Ngl we need to cut this bs that “PL footballers would make fans look ordinary in 5 aside”. I guarantee you I am better at football than a lot of these mid table players. Are you telling me I’d look shit in a pitch with guys like Will Hughes and Ryan Christie? Okay
The GK just doesn’t have as much impact on the overall unit as people want to say he has… he doesn’t make the overarching structural decisions that have the predominant influence on the effectiveness of the defensive unit as a whole & nor does he make individual decisions for players effecting those structures & performing within them.
🚨🗣️ Two days ago, Ghanaian traditional priest Nana Kwaku Bonsam said:
"I am working on Harry Kane. I have shown what I am capable of before so I know what work I must do to stop him. I will do my work so that it can help Ghana."
Kane just missed from here…
The Norwegian Viking Row is objectively cool.
But this type of mass, coordinated fan activity depends on having lots of fans who could get visas and afford exorbitant tickets.
Countries like Senegal have fan culture that’s just as good. But we don’t get to see it
Been seeing comments about Norway having so many fans, while Senegal barely has any.
That’s because Senegalese supporters were not given visas to come to the U.S.
Even before a ball is kicked, Western/European teams already have an unfair advantage.
Hate how Senegal have treated this World Cup like a farewell parade for their legendary old guard when they have some of the best young talent around sitting on their bench. What could have been.
How any remotely competent football-watchers could think the GK was the/a problem in the first half vs different in the second is beyond me. Either stupidity or a willingness to wilfully mislead people.
Ghana tweaked things, upped the intensity, Panama tired. No luck.