Is this really the “best World Cup ever” like Fox claims?

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doubt anyone outside the U.S. cares that USA is out. They are a 2nd rate team anyway.

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bullshite the amount of shite thrown my way bc we didn’t make it was insane

Pretty much the default argument of anyone debating an American will be you didn’t even make the last World Cup

Maybe I'm a prisoner of the moment, but it's much more exciting than 2014, not accounting for the lack of the USA.

Maybe it's just the team's I was rooting for the most, Denmark and Croatia, had some good games.

It's been the most entertaining one that I can remember. I vividly remember every cup since 2002, can only remember a few pieces of 1998.

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Seems like it’s great if you’re a EuroFan. But the case against it.

*No Italy, No Netherlands, No USA
*All-European semis, 3 of the 4 are miles from each other
*Germany sent home early
*Spain, Ronaldo, Messi out early
*South America eliminated in the quarters

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Outside of the US not being in it, I only care about the games being interesting. I don't care which "stars" are still around or which continent the countries are from.

It’s been phenomenal. There have only a few shite games (the meaningless France-Denmark fixture was the worst, and I believe that’s the only 0-0 match).

People are saying it’s the best simply due to the excitement of the games itself. There have been a record number of goals in the dying minutes (I saw an infographic showing all the last minute goals and it blew away the other WC).

Think about some of the great matches like the 3-3 Spain-Portugal opener, Belgium’s comeback over Japan, etc.

I heard the only other one in contention would be France 1998.

I dont think the quality of play has been that great... but pure entertainment value is up there with anything that I remember...

It certainly has a lot of late drama. But quality attacking play has been lacking, though there have been some great goals.

Overall it's been a fun tournament.

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Croatia is the only European team left. The other 3 are basically Africans posing as European.

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Darijo Srna would cry at this comment.

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It certainly has a lot of late drama. But quality attacking play has been lacking, though there have been some great goals.

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Again, casual here--but that Spain/Russia match was the most horrific, mind-numbingly boring, stereotypical "this is why I hate soccer" match I have ever seen.

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Again, casual here--but that Spain/Russia match was the most horrific, mind-numbingly boring, stereotypical "this is why I hate soccer" match I have ever seen.

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Well yeah that was Spain being really stupid with their approach.

In contrast, Spain's 3-3 game with Portugal was one of the all-time great WC games.

In general, there has been few players willing to take games on and risk making mistakes. There has been a lack of incisive passing except for a few exceptions. This is to be expected, especially in the knockout stage. Add to that that international football is fluid than the club game means that the cautious approach can yield huge dividends.