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GWT: World Cup - Group F (Morocco and Croatia Advance)

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Who Advances?

  • Belgium

    Votes: 72 69.2%

  • Croatia

    Votes: 70 67.3%

  • Morocco

    Votes: 24 23.1%

  • Canada

    Votes: 33 31.7%
  • Total voters
    104
Not sure why people are going at Evilo for the David > Davies take

Sure evilo has a ton of french football bias but I don’t think it makes him wrong for that take

I think you could have made an argument between three players as to who the best one was during qualifying.

Davies is the most talented, sure, but Eustaquio and David have a lot of consistency in decision making

The strength of Davies - in addition to the talent - is the volume. After a ton of take on attempts, he’ll get a decisive one into space and play the right ball. But there are a lot of mistakes in-between the successful ones
 
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Blender said:
Belgium suffers the same problem they always do. They have a lot of good players, but they don't really have much of a team identity.
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having one of the worst coaches ever does not help either, the guy ruined this generation that should have dominated world for many years. Oh well, go Canada, check that back line and keep the pressure
 
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Yeah the roundness of the ball seems to be giving them serious trouble :)
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Yeah, we should flatten out the ball a bit for more control.

Although then it would be tough to kick - maybe we could give players some sort of instrument to control the ball? Like a lacrosse stick, but held on the ground?

Also, we can't play outside during half the year, let's make it on ice.
 
Beating a dead horse but Canada has at least 3 better options to take that PK. David, Eustaquio, and even Vitoria who is a penalty specialist.
 
Tom ServoMST3K said:
Yeah, we should flatten out the ball a bit for more control.

Although then it would be tough to kick - maybe we could give players some sort of instrument to control the ball? Like a lacrosse stick, but held on the ground?

Also, we can't play outside during half the year, let's make it on ice.
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I dunno, I like some of those ideas but it sounds like it would become a marginal sport ;)
 
Tom ServoMST3K said:
The US has a better roster on paper.

Swap managers, and the USA would be a QF or SF team IMO.
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thats very true. I am not as much up to speed on Canada Team, but watched alot of US and their weakest link is their clueless coach, what I am seeing today is a total tactical domination by Canada, Belgium has some world class players, best midfielder in the world, so they need to be careful in the back, but if they keep up with the press they will score in the second
 
Peen said:
Not sure why people are going at Evilo for the David > Davies take

Sure evilo has a ton of french football bias but I don’t think it makes him wrong for that take

I think you could have made an argument between three players as to who the best one was during qualifying.

Davies is the most talented, sure, but Eustaquio and David have a lot of consistency in decision making

The strength of Davies - in addition to the talent - is the volume. After a ton of take on attempts, he’ll get a decisive one into space and play the right ball. But there are a lot of mistakes in-between the successful ones
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I think it’s also kind of hard to really compare. They are pretty different players. I’d say Davies is almost like a box to box winger/wing back whereas David is more of an all around 9 sort of player.
 
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Tom ServoMST3K said:
Yeah, we should flatten out the ball a bit for more control.

Although then it would be tough to kick - maybe we could give players some sort of instrument to control the ball? Like a lacrosse stick, but held on the ground?

Also, we can't play outside during half the year, let's make it on ice.
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We should also create a forum to discuss it all!
 
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Peen said:
Not sure why people are going at Evilo for the David > Davies take

Sure evilo has a ton of french football bias but I don’t think it makes him wrong for that take

I think you could have made an argument between three players as to who the best one was during qualifying.

Davies is the most talented, sure, but Eustaquio and David have a lot of consistency in decision making

The strength of Davies - in addition to the talent - is the volume. After a ton of take on attempts, he’ll get a decisive one into space and play the right ball. But there are a lot of mistakes in-between the successful ones
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I agree. It's not outlandish saying David is better than Davies. They're both different though and both are great.

Reality is that neither have brought his club level to the NT. We need them both if we're hoping to qualify to the 2nd round.
 
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