football is such a funny sport. i thought it’d be neymar vs hazard once ronaldo & messi retired. years later, both neymar and hazard retired while those two freaks still going strong
Technically, Pedri is anti-chaotic ie where another midfielder might take three touches and try to force the game, Pedri can take one, manipulate the opponent’s shape and play the next pass. His best qualities are scanning, body orientation, press resistance, tempo control and positional intelligence.
That is the beauty of Pedri ie you can watch him and think he hasn’t done much, then look at the structure of the game and realise he’s constantly making the next action easier for everyone else.
The Cameo against France in the semis, the cameo against Argentina in the final and now this cameo, i think it's only a matter of time before DLF will have to start Pedri again.
Football is finished, man. Soon, there won’t even be many people left who actually know how to watch it.
Look at Dani Olmo yesterday. He put in a reference level performance as a No.10, one of those games where you can actually learn something by watching him — and barely anyone said a word.
Then you wake up today and X is flooded with posts praising Bellingham.
That’s what football has become for a lot of people. They don’t necessarily talk about the player who actually played the best football; they talk about whoever is more popular, more hyped or gets the most attention.
It’s not about understanding the game anymore. It’s about repeating the names everyone else is talking about.
Olmo can dominate a game technically and tactically, and people will ignore it because he isn’t as popular as Bellingham.
Actually watch football instead of watching the hype.