Feeling extremely grateful going into 2025. Very thankful for you all 💜 It’s because of you guys that Tyler and I have a career. Thank you all for your support throughout the past 10 years. We’re so excited for what’s to come. Happy holidays and happy new year!
Salah’s creativity also comes from how he protects the ball from his 1v1 opponent. He dribbles to create rather than dribbling to beat his man. His focus is on getting enough separation in time for one of his teammate’s runs.
The Nuñez Dilemma | Assessing Liverpool’s Future
In this analytical deepdive, I will be analysing the perplexing entity that is Darwin Nuñez and potential ST replacements.
[IN-DEPTH THREAD]
We released gta San Andreas 20 years ago. October 26, 2004.
Game releases were different back then.
It took 6 weeks for the DVDs to be produced, boxed and distributed. Patches over the internet were not yet a thing.
For us, all of the stress had happened at the cut-off point, 6 weeks prior. No big issues had come up.
Most devs had taken a holiday and we were already thinking about our next project.
Digital distribution didn’t exist yet. Games were typically released on a Tuesday/Wednesday in the US and Fridays in the UK. Same for SA.
The internet was crap and apart from a couple of trailers, gamers didn’t know too much about the game.
For big games, stores would open at Midnight before release day so that pre-orders could be picked up.
I only later found out, the publisher has to pay the stores to make these late openings happen.
I went to the biggest store near the R*North offices, which was HMV on Princess Street, Edinburgh. Even though it was a drizzly night, the line meandered all through the store and spilled out onto the street.
It was mind-blowing to see all those people so excited, going home to play the game all through the night.
Wow November 2022, I shock myself sometimes 😂😂😂 Tuchel has basically been my dream England appointment for years because of how good an individual match tactician he is and it finally happened 👌
Mateee, to have this array of finishes on your weak foot is an absolute joke. Note how often he shoots the ball low, he doesn’t want to wildly overhit it off his weak foot, going for max accuracy into the corners instead.
Chance creation machine. Saka has taken over since Ødegaard’s injury. But you know the best thing ? He also doesn’t turn over the ball constantly too. He constantly makes the right decisions instead. Creative efficiency.
Liverpool are still missing that passing metronome. Leads to halves with too many sloppy turnovers that lead to box entries like 2nd half here. Gravenberch & Szoboszlai both want to move with the ball - great for generating dynamic attacking situations but not for control. MacA can’t receive comfortably from all angles & is a line-breaker. Jones is the closest to it in temperament & ability to receive under any type of pressure, but decision-making to release/pass technique is still not A1 to be a world class metronome. Edwards’/Hughes’ vision for Zubimendi is clear. Very commendable job from Slot with what he is doing so far without this - he’s profiling his creative/attacking players really well & trying to bleed in a more controlled temperament.
Milan’s 4-2-4 is pretty horrible tbh. Just need to bait them centrally and find the angles to play into the acres of space out wide. Liverpool figured that out after about 10 mins and dominated since.
It’s acc nuts how many haters are in my replies whenever I praise Arsenal. Noticed it every time. Too many bitter people in life who can’t appreciate a good process. Trophy is the only sign of a good process caveman logic. I can see why Gooners get frustrated at others.