Just to be clear, my analysis and evaluation of players has absolutely nothing to do with the Ballon d'Or or any other individual award. I don't evaluate players any differently whether they win them or not.
Having said that, today, I've decided to do a better job than what the
Center-Backs I'm enjoying this period:
—Dayot Upamecano;
—Dean Huijsen;
—Jérémy Jacquet;
—Joane Gadou (something is in the making);
—Leny Yoro (despite Manchester United struggles);
Everytime I see Cavani’s United tapes it pains me that this guy spent his prime years playing LF at PSG instead of being a showtime no9 for a PL winning side. Should’ve been the Drogba replacement
Goalkeepers with the most sweeping actions across Europe's top five leagues and the Champions League this season:
🥇 Joan García 34
🥈 Álvaro Valles 18
🥉 Julen Agirrezabala 17
4️⃣ Jean Butez & Unai Simón 16
5️⃣ Suzuki 15
PSG are gunning for that UCL 3-peat, and they want to do it in grand style by thrashing every team that comes their way.
No one is safe. Not the big clubs, not the underdogs. With the way they are pressing, dominating possession, and scoring for fun, they are not just trying
PSG have been absolutely ruthless this season, but I genuinely believe Real Madrid are the one team capable of stopping them. We have the individual quality to compete with them, but beating a team like PSG requires more than just having good players. It requires a proper tactical plan.
If I were Mourinho, I’d avoid allowing PSG to turn the game into an open contest. Their aggressive pressing and high defensive line leave spaces behind them, and Madrid have the players to exploit those spaces. I’d keep the midfield compact with Tchouaméni, Valverde and Bellingham, use their ability to win second balls and break PSG’s pressing lines quickly. I’d also start Yan Diomande alongside Mbappé because of his confidence, directness and willingness to take defenders on. Let him and Mbappé stretch that defence, then bring Vinícius on later when the opposition is beginning to tire. Imagine having to deal with all three across 90 minutes.
This is why I would trust Mourinho’s tactical approach in this particular matchup. Luis Enrique has built an excellent team, but Mourinho understands how to disrupt a team’s rhythm, exploit its weaknesses and use his substitutes to change the direction of a game. Madrid don’t need to dominate possession against PSG; they need to be disciplined, deny them space between the lines and punish them whenever they leave gaps. I’m confident Madrid have enough quality to knock them out, but the tactical preparation will make all the difference.
This is what I hate. In the spirit of creating awareness for a player who has been polarizing over the years and has started playing at an elite level, there's this need to overcompensate, but you end up pushing people away with silly comments like this.
You lost me at "a couple of years". It just started last season. You don't have to create awareness and talk about how good he's been recently by lying.
Upamecano es el típico futbolista que, un día, alguien instaló en la cabeza del pueblo que era un mal central con mucho marketing, y así seguimos, aunque lleva mínimo un par de años siendo uno de los cinco mejores en su posición, completamente diferencial en un equipo ‘suicida’ como el Bayern.
Upamecano es superdominante a campo abierto. Seguramente, el mejor central del mundo en ese aspecto. Es rápido, es fuerte y tiene mucho talento defensivo para arrinconar y atosigar al atacante rival y hacerle sentir muy pequeño. Imponentes sus primeros 45' en el Metropolitano.
I actually agree with him, & I even pointed it out in my tweet yesterday. If he was going to Draymond just to do the shirt-pulling thing, he shouldn't have bothered running over to that scene. When he made that run, I literally expected a punch or a tackle to the ground or somtin
Matt Barnes says Draymond Green exposed Dillon Brooks 'tough guy' persona as fake. Barnes pointed out that Brooks cannot pick and choose when to play that role. He advised Brooks to just stick to being an troll and leave the fake tough guy act alone."
As long as you accept that your wife is mentally unstable and that everything you said here applies to your wife, then no problem. At least, you'll be consistent.
You will NEVER know how mentally unstable women are until you have lived with one.
Bro, I'm telling you - there is a demonic entity in women.
One day she loves you, next day she decides she wants to RUIN your life. And once she makes that decision, it's over. She will not stop. She will keep creating new strategies.
One didn't work? She tries another one.
First she'll accuse you of rape. That didn't stick? Now it's abuse. That didn't work? Now you're violent. That didn't work?
Now you're controlling. Now you're a narcissist. Now you're toxic. She will keep spinning the story until something sticks.
And she will make your life a LIVING HELL. Court. Police. Job. Friends. Family. She will call everybody. She will lie to everybody. She will cry to everybody. And everybody will believe her because she's a woman crying.
And guess what? This shit feels COMPLETELY normal to her.
Like she is not even doing anything wrong in her head. No guilt. No remorse. No conscience. She will ruin your reputation, ruin your finances, ruin your mental health, try to put you in jail, and then sleep peacefully at night like she didn't just destroy a man's life.
And then she will move on. Like nothing happened. Like YOU were the problem. Like she didn't just spend 6 months trying to bury you alive.
She will be posting quotes on Instagram the next day about "healing" and "peace" and "protecting my energy" - after she just tried to destroy yours.
That's the part that will fuck you up the most. The lack of accountability. The way it feels normal to them to lie, manipulate, accuse, destroy and then play victim.
You can't reason with it. You can't talk to it. You can't love it out of her. That demon is IN there.
And if you have never lived with one, you will never understand.