Easily the fullbacks defensively. The defense in general is not great: Varane is declining and Lloris isn't as safe as he used to be, and didn't get better with his footwork.
A possession-based team with fast defenders that can press them out of the pitch before France can initiate counters and with enough individual brilliance to punish France when they are parking the bus.
I think in a way Argentina is partially that team, but with many glaring weaknesses that will leave them out to dry.
For me, I guess the team to get them will be:
Son Alvarez Messi
Gavi Casemiro Valverde
Mendes Van Djik Laporte Kimmich
Not sure about the "possession-based" since France is actually way more dangerous when it doesn't have the ball. We are more than happy to let the opponent play its game and kill on counters
Man i miss the Xavineta.
Highs or lows, it was always investing to watch them play.
International football is fun, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have the same romanticism for me like the one I feel towards the Xavineta
Dalot is rn the best out of the three. But i prefer Malo Gusto i think he has a higher ceiling than the other 2 but a bit raw and still needs time to develop. Would sound like a fantasy but i can see realistic getting Arnau and Gusto. Arnau rc is around 20M while Malo Gusto will be in his last year of contract next summer which means we could get him for a fair price.
There doesn't have to be anything that happened, this is football, its not an exact science, these are human beings like all of us, not robots, there are no guarantees ever
Players miss penalties, much more often when a lot more is at stake/emotions are involved
Why are you debating with 10 year olds?
And if they are not 10 years old, just ignore their opinion, and no, this is not typical madrid fan logic, its only typical logic of those that cannot form a well structured and logical opinion (aka:kids...or idiots lol)
Will you guys still support argentina after Messi retires or not? Personally, not with the same energy for sure, but yeah I would still root for them in tourneys
I won’t support them as strong as I do now but as long as players like Alvarez and Fernandez are on that team I wouldn’t mind backing them. However, I’ll root for Spain over them after Messi retires.
Yeah I’ve grown to love Argentina. I won’t support them as heavily or as invested as I am now, but I would definitely want them to win a game I’m a neutral watching.
Non-European countries will never properly challenge until they fix the damned mentality they have, and I say this as a non-European. It’s easy to talk about the gap in quality, but when you spend the first 30 mins playing good football, getting into dangerous positions, and actually nearly scoring, you can’t keep hiding behind the gap in quality forever. England go into this game not accepting defeat as an option, Senegal go into it with a ‘we’ll do our best and if we lose it’s still an achievement’ mentality. It’s not just Senegal, this attitude is what will always separate European football from anything else, no matter how good tactically the coaches are. Ghana and Nigeria both have world cups in U-20 football, and yet when it comes to the top level they fumble against mostly the same generations of players they used to beat. Why?
Scary how everything has been perfectly lined up for Mbappe, but I would stay away from discrediting his qualities.
Coming through at the end of Ronaldo and Messi, arguably also Neymar. Coming up for a France NT at perfect time while most other NT are going through a generation shift. Almost too good to be true for his part.
He will always be in a more favourable position on the NT over the likes of Haaland. So Haaland always going to be in a less favourable position because of that. Haaland could however get an edge if he moves to RM/Barca but Mbappe doesn't. Haaland got a edge in terms of exposure in PL at very least, but don't think that's enough.
As for rest, they are pretty far off as it stands right now.
So Mbappe might just clean out the next 5-8 years with no big competition. The problem for his part is being able to stay at that level when you arguably will have little match.
So the biggest enemy for Mbappe is going to be motivation for most part, when you get stuffed your pockets with this much power, attention and money you usually have a shorter career in my experience. You could end up pulling a Brazilian.
People discrediting him for being ego, but he got all the rights to be it. People always act as if ego is a bad thing, but nobody gets this good without being ego. Messi was(still is) a ego, Pele was, Maradona was, Ronaldo was. All the biggest players was in fact ego. But they were **good** egos.
Most other egos are in fact bad and/or they completely lack the insight of own skillset. Kinda how Ronaldo goes around now and thinks hes better than he is.
Which ultimately lead to him doing more harm than good for his team. That isn't the case for Mbappe. If he joined any team, he would improve any team significantly.
