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yep, just burned through a load of tokens, but asked my AI assitant in 3 parts (easiest way to get a true answer)

Here's what I found - Southampton players (on the books at the time) who featured at both tournaments:

2018 World Cup (Russia)

  • Jan Bednarek – Poland
  • Cédric Soares – Portugal
  • Maya Yoshida – Japan
  • Dušan Tadić – Serbia
2022 World Cup (Qatar)

  • Mohammed Salisu – Ghana
  • Armel Bella-Kotchap – Germany
Worth noting a few near-misses: James Ward-Prowse was heavily talked up as an England contender for Qatar but didn't make Southgate's final 26, and Hojbjerg and Boufal were both left out of their squads for Russia 2018 despite being at Saints at the time.

If you want, I can dig into how each of these players actually performed at their respective tournaments.

Yes — Mohammed Salisu got the standout one. He opened the scoring for Ghana against South Korea in the 2022 World Cup (24th minute, 3-2 win), becoming the first defender ever to score for Ghana at a World Cup.

As for the others:

  • Dušan Tadić didn't score at either tournament, but was Serbia's captain in 2022 and provided two assists in that group stage.
  • Jan Bednarek, Maya Yoshida, Cédric Soares, Armel Bella-Kotchap — none of them found the net at their respective tournaments.
So out of that group, Salisu is your man — and notably it came while he was still a current Saints player, which made it a nice moment for the club.
 
thereisonlyoneno7 said:
yep, just burned through a load of tokens, but asked my AI assitant in 3 parts (easiest way to get a true answer)

Here's what I found - Southampton players (on the books at the time) who featured at both tournaments:

2018 World Cup (Russia)

  • Jan Bednarek – Poland
  • Cédric Soares – Portugal
  • Maya Yoshida – Japan
  • Dušan Tadić – Serbia
2022 World Cup (Qatar)

  • Mohammed Salisu – Ghana
  • Armel Bella-Kotchap – Germany
Worth noting a few near-misses: James Ward-Prowse was heavily talked up as an England contender for Qatar but didn't make Southgate's final 26, and Hojbjerg and Boufal were both left out of their squads for Russia 2018 despite being at Saints at the time.

If you want, I can dig into how each of these players actually performed at their respective tournaments.

Yes — Mohammed Salisu got the standout one. He opened the scoring for Ghana against South Korea in the 2022 World Cup (24th minute, 3-2 win), becoming the first defender ever to score for Ghana at a World Cup.

As for the others:

  • Dušan Tadić didn't score at either tournament, but was Serbia's captain in 2022 and provided two assists in that group stage.
  • Jan Bednarek, Maya Yoshida, Cédric Soares, Armel Bella-Kotchap — none of them found the net at their respective tournaments.
So out of that group, Salisu is your man — and notably it came while he was still a current Saints player, which made it a nice moment for the club.
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And yet.

www.bbc.co.uk

Bednarek puts Poland ahead against Japan

Jan Bednarek opens the scoring for Poland against Japan in the final round of games in group H at the 2018 World Cup.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
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RSS said:
And yet.

www.bbc.co.uk

Bednarek puts Poland ahead against Japan

Jan Bednarek opens the scoring for Poland against Japan in the final round of games in group H at the 2018 World Cup.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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I'll ask for a refund on those tokens I burned through.



You're right, my apologies — I missed that one. Jan Bednarek did score in Poland's final group game against Japan in 2018, a 59th-minute volley from a Rafał Kurzawa free kick, in a 1-0 win (even though Poland were already eliminated). Ironically, that goal also played a small part in the drama that saw Japan progress on fair-play rules over Senegal.

So updated tally for that group of Southampton players:

  • Jan Bednarek – scored vs Japan, 2018
  • Mohammed Salisu – scored vs South Korea, 2022
Both Yoshida and Bednarek were actually on the pitch together for that game too, on opposite sides — a fun little Southampton connection.
 
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EasyBreezer said:
AI is laughably bad at real world events.

I've had numerous people return projects to me with 'facts' I know to be incorrect.

Did a pub quiz a few weeks back that was written by AI and about 20% of the answers were wrong, it was carnage <laugh>
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Yeah it is good at things like coding or analysing a technical doc, but it just makes up **** if you ask it something and it doesn't know.

The other day I was having an issue with fusion (3d modelling software) where I wanted to do what I thought was a simple thing. Sent me down a rabbit hole of doing stuff for over an hour - in the end I did an old fashioned google and it was a 5 second fix.
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Yeah it is good at things like coding or analysing a technical doc, but it just makes up **** if you ask it something and it doesn't know.

The other day I was having an issue with fusion (3d modelling software) where I wanted to do what I thought was a simple thing. Sent me down a rabbit hole of doing stuff for over an hour - in the end I did an old fashioned google and it was a 5 second fix.
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I heard a story recently where a guy used AI to summarise information - something like thousands of response to a survey. He then did some manual checks because it was the first time he'd used AI and found the summary was completely wrong. So he asked the AI why the summary was wrong and it basically replied that it didn't think he'd check so it just made the numbers up!
 
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- Doing The Lambert Walk said:
These are more like the vibes I like to see at a World Cup

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I try to remember that the US like everywhere is not a monolith and there are a lot of good people there.

But they didn't half **** things up for everyone in 2024, its sometimes hard to get over that.
 
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