Day 5: Hungary vs Portugal | France vs Germany

Piratesoup said:
Most germans expected pretty much exactly this, except that we didn't concede as many chances off counters as I'd though.
This setup won't work against strong teams, there's nothing urgent and dangerous about it.
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Having 4 players from Bayern on the same lineup it’s helpful for the rest of the tournament, don’t know how many players from Spain have that advantage, even England usually they don’t have a lot of players from the same club. It’s early to take conclusions.
 
Flick in the stands, probably thinking about how to tell Gündan and Kroos that they won't play together in a midfield two once he's at the helm.
 
Varane has imperial so far in defense.
 
Havertz is trash and Gnabry is wasted in a central position
 
New contract for Pogba.. Raiola comes in swinging and Ed takes a chair to the head as a last (one of many) heroic act for the club.
 
SCP said:
Having 4 players from Bayern on the same lineup it’s helpful for the rest of the tournament, don’t know how many players from Spain have that advantage, even England usually they don’t have a lot of players from the same club. It’s early to take conclusions.
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Sure, but the team has been dreadful for a long time and Löw hasn't been able to make any formation work in years.
 
Portugal cause this French side problems. They are beatable
 
Not an easy chance, but you feel like he’s got to take that
 
Gringo said:
Portugal cause this French side problems. They are beatable
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Danilo and Carvalho get the run around from this midfield though. No more mobile than the Germans and far worse on the ball
 
Gnabry surely would've scored that one against the London All Star Team.
 
Sayros said:
I think they had Ousmane in that game against Australia, no? The balance was definitely off, but I don't think Deschamps will move from the Mbappe-Benz-Grizmann front three, it is balanced IMO (at least compared to the one against Australia), just missing those game-time automatisms.
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Yeah, in 2018 Dembele was the third big talent in attack. Then he got kicked out for Giroud, with Matuidi playing the wider role instead of Tolisso as the third CM. At that time Dembele in the front three seemed really exciting too, but just never clicked. Benzema's much less individualistic and more reliable but it just seems like Mbappe is better as the soloist with Griezmann as the focal point of attack. When a third one gets added in they don't quite know what to do IMO.
 
What is with this "He's a different player for France" shit? He's not, he's been as good as if not better than this for United for long stretches, I just think his body can't handle a whole season of consistently performing at his best. He has two really good months and then.either gets injured or looks way off the pace. For France he really only needs to give a month.
 
Rozay said:
Sometimes. He has lapses in concentration, but when he doesn’t, he’s had many good games in the centre of midfield for us, as recently as this season. He won our POTM before he was really moved to the left, for example.

Playing him in the pivot has risks, but those risks are luckily not always realised. And when they are not, he’s had many good games there. But I agree that the lowest risk is in a 3 (not that Rabiot has done anything at all tonight!).
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For sure, definitely have to pick and choose games when to play him there, but even if we do, neither Fred nor McTominay are ideal partners. Matic was a perfect partner for a year and Pogba did very well that year, if not for Mourinho picking fights for no reason.
 
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