In comparison to Madrid's 21. Who have also conceded 11 thus far. Leading to a GD that is 19 goals higher. What a shame that La Liga uses head to head rather than goal difference as a tie-breaker - oh wait!
That is obscene.
And Kompany's Bayern on 32 in 9 Bundesliga games. The good old yolo approach lives.
Seems increasingly clear to me that his style of football requires a lot of practice/time spent together to work effectively - and that time is not available to you as a national team manager.
A little better than our 9 goals in 10 games
Fine margins
The sale of a player like Rashford for 50-60m can easily be manipulated to lead to a 200m spend without breaching PSR. I don’t think it’s a question of if we can spend big, it’s more how we can, and whether we should. It’s definitely a case, to some degree, of sell to buy, but depending who we sell, we can spend multiples of that.
They couldn't score against Japan. That's it really. It's extremely high risk high reward football his teams play, and in a WC competition where a single "bad" game can be your undoing, it's more vulnerable to the vagaries of chance than, say, Southgate's approach
They've already lost to Monaco so it will be interesting to see how they do against the big boys.
Everybody gets cut down to size by the Flickinator (except Monaco and Osasuna, they were too tiny to begin with)
Unfortunately yes.
Yeah Barcelona and Liverpool are clearly the two best teams at the moment.
They're top of the league and second in CL group. Results like yesterday's happen. It's their away form specifically that's worrying
I’m not sure it’s right to say this after yesterday’s game to be honest. Barca were very good at times but just couldn’t score. Their xG must have been 3+. Lewa missed some great chances.
Still since the Celta game the results have been more inkeeping with the performances. Before that they scored a lot but we're lucky not to concede alot too, offsides and bad finishing but Celta 2-2, Betis as well have shown their weaknesses. Barca fans will say the red card changed the Celta game but forget it's because of the suicidal high line the git the red card in the first place. Flick is now trying to compensate defensively and it's affecting their offense. They'll need to strike a proper balance over the course of the season or find themselves in second soon as I'm sure you guys will start your typical run of playing wrap but picking up points in the second half of the season.
They'll be 3rd if Atletico and Real win their games in hand. Just a month ago it looked like they've already won the league.
Xavi had lot of good ideas and implementation. Most of his youth call-ups and signings are paying dividends now.
Christ, coming into the Flick thread to Amorim bash is quite something...
Think you've missed it, it's not about Amorim but about Man United fans and the weird rules they make that only apply at United.
Looking at your contributions in the Amorim thread you're clearly very anti him and sad ETH didn't do better. Bringing that into the Flick thread is odd
Even there, if not for the stupid and highly questionable red card to Araujo, they likely make the SF against Dortmund last season
Try again! Though he is doing a terrible job so far, I don't want him sacked and think he deserves more time to see if we'll improve. Just don't agree with the load of excuses and blaming of EtH for the poor job he's doing.
I am fairly black and white, true. But it's just an odd thread to use to make the points you're trying to make. But it's really none of my business, so I'll shut up!
