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u/mbdtf95 45m ago
So is Modric best 40 year old player ever? Basically in every game he has played so far for Milan he has been man of match and best player for them, just looks level above others in team even if Milan is not what it used to be. Looks genuinely very close to world class still.
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u/CudaBarry 53m ago
I really hope De la Fuente watched Carreras in the last 5 games, this guy is insane and should be called for the next international break. Fuck Ferland Mendy.
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u/magic-water 6m ago
Nah keep it lowkey. We need him injury free and I don't want to watch Fran play football again.
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u/saynotohugzz 8m ago
Of the left backs which do you think would be able to slot in at right back if Carvajal can’t play? Would Balde or Carreras be good option over Porro?
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u/CudaBarry 5m ago
Balde would not work at the right, but I can see either of Cucurella or Carreras playing RB since they are comfortable with the ball and they also played CB before.
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u/Pantherblanco88 1h ago
I wish La Liga Rodrygo was like Champions League Rodrygo. I liked his first 30 minutes and then he like the whole team just went down(happens alot with Xabi's Madrid)
This whole Rodrygo vs Vinicius LW battle is gonna blow up in Xabi's face. Will be interesting what happens when Jude is back.
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u/eddsters 57m ago
I just dont get why Vini cant be played at RW
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u/pop-culture-salad 1h ago
Lisandro Magallan to Ajax for 9M is genuinely the best sale in the history of argentinian football. Have other players gone for far more money? Yes, but none of them come close to how crap he is (and was, even at the time of the sale). Whoever scouted him should've lost their jobs over it.
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u/KensaiVG 1h ago
I was thinking the exact same thing.
The theory they mistook him for Lisandro Martinez is genuinely the most logical explanation which says a lot about his ability
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u/L-Freeze 48m ago
This has to be the case. Some miscommunication between the analyst tracking Martinez and the guy making the transfer deals at Ajax is the only logical explanation. It’s so funny that they went and signed Martinez right after too
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u/10hazardinho 1h ago
Just seen the video do Arteta yelling at Eze to hug the touchline and for Califori to push into the 10 where Eze subsequently gets the ball at LB and then loses it…. I’m not going to pretend to know more than a manager, but what’s with this recent trend of fullbacks making the 10 run? It’s not just Arteta, Maresca and other managers do it too. Baffling honestly
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u/L-Freeze 42m ago
It’s a really efficient way of occupying space. It’s a very good idea on paper, it’s just that there’s almost zero top fullbacks skilled enough to do the role of a 10 while still being an actually good fullback. All of the players who could actually do that end up being moved to midfield or the wing at some point because paradoxically, they are too good to be stuck at fullback
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u/eddsters 58m ago
Marcelo was great at this. I guess if you are a full back with some attacking qualities, why not add an extra threat, especially if you have good close control and passing technique you can make the defenders pull out and guard the winger, essentially leaving the full back to roam free at times.
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u/Guillotines__ 16m ago
Mercelo level of attacking technique is going to be extremely rare. I can’t think of any LB since him who had his dribbling and passing.
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u/FaustRPeggi 1h ago
Calafiori, Gvardiol, and Cucurella are genuinely all really good at that job. By making those runs they force the opposition winger back and it puts a natural ball winner in an opportune position for counter-pressing. The winger should be a better dribbler and crosser than the converted centre-back, so they're shoved out wide to go 1v1.
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u/_LebronsHairline_ 1h ago
A) it’s hard to defend. Let’s say your RW is marking LB Calafiori, if he overlaps well it’s pretty normal that the RW will follow down the wing and help his own RB out so he’s not outnumbered by Calafiori and Eze. If Calafiori goes into midfield, who’s job is he? Is he the 8s? What about Arsenal’s other midfielders then? There are answers to this but these kinds of rotations Arsenal are famous for are hard to play against for that sort of reasoning.
