That's the thing I noticed when watching him at youth level. He was very press resistant, which is why I likened him to de Jong. He played as a deep lying playmaker. However, since moving to Europe, it seems he's become more of a box to box ball winner who is there to compliment a DLP rather than be the DLP himself.
Copa America 2024 - Argentina Win
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Interesting. Probably because his passing doesn't seem very good. As in, he's okay keeping it simple but he does have a wayward pass in him. Reminds me of a modern Casemiro.
Some proper shithouse football so far in this Brazil / Uruguay match.
Start-stop-start-stop-repeat
Start-stop-start-stop-repeat
This competition is generally 10x more entertaining than the Euros. Tuned in initially to check out Ugarte and now just hooked on it.
It has been more entertaining across the board. It’s just the start of this match has basically just been Uruguay trying to kick Brazil off the pitch.
Endrick vs Araujo is developing into a promising subplot
Uruguay clearly instructed to kick Brazil high up the pitch to prevent any counter-attacks
How is that not a yellow ffs
You have to shoot there
Is Cavani no longer with the team ?
Retired from the NT earlier this year, although I don't think he had been called up since Qatar
Araujo hammy?
I heard they are using smaller pitches, it might have something to do with it.
Since when does Gimenez have the Lindelof haircut?
Looks like Araujo flew too close to the sun
Top level international football is so boring.
Edit: Nunez
Edit: Nunez
Endrick standing over him pretending to hide his smug satisfaction was quite entertaining
FFS Raphinha is cack
Haha yes I saw that too. I wonder what he said to him.
Top level international football is so boring.
Edit: Nunez
Come on man, Copa America is just incredible
Thanks. Noticed Suarez is still with the team.
What a great cross... come on Darwin you gotta bury that.
They’re legit just trying to murder a child out there & not even a yellow card
Come on man, most of the teams aren't top level..
Rodrygo is a very weird player. He's moderately important for a very strong Madrid side and for Brazil, and yet I can't recall ever watching a game where he did anything of note.
You should have watched the games with teams like Venezuela in them…. If players from your club are in then you just hope they survive.
Ugarte does seem like an impressively physical presence in midfield
Ref should be dishing out yellows for all the professional fouls to improve the fluidity of the match. We could have had at least 4 yellow cards per team by now.
this game is one hack and foul after another which makes it all that more intriguing
he's been fantastic in this match so far
Elano, Felipe Melo and Gilberto Silva looked like prime Tiki Taka Barça's compared to the current midfield.
Truly amazing that Brazil has this game’s first yellow
I somehow missed every Venezuela game with random life stuff.
Uruguay must have 13 or 14 fouls in the first half and no yellows
Ehh, a certain club semi final a few years ago?
I love this referee. It also helps how crazy he's making the Brazil manager go
Been watching the match in the fan zone on copacabana beach. Surprised at just how poor the quality is on show given the players.
Seems like an annoying little shit that kid
Not really. The first yellow should have been for a foul on Pellistri earlier on.
Agree the offence getting the first yellow was just the entire half's standard tactical foul fodder from both.
It's always a choppy game like that with Brazil lately.
I must have missed it
He's already so confident and mouthy. Literally taking the ball off his teammates during a counter, telling teammates off for allowing the opposition to win a header from a corner, always in the refs ear. He's something else!
That whole passage of play