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Ivan Perisic?

Son Heung-Min?

Arkadiusz Milik?

Yes, but if Soyuncu and Benkovic are written off as suggested, then its 2/5. Ward can also be fairly written off, so 2/4. Then Diabate cost little, so was worth a punt.

Admittedly only based on that highlights video, but the Leuven no. 4 had one of the worst games I've ever seen from a defender.

The problem with counter-attacking is we can only really play it when the opposition let us - when teams come and attack with their own spells of possession, or when we’re already winning so the other team has no choice but to attack. This is all well and good but if the other team sits back, the onus is on us, as the “better” team, to go and score: a draw suits Southampton etc. when they play ua, but we should really beat them. Similarly, if they score first, we are the ones who have to do something. That’s why we can’t always play on the counter. Counter-attacking only really works if the opposition think they are better than us, or that they need to beat us. Having said, we’re not very good at possession football yet. I think we are getting better: Gray’s shot against the post is a good example if how to play from defence forward when the other team is entirely behind us.

The article said it wasn’t voted in. Presumably, we (and four(?) others) dissented but were told we had to go along with it.

I'm now imagining the referee standing on a table, flute in one hand, cocktail in the other.

Looking through the Leuven twitter feed is mad - auto-translate is crap. Here's some gold: 37 ' | 1-1 | handsome hunch of Kapustka, but Deane may just not be at the Doorsteekpas of the Pool. 42 ' | 1-1 | piece of art by Kapustka. What a blissful footballer! 46 ' | 1-1 | Referee ' n flute the party again. 65 ' | 1-1 | handsome rescue of Gale! 67 ' | 1-1 | Our boys print the 10 Walloon ballad back on their own half. 74 ' | 3-1 | GGGOOOAAALLL! Deane completes a handsome collective OHL attack. 81 ' | 3-1 | Our boys have the party completely under control and remain imminent.

Pretty sure it's a 4-2-3-1, unless Ghezzal's playing wing-back. That would not be pretty.

And some people say football is dead...

That has got to be the most accidentally good piece of skill ever from Slimani

Try richest 0.005%. Earning about £25k puts you in the top one percent worldwide. That's pretty obscene.

I think we can say definitively: Maybe.

You just have to remember: EVERYTHING'S FAKE NEWS.

He’s