triggs

Better off doing completely shit and having a clear out than a caretaker coming in and doing a decent job and the problems being forgotten

Better than having another caretaker come in and do a decent job for half a season and all the problems are forgotten about. The new manager should have a clean slate now

What a fucking idiot

Definite red IMO. If Zouma didn't inexplicably stop sprinting he would have got back though

Not going well for Chelsea in their last big tie as a big club

Kante hauled off

Should the keeper save the first Benzema header?

Best in the world

Atletico probably defended better there than they have in a lot of their more famous results over the years. Foden did a few brilliant things when he went on. Grealish really wound them up

Despite all of Fletch's salivating they've created nothing at all. Will be interesting to see if there find any gaps in the second half

Ah shite. Love him

Actually curious about just how bad this game must have been

Saw something that Ghana are hoping to have Hudson Odoi and Tariq Lamptey declared for them by the time this starts

Ecuador's qualification record is insane considering they never have any more than 1 or 2 players anyone has heard of and the competitiveness of South America, even if the quality has dropped a bit now

Draw written all over USA - England

England will get through but its not easy to the same extent as their last one with Tunisia and Panama

Switzerland and Serbia again. Class

In theory, yes, but I don't think there's any actual evidence for that

I don't want 5 subs just because it interrupts the flow of the game too much IMO but in practice I don't think it benefits the big clubs much more than smaller clubs

One thing that was forgotten in the whole Super League thing is that the new CL format which was released around the same time is horrendous

Just looking on livescore, does Junior Hoilett really play centre mid?

Haven't they just taken advantage of their status and pulling power as a club rather than clubs doing them favours? Maybe Man City sold Ferran Torres a bit cheaply but they specifically have lots of links to Barca? Can't think of anything other than that

There's really good depth in European football and 24 teams doesn't really work so I think 32 teams in it is fine. Take the point that maybe 8 teams should qualify automatically based on Nations League but then those teams would probably be at a disadvantage in terms of cohesiveness if they weren't playing games

Chiesa's absence surely the number 1 reason

So does every other team's fans