

USA play host France at 3pm today.

This morning saw Argentina come from 2-0 down to tie Morocco, including a goal in the 16' minute of added time.

 

[ZYanksRule]

USA play host France at 3pm today.

This morning saw Argentina come from 2-0 down to tie Morocco, including a goal in the 16' minute of added time.

Or not. After the goal they took the players off the field because Morrocan fans invaded the pitch ... two hours later they disallowed the goal and Morocco won. Farcical.

 

[Gotham Gator]

Wait what??? Really? On what basis did they disallow?

This sounds almost as bad as the 1972 Olympic Basketball Final.

 

[ZYanksRule]

Wait what??? Really? On what basis did they disallow?

This sounds almost as bad as the 1972 Olympic Basketball Final.

VAR determined the goal was offsides. So they brought the teams back out two hours later after the stadium had been cleared to play the final 3 minutes.

 

[mgarbowski]

Copa America: Presents Grade A world-class incompetence in officiating games and maintaining a secure environment.

Olympics 2024: Tiens ma bière

Copa America: ¿El primer día?

 

[Gotham Gator]

The USA game was frustrating. We really did bring it to them and the 3-0 result is not particularly close to the reality of the match. We hit the post twice and forced a huge save another time. France hit two goals from well outside the box and then got a clean header off a corner.

I think xG was something like 1.3 to 1.1 favoring France.