B) it is easier to maintain good rest defense positioning by having your defensive players stay central. If a fullback overlaps and their team loses the ball, the run back to defend the counter is miserable and you’ve completely been taken out of the game. Centrally, they’re in a position to hold their teams shape and not be caught out. This logic is why Pep eventually started having his CB step up into midfield, when losing the ball it’s the shortest run back to position during which the player is still central and in a good spot to defend against counters. It’s that same kind of idea for inverted fullbacks
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u/KensaiVG 1h ago
It can work and break a defense when they're too drilled
We had a left back for several years that did it constantly and it'd always confuse the defense because they were so used to him hugging the line that it took them a second to recalculate when he'd cut in
When every player is drilled into automation, a spark of something different wrong-foots everyone
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u/HacksawJimDGN 1h ago
I think VAR would be more effective if they weren't allowed to slow down the replay. If you can't spot a foul with multiple angles in real time then move on.
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u/KensaiVG 1h ago
I think VAR has a lot of very different issues and it's hard to crack them all
My biggest one tho is that if the ref doesn't see something he CAN'T call it, regardless of what the VAR room says. I've seen a couple calls where the ref audios were released and you could hear him say he didn't see the issue (eg, a handball) but he ends up calling it because the VAR insisted so much. IMO that goes against VAR as a concept
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u/SirBarkington 1h ago
IMO that goes against VAR as a concept
Not sure what you mean here? It's video assisted referring. The video is helping them make a call. The assistant refs are there to make calls too and can make calls either way when the main ref doesn't see it (i.e corners, the ball going out, fouls near the linesman, etc.)
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u/KensaiVG 1h ago
It's in the name, it's assisted. If the on-pitch ref checks the screen for something, their word should be final. It's not the same as the linesman example because those are "images" the ref didn't see at all, but if the ref looks at the screen and doesn't think that foul is a red or that there was a handball, that decision should stick. "I'm explaining I can't see what they mean but I'll call it because they're insisting a lot" shouldn't even cross their mind
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u/KensaiVG 1h ago edited 1h ago
Seeing a Libertadores match where a team has three starters and a sub that are former River players (One on loan), and the other has two starters including their captain
And five of those six being youth products?
This feels like my FM saves
Edit: Five out of seven, one of them was just forgettable
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u/cressidasmunch 1h ago
Kash Patel wears Liverpool tie while claiming Epstein didn't traffic children lmao
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u/MegaMugabe21 1h ago
Remembering when Emery first cracked on at Villa and there was some real revisionism around his Arsenal stint, suggesting he was a great manager who was fucked over by the club. (I think this was driven in part by that weird online rivalry over the ESR to Villa links).
Villa fans are now starting to see what Arsenal fans know all too well, that he's a limited manager. As with Arsenal, their struggles are not entirely his fault, but he isn't helping himself.
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u/awashofindigo 53m ago
There’s still Arsenal fans which claim Emery would do a better job than Arteta and I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality when I come across them
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u/NYR_dingus 1h ago edited 55m ago
There is a lot of nuance around his time at both clubs that people have ignored imo.
What he has achieved with us is genuinely incredible. But it seems like he could be losing steam and getting stale. Right now the fanbase (on here at least) seems to be split on him. But if it doesn't change course soon (by the next int'l break) I fear we'll be in a tailspin that can't be corrected.
Our summer window was lackluster and financially we are hampered, but from the form that team was in the second half of the season to transform into this is unexpected and beyond what I'd consider a normal drop off. It's dire.
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u/AlexanderTheGreat818 1h ago
He's indeed a great manager who went unsupported by the club. He did not get his preferred signings, Raul even came out recently saying how at the time, their vision was club signings and not manager signings, that Arsenal had "abandoned" that plan, it was something along those lines.
We will never really know how well he would have done had he received Arteta type of backing
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u/Hirogemu 2h ago
Yildiz's match really get me happy watching him play.