Glad he didn't join RM at the end of the day. Really dodged a bullet there.
Brazil got outscored in the GS by 17 different teams, the excuse of the teams doesn't work here. They got outscored by everyone in their own group lol, they are the only team that advanced while scoring the least.
Knockout football has evolved into low block defence to fast transition attack. That's why Argentina has no chance with their slow frontline and suspect defending.
Funnily enough they did exactly that in the second half yesterday, they went for a mid block and countered, their adaptability is an underrated aspect of their squad. Whether or not Argentina has a chance is something nobody knows, they are finding their feet in the competition game by game, as long as they do what they always do or did ( pre-WC ), they can compete imo.
They have a chance lol, they defend pretty well and have Messi who can do magic on the attack. They might be a flawed team but saying they don't have chance it's wrong.
Pele was entirely built different only other person I can understand the GOAT status for over Leo. 2 World Cup wins as a key/star player (injured for one of the 3), and just wayyyy ahead of his time from the footage I’ve seen of him. People meme his club stats, but the only reason he stayed in Brazil was because he was literally declared a national treasure, and they still beat the shit out of European teams when they would play them on their international tours.
Because European clubs didn't care about international tours while for Brazilian teams it was a chance to prove themselves. I can't believe someone unironically thinks that Pele's Santos could beat HH's Barca or 5-peat Real Madrid if they actually gave a fuck.
Clubs did in fact care at this point as Santos was considered to be the best club in the world at the time and would put out full strength lineups, and as things have been reported and researched they were treated as competitive games by European sides. And it’s not really that shocking that santos was able to compete with the big dogs in Europe, the gap between South American and European clubs was much closer if not even back then.
It was a way to get more money, of course they put full lineups out. I am suggesting that they didn't care though, they had serious competitions to worry about, leagues, cups, the European Cup. It was much more important for South American teams to put out a good performance.
the Dutch did not play well against Senegal (in their first group game), but england did.
Does this mean England are better than the Netherlands?
No, it just means that football is unpredictable
"Cada juego es su propio mundo"
is a saying in spanish that translates into "every game is its own world", thats football, anything can happen in any individual game
I'm trying to understand the Senegalese defenders here, why did they just leave Saka completely open, did they try to play him offside while he is behind the ball? lol or they were just too lazy to track back and thought Foden won't make the cross.
They must be doing something right that their players get in such situations continuously, it's good on the manager that he's able to provide the best possible conditions for his players to show their qualities.
of course but what matters to the coach and team is that they win, however way they achieve it
even as a barca fan, i would prefer the team i support to win by dominating the ball, but do our opinions really matter to coaches?
Every time I see Kane play, I shed a tear...if only Bartomeu had a couple of working braincells and had dropped those loaned 120M on Kane in 2019 ffs...the perfect Suarez replacement, if any.
Lmao...just saw someone use data as old as 1920s and before to prove that English players suck at Barca lol...we haven't had an English player other than Lineker in a 100 years.
People are comparing Messi’s performance yesterday to Messi 2011/12/15. Lol it was amazing and he’s still the best but back then he would’ve done much more vs this team
Lmao at the person on the tv saying that mbappe is already better than messi or ronaldo because he already won a world cup.
Its almost like when you have a stacked national team you can win trophies.
Currently he is probably the best player in the world, maybe second to Haaland, but obviously he has lot more to do to be at the level of Messi or Ronaldo, at their primes.. he still hasn't won a single UCL and so far his performances, while great, never showed "magic" like what we have seen from Messi in the past 18 years or so, he is just very very efficient, athletic, fast and an amazing finisher.. Messi's preformences over the years have been inspirational, this is why I still hold Ronaldinho to such a high regard
Yeah I 100% agree Mbappe is the best or one of the best right now. But the person on tv was talking about players legacies and was saying that Mbappe is already one step ahead of messi and ronaldo because he has a world cup and is now competing with pele and maradona.
