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So very true

Sounds like a potential upgrade on Perez. Nah different kind of player. Ozyakup is not the goalscorer/finisher Perez is/has been in his football development. For instance you wouldn't likely see him get 10 goals as Perez did last season. If I had to compare Ozyakup to a well known player in England it would be Ramsey (not saying he's as good as him mind). PS. take the Barcelona comment with a pinch of salt, any player who shows a glimpse of talent gets touted as good enough for Barcelona. Just look at Merino.

Fancy Senegal there, good team that. Mane, Koulibaly, Gueye, Sarr & Niang all good players

Behind Nagatomo for me who was superb and tbf has always been a very talented full back. Class team display though.

Japan

could not agree more Prefer Eni Aluko but Scott has been good too aye Would be excellent to see them both get more punditry jobs going into next season although Aluko is now playing for Juve apparently. Tbh I feel like they've shown there's scope for better/different analysis to the usual PFM bullshit. Get some experienced sports reporters in as well, mix it up a bit rather than the usual bellends saying the same thing all the time. Helps that these two are great to look at I guess but that's not the whole thing. I'm just bored of the same old ex-player merry-go-round. Aluko was sat beside Evra & Larsson and showed far greater depth in her insight, made cohesive points and was actually interesting to listen to. The other two just blabbered on a bit and you we're left wondering, 'so what was the point there'? They're also hideously lacking in self awareness and massively biased, and that's not just the two in question. that was striking to me...forget the same but they both sat there and said team A have been better, aluko came next and said i disagree team B have been better for me and created the better chances...team B won it 2nd half...it was the serbia game iirc actually shje just outright disagreed with their analysis, how often do you see that? in fairness mind it seems dodgy to criticise the foreign lads too much overall considering they're doing their analysis in a 2nd language I know what you mean but they were both just being bellends tbh, nothing to do with lacking in vocabulary And agreed about the way Aluko was happy to disagree entirely, you indeed hardly ever see that from the usual crowd.

could not agree more Prefer Eni Aluko but Scott has been good too aye Would be excellent to see them both get more punditry jobs going into next season although Aluko is now playing for Juve apparently. Tbh I feel like they've shown there's scope for better/different analysis to the usual PFM bullshit. Get some experienced sports reporters in as well, mix it up a bit rather than the usual bellends saying the same thing all the time. Helps that these two are great to look at I guess but that's not the whole thing. I'm just bored of the same old ex-player merry-go-round. Aluko was sat beside Evra & Larsson and showed far greater depth in her insight, made cohesive points and was actually interesting to listen to. The other two just blabbered on a bit and you we're left wondering, 'so what was the point there'? They're also hideously lacking in self awareness and massively biased, and that's not just the two in question.

Japan deserved that.

could not agree more Prefer Eni Aluko but Scott has been good too aye Would be excellent to see them both get more punditry jobs going into next season although Aluko is now playing for Juve apparently.

The Fifa World Cup of penalties & free kicks so far.

Weak one to concede. Unlucky Japan.

HAULED OFF

I love the Japanese. Always smiling

James Rodriguez absolutely loving the national anthem there. Looks like me listening to Brian Jonestown Massacre right now.

Maya Yoshida, Southampton centre back?

Should be a good game Same for Senegal - Poland later too.

Attack-minded centre mid.

More direct - yes, better player - no.

Yes, because many have been very successful at club level. If they can't perform as a team at international level then it's down to the management of them. Yes I'm aware they have good players at club level, as a national side they've never even lived up to half of that potential 'on paper' imo. I heard people say they were in with a shout of winning this tournament, on that showing not even close. Germany had a poor game yesterday but you could tell it was in them to move through the gears and play very well - can't see that with Belgium.

Has anyone actually got any reason to believe this Belgium side can perform well as a team? I've kept hearing people bang on about them for a while now and every time I've watched them play (albeit 3/4 times) they've looked so uninspiring. Final ball has been atrocious here.

Go on Panama.

Isco dislikes this.

Belgium looking fallible. Composure seems lacking too, early doors like.

Did Boyata get good? He looked pretty poor over here.

Aw Larsson off injured. What a shame.