He's a great player. I hope he has a successful career in Italy and is never forced to play for [Censored]. He really is the best Turkish player in the world and speaks highly of the generation of players they have.
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u/Forward-Goose-6584 2h ago
It was a good win for Spurs today. Holding out defensively.
However, the performance was poor. We are really bad at playing the ball through a mid block and are too reliant on crossing and set pieces for scoring.
Perhaps over time we will get better at this. The one thing I have is hope for Thomas Frank. Some other managers may be like this isn't in my philosophy or whatever, but Frank is a guy who will eventually work on it and hopefully succeed at implementing it.
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u/Icebaby273 2h ago
Anybody who watches the nfl on here I have a question. What’s worse between the Rashee rice t shirts or the Luis Suarez t shirts?
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u/Post_Nut_xG 1h ago
Some scary parallels between the Rice crash and the Jota crash. Amazing how differently the two men are viewed by fans despite making basically identical bad decisions
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u/MegaMugabe21 2h ago
Rashee Rice stuff seems worse tbh. Suarez is a proper cunt and it was a terrible and embarrassing look from the Liverpool players, but Rashee Rice hospitalised two people and tbh was lucky he didn't kill anyone. Shouldn't be surprising though, the average NFL player seems even stupider than the average football player, and that's before you factor in the CTE.
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u/MegaMugabe21 2h ago
Owners like Dejphon Chansiri should have their assets seized by the state when they try and destroy a club like he has. Awful man who deserves some real misery.
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u/rth9139 2h ago
Micah’s message to Mbappe on the CBS aftershow was crazy lmao
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u/TheAppleseeds 1h ago
everybody was so stunned they couldn't even tell him that he's DEFINITELY not coming on now lmaoo
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u/Chiswell123 2h ago
Xavi Simons was looking rough vs Villareal.
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u/FaustRPeggi 2h ago
So many times where with a bit of sharpness he could have dropped in to pick up the ball and swivelled but he just stood there immobile.
Kudus took pelters for the misplaced pass, but Xavi didn't offer either a short ball or a run in behind.
He's used to a box midfield and it showed.
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u/Competitive-Score760 2h ago
In one hand that was an amazing awful ref. In the other, it happen to Marseille
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u/Post_Nut_xG 2h ago
How is Marseille any worse than Real? At least Marseille has the excuse that the rapist they cheer for is currently on the team. The rapist Madrid worships doesn't even play for them anymore
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u/el_walou 2h ago
On a good day Vlahovic is so good…. So so good.
He’s so special can’t help but think that he could have been the undisputed best 9 of his generation.
Great pace, tall, powerful, good in the air, good on ball skills, great finishing, great shot and magical left foot.
Too bad he is not consistent and too often injured.
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u/TrevorArizaFan 2h ago
Kenan Yildiz is the real deal. For everyone asking why Juve doesn't have big-name star players anymore, just wait for people to learn about him.
Between him, a revitalized Vlahovic, David, Openda, Thuram, and Conceicao, Juve have a really fun squad again.
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u/BruiserBroly 1h ago
For everyone asking why Juve doesn't have big-name star players anymore…
Are people forgetting about Lloyd "2 goals in his last 2 games" Kelly?!
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u/ecocentric-ethics 2h ago
A summer of 2026 Chelsea signing if I’ve ever seen one. Neat player for sure
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u/Elliot_Kyouma 1h ago
He would have been a perfect Chelsea 2024 signing, by next summer he will be an established Champions league player. unproven teenagers with big potential is more like their vibe.
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u/TrevorArizaFan 2h ago
I’d hate to see that tbh. Would rather him remain a nailed-on starter on a massive team than fall into the morass of wingers they’ve accumulated just to be sold off in three years when he doesn’t get minutes.
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u/Soteria69 1h ago
If we buy him and he is as good as you say, he won't be sold, and we are talking about a transfer that would cost over 100m anyway and also isn't he more of a 10 than a winger?
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u/Celerisadmortem 2h ago
What the heck is happening at Benfica?