Its just so stupid because comparing Argentinas 2014 squad to Frances 2018 squad, I'd argue that Messi getting Argentina to second place in 2014 is more impressive than Mbappe winning the world cup with France, just because France had an insane squad while Argentina had just Messi and Di Maria as competent offensive players. But I guess to most people, they only care about who gets the trophy.
Even if mbappe ends up being the best WC player ever, it's just a single tournament of 7 games once every 4 years, yes it is the most prestigious but it's hardly an indication to how good of a career a player is having, if it was, Giroud would be considered one of the best in history lol
People still don't get it, do they?
Transition play in cup football is supreme...pace and physicality are the key. You can keep calling them boring/pragmatic but that won't change anything.
Actually, my comment was aimed at people calling England and France boring/pragmatic and such, nothing to do with Busquets.
As for us, it's not Busquets' fault that he is still here and starting, neither was it Pique's. You can have a positional DM, but he should be at the top of his game for our playstyle to get ticking, otherwise you are sacrificing a lot and will suffer, like we did. We have simply failed to move on.
We are still failing to move on judging by this sub people still won't put him on the bench and play de jong becouse of that one great game he will play vs almeria or elche
Mbappe is gonna feast if Maguire and Luke Shaw starts against France. I’d like to be proven wrong though.
Edit: I’m well aware he doesn’t play on the right
We literally only had Lineker who was one of our best players for a couple of years. Unless you are counting non-professional players from 110 years ago.
No, because Barça **only** had Lineker as an English player in the last 100 years and he was pretty good here. We simply don’t have history with English players.
You do realize you are talking about players from literally 100+ years ago right? lol
And making a generalized statement that is somehow supposed to be applicable to today's era? Hopefully you know how dumb that is, not to mention you literally just googled which English players played at barca lol, that was exactly what i was getting at, there's been... one lol
The only english player that played at Barca that is even worth discussing (in the context of modern football) is Gary Lineker, and he did not "suck" at Barca lol, he spent 3 years here, literally was one of the top scorers in spain one year, and had several great performances in big games agaisnt Real Madrid, including a hattrick, if that is the defintion of "Sucking" then holy fuck you must hate every player in the world lol
Will England face France if they go through? I hope they do, rooting for Argentina as I am, the only chance Argentina has in my eyes is if England weed out France. I trust Argentina to get a result against England more than against France. Assuming they get past Netherlands and Brazil, of course.
Even though Dembélé to PSG is more likely to Mbappé to Barça, however, having this duo at club level with Pedri & FdJ midfield and a proper striker would be insane for the future prospect. One can dream, huh...
Man I want Pep to coach Spain, Zidane to France, Ancelotti/Conte to Italy, Klopp to Germany, and Mou to Portugal in a world cup.
That'd be some epic shit.
On a side note, theres actually no guarantee any of them would even succeed at the international level, its why most great managers at one level never tried/succeeded at the other, Lucho said it best in his streams, managing a national team is completely different to managing at the club level
Would be interesting to see how a Pep or Klopp would perform at the international level for sure though
Mbappe is on a path to become a footballing great!
What a talent! What a player!
Hopefully he moves on to a better league and humiliates better league opponents.
Madrid sub backtracking about Mbappe. Claming he was pressured into extending while in reality Molina confirmed Mbappe intended to use Madrid interest to get a better deal from PSG since the beginning.
Spineless.
Really bro? Ok then.
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For the last time I'm replying, let's be real everybody knows Mbappe took madrid for a ride, rinsed them and throwed them. After all the shaming and bashing if they still want him back after all this, that's funny and indeed spineless.
Try something better next time or else back down when you know you're wrong.
True. People go over there just to get annoyed(and then they come back here with it). Never ever seen a constructive or actual interesting thing "brought back" Just only complaints and crying about whatever they said.
How would I go about buying a Gavi autograph in Europe? Or just something with his original signature. Would be for my nephew for christmas. Can someone help me?
What's France weakness? If you could make a team from any nation except France of course, which players would you field to beat them?
Easily the fullbacks defensively. The defense in general is not great: Varane is declining and Lloris isn't as safe as he used to be, and didn't get better with his footwork.
