u/melvinlee88

In 2030, our starting lineup could be:

Beach: 26 years old

Circati: 26 years old

Italiano: 28 years old

Herrington: 22 years old

Bos: 27 years old

Souttar: 31 years old

Metcalfe: 30 years old

O'Neill: 32 years old

Okon: 25 years old

Toure: 26 years old

Irankunda: 24 years old

Volpato: 26 years old

And an injured McGree which we really missed would only turn 31!

Say what you want about Popovich, but at least he trusted his youth players this WC. Invaluable experience.

As we see from the interviews, the players selected was pre-determined and clearly in training, they were shown to be good at penalties to be picked in the real situation.

A centreback can take penalties better than a striker/midfielder. Two of Egypt scorers from the shootout were defenders. We've had defenders take penalties in shootouts in the past.

At the end, it was a penalty shootout and shit happens.

Instead, we should be critical about how this team never got going offensively, never had their best attacking players on at the same time, etc etc.