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Re:Europe’s Super League scores an own goal by username90 on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:20AM (#26912715)
Seeing a good team beat a bad team is fun. I've watched soccer where everyone knew "our" team would win, the question was if it would win small like 4-0 or big like 10-0. Watching sports isn't just about the suspense over who will win, there is so much more to it than that.

And it is hard to appreciate how good a team is without seeing them play against worse teams. Similarly from the bad teams side it is fun seeing them just make a single goal against a good team, you don't have to win.

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Re:Europe’s Super League scores an own goal by MisterBastahrd on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:34AM (#26913192)
A great team proves themselves by beating great competition, not bad competition. Anyone can throttle a punching dummy. I don't know why people sit there and pretend like if you put the 12 squads together in their own league that the games would all be evenly matched. That's never the case. It's much more interesting for most people for a game to be close than to watch a blowout with an overmatched opponent.
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