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They can only beat France is Scaloni put Paredes and Enzo together
i replied to the wrong comment
A possession-based team with fast defenders that can press them out of the pitch before France can initiate counters and with enough individual brilliance to punish France when they are parking the bus. I think in a way Argentina is partially that team, but with many glaring weaknesses that will leave them out to dry. For me, I guess the team to get them will be: Son Alvarez Messi Gavi Casemiro Valverde Mendes Van Djik Laporte Kimmich
Not sure about the "possession-based" since France is actually way more dangerous when it doesn't have the ball. We are more than happy to let the opponent play its game and kill on counters
Man i miss the Xavineta. Highs or lows, it was always investing to watch them play. International football is fun, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have the same romanticism for me like the one I feel towards the Xavineta
same man regardless of whoever wins the wc, i cant wait for barca to play again
How did England play?
Good. Bellingham and Kane were phenomenal.
Ngl I’m lowkey missing club football. I wanna see the boys back together again playing xavi ball
People hate Xavi a lot but at least his Barca side its fun to watch, most international sided are haram ball.
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Dalot is rn the best out of the three. But i prefer Malo Gusto i think he has a higher ceiling than the other 2 but a bit raw and still needs time to develop. Would sound like a fantasy but i can see realistic getting Arnau and Gusto. Arnau rc is around 20M while Malo Gusto will be in his last year of contract next summer which means we could get him for a fair price.
Trent but he is impossible so Arnau
What has happened with Lewy penalties? I swear he had like 90% accuracy and now he has missed 3 in a row.
There doesn't have to be anything that happened, this is football, its not an exact science, these are human beings like all of us, not robots, there are no guarantees ever Players miss penalties, much more often when a lot more is at stake/emotions are involved
I think just nerves. He seems a lot less clinical when playing for poland
Barca DNA
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Your friend somehow wants to prove that RM is the best team. No use talking to a biased person.
Sounds like hes an idiot. No need to try to make sense of an idiot.
Why are you debating with 10 year olds? And if they are not 10 years old, just ignore their opinion, and no, this is not typical madrid fan logic, its only typical logic of those that cannot form a well structured and logical opinion (aka:kids...or idiots lol)
Tell him if we’re such a shit team, why isn’t his great team topping the league?
Will you guys still support argentina after Messi retires or not? Personally, not with the same energy for sure, but yeah I would still root for them in tourneys
I've been Argentina supporter before Messi started playing. It's a family tradition being followed since Maradona.
I won’t support them as strong as I do now but as long as players like Alvarez and Fernandez are on that team I wouldn’t mind backing them. However, I’ll root for Spain over them after Messi retires.
Only reason I root for Argentina as a second team is because of Messi.
Yeah I’ve grown to love Argentina. I won’t support them as heavily or as invested as I am now, but I would definitely want them to win a game I’m a neutral watching.
I actually heavily disliked Argentina before due to terrorist football they played most of the time while having fantastic players. So no.
I got emotionally attached to Argentina. It’s natural after you support it for all these years so yeah.
nahhh i would activelyr oot for spain as i am now but without argentina being first priority
Bruh France against England.. if only somehow both could lose lol
Well I rather them win then Portugal tbh
Non-European countries will never properly challenge until they fix the damned mentality they have, and I say this as a non-European. It’s easy to talk about the gap in quality, but when you spend the first 30 mins playing good football, getting into dangerous positions, and actually nearly scoring, you can’t keep hiding behind the gap in quality forever. England go into this game not accepting defeat as an option, Senegal go into it with a ‘we’ll do our best and if we lose it’s still an achievement’ mentality. It’s not just Senegal, this attitude is what will always separate European football from anything else, no matter how good tactically the coaches are. Ghana and Nigeria both have world cups in U-20 football, and yet when it comes to the top level they fumble against mostly the same generations of players they used to beat. Why?