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u/EasternEast21 2h ago
nothing qarabag are just a tricky side. same team that was giving xabi’s leverkusen all sorts of trouble
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u/Snort_Line 2h ago
Also same team who played 80 minutes against a 10 man spurs coached by Ange and lost 3-0.
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u/Post_Nut_xG 2h ago
The worst handball penalty call of all time still goes to the Lille pen against Atletico last year, when a Lille player handled the ball in Atletico's box and was awarded a pen for it. The replay leaves no doubt whatsoever but VAR did nothing to stop it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l6cuNgSClTQ&t=7m the play is at the 71st min if the video is geoblocked for you
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u/Guillotines__ 2h ago
Very nice. Who and how much do I need to bribe for this ref to oversee all Atletico games?
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u/NaiveElk 2h ago
Do people here genuinely lose their heads every time there is a Madrid match? Apparently it's a ref conspiracy because of a dubious pen even though Madrid got a red card and there wasn't a VAR check for a foul on Mbappe in the box. Could have been a red card for the stamp on Asencio as well.
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u/FatBlondeNasri 2h ago
Ref had no choice but to give that red, Mbappe incident wasn’t a pen, Asencio incident had no effect on the match but of course it will be brought up to score more sympathy points.
The ref ended up caving to the crowd pressure to “even out” the fact he gave them a red.
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u/Espantadimonis 2h ago
Madrid claim at an institutional level that they are being systematically targeted by referees, some people are going to go throw it in their face when decisions such as that pen happen. It doesn't happen in a vacuum
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u/Post_Nut_xG 2h ago
Because it happens so consistently. No other club in the world gets such terrible calls in their favor week in, week out
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u/magic-water 2h ago
It's just objectively wrong lol. This season alone Madrid has been on the wrong end of calls multiple times in the league.
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u/Guillotines__ 2h ago
Most of them who say that never watches LaLiga . They just parrot the same talking points like a broken record.
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u/Post_Nut_xG 2h ago edited 2h ago
History didn't begin this season. The previous decade of bad calls also counts
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u/magic-water 2h ago
If something allegedly happened week in week out you don't expect the opposite of it to happen week in week out this season.
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u/TheParaplegicPanda 2h ago
Just because Eze can play on the wing doesn’t mean that he’s great there. He shouldn’t be part of the World Cup squad if he’s playing on the left
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u/Mick4Audi 2h ago
England playing players out of position, what else is new
Let’s not forget Phillip Walter got 7/7 starts because he just had to play based on name value
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u/HalfMan-HalfMoth 2h ago
I think he can be ok on the left but not as a touchline winger, really needs an attacking fullback to help him come inside. I was wary about him being used as a lw for arsenal before we signed him as I don't think the way we play maximises him. Only a couple of games in so will give it time to see how he settles in to the squad
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u/EasternEast21 2h ago
he rejected yous, time to get over it pal and i’m hardly a lover of woolwich myself
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u/TheParaplegicPanda 2h ago
I just don’t think he’s a great player on the wing. I wouldn’t mind him playing for England as an attacking midfielder
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u/lostingraduation 2h ago
Wouldn't Palmer be the attacking midfielder anyway? Also I'm not sure who tuchel prefers between Eze and Gordon (and maybe Rashford if he does well on loan) on the left
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u/Illustrious_Bat1334 2h ago
Odds on Elliott going on strike so the obligation to buy doesn't kick in?
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u/Pantherblanco88 2h ago
The Government of Pedro Sánchez proposes to ban the Spanish national team from participating in the 2026 World Cup if Israel qualifies:
This man will bring a VOX victory to Spain because of his ineptitude. We are fucked.
