🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Virgil van Dijk speaks out against the hydration breaks!
🗣️ “I have been watching almost every game and I don’t really like the hydration breaks. And for the people watching on television it’s also not great.”
“If it’s REALLY HOT, then obviously you need it, but you need to look at it game by game.”
“But I think I have said enough already…..”
I know this might sound harsh, but that was genuinely one of the biggest managerial disasterclasses I've ever seen.
This man called up 4 wingers and 3 strikers, only to bench all of them and start the opening World Cup game with a 5-3-2 that he hadn't used even once during the friendlies. He benched all of his forwards and lined up with 5 defenders and 5 midfielders against Sweden.
It gets worse. He played a defensive full-back who is basically a hybrid CB profile like Kounde for example and he played him as a wing-back, used our backup left-back, who arguably didn't even deserve a call-up, as a left centre-back, and after going 2-0 down by halftime, he didn't make a single substitution until the 72nd minute.
And when the changes finally came, they somehow made even less sense.
He brought on a central midfielder to play wing-back, and a left winger to play on the right, and then took off both of his defensive midfielders for an attacking midfielder and a striker. We literally finished the game with a double pivot made up of two number 10s.
I'm serious when I say this is the kind of squad management you wouldn't even see in FIFA Career Mode.
We've faced teams like England, Belgium, France, and Spain at World Cups before. We've always been underdogs. Yet somehow, our biggest defeat in World Cup history came against Sweden.
That alone should tell you everything you need to know about how badly this game was handled.
I know most of you probably don't care about Tunisia's tactical disasters, but I just needed to get this off my chest.
Le 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗗𝗘 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗨𝗟𝗘 de Jürgen Klopp sur les pauses fraîcheurs pendant cette Coupe du Monde ! 😤🇩🇪
"𝗟𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗦 𝗘𝗡 𝗢𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗦 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘́𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗦 𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗨𝗫 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗘́𝗦.
Elles sont présentées comme un bouclier pour le bien-être des joueurs, une noble épée contre la chaleur. 𝗖𝗲 𝗻'𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲́𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲́ 𝗾𝘂'𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗲́𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀.
Quand j'ai vu les joueurs rester plantés là pendant une pause fraicheur alors que les temps morts télévisés dictaient le rythme du match, je n'ai pas pu m'empêcher de me demander : à qui la Coupe du monde sert-elle vraiment ?
Aux supporters ? Aux joueurs ? 𝗢𝘂 𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀 ?
Un match de Coupe du monde devrait couler comme une rivière. 𝗔𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘂 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗮, 𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘂 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲́𝘀 𝗽𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿.
C'est dangereux pour l'esprit du jeu. Le football était autrefois l'événement principal, mais il risque désormais de devenir 𝗹𝗮 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗱'𝘂𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲."
(ZDF)
Everyone at Hockey Canada should be fired, the last couple of years have been abysmal. Treliving really brought Nurse, Rielly, Bouchard, Dickinson, Wotherspoon to the same tournament? Whitecloud was the only Defender that can defend on the Team.
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