(Worst) Team of the Tournament

[Coulthard's Jaw]

ok this a lot more fun

 

[Wolf_pd]

Would have expected more Qatar players.

[Crispypaul]

More Polish players than Qatari or Welsh makes no sense

[Rob1981]

24 minutes ago, Crispypaul said:

More Polish players than Qatari or Welsh makes no sense

Ignore me  

Edited December 19, 2022 by Rob1981

[silentwars]

Seems a bit harsh to have 3 Polish players in there given they got to the knockout stages

[brett.spurs]

Expected more Loltaro.

[Vynal Seven]

I can’t be bothered doing a whole 11 but my front 3 would be

Ferran - Lukaku - Raphinha

[Weezer]

Could have just been the Welsh or Qatari team tbf.

[enigmatic]

4 hours ago, Crispypaul said:

More Polish players than Qatari or Welsh makes no sense

tbf Poland managed to be rubbish in the game they won, and if it's match rating averages then the low expectations on Qatari and Welsh players are going to help. Still not sure how Zielinski made it in bearing in mind he scored a goal in their victory though

 

Would probably be more fun compiling a list focused on good reputation players playing for sides that reached the knockouts and bring the likes of Lautaro and Upamecano who played in the final in for obscure players nobody expected anything from.

 

[Weezer]

1 hour ago, enigmatic said:

Would probably be more fun compiling a list focused on good reputation players playing for sides that reached the knockouts and bring the likes of Lautaro and Upamecano who played in the final in for obscure players nobody expected anything from.

 

We need an over hyped and under delivering XI. Lukaku and Lautaro up front definitely. Navas maybe the keeper seeing as he somehow managed to let past everything Spain hit in their first game.

Thomas Muller? Although you could pick a number of the German players tbh.

Edited December 19, 2022 by Weezer

[Vynal Seven]

1 hour ago, Weezer said:

Could have just been the Welsh or Qatari team tbf.

There’s no point picking players nobody was ever expecting anything from anyway though. 

The 3 I mentioned all have reputations that far exceed their actual level and then stunk the tournament out to boot. 

[Weezer]

That's why I made the suggestion in my last post. If you're simply creating a 'Worst XI' then it makes sense to add Qatari and Welsh players.

[bpecanha]

My team would be:

Borjan (Canada)

Oviedo (Costa Rica)
Khoukhi (Qatar)
Rudiger (Germany)
Lamptey (Ghana)

Boudiaf (Qatar)
Buchanan (Canada)
Pellistri (Uruguay)

L. Martinez (Argentina)
Cheddira (Morocco)
Almoez Ali (Qatar)

Manager: Kasper Hjulmand (Denmark)

[The_jagster]

That Serbian defender who kept playing Aboubakar onside should be in the worst XI for me.

[buffalo]

1 hour ago, Weezer said:

We need an over hyped and under delivering XI. Lukaku and Lautaro up front definitely. Navas maybe the keeper seeing as he somehow managed to let past everything Spain hit in their first game.

Thomas Muller? Although you could pick a number of the German players tbh.

Lukaku? Seriously? He only played 45mins and was lacking match fitness cause he didn't play for quite some time.

 

[Wolf_pd]

59 minutes ago, buffalo said:

Lukaku? Seriously? He only played 45mins and was lacking match fitness cause he didn't play for quite some time.

He missed more chances than the rest of the team combined.

[buffalo]

27 minutes ago, Wolf_pd said:

He missed more chances than the rest of the team combined.

at least with him we did get the chances

thought you Dutch were so keen on creating chances

[Carambau]

MY team would be:

 

The whole German team, by a mile

Edited December 19, 2022 by Carambau

[thomyorkessoul]

Where's Pulisic?

[swansongs]

Bale definitely there on merit. There must have been worse keepers than Hennessey, surely, but he did have one very funny moment.

[Barry Cartman]

Courtois surely worst goalie, alongside most of the Belgium side. Big difference between players who are not expected to perform vs big names like he and KDB being awful  

[pearcey_90]

Guy saved a penalty to spare their blushes against Canada, and was overall strong in that game considering how bad Belgium were first half.

[enigmatic]

Courtois getting done by a repeat of the set piece he got away with was pretty funny, but Navas managed to be at fault for more goals in one game than Courtois conceded in total...

[buffalo]

think it also says something on how much we expect from Courtois I guess

all in all our Belgian top players that could potentially make the difference didn't show up and that showed

did get to see and discover Onana though

[kopsy101]

Ronaldo? Or does his penalty give him a bye here?

I'm also surprised KdB and B Silva didn't absolutely tear up trees, I expected big things. Not that they were bad, Silva in particular is good even when it's not happening for him.

[Orzelek]

Those best/worst teams are always up for discussion, but this one strikes me as being particualarly weird.

 

3 players from Poland, who made the knockout stages? Zielinski even scored a goal, and Cash was part of a defence who had two clean sheeets ffs   And if anyone from Poland should be selected for this team, it should've been Krychowiak who had a very poor tournament.

 

Also really weird with only one Qatari player and no Costa Ricans in the defence (11 goals conceeded in three games ffs).

 

Surprised no Germans made the team - Müller, Götze, Schlotterbeck and Süle are all worthy candidates. And although I completly agree about Skov Olsen having a bad tournament, Jensen was as bad, while Damsgaard and Dolberg were probably even worse. As for Belgium, both Hazard and Batshuayi should be concidered.

 

And also I miss the player I thought was worst at the tournament - Walid Cheddira. As great as the Moroccan team was, he was absolutely clueless. It genuinly looked like they had picked some random fan from the stands and put him on the pitch.