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How to Watch Football Tactically — A Quick Guide for the Casual Fan
Casual viewers watch the ball. Tactical viewers watch the players without the ball. Here''s how to upgrade your viewing in 10 simple shifts.
Saudi Arabia beating Argentina. Cameroon beating Argentina. Senegal beating France. Eight World Cup upsets that defined the tournament's chaos.
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Casual viewers watch the ball. Tactical viewers watch the players without the ball. Here''s how to upgrade your viewing in 10 simple shifts.
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Every World Cup is remembered for one upset. The 90 minutes when a smaller nation outworked, outsmarted, or just outluck'd a giant. Here are eight that still get talked about.
Probably the greatest upset in the tournament's history. England, the inventors of the modern game, arrived in Brazil expecting to win. A semi-professional US side, mostly factory workers, scored once and held. UK papers reportedly wired in the score and were corrected — "must be 10-0, not 1-0".
Italy were the reigning European champions. North Korea were a complete unknown. Pak Doo-ik's 42nd-minute goal sent Italy home in the group stage. Pak became a national hero; Italy famously had tomatoes thrown at the airport on return.
The opening match of Italia '90. The defending champions vs the African outsider. Argentina had Maradona; Cameroon had nothing on paper. Two red cards in, Cameroon scored, held, and walked off as the first African team to beat the reigning champion at a World Cup.
A tactical earthquake on home soil. Colombia were the second-favourite for the tournament; the USA were hosts and barely expected to qualify from the group. A 2-1 win including the infamous Andrés Escobar own goal. Tragedy followed Escobar home.
Opening match again. Defending champions France vs an African side appearing at their first World Cup. Senegal's Papa Bouba Diop scored the only goal. France went out in the group stage; Senegal made the quarter-finals.
Not a World Cup, but the template that defined "small team beats big" thereafter. Otto Rehhagel's Greece played 4-3-3 deep-block, counter-attacking, and won the tournament. Every underdog coach since has studied it.
Argentina hadn't lost a competitive match in 36 games. Saudi Arabia caught them with a high line and four-man pressing wave. 10:00 PM kickoff Doha time — most of the football world thought it was a typo when the score came through.
Not a single upset but a sequence: Belgium (group), Spain (round of 16), Portugal (quarter-final). The first African team to reach a World Cup semi-final, on the back of disciplined defending and Yassine Bounou in absolute peak form.
Three structural reasons:
The new format guarantees more upset opportunities. Subscribe to the World Cup 2026 feed to catch every match — the upset of the tournament rarely happens on a marquee Saturday night.