It’s already in the pre saison thread.
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Nothing gets past livvy Jabu.
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Here’s a stat for all you England doubters.
Since 1982 there has always been at least one Bayern Munich player in the final.
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Guess cucurella is now a real Madrid player
This is deschamps being shown up by a better manager. Too often has he relied on individual brilliance to win.
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Yeah, I don’t think there were many candidates. Huijsen was probably the only one, but he didn’t have a good season, so it wasn’t really surprising he was left out.
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Yes, but I think playing deep will be even worse, especially for the viewing public.
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How I feel when I see your posts.
Can I mention that our manager is Spanish (sort of).
BBC Newspage
World Cup final half-time to last up to 25 minutes
An 11-minute Super Bowl-style show, co-headlined by Madonna, Shakira and K-pop boy band BTS, will take place during the interval at New York New Jersey Stadium.
While sources within World Cup organisers Fifa suggest the break will be around 20 minutes, it is understood that one option is for the normal 15-minute half-time break and then the planned 11-minute show.
The laws of the game, governed by Ifab (the International Football Association Board), state that players are entitled to a half-time break “not exceeding 15 minutes”.
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Kloppo vs Slot vs Zidane in the next WC?
My 15 year old daughter could see it . She goes “The French manager looks like he just sent the players out without a plan. Or just to get the ball to Mbappe any way they can.”
Which was easy for Spain to neutralise. Spain were like a boa constrictor today.
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Please tell me this is a joke.
As i say, I think the France team has a great front 4 attackers but there´s not many footballers behind them.
Id have been tempted to play Cherki in the 10 to try get a ball player near their midfield because they just have a bunch of runners. Why anyone rates Tchouameni at 100 million I don´t know.
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I am all-in for England now against Argentina.
It would make for a more interesting story. Argentina going to the final is so passè and it would be refreshing with something else.
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It also demonstrated that in the modern game, control is king. Something many of us here derided about Slot.
Not many have the ability to do technical control like the Spanish
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Someone mentioned the celebrities and I have really struggled to name any. at least when you are (or in my case were) watching WWE they stick a name under them and it’s like some bloke from season 7 of a comedy you’ve never heard of.
Probably the only one I recognised outside of the footballers was Rubio. But maybe that’s just my sphere of knowledge.
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Why did you bring up control and Slot in the same breath, we never had any control last season under Slot it was a complete fallacy, all we did was lump it forward and then get cut to pieces by the opposition.
Spain are 5 steps above where we were last season.
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