We were with friends tonight to watch the game. They don’t know much about soccer, but wanted us to watch it with them to help explain what was happening. So good thing we found other things to talk about. The game was, I hate to say it, exactly what I thought would happen going into this Cup. It was easy to fall for the hype, and I did some, but the result tonight also didn’t surprise me. Disappointing though, for sure.
As I said, we really lucked out with Turkey losing their first two games. Otherwise, we probably bow out in the round of 32.
And I still think it was a mistake to rest our first team against Turkey, because they needed all the time playing together as possible.
More talented teams don’t need to do it, but we did.