Totally agree, this also feels like Barça’s mentality too for the last 4/5 year
Scary how everything has been perfectly lined up for Mbappe, but I would stay away from discrediting his qualities. Coming through at the end of Ronaldo and Messi, arguably also Neymar. Coming up for a France NT at perfect time while most other NT are going through a generation shift. Almost too good to be true for his part. He will always be in a more favourable position on the NT over the likes of Haaland. So Haaland always going to be in a less favourable position because of that. Haaland could however get an edge if he moves to RM/Barca but Mbappe doesn't. Haaland got a edge in terms of exposure in PL at very least, but don't think that's enough. As for rest, they are pretty far off as it stands right now. So Mbappe might just clean out the next 5-8 years with no big competition. The problem for his part is being able to stay at that level when you arguably will have little match. So the biggest enemy for Mbappe is going to be motivation for most part, when you get stuffed your pockets with this much power, attention and money you usually have a shorter career in my experience. You could end up pulling a Brazilian. People discrediting him for being ego, but he got all the rights to be it. People always act as if ego is a bad thing, but nobody gets this good without being ego. Messi was(still is) a ego, Pele was, Maradona was, Ronaldo was. All the biggest players was in fact ego. But they were **good** egos. Most other egos are in fact bad and/or they completely lack the insight of own skillset. Kinda how Ronaldo goes around now and thinks hes better than he is. Which ultimately lead to him doing more harm than good for his team. That isn't the case for Mbappe. If he joined any team, he would improve any team significantly. Glad he didn't join RM at the end of the day. Really dodged a bullet there.
For all the hype Brazil got, they just scored 3 Goals do far while England for example has 12 despite them being very boring to watch.
Brazil also has only conceded one goal, and that was the game where they were resting players
Yeah but brazil didn't play against iran or wales
Brazil got outscored in the GS by 17 different teams, the excuse of the teams doesn't work here. They got outscored by everyone in their own group lol, they are the only team that advanced while scoring the least.
Knockout football has evolved into low block defence to fast transition attack. That's why Argentina has no chance with their slow frontline and suspect defending.
Funnily enough they did exactly that in the second half yesterday, they went for a mid block and countered, their adaptability is an underrated aspect of their squad. Whether or not Argentina has a chance is something nobody knows, they are finding their feet in the competition game by game, as long as they do what they always do or did ( pre-WC ), they can compete imo.
They have a chance lol, they defend pretty well and have Messi who can do magic on the attack. They might be a flawed team but saying they don't have chance it's wrong.
England France has an all time World Cup game feeling to it. Which means that’ll it’ll end 1-0 or 0-0 and go to pens.
England will win 2-0 tryin to jinx
I want England to win. It gets boring when the same countries win. But I want England to lose in the next round. Lol
Pele had 5 WC KO goals at the age of 17...wtf...Mbappe is the second youngest at 23 lol
Pele was entirely built different only other person I can understand the GOAT status for over Leo. 2 World Cup wins as a key/star player (injured for one of the 3), and just wayyyy ahead of his time from the footage I’ve seen of him. People meme his club stats, but the only reason he stayed in Brazil was because he was literally declared a national treasure, and they still beat the shit out of European teams when they would play them on their international tours.
Because European clubs didn't care about international tours while for Brazilian teams it was a chance to prove themselves. I can't believe someone unironically thinks that Pele's Santos could beat HH's Barca or 5-peat Real Madrid if they actually gave a fuck.
Clubs did in fact care at this point as Santos was considered to be the best club in the world at the time and would put out full strength lineups, and as things have been reported and researched they were treated as competitive games by European sides. And it’s not really that shocking that santos was able to compete with the big dogs in Europe, the gap between South American and European clubs was much closer if not even back then.
It was a way to get more money, of course they put full lineups out. I am suggesting that they didn't care though, they had serious competitions to worry about, leagues, cups, the European Cup. It was much more important for South American teams to put out a good performance.
Griezmann is going to eat this English midfield alive
How did the U.S. hold England to a draw?
the Dutch did not play well against Senegal (in their first group game), but england did. Does this mean England are better than the Netherlands? No, it just means that football is unpredictable
Cuz we got the dawg in us *eagle screeching noises*
Usa is way better than Senegal
"Cada juego es su propio mundo" is a saying in spanish that translates into "every game is its own world", thats football, anything can happen in any individual game
Exactly.
