Wullie

Fucking GET IN

Hartlepool were terrible in the last 10 minutes, just kept inviting the ball into the box towards a keeper that can't jump.

Every time there's an international tournament, everyone seems to forget every tournament they've seen previously, where there is almost never a team that conquers all. France were extremely ordinary in their easy group at WC2018, and Portugal at the previous Euros finished 3rd in the group and qualified by the skin of their teeth.

Hardly surprising when domestic cup competitions, the Europa League and sometimes even the domestic title are treated like pointless trinkets that nobody's really that arsed about.

Only hit 53 against Sweden as he got hooked after an hour.

Pau Torres pass line is 96.5 for tomorrow with 365, I'll certainly be taking that.

There seems to be this view that the man to break down a deep backline is Grealish but when does he ever have to do that? When was the last time a team sat in a low block against Villa?

I'm biased as I fucking hate him but he's absolutely horrendous. Best part of the game was Pearce saying that Frankie de Jong said "Why would any midfielder look to pass backwards?" and Jenas fell silent before saying "... Frankie de Jong said that??" His entire career eviscerated in a sentence live on air.

1 tackle short, 1 SOT short

Nah it's a good resource that, I tend to use it for shots on targets and forget it exists for anything else, thanks for the reminder.

You can get most of what you need on Whoscored.com. I posted a spreadsheet in here last week that I'd compiled from each country's Nations League campaigns, that's been helpful. It's basically a matter of using stats as well as your own judgment of how you think the game will go, who will dominate, have most shots etc. 365 tend to offer 2 players each team in the tackles/passes markets so you can have a look at their line and see if you think it's right or not. For example, they had Pau Torres at 90 passes in the Sweden game the other day. Checked out his numbers and almost always over 100 when he plays for Spain, and they were very likely to have all of the ball in that game, he ended up having 117. There's people on Twitter who are really good at the stats in domestic football but there's so much that I don't know where they find the time to research it, here it's quite easy to focus on one game and find an angle or two. Tonight I'm on Wijnaldum over 1.5 shots/0.5 on target at 21/20 and Austria over 16.5 tackles at 5/6 (which will be a disaster now I've posted them in here).

Goal kicks/tackles/passes etc are the things I'm getting right quite consistently.

1 card out again.

This geezer's doing Ukraine vs North Macedonia tomorrow. 7/2 for 2 cards each.

I think Turkey in the heat of a Baku summer are a tasty price at 8/5 against the Welsh.

Can't overstate how pig sick I am of the refs at this tournament.

Not the person you want to be setting the bar.

He's been banned off here half a dozen times before, the last time it was for posting several times about "filthy Chinese" in the Covid thread. He was only back in the first place because bans lapsed when we changed the forum software, we decided to give everyone a second chance, well this fucker's had more than enough rope now.

No Rondon these days?

Brazil vs Venezuela on iPlayer now

I'm doing well with the free kicks, goal kicks, tackles etc

Wout Weghorst starts up front for Netherlands. That makes the 9/1 for top team scorer look very big indeed. 20 goals in 34 league games for Wolfsburg this season.

One for later - the ref doing the Brazil game has a career average of over 7 cards per game! Some tasty player odds with 365, no idea if he plays or not but Fabinho is 5/1, some price with a ref like that.

Alioski/Bardhi/Schlager trixie. Ref's not the best unfortunately but I think that's priced in.