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[A8K]

I am thinking 9-0 would have been a ramadan gift for some. yeah them KSAians stand up well to us.

It should have been 7-0?

 

[A8K]

at least most citizens can be proud of that shit.. giving an image / illusion is half that battle.

Oh come on.
MBS is a idiot who couldn't reform his shekam, let alone a country. I know some Iranians think KSA is the greatest now that it wants Iran destroyed, but no thanks.

I do feel bad for their general fans though.

 

[Zob Ahan]

Oh come on.
MBS is a idiot who couldn't reform his shekam, let alone a country. I know some Iranians think KSA is the greatest now that it wants Iran destroyed, but no thanks.

I do feel bad for their general fans though.

Unfortunately for us MBS is investing in infrastructure and doing some reforms while we talked about them for 21 years.

 

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[Sly]

As far as football goes whenever we played them we would be nervous as hell.

That was over 7-8 years ago. With this team and with CQ, we would not only NOT be nervous, we would actually trash them too.

 

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[keyvan_pars]

unless if someone else mentioned, first record set.

highest goal difference in opening game.

 

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[keyvan_pars]

opening games:

1930: France 4-1 Mexico
1934: Austria 3-2 France
1938: Switzerland 1-1 Germany
hitler clusterfuck
1950: Brazil 4-0 Mexico
1954: Uruguay 2-0 Czechoslovakia
1958:Sweden 3-0 Mexico
1962:: Uruguay 2-1 Colombia
1966: England 0-0 Uruguay
1970: Mexico 0-0 CCCP
1974: Brazil 0-0 Yugoslavia
1978: West Germany 0-0 Poland
1982: Belgium 1-0 Argentina
1986: Italy 1-1 Bulgaria
1990: Cameroon 1-0 Argentina
1994: Germany 1-0 Bolivia
1998: Brazil 2-1 Scotland
2002: Senegal 1-0 France
2006: Germany 4-2 Costa Rica
2010: Mexico 1-1 South Africa
2014: Brazil 3-1 Croatia
2018: Russia 5-0 Saudi Arabia

please note that between 1962 and 1982 there was a 20 year goal drought for opening games

 

[Shahram]

All the money the Saudis paid the Spanish clubs take to take several KSA players!
I hope Iran fares better in its tough matches.

 

[Finally]

It looked like KSA players were very slow. Most likely due to fasting.

 

[Behrooz_C]

For Saudi this was worse than their 8-0 drubbing by Germany. At least Germany were a great team. This Russian lot were so poor themselves I fell asleep.

 

[OSTAD POOYA]

So basically this was the worst opening game in World cup history.

 

[keyvan_pars]

For Saudi this was worse than their 8-0 drubbing by Germany. At least Germany were a great team. This Russian lot were so poor themselves I fell asleep.

I would not call Germany's 2002 squad a great team. Probably the worst they have ever had at the world cup (actually no, the worst was 1978 this was the second worst) however, you are absolutely correct that they played better than the Russians today.

And that saudi team was a better team than this.


if this was Belgium or France playing saudis it would go into double digits

 

[Behrooz_C]

I would not call Germany's 2002 squad a great team. Probably the worst they have ever had at the world cup (actually no, the worst was 1978 this was the second worst) however, you are absolutely correct that they played better than the Russians today.

And that saudi team was a better team than this.


if this was Belgium or France playing saudis it would go into double digits

I can't wait to see how many Uruguay or Egypt will put past them.

 

[oghabealborz]

You'd think after KSA shitting all over Team Melli every single time at crucial moments, there would be a bit more humility, but no!

LOL ! actualy sounds to me someone else is doing that for them right here every single time at crucial moments !

 

[Playboy]

wrong stats quoted above.

the worst opening loss was italy beating usa 7-1 in 1934.

back then there were no groups and no single opening match.
16 teams played in 8 simultaneous matches in the round of 16 games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_FIFA_World_Cup

 

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