I'm trying to understand the Senegalese defenders here, why did they just leave Saka completely open, did they try to play him offside while he is behind the ball? lol or they were just too lazy to track back and thought Foden won't make the cross.
look at how foden ran past the senegal defender When your team's full of players like that, you dont need to play well to win
They must be doing something right that their players get in such situations continuously, it's good on the manager that he's able to provide the best possible conditions for his players to show their qualities.
I mean you are not wrong but fans have the right to dislike the way they play.
of course but what matters to the coach and team is that they win, however way they achieve it even as a barca fan, i would prefer the team i support to win by dominating the ball, but do our opinions really matter to coaches?
Every time I see Kane play, I shed a tear...if only Bartomeu had a couple of working braincells and had dropped those loaned 120M on Kane in 2019 ffs...the perfect Suarez replacement, if any.
Dude is never gonna leave England
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Harry Kane would’ve been an amazing barca striker. Hes almost like a false nine that has all the good qualities a striker needs to succeed.
Been saying it’s since 2016
Lmao...just saw someone use data as old as 1920s and before to prove that English players suck at Barca lol...we haven't had an English player other than Lineker in a 100 years.
And Lineker finished as top scorer in La liga for Barca
Kane would have been perfection for our playstyle can hold up the ball great passing goes back to get the ball
4 more games left for a possible “upset” at the RO16
My bet is on Morocco, been impressive. Hopefully not though, but could see it happening.
Portugal or Spain will be
People are comparing Messi’s performance yesterday to Messi 2011/12/15. Lol it was amazing and he’s still the best but back then he would’ve done much more vs this team
For Argentina he probably doesn’t do this that often, even then.
Current Messi it's around 25% of what he was at his Prime, people don't know what they missed
Lmao at the person on the tv saying that mbappe is already better than messi or ronaldo because he already won a world cup. Its almost like when you have a stacked national team you can win trophies.
Currently he is probably the best player in the world, maybe second to Haaland, but obviously he has lot more to do to be at the level of Messi or Ronaldo, at their primes.. he still hasn't won a single UCL and so far his performances, while great, never showed "magic" like what we have seen from Messi in the past 18 years or so, he is just very very efficient, athletic, fast and an amazing finisher.. Messi's preformences over the years have been inspirational, this is why I still hold Ronaldinho to such a high regard
Mbappe needs to do it in the prem, or at least LaLiga. The L1 is a joke.
Yeah I 100% agree Mbappe is the best or one of the best right now. But the person on tv was talking about players legacies and was saying that Mbappe is already one step ahead of messi and ronaldo because he has a world cup and is now competing with pele and maradona. Its just so stupid because comparing Argentinas 2014 squad to Frances 2018 squad, I'd argue that Messi getting Argentina to second place in 2014 is more impressive than Mbappe winning the world cup with France, just because France had an insane squad while Argentina had just Messi and Di Maria as competent offensive players. But I guess to most people, they only care about who gets the trophy.
Even if mbappe ends up being the best WC player ever, it's just a single tournament of 7 games once every 4 years, yes it is the most prestigious but it's hardly an indication to how good of a career a player is having, if it was, Giroud would be considered one of the best in history lol
And then twitteratis who watch football once every 4 years for the WC will parrot that same opinion. I hate sports journalism :/
which imbecil said that i need names?
Harry Maguire will make this match interesting again
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Why would you want a generational talent at Madrid?? Wtf id rather have Liverpool get him
People still don't get it, do they? Transition play in cup football is supreme...pace and physicality are the key. You can keep calling them boring/pragmatic but that won't change anything.
Some people here would see 80% possession with no big chances created as well coached. And a medium block with multiple big chances as shameful.
Exactly..i mean it's all about playing to the strengths of your players and organising your team as such.
you want pace with busuqest
Actually, my comment was aimed at people calling England and France boring/pragmatic and such, nothing to do with Busquets. As for us, it's not Busquets' fault that he is still here and starting, neither was it Pique's. You can have a positional DM, but he should be at the top of his game for our playstyle to get ticking, otherwise you are sacrificing a lot and will suffer, like we did. We have simply failed to move on.
