World Cup: National Team threads #2

[cgf]

Same here, Stockton and Malone are to blame. Haven't watched it since that second final loss haha

The league's gotten a lot more fun than it was back then. Silver's done a great job as commish making more regular season games meaningful and the talent level is the highest I've ever seen it.

The league still isn't the best at handling forwards who play for small town teams & mess around with minors, though Giggity isn't nearly as bad as Malone was

 

[Power Man]

Hush. Starks was a legend. All-defensive team and for a long time held the Knicks single record for 3s...but yeah, the basketball back then was a lot uglier than it is today


Kahn, Roy, and Ewing were each other's spirit animals:

Patrick Roy

The ultimate competitor

0 confidence issue

 

[cgf]

Patrick Roy

The ultimate competitor

0 confidence issue

There's a reason I became a Knicks and Avs fan

 

[Eye of Ra]

There's a reason I became a Knicks and Avs fan

do u remember peter forsberg?

 

[cgf]

do u remember peter forsberg?

The player I named my dog after? I might ;-)

 

[Eye of Ra]

The player I named my dog after? I might ;-)

and ur cats name is Gabriel Landeskog i assume.

 

[cgf]

and ur cats name is Gabriel Landeskog i assume.

lol no, the cat in my life was named sunshine by his mother...and he is an absolute demon in kitty form

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Monaco's Ben Seghir goes to Morocco as well! Holy shit! Absolutely amazing!

 

[Evilo]

Which Ben Seghir though?

EDIT : I'm kidding, his brother sucks

 

[cgf]

Mo Dahoud is finally making the switch to Syria's NT.

 

[Power Man]

 

[Eye of Ra]

Sweden has a new coach, Jon Dahl Tomasson, his first squad

Målvakter
Viktor Johansson
Robin Olsen
Kristoffer Nordfeldt

Försvarare
Emil Holm
VNL
Isak Hien
Ludvig Augustinsson
Hjalmar Ekdal
Gabriel Gudmundsson
Emil Krafth
Carl Starfelt
Linus Wahlqvist


Mittfältare/Anfallare

Jens Cajuste
Anthony Elanga
Emil Forsberg
Samuel Gustafson
Jesper Karlström
Gustaf Nilsson
Simon Olsson
Jacob Ondrejka
Anton Saletros
Mattias Svanberg
Hugo Larsson
Dejan Kulusevski
Alexander Isak
Victor Gyökeres

Many swedes wanted Bergvall & Roony


@S E P H

2 swedes from the polish league, Linus Wahlqvist and Jesper Karlström

 

[Eye of Ra]

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Pavard

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

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Ah yes, why use friendlies to integrate an exciting young right back who very conceivably could be good enough to start at the Euros when you could take 32 YEAR OLD JONATHAN f***ING CLAUSS.

Gah. No Gusto no party.

 

[cgf]

Nagelsmann hands out first nominations for Pavlovic, Beier, Beste, Undav, Mittelstadt, and Anton. Interesting seeing Kimmich listed as a defender.


ter Stegen / Neuer / Leno / Baumann at GK
Raum / Mittelstadt / Beste at LWB
Kimmich / Henrichs / Groß at RB
Rüdiger / Tah / Koch / Anton at CB
Pavlovic / Andrich at the 6
Gundogan / Kroos / Groß at the 8
Wirtz / Musiala / Havertz / Führich / Müller at AM
Füllkrug / Beier / Undav at FW

 

[Evilo]

Ah yes, why use friendlies to integrate an exciting young right back who very conceivably could be good enough to start at the Euros when you could take 32 YEAR OLD JONATHAN f***ING CLAUSS.

Gah. No Gusto no party.

DD won't integrate new players so close to Euro. I would totally take Gusto over the two CB we have playing RB (Clauss isn't going to play much anyway), but he isn't going to take any chance to integrate a new face now.
Diaby is also a guy that has nothing to do here.
There will be lots of changes after Euro and I full expect Gusto to be a fixture while guys like Giroud, Diaby, and maybe Griezmann will leave most likely.

 

[robertmac43]

Ben White rejecting Southgate is hilarious and I love it.

 

[luiginb]

Ben White rejecting Southgate is hilarious and I love it.

He had no business there anyway.

Regarding France Honorat has been switched to RWB in the Bundesliga and is killing it, he'd have been my choice.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Nagelsmann hands out first nominations for Pavlovic, Beier, Beste, Undav, Mittelstadt, and Anton. Interesting seeing Kimmich listed as a defender.


ter Stegen / Neuer / Leno / Baumann at GK
Raum / Mittelstadt / Beste at LWB
Kimmich / Henrichs / Groß at RB
Rüdiger / Tah / Koch / Anton at CB
Pavlovic / Andrich at the 6
Gundogan / Kroos / Groß at the 8
Wirtz / Musiala / Havertz / Führich / Müller at AM
Füllkrug / Beier / Undav at FW

No Werner

 

[robertmac43]

He had no business there anyway.

He has been amazing over the past 6 months or so and was in the WC squad. Feels like his England stock has only trended upwards.

 

[cgf]

No Werner

No need for Werner ;-)

 

[gary69]

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Possible bad news for France, as Maignan just forced to come off in the Milan match, what looked like a potentially bad knee injury after collision.

Edit: He still stays on the pitch after being patched up.

 

[gary69]

Ah yes, why use friendlies to integrate an exciting young right back who very conceivably could be good enough to start at the Euros when you could take 32 YEAR OLD JONATHAN f***ING CLAUSS.

Gah. No Gusto no party.

No me gusto.

 

[gary69]

Nagelsmann hands out first nominations for Pavlovic, Beier, Beste, Undav, Mittelstadt, and Anton. Interesting seeing Kimmich listed as a defender.


ter Stegen / Neuer / Leno / Baumann at GK
Raum / Mittelstadt / Beste at LWB
Kimmich / Henrichs / Groß at RB
Rüdiger / Tah / Koch / Anton at CB
Pavlovic / Andrich at the 6
Gundogan / Kroos / Groß at the 8
Wirtz / Musiala / Havertz / Führich / Müller at AM
Füllkrug / Beier / Undav at FW

Nice to see Beste in the squad, never seen him play before this season, but he has looked good in the limited action (2-3 matches) I've seen him this season with Heidenheim.

Late developer for sure, wonder why he didn't break through at higher level earlier.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

He has been amazing over the past 6 months or so and was in the WC squad. Feels like his England stock has only trended upwards.

It was trending upwards until the World Cup. Bears remembering that he actually left Qatar early, and hasn't been called up since. There was quite a bit of speculation at the time about a falling out with Southgate and Steve Holland (some rumours about a training ground bust-up with Holland), and other speculation that he didn't want to be there just to be a bench player (starter or bust). But all this was just speculation.

There's also often been a sense that football for Ben White is simply a job and he's just focused on doing it at club level. Can't begrudge him that.

It's been so long since Ben White has consistently played centreback that I forget what he's like there, but given the current injuries at rightback he would've been a good squad option.