Midfield_General

That, and the threaded pass from the centre half into midfield are the ones that I'd be looking to jump on. Let them have the ball, wait for the CB to bring it out and try and make that pass into feet, then spring the press so that when you win possession you've got men over and can get straight in behind while the central defenders are still pushed up and isolated because the wing backs are miles up the pitch waiting for a ball that never comes.

'It's not a tactical issue' - delivered with a dismissive smirk after gifting two goals in a disappointing 0-2 home reverse to Wycombe

Assuming Ronaldo plays tonight he would have made history by becoming the first player ever to feature in six World Cups... had Messi not done it last night, thereby beating him to it by one day 🤣

If we're looking at Scotland / Rangers we could do a lot worse than have a look at Djeidi Gassama as well. Quick, direct, gives defenders all sorts of problems and has got a goal in him. He was often their standout player whenever I watched them last year. Can play on either wing and they picked him up for less than £2m a year ago, which was a great bit of business. Only 22 so YHGTI.

‘Not perfect at Rangers’ = sacked after 123 days with a 29% win percentage, by far the lowest ever in the club’s 154 year history. Lovely bit of trolling. It’s like saying the Titanic’s maiden voyage to New York ‘had a couple of hiccups’.

France have been brilliant going forward but their keeper Maignan has been dodgy. Bazzed out the way of it for the Senegal goal and was lucky to get away with two others.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/06/13/russell-martin-appointed-manager-of-leicester-city/ Three year deal, according to the Telegraph. Hope they’ve got some good ball-playing centre halves.

I must be remembering it wrong then as that’s how I remember it. Fair enough if that’s not right - happy to be corrected. Edit: He had been out injured for 8 months when we signed him though. We signed him in September and he’d not played since January because of an Achilles injury: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66681314

He was also injured when we signed him. Saints knew the risks they were taking on when they signed an injured player. They took the calculated gamble, paying a lower fee than he would otherwise have been worth, thinking they could rehabilitate him and turn it into a bargain, but knowing the flip side was that they’d have to pay him whether they were successful or not. That’s on Saints, not Stewart. No-one forced us to sign him. He served out the terms of his contract. He’s not obliged to sign any new contract we put in front of him, regardless of terms. It’s his choice if he thinks he can then get a better offer somewhere else. Having said all that, It’s a very big risk going into the intense conditions of tournament football with his injury record and without a signed contract with someone. He’s taken a huge gamble there.

Salisu scored for Ghana vs South Korea in the groups in 2022

He didn’t slap him though, he vaguely and briefly pulled his pulled his shoulder/ neck with no force at all. You’d see that incident ten times a game in a Tyro u-14s match and they’d all just get on with it.

3rd red card 🤣 Not one of them deserved Absolute joke

If that’s a red card then you might as well just say the game is now completely non-contact. Absolutely pathetic. Add VAR to the long list of things that are ruining this already. ‘It’s been a glorious occasion’ says whoever this gimp is with McCoist on ITV. No it hasn’t. It’s been a desperately shit start.

Nope. All the real fans have been priced out so it’s just a bunch of boring middle class people and corporates sat in their $100 replica shirts quietly munching their hotdogs while a League 2 standard game unfolds before them. FIFA have taken the game away from the people, ruined the format and killed this tournament.

Weird that they have a carefully scheduled three minute hydration break but don’t stop the clock for it and just treat it as injury time to be added on by the referee