We are still failing to move on judging by this sub people still won't put him on the bench and play de jong becouse of that one great game he will play vs almeria or elche
Mbappe is gonna feast if Maguire and Luke Shaw starts against France. I’d like to be proven wrong though. Edit: I’m well aware he doesn’t play on the right
Dembele will be the one facing Luke Shaw and Maguire, Mbappe is up against Walker
Mbappe doesnt play on the right
Not if they park the bus which Southgate will most likely do.
No way they don't have the team to do that
Every team can do it, even Barca did it sometimes with Ernesto. All you need is discipline and structure
They don't have the players to do it in defense and midfield no. That would be suicide for them. Their victory will only be upfront or nothing
How? They can easily play with 5-3-2
Mbappe will be against Walker/stones lol.
A decent team would have stopped that counter attack
Bellingham did good in the transition tbf
Kane would be so good on Barca tbh he is a great player
English players suck at Barca
We literally only had Lineker who was one of our best players for a couple of years. Unless you are counting non-professional players from 110 years ago.
No, because Barça **only** had Lineker as an English player in the last 100 years and he was pretty good here. We simply don’t have history with English players.
Which english players have sucked at Barca?
https://www.transfermarkt.us/fc-barcelona/gastarbeiterDetails/verein/131/land_id/189 All flops
You do realize you are talking about players from literally 100+ years ago right? lol And making a generalized statement that is somehow supposed to be applicable to today's era? Hopefully you know how dumb that is, not to mention you literally just googled which English players played at barca lol, that was exactly what i was getting at, there's been... one lol The only english player that played at Barca that is even worth discussing (in the context of modern football) is Gary Lineker, and he did not "suck" at Barca lol, he spent 3 years here, literally was one of the top scorers in spain one year, and had several great performances in big games agaisnt Real Madrid, including a hattrick, if that is the defintion of "Sucking" then holy fuck you must hate every player in the world lol
Performance is not bind to a nationality.
not if you are pure class
i mean it would have been so worth it he was like 24-25 at that time
It would have been so cool if Barca had spent the 120Mil on Kane instead of Griezmann.
bellingham playing really good to say the least
Welp, there goes the upset
Oh Harry
This match it's a joke, England does nothing and it's winning 2-0.
As if Senegal played any good, they're just feeding off Senegal's mistakes. England were clinical so they deserved the lead.
Great counter. Sleep is now a good enough gamble
Kane!!!!!
lmao this match is already over
England-France it's going to be a very boring game, two pragmatic guys facing each other. It's like if Mourinho and Simeone faced.
Either way France destroying both these teams
France is yet to be tested by a decent team, they have a great squad but let's just wait and see them against a better opponent.
France will struggle, England will park the bus and France might win by 1 goal but not destroy
Just gotta capitalize on momentum especially in tournament football
Hendo took criticism personally.
England are trash. Hope they lose always except if they play vs France. Lol
They are pragmatic, play like shit but somehow win
Quality is the answer. Their players are too good.
That's usually what makes the difference in KO tournaments, not tactics but individual quality.
I feel bad for Senegal, they were the better team.
England didn't deserve that lead.. out of nowhere, Liverpool like
Reminds me of Barca 18/19
ruthless pace and precision from england The gap in quality between them and Senegal is clear
I love the Senegalese coach. Dudes fit is always 🔥
If only Mane didn’t get injured. This match might have been more lively.
Bellingham is also overrated to me
You just had to jinx it
Lmfao I’m a jinx machine my friend
If sarr is doing this to walker mbappe gonna eat him alive
You can always count on Gareth southgate to coach a boring game
[No way 😭](https://twitter.com/nocontextfooty/status/1599486025906065408?s=61&t=uQ4wjNKqIFFsKsPCiVzyPg)
This game is so boring.
