Quote from: sana54210 on May 05, 2023, 04:01:02 PM

Quote from: Sithara007 on May 04, 2023, 02:32:05 AM

It was perhaps the most unexpected result during Qatar 2022. No one expected Argentina to go down against Saudi Arabia, and that too in their first match. But to their credit, Argentina recovered well, and never lost another match in the tournament. Saudi Arabia on the other hand failed to qualify for the round of 16. But then, the edition of 2022 was full of surprises. Brazil lost to Cameroon, France lost to Tunisia, Germany lost to Japan and so on. I just hope that in 2026 also we will be able to witness similar upsets.

That's the luck of Qatar when they had one of the best games in any world cup we have seen. I mean surely there must have been some other world cup with great results as well, but for example this final has been one of the best finals we have ever seen.

A 2-2 ending with 2 goals from France coming in the last 12 minutes, then 1-1 on overtime when both teams scored, a last minute near impossible save by Martinez on the very last seconds of the game, and then penalties that were amazing to watch as well. All in all it felt like it was the best game I have seen in a long time, not just in a world cup but I haven't seen a game that hyped for a long time, everyone felt joy when watching it, if you are a football fan, you loved that game without a doubt, no matter who you rooted for.

I guess that made a lot of people watch it and have more fun, but nobody knew that would happen before the game though, so just because the game ended that way doesn't mean they were better, it just means they were not ready for it. Sure the final got a lot of views afterwards, from youtube and repeats and all that, but I would guess that whoever watched it at the time, would have watched it whatever the result was, so it shouldn't be a shocking result.

In the end, we are talking about Qatar facing so many troubles due to the fact that thousands of people died building everything, so they got some attention like they wanted to, but the attention they got wasn't really for things that they would want to be known for, it was all bad media and to be fair if what is told is true, then I am afraid they deserved it as well.