Giggsyking
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Just going through the squads, seeing what I notice.
Lacazette is captaining France, they also have Olise and Mateta in there from Palace.
Naby Keita in the Guinea squad.
Alvarez playing back to back tournaments for Argentina following the Copa America, so is Otamendi (captain) who was used sparingly. Alvarez did get a bit of a rest towards the end of PL season, benched for City's final 4 games.
Elneny is Egypt captain.
Barcelona's Fermin Lopez in there for Spain.
No Brazil, they didn't qualify after winning the last 2 Olympics. Japan choosing not to take any of up to 3 over 23 players they could have selected.
How is Alvarez playing in this after competing in the copa?
Following the shameful behaviour after the match ended, they probably deserved zero points.Morocco deserved 3 points.
Morocco deserved 3 points.
Following the shameful behaviour after the match ended, they probably deserved zero points.
When winning by one goal? yes.
After the penalty and second goal they wrongly decided to sat back and waste time insted of being more detreminated to finish us.
If they had focus on trully close the match, they would have taken the cake seeing how rattle the Argentinian team was.
Yet even with Masche being quite clueless, the match got even and in the final stages Morocco could have even loose if not for some awuful finishings.
I think the tie is ok, yet I think that Morocco played better when they were better and Argentina looked disorganized as fvck.
That is a crowd thing, it's the authorities the ones that should be more lenient and preventive.
I also can easily understand that if the Morocco team didn't knew the new VAR rule in the Olympics regarding counting every exact minute lost, they wouldn't restort to some time wasting, I guess they were surprised.
BTW that new rule is cool, but should be enhaced by the Ref doing his job and oblying teams to treat injured players outside the field, if not we will end with 20 extra minutes. Also in the additional 15 minutes there was a Morroco player in the floor like another 4 or 5 minutes, so if the refs do not do their jobs with players treatment, it will end in a very silly rule the one of counting precisly the minutes wasted.
Morroccan fans endangered the players by throwing explosives, bottles and invading the pitch. I don't really trust french security after last week's chant debacle.
Yes but as is the norm, teams are punished for their fan's actions. This shouldn't be any different.Ok, but this doesn't take the credit away of the good perfomance by the Moroccan team. It's more on the security of the place than even the fans, since it's not Moroccan ground and there are always some knucklehead that ruins even an Olympic event
Yes but as is the norm, teams are punished for their fan's actions. This shouldn't be any different.
Medina goal was disallowed, 2-1 and 3 minutes to be played.
Yes he was, they showed the image. Half a boot.For real? Medina wasn't offside, I guess someone else must have been, bizarre to say the least.
Everything in this match was kind of disorganized and weird
For real? Medina wasn't offside, I guess someone else must have been, bizarre to say the least
I don't get it.
Medina can't be offside, the 11 from Morocco habilitated him by far, the only player that can be it's Amione, other one?? dunno..if it's Amione must have been by some mm, and an hour an half later? everything quite bizarre to say the least, they could have revised the penalty in that time too.
I don't get it.
Medina can't be offside, the 11 from Morocco habilitated him by far, the only player that can be it's Amione, other one?? dunno..if it's Amione must have been by some mm, and an hour an half later? everything quite bizarre to say the least, they could have revised the penalty in that time too.
I don't know the name but it was offside on the guy heading the ball before the guy who headed it in. Big toe offside similar to Delaney for Denmark against Germany
It's amione. Half the boot.
Surprised Mudryk didn't go or get called up