Wanted to see who are the midfielders doing both breaking play and progressing the ball. Verratti & Thiago stands out. Kovacic doing better than I expected. I took into consideration last one year in all competitions. Data from @fbref
Incredible Egyptian goal is disallowed because of a foul far away, then same situation a few minutes later and goal for Argentina not disallowed! No VAR, nothing? FIFA again looks like a corrupt joke, playing favorites for stars.
Iran’s current top power broker Ali Larijani is an Immanuel Kant scholar.
According to The New York Times, Larijani has effectively been running Iran since January 2026. He was in “charge of crushing, with lethal force, the recent protests demanding the end of Islamic rule.” [Source] He is now the key power broker in Iran’s transition.
A colleague alerted me to the suprising-to-me fact that Larijani is a Ph.D. in Western Philosophy and a specialist on Kant. He wrote his dissertation on Kant and then these three published books:
* The Mathematical Method in Kant’s Philosophy
* Metaphysics and the Exact Sciences in Kant’s Philosophy
* Intuition and the Synthetic A Priori Judgments in Kant’s Philosophy
(I supposed I shouldn’t be suprised that these guys are never students of John Locke, Adam Smith, or John Stuart Mill.)
More here: https://t.co/ECtE8dKCFi
Virgil Van Dijk is telling 26-year-old Arnold that he should not be chasing his dreams after giving everything to the club and that there is no other place than Anfield.
It is the same Virgil who refused to play for #Saintsfc so he can “chase” his dream.
Hypocrite.
@Ngozioliseozuem Neither of the touches were intentional plays of the ball, Benza kicks the ball into konate which bounces off Fabinho, I think some people need to learn the rules
@MatevzFCB@Barsalev This is something I can’t answer but at the same time we can’t bash VAR because of a correct decision but I agree with you that they need to be more consistent
@MatevzFCB@Barsalev There are many things VAR checks on background, sometimes ref runs to the screen after VAR tells him to watch something dubious, it’s happen all the time. VAR was brought in to correct things and they did
I’ve always tried to find more concrete reasons for believing in Real Madrid in this tournament than “nah it’s real Madrid in the champions league” but now I’m giving that up. There’s absolutely nothing reasonable about winning like this
Incredible insight from @ChristinaUnkel on @CBSSportsGolazo on that Alvarez double-hit.
She says that because the semi-automated VAR tech has an impact sensor in the ball, the tech can sense every touch, therefore determining that Alvarez would have contacted the ball twice.