I preferred this soccer world cup over that of last year for reasons one of them is how the players looked more like working as one entity through their accurate ball passing and good use of the width of the field while attacking the opposing team. To me these games looked more professional than street soccer, than I can remember those of last year did.
Another thing was how normal and reasonable the behaviour related to taking advantage of opportunities that become available to players. There were less missing the goal as if it is expected to be in a different place but moved without prior notice. There were also, in my view, good sense for when to take advantage of an opportunity, versus trying to make a better opportunity of it but instead end up losing it. The teams of this world cup sounded to me more balanced in how much good playing far from the goal is accompanied by the same near the goal. There were less of that thing seeing elsewhere with players knowing how to play a good game but not how to end the ball in the net of the opposing team.
Unfortunately, that was earlier in this world cup and now I am seeing less of that even though I tried to take things like the wasting of opportunities and sending the ball away from the goal I saw with the South Korean and Jamaican Teams as exceptions.
Of course, I am not denying other qualities here, like the effort to present a good game even though the result may not matter much, while the English Team of last year world cup who should not have advanced near where it reached to begin with plays noticeably with less effort for the third position as if it is beneath them.
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