I know this might sound harsh, but that was genuinely one of the biggest managerial disasterclasses I've ever seen.
This man called up 4 wingers and 3 strikers, only to bench all of them and start the opening World Cup game with a 5-3-2 that he hadn't used even once during the friendlies. He benched all of his forwards and lined up with 5 defenders and 5 midfielders against Sweden.
It gets worse. He played a defensive full-back who is basically a hybrid CB profile like Kounde for example and he played him as a wing-back, used our backup left-back, who arguably didn't even deserve a call-up, as a left centre-back, and after going 2-0 down by halftime, he didn't make a single substitution until the 72nd minute.
And when the changes finally came, they somehow made even less sense.
He brought on a central midfielder to play wing-back, and a left winger to play on the right, and then took off both of his defensive midfielders for an attacking midfielder and a striker. We literally finished the game with a double pivot made up of two number 10s.
I'm serious when I say this is the kind of squad management you wouldn't even see in FIFA Career Mode.
We've faced teams like England, Belgium, France, and Spain at World Cups before. We've always been underdogs. Yet somehow, our biggest defeat in World Cup history came against Sweden.
That alone should tell you everything you need to know about how badly this game was handled.
I know most of you probably don't care about Tunisia's tactical disasters, but I just needed to get this off my chest.
0 - Sundowns have never lost a home league game under Miguel Cardoso (P19 W18 D1 L0 since Feb 2025). They've won 55 points from 57 available, dropping points just once (a draw v Orlando Pirates). Sparkling.
NADIM LUKHELE
The Sundowns - Sekhukhune United FC game was rigged. A classic case of Match fixing.
Coaches like Eric Tinkler are just in the PSL this season to help Mamelodi Sundowns to win the league for the 9th time.
Tinkler has been praising Sundowns since day 1.
He even kept his best players out so that they could lose to Sundowns
He played his weakened side against Sundownss
[ALLEGEDLY]
Dear President Thlopie
On April 4th, 2022, the club appointed Flemming Berg with a clear mandate, Iโve attached it below, Flemming Berg has either now failed on all three or deviated. Sundowns fans are as divided as ever, we are in February without three consecutive wins, weโve imported average white players from Europe and Americas at exorbitant prices, NO BLACK COACHES HAVE BEEN PROMOTED TO BE PART OF TECHNICAL STAFF For 1st XI and last but not least, weโve destroyed the production of players for Bafana Bafana.
Please hear us, relieve this man from his failures, he canโt be trusted with the stewardship of this club anymore, we are on the brink of a 4th coaching change in 4yrs through no act of God but acts of Flemming Berg. Free this man, Free the club, let us move on as weโve done before he came, his ideas have not worked.
Please @DJNAVES@AndileNcube help pass the message to the club. I donโt ask of you to support this message but to help it get to the table where decisions about our club are made. @Masandawana allow a new path without Flemming Berg. There will be more of an outcry from our rivals than our fans when Flemming Berg leaves the club, this is a telling sign.
๐ก ๐๏ธ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐จ
โIt was clear the team was exhausted, much more than Al Hilalโ
@SABC_Sport | #CAFCL
The Senegalese player didn't allow the ball boys & officials to take Mendy's 3rd towel like Nwabali.
They matched their madness ๐ฅ
#AFCON2025WithPooja