Other Sports: Soccer/Football Thread Part Six

[Starat327]

Hazard?

This is fair. Though, his was more injury driven, ultimately. Lukaku just seemingly lost all his talent.

I don't remember that but I don't remember ever seeing him score a goal in the EPL. He did nothing at United and nothing at Chelsea.

Looked decent at Everton, and his first sting at Chelsea (leading to Everton) showed lots of potential. Dude was a bull, but just seemingly decided to stop working.

What was Lukaku’s xG?

0.StillTearsApartFarmersLeagues

 

[FLYguy3911]

0.StillTearsApartFarmersLeagues

It was a serious question buddy.

it was .82 btw.

Where does France's B team finish in this thing btw? They are so stacked.

 

[Appleyard]

Saka still made things happen though. Foden didn't do anything. I think the biggest problem with Foden is that everyone is desperate for him to be the next Gascoigne when he's just not that type of player. He's not a playmaker. And he's definitely not the player you build your team around when you have Jude Bellingham.

Saka is pretty much a pure winger though and he is playing that spot.

I mean, he is a pretty good playmaker! Just have to watch him at City to see that. He was top 10 in the Prem this season in expected assists... and he has 0.27, 0.23 and 0.26 xA/60 in the last 3 seasons... 6th, 10th and 12th in the league.

Bellingham is better... but it does not have to be one or the other. City comfortably accommodated Foden and KDB (and Bernardo when KDB was out) this year and last... with Haaland ahead of them... and they all shone.

But Southgate cant even adjust tactics in game, he has no idea how to use attacking players in general.

I thought Foden was more central for City this season

This year he was. But last year he was close to as good playing mainly the hybrid LW role.

He plays basically LAM for City with De Bruyne/Bernardo as RAM with two guys there... though City set up in a far more fluid way than England and it lets him play basically LW/LM, AM and RW/RM in same game.

 

[BigToe]

Hernandez is so good

 

[kudymen]

Mbappe is hilarious..... Jesus

Edit - posted after his five seconds wait to react to hand in the face. Pre bloody injury

 

[kudymen]

Okay now he is truly hilarious. The f*** was he doing going ther and just sit down

 

[Jack Straw]

Why in the world did they send him back on the pitch?

 

[TCTC]

Why in the world did they send him back on the pitch?

He did it so they could make subs.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Hernandez is so good

Where he play?

 

[BigToe]

Where he play?

FC Gabagool

 

[FLYguy3911]

FC Gabagool

That’s racist sir.

 

[Curufinwe]

The Portugal-Czechia commentators are idiots. They were telling Soucek off for getting a yellow card when the card was for the Portugal forward diving.

 

[TCTC]

When you watch this current Czech Republic team it's hard to believe they used to have players like Nedved, Rosicky or Poborsky. They lost all their flair.

 

[Curufinwe]

Albania snag a draw at the death

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Would be feeling a lot better about today's match if the Scots didn't shit the bed in the first one.

It's too bad they peaked in qualifying; they have the quality to reach the knockout stage.

 

[Starat327]

Love the idea of selling a good left back so we can go buy....a left back.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Love the idea of selling a good left back so we can go buy....a left back.

You would love FC 24.

 

[Starat327]

You would love FC 24.

Football manager is enough heart/head ache for me in this world.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

McTominay!!!!

All started with his box clearing header, too.

Should be an own goal, really.

Edit: was given as an own goal. Scotland has two goals in the tournament, neither scored by Scotland.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Beauty by Shaqiri to level it.

Horrible turnover by Scotland.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Gunn sucks.

Saved by an offside.

 

[Jack Straw]

McTominay!!!!

All started with his box clearing header, too.

Should be an own goal, really.

Edit: was given as an own goal. Scotland has two goals in the tournament, neither scored by Scotland.

But it was McTom. You know he had that measured. He calculated the angle of the shot, the position of the defender, the wind speed and the air resistance of the football. He knew exactly where it was going. Exactly.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

But it was McTom. You know he had that measured. He calculated the angle of the shot, the position of the defender, the wind speed and the air resistance of the football. He knew exactly where it was going. Exactly.

They reversed the decision and gave him the goal after all.

Scrappy game.

 

[Jack Straw]

They reversed the decision and gave him the goal after all.

They knew

 

[Cody Webster]

Holy shit the Union suck. They find a new way to lose every game.