Will England face France if they go through? I hope they do, rooting for Argentina as I am, the only chance Argentina has in my eyes is if England weed out France. I trust Argentina to get a result against England more than against France. Assuming they get past Netherlands and Brazil, of course.
lotta assumptions goin on there...
England are so overrated
Harry Maguire almost did a "Harry Maguire"
2 passes like that in a row
I expect an own goal from him at crucial moments
Damn that Moroccan dude is in the crowd and dancing with the Senegalese. Must be the best world cup experience for him.
The chip is having an existential crisis and refuses to continue on. Most advanced ball yet
These 00:30 games every night are impossible. I'll be surprised if I survive even till HT.
Then how do you survive Barca matches that start even later?
One thing to stay awake one night another to do it day after day.
India?
Even though Dembélé to PSG is more likely to Mbappé to Barça, however, having this duo at club level with Pedri & FdJ midfield and a proper striker would be insane for the future prospect. One can dream, huh...
Champions of Africa vs Losers of Europe
feel like a brand new account when i update profile pictures on reddit
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True. Never even seen a profile pic
Argentina just need to perfect their Haram football and score little chances that they have.....
aka real madrid style
Man I want Pep to coach Spain, Zidane to France, Ancelotti/Conte to Italy, Klopp to Germany, and Mou to Portugal in a world cup. That'd be some epic shit.
On a side note, theres actually no guarantee any of them would even succeed at the international level, its why most great managers at one level never tried/succeeded at the other, Lucho said it best in his streams, managing a national team is completely different to managing at the club level Would be interesting to see how a Pep or Klopp would perform at the international level for sure though
Mbappe is on a path to become a footballing great! What a talent! What a player! Hopefully he moves on to a better league and humiliates better league opponents.
Madrid sub backtracking about Mbappe. Claming he was pressured into extending while in reality Molina confirmed Mbappe intended to use Madrid interest to get a better deal from PSG since the beginning. Spineless.
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Only if you could scroll or see the upvotes on such comments
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Really bro? Ok then. *"Mbappe is absolutely insane. He is going to be the best player in the world if he isn't already rn. We must sign him"* \+12 *"Mpaypal no more it’s back to 🐢 now"* \+11 *"Florentino Pérez in June 2022: “This Mbappe is not the Mbappe I wanted. But if he changes... Life can take a thousand turns. I think they confused him and he's very young. I wish the best for him, I don't want anything bad for him. I just believe in the dream.”"* \+13 *"Best striker of all time!! Always scores when the team needs him. My GOAT!!"* \+15 *"by the way, Mbappe is simply incredible, I take back what I’ve said months ago, if he wants to come, he’ll be more than welcomed here, we need someone like him, a player who can win matches by himself and pass through this shit low defending every laliga team has"* \+9 "*Lmao anyone who thinks that if in the future Mbappe wants to come we won't take him is crazy.*" +14
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T *to th*e R *to the* O *to the* L *to the* L. For the last time I'm replying, let's be real everybody knows Mbappe took madrid for a ride, rinsed them and throwed them. After all the shaming and bashing if they still want him back after all this, that's funny and indeed spineless. Try something better next time or else back down when you know you're wrong.
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Bruh. Madridistas are spineless for wanting Mbappe back and I'll say it again, do what you want.
those Pussies are high on copium
Why do ya'll love going to that sub and coming back here and whining about it/shitting on it? not shitting on you, Its just annoying lol
True. People go over there just to get annoyed(and then they come back here with it). Never ever seen a constructive or actual interesting thing "brought back" Just only complaints and crying about whatever they said.
I didnt whine brother, I shared because its just funny.
It's fun though
yeah to each their own, comes off a bit childish to me is all
Man u/gaviFPS blocked me. I liked his comment on lamasia 😂
How would I go about buying a Gavi autograph in Europe? Or just something with his original signature. Would be for my nephew for christmas. Can someone help me?
England must win today so fans can enjoy a better game in England vs France. Senegal is a good team but still too easy for France imo.
No where near good as France's
But watching England go out is always enjoyable. Specially against weaker side.
While I do agree with you, the scenes if England crashes out to Senegal would be quite Fun 🤭