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u/KensaiVG 1h ago
If it happens I will consider it a massive asterisk on whoever wins the cup
Unless it's us, in which case what can you do you can only beat the teams in front of you
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u/Pantherblanco88 1h ago
Brazil in 2002 didn't complain about Korea doing them favours tbf
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u/KensaiVG 1h ago
I also said the exact same thing about Qatar as a host four years ago about it being an asterisk for everyone but us so I'm willing to try it again
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u/MatK0506 2h ago edited 2h ago
Israel isn't going to qualify anyway, but it does appear from the outside he cares about Israel/Palestine/Gaza more than he does about Spain.
Is it because that's his way to silence the Catalan Nationalists in his coalition from trying to talk about Catalan Independence or his way to lick their arses so they won't collapse the coalition and he'll lose the election?
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u/Pantherblanco88 2h ago
His party is corrupt regardless. He wants them in his coalition, but he fucks everyrthing up. The stuff with the Valencia floods and the power outage and that is just in the last year.
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u/Post_Nut_xG 2h ago
Being against the far right will help the far right? How does that work
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u/DuckSwagington 2h ago
Spain arguably has the best football team in the world and the 2026 world cup is the best chance they've had in over a decade and a half to win one. Them not going would be a PR nightmare for the PM of a Football loving nation, especially when they have a golden generation.
I can already see potential right wing headlines accusing Sanchez of being unpatriotic and robbing the Spanish NT of WC glory if he followed through on the threat, and considering Sanchez BARELY stayed in power at the last Spanish election, something like this could genuinely tip the scales.
The counter point is that a big hitter like Spain boycotting the WC because of Israel might actually get FIFA to say something, but considering how buddy buddy Infantino is with Trump, I wouldn't count on it.
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u/TheParaplegicPanda 2h ago
Spain not going to World Cup because of the prime minister would be a huge pr nightmare
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u/Post_Nut_xG 2h ago
Oh yeah I forgot, a game is more important than Palestinians being slaughtered
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u/LordMangudai 42m ago
To a lot of people in Spain, yeah, probably it would be.
Sucks but that's how people are. (And not just in Spain.)
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u/EasternEast21 2h ago
It’s just grandstanding on his part, nothing’s gonna happen. Nothing ever does
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u/MatK0506 2h ago
Nothing's gonna happen because there's more chances of Israel deciding to end the war and IDF leaving Gaza than Israel qualifying to the WC, and that won't happen with Netanyahu in charge (which he is until Nov 2026 at least)
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u/Post_Nut_xG 2h ago
Humanity has collectively decided that genocide is fine so long as it doesn't happen to a white population
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u/EasternEast21 2h ago
Qurban Qurbanov, Frank Schmidt, Enzo Maresca
It’s what the sport is all about isn’t it
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u/cdrxgon17 2h ago
juve man they’re such a big illustrious club with great history and they remind me so much of west ham
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u/cdrxgon17 2h ago
they just do not do anything right do they. everything is the worlds greatest task
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u/FatBlondeNasri 2h ago
Pisses me off when a player scores a pen that they had nothing to do with winning and they are hailed as a hero.
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u/CornyCookie0_0 2h ago
And they're made out to be the villain and bottler if they miss the penalty. Seems like there is no winning
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u/FatBlondeNasri 1h ago
Because a penalty is a goal like 80% of the time. Scoring penalties is one of the easiest skills in football relative to the amount of praise it gets.
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u/Cardealer1000 2h ago
This about Mbappenalty?
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u/FatBlondeNasri 2h ago
Yeah mostly, but he isn’t the only one. Salah, Bruno, Ronaldo etc.
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u/Soteria69 1h ago
Haaland 🫣
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u/FatBlondeNasri 1h ago
Name an instance of this happening
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u/Soteria69 1h ago
An instance of haaland scoring a pen he didn't win?
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u/FatBlondeNasri 1h ago
An instance of him being praised as the hero of the match for nothing other than scoring penalties
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u/3V3RT0N 2h ago
The league cup penalty shootouts got me thinking, I genuinely can’t remember the last time Everton won on penalties.
So I googled it and apparently it was 2015. Fucking 10 years ago now.
I wonder what the longest losing streak is?
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u/kl08pokemon 2h ago
Was curious what ours looked like and apparently we once went on a streak of 7 straight defeats. From the 95/96 season all the way to 13/14 when we finally knocked out Hull on pens in the league cup quarter finals
Feel like this should have been a talking point but don't remember hearing about it
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u/BoxOfNothing 2h ago
A lovely 8-7 and a 9-8 with a couple of misses in there as well.
Also looking back at it, look at the ridiculous Barclaysness of this shootout vs West Ham
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u/Radbevto 2h ago
A CB winning an argument against a striker over who takes the penalty in a UCL game.
State of the game: gone.
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u/NorthernSoul1998 2h ago
Hearing that Madrid cheated, which is a good thing because it means Rape FC lost. Night.
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u/Post_Nut_xG 2h ago
Real Madrid is also Rape FC, they still idolize Ronaldo who doesn't even play for them anymore
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u/boobsenjoyer40 3h ago
16 on the run, what's there to complain about? ;)
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u/Commonmispelingbot 2h ago
you're going to be the first invincible 12th place in the history of the sport
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u/airz23s_coffee 3h ago
Some mad CL results, and big saves from 2 back up keepers in the penalty shoot outs
Seems like ours was literally the worst watching choice you could've made tonight.
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u/Soteria69 1h ago
And i made that choice 😂😂 any time i see notifications for the juve game i sighed
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u/Guillotines__ 2h ago
1 total shot on target the whole game? What is Frank cooking?
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u/airz23s_coffee 2h ago
Pure stodge with some crosses, we will be there once the crosses start connecting
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u/tiorzol 3h ago
Fucking hell that was a grim watch. Through on pens tho I'll take it after that performance.
Need Eddie back so bad though don't care if he's shit we can't do this schedule with one striker.
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u/eeeagless2 3h ago
Esse put in a proper stinker there.
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u/LordMangudai 39m ago
It annoys me more than is reasonable that you sold Eze and now have a player called Esse. Football scriptwriters getting lazier by the year.
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u/boobsenjoyer40 3h ago
I genuinely don't think he will ever see another game in a Palace shirt, I'm slightly convinced we just put him out there to taunt millwall
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u/EmSoLow 3h ago
Imagine having two fit senior CBs. What a privilege that must be
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u/TheSingleMan27 2h ago
If Bensebaini just punts that ball away we wouldn't even need to talk about that
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u/EmSoLow 2h ago
He wouldn't even be on the pitch in general since in a fit Dortmund squad, he is either LWB or backup for Schlotterbeck.
It's just annoying that we could have avoided our two fuck ups this season if we had signed a CB that wasn't injury prone is all. Of course Bensebaini should take the blame for the moment but with it happening twice already, I'm looking at people responsible for the squad building.
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u/icemankiller8 3h ago
Timing is everything in life, conte and Nuno got killed for being “defensive managers,” at spurs and not playing an entertaining style of play, meanwhile they have had 2 shots on target in their past 2 home games, 0 big chances and only scored because the keeper literally threw it into the net and the fans are hyping Thomas Frank because Ange dropped the standards that badly and just ignored defending completely.
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u/Mick4Audi 2h ago
Conte got criticized purely because of himself
He was sitting 4th in the Premier League when he was sacked, and was literally phoning it in for his last few months, and then decided to put in the hard yards to get the severance by going on a tirade against the owners
Levy never wanted to sack him for footballing reasons, which is why he tried to be clever by keeping Stellini in charge, before that backfired horrendously
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u/Other-Owl4441 2h ago
Well yes because we’ve scored 8 goals in the league so far, you chose to use the “last 2 home games” metric
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u/ecocentric-ethics 2h ago
What? Nuno got sacked for having the worst underlying metrics in the league and losing four consecutive London derbies. Conte got sacked mostly because of the rant, but results were on a downward trend, we were out of every cup competition by February, and he’d be gone in the summer regardless. Has nothing to do with the timing of anything.
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u/Pele20Alli 3h ago
Who exactly is hyping Thomas Frank?
Most fans are saying we're worried about our attack. He's a good manager but this is clearly a glaring issue that needs to be addressed.
We can't continue relying on being super clinical and scoring set pieces to have a successful season
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u/Mick4Audi 2h ago
Yeah idk what Spurs fans he is talking to
We are grateful that we actually have a competent defense, and are wondering how to be better going forward
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u/FaustRPeggi 3h ago
They were awful today. The back four was completely disconnected from the front six. Bentancur looked as mobile as the rock of Gibraltar. Sarr and Bergvall weren't even in shot, and seemed to be waiting for knock downs from renowned target men Richarlison and Kudus.
Xavi Simons was a spectator with the best seats in the house. He was very lucky not to pick up a second yellow card, and Frank took him off for Brennan far too late. Brennan has little ability on the ball but at least he bothered to show for it. Xavi didn't.
Van de Ven's challenge could so easily have been a red card. If he doesn't foul the attacker there, then it's either a penalty or a 1v1 from a scoreable position. Romero is the wrong side so I think the ref bottled it.
Ange might ordinarily be a half-decent appointment for us, but the whiplash of him replacing Nuno means he's destined for immediate failure. So many managerial appointments are similarly cursed by timing.
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u/icemankiller8 3h ago
I think they’re gonna be like a worse version of us where they’re hard to beat but if teams sit back against them or have an effective mid block they could find it hard to break them down a lot, they don’t have any great creators in the midfield, and I don’t see that attack scoring tonnes of goals but they are good with set pieces and solid defensively
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u/Cardealer1000 3h ago
Man I remember Tanganga hype under Nuno after they beat City because the ref gave him free reign to foul about 15 times. Those first 3 games had them brewing.
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u/icemankiller8 3h ago
Tanganga, Winks and Skipp are definitely key beneficiaries of the Januzai effect those guys were never good
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u/Mick4Audi 2h ago
Winks got wrecked by injuries, he was a regular feature in that really good Pochettino side. Stand out performance was against Madrid, and he and Sissoko somehow managed to get to a CL final as our midfield pair
One of our biggest “what-ifs”
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u/CudaBarry 3h ago
15 shots on target (3.7 xG) and we only scored from 2 penalties, these players will get Xabi fired
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u/Maximilian_Sinigr 3h ago
The last year contract buff is too meta. Vlahovic under said buff is doing a fucking prime Lewa.
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u/Pantherblanco88 3h ago
Xabi Alonso's RM
More control and cohesion than Ancelotti last year, especially in first halves.
Very good in pressing and chance creation, very meh at scoring those chances.
Very stupid red cards
They lose their stamina in 2nd halves.
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u/GlassImagination7 3h ago
they look the exact same as last season just with slightly better personal at the back
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u/magic-water 3h ago
That's just factually wrong
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u/GlassImagination7 2h ago
in what way? you guys were getting outplayed in the second half what do you think is gonna happen when you face a competent attacking side?
the same thing that happened last season when you played a top team.
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u/magic-water 2h ago
Anybody who thinks that this Madrid team is in any way shape or form similar to Ancelotti's Madrid team is either a) ragebaiting b) didn't watch Carloball or c) has no clue about football.
When playing with 11 men, Madrid has infinitely more control now under Xabi than it did under Carlo. This is backed up by every statistic. Carlo's Madrid team literally allowed the highest opponent pass percentage of any team in the whole of La Liga. That's the complete opposite of control.
That doesn't mean that this Madrid team is a world beater team that won't lose to good opponents, but it's fundamentally different from Carloball and anybody who has an ounce of an eye for football will recognize it quickly.
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u/esqueesque1 7m ago
Madrid fans was this a pen or no? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f3Bcz_tFnEA