@GeronimoMorgans This is the rite passage top football nations can afford to put their players through. At the last World Cup it was Saliba who inexplicably got very little minutes.
@atulkasbekar Your first paragraph is nothing but results analysis. Vitinha was nullified. He peaked with a couple of give & gos at the start of 2nd half. Modric’s semifinal performance against England in 2018 was better. By some distance, Xavi is still the master of metronomic control.
@GuillemBalague Another way of winning is still the best football book I have ever read. My mind was blown when I read it more than a decade ago. I knew then that this Pep was something else.
@David_Ornstein@charles_watts@TheAthleticFC I’m not sure who is advising Alonso but this doesn’t feel like a good idea. First he chose Madrid, a known player power capital, and the players down tools on him. Now he’s gone to the 2nd capital of player power? He is slowly unravelling the reputation he built in Leverkusen.
@thomasmlambo Please list the examples where we grapple and wrestle the goalkeeper when he’s about to catch the ball. The last one was Leicester away and the goal was rightfully disallowed. All other cases are before the corner is played I.e., play restarted which is a major difference.
@FootballEra_ The CWC final where Chelsea set pressing traps and then counter attacked them to death, provides another method of dismantling their play