It was a shitty mistake but it's funny how the DEFENDER DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM SAW THE SHOT COMING DIRECTLY AT HIM AND COULDN'T FUCKING KICK IT INTO SPACE.
Ream (besides the goalie) was directly responsible
for the two goals that made the morale difference.
You can see the whole thing crumbling in that moment.
The Pulisic (self) injury destabilized an otherwise competent team
with no backbone nor backup plan to accomodate for this,
and
no cheering from their fans,
being locals,
mere hours past their 250th birthday.
It's not illegal to make some noise
as long as you are not Mexican.
Belgium showed a gruyere defense,
their goalkeeper kind of sucked and they were also
running on nerves that a cheering crowd could have exploited,
but the lack of partnerships within the US team ended up
sealing the deal and handing a broad goal difference
to one of the most boring teams of the whole World Cup
(and hands down the one with the most vomitive alt-jersey colours).
Add to that the whole red card ruckus
(doesn't matter what side you're on, everyone got free ammo
to take potshots, which became fair game in the name of
gossip controversy, tribalism and moral posturing) and there you go:
USA 1 - Belgium 4.
Certainly not Brazil 1- Germany 7.
At the end of the day, that's all there is to it.-
