Fernando and Fernandinho are the same player. In fact Fernando evolved into Fernandinho like a Pokemon.
Weird feelings of football
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Fernando evolved from Fer
Brazilian central midfielders are the most un-Brazilian players you can imagine, and have been for decades, from Dunga to Casemiro.
Agree with this. Really turns me off them. Start Fred.
The team that goes much further than expected in one world cup, never qualifies for the next one.
John Obi Mikel is around 28
The eventual World Cup or Euro winner is always a team that start off slightly shaky and get better as the tournament progresses and not the team that looks the best in the group stages
This...happened again today
Ewood Park is misspelled
1. Spanish footballers can only be either utter villains or absolute gentlemen
2. Iniesta has been 34 for 10 years
2. Iniesta has been 34 for 10 years
1. Darren Bent still plays in the premier league and is Harry Kane's strike partner for this World Cup.
2. Whenever I watch the South American WC qualification matches; I always have a mentally hard time distinguishing between Bolivia and Mexico as well as Colombia and Ecuador.
Seems like they are always the same countries who just decide to alternate their names.
3. Christophe' Dugarry & Paolo Maldini are one and the same person.
4. Apart from Dida, Brazil have always had shit goalkeepers after Taffarel in the 94 world cup.
2. Whenever I watch the South American WC qualification matches; I always have a mentally hard time distinguishing between Bolivia and Mexico as well as Colombia and Ecuador.
Seems like they are always the same countries who just decide to alternate their names.
3. Christophe' Dugarry & Paolo Maldini are one and the same person.
4. Apart from Dida, Brazil have always had shit goalkeepers after Taffarel in the 94 world cup.
Professional foul penalties are never scored
Penalty shootouts are exclusive to international football.
Except for that one night in Moscow
Except for that one night in Moscow
When I think of club football penalty shootouts, that is the only one that immediately come to memory.
When a player misses a penalty and the match goes to penalties, he always scores it in the shootout.
Larsson never played for united, nor get a premier league winners medal. It's a Myth.
Uruguay never won the World Cup.
More than two different teams have won the Champions League in the past 5 years. (But it's just been Madrid and Barcelona)
If someone scores a fantastic goal using a rare technique someone else will copy it and better it a few weeks later. (Mhktyriyan scorpion - Giroud, Ronaldo overhead - Bale)
Fellaini only scores with his head.
More than two different teams have won the Champions League in the past 5 years. (But it's just been Madrid and Barcelona)
If someone scores a fantastic goal using a rare technique someone else will copy it and better it a few weeks later. (Mhktyriyan scorpion - Giroud, Ronaldo overhead - Bale)
Fellaini only scores with his head.
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Nuno Gomes still plays for Portugal, he was an unused sub in this World Cup.
Nacho - Pavard in this world cup. This one is too weird!
England will win tonight, without fuss or drama.
Except Frank de Boer, of course.
Harry Kane's mouth is always open, no matter the situation.
So truegot to be the biggest wimp in football. He's always on the floor and makes a miraculous recovery.
It happened again tonight!
Rashford and Lingard can never both have a good game, either one performs and the other doesn't.
No goals have ever been scored in extra time of a WC game that wasn't the final.
Also Scandinavian teams share the same squad for every tournament.
Also Scandinavian teams share the same squad for every tournament.
He did a great Euro 2000 and scored a important goal against Spain in 2004, not everything was bad with himHe would have probably done much better than our current clumsy striker options
Pickford pulling off possibly the save of the tournament yet it has long been forgotten - despite being only an hour ago.
Doesn't really matter when it lead to an equaliser anyway, if it saved us from drawing then we'd be talking about it for years.
He did a great Euro 2000 and scored a important goal against Spain in 2004, not everything was bad with him
He was not a bad player. He only needed about 10 chances to score a goal
But for the portuguese league level, he was clearly a top player
We were unlucky because when Ronaldo developed Pauleta was already on his way to retirement.
Pauleta was a top striker, but unfortunbatelly for him he was not suited to our playing style at the time.
Nowadays he would be very handy, because we use 2 forwards and he was more suited for 4x4x2 type of formations, as we could see by his career at PSG.
Yes I know a lot of people who laugh when I say Pauleta wasn't suited to play on a 4X3X3 or 4X5X1, the clubs where he had more success were the ones where he played with other forward alongside him. No doubt if he played today with Ronaldo he would be much better for the team than the current ones we have. Certainly not Guedes or Silva.He was not a bad player. He only needed about 10 chances to score a goal
But for the portuguese league level, he was clearly a top player
We were unlucky because when Ronaldo developed Pauleta was already on his way to retirement.
Pauleta was a top striker, but unfortunbatelly for him he was not suited to our playing style at the time.
Nowadays he would be very handy, because we use 2 forwards and he was more suited for 4x4x2 type of formations, as we could see by his career at PSG.
England never win a penalty shootout!
When players first began wearing football boots other than black in colour, they stood out like a sore thumb. Now, every pair of shoes is completely invisible.
players who take shit/funny/silly run ups always miss their penalty or have it saved.
no player has ever suffered a genuine case of cramp in a 90 minute football match. it only ever occurs for time wasting purposes.
Kane and Rashford didn't have normal runups though!
Kane does his creepy run on the spot (reckon it's good for not telegraphing the direction though) and Rashford did the Fifa moving the man for no reason thing.