Well played!
PS: Shouldn‘t you hve done it the other way around to not jinx it?
PPS: Hojbjerg > Kroos so that is really obvious what you‘re doing?
Round of 16 | Switzerland vs Italy | Germany vs Denmark
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PS: Shouldn‘t you hve done it the other way around to not jinx it?
PPS: Hojbjerg > Kroos so that is really obvious what you‘re doing?
The real world! Højbjerg is the man!
Wirtz hasn't been great, playing both him and Musiala is a tactical concession in terms of width and Musiala deserves it more.
It makes perfect sense on paper. But if Sane is having a stinker no one can claim to be surprised by it either, so as always hindsight will dictate whether this decision is called smart or idiotic.
Well played!
PS: Shouldn‘t you hve done it the other way around to not jinx it?
PPS: Hojbjerg > Kroos so that is really obvious what you‘re doing?
It's a conversation starter.
Tuning in for Musiala and Kroos
It seems to be working.
On Hojbjerg: he‘s not the „one that got away“ but I m still sad he didn‘t make it at Bayern.
Hoping for a Danish upset.
If Germany score early, I’ll go 4-0. If not, 2-0.
That's true - however France's teams are heavily influenced by a large quantity of the whole continent of Africa settling in at France and playing their nationality as French. They have algerians, Ivory Coast, Nigerian players etc
Its happening in England too. Saka, Mainoo, Eze, Guehi etc
http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamBlack/PlyrsBlckMtchUsage/PlyrsBlack.html
There is many more players in the national team with potentially african heritage than ever before in terms of quantity but maybe not the quality.
England has a lot of multinational people living together in the country usually moving in to England in the 1980's - so I'm actually expecting an asian player maybe through the area of India, Pakistan etc to pop up soon too.
In the next 20 years i wouldn't be surprised to see players from all across great britian, African background & asian backgrounds such as chinese or indian players play for England in a multicultural national team. Having that big variety of players from different continents playing for England would be very beneficial. Even someone like Rice who is irish has made a big difference to the England team so you can see how having alot of diverse nationalities in your squad can be very beneficial both in quantity and quality.
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It's definitely connected.
Ever since Germany became a boring 1 club league, the NT declined in quality. Their last WC win was achieved by a generation of players that played in the league when Dortmund and Schalke were regularly challenging for the title, and half of their team were current/former Dortmund and Schalke players.
Right now they're having a slight resurgence due to Leverkusen, and key Leverkusen players add some new value to the team.
Width or not Sane was cack so far. Same with Havertz. Expected Fullkrug to finally start.
Feck those cnuts. Vamos España!!!
But the rest of the team was truly terrible. Seriously, overall it had significantly less talent than this one
In hindsight yeah, but that's mostly mismanagement, poor timing and luck. The 2021 side was genuinely great and it wasn't playing above its level. It was merely the only time we got our players to translate their club form to the NT and be a team
Worse squad
@giorno
Much better defensively than this, but way worse in attack… he had 5 top players in his defensive set up, 3 of them WC winners (Buffon, Barzagli & De Rossi) and the other 2 were Bonucci & Chiellini… the rest of the squad was almost serie B level (Pelle, Eder, Giacherini…), and for whatever reason they didn’t have Verratti or Jorginho (both of them already good players) in that squad.
But Conte’s success was also the failure of his opponents. Belgium and Spain had far better squads, but they didn’t look to be coached at all… Weltmeister Germany also should have defeated them before the shootout.
Clive Tyldesley’s last ever hame on which he will commentate for ITV. The end of an era
End of an era for Clive Tyldesley
“Can United score? They always score”
“And Solskjaer has WON IT!”
Great commentator.. ITV are morons.
Disgraceful treatment of Tyldesley from ITV - especially given the individuals they have put in front of him. Nonsense
Sad that Clive won't be around here on in. I presume England will be Smatterface and that miserable sod Dixon.
Oliver ref and Atwell/Coote on VAR.
The Unholy Trinity
The Unholy Trinity
after the switzerland game earlier, is any one that interested in watching the shit side of draw?
Tillykke...And hopefully with a Hojlund masterclass.
Kroos needs several good nights of sleep.
Thomas Muller really gives his all during the national anthem.
Say what you like about the Germans. But they know how to national anthem.
It's a disgrace his last game for them is a last 16 fixture.
Unlike Trossard who needs decades.
Rasmus to announce himself tonight?
Hojberg had his hand on Andersen's ass in that huddle
Denmark to lose 3-0. Although we're generally a bit better against teams who don't just sit deep and wait.
It's stupid, there are other rounds yet, why now?
Oliver the ref and Atwell presumably in the VAR booth. Guaranteed VAR feck up then
It seems a bit wrong to have an English ref in charge of a Germany match in the knockout rounds of a major tournament.
Oh God, clanger guaranteed then.
Exactly. Such an undignified send off
Only if he grabs the mic from the announcer
I have a feeling this will go to ET
Schlaaaaaaaaand
Rate Tyldesley as a commentator. Him retiring means we must all now suffer the insufferable Peter Drury more often.
Germany lead already. Nope disallowed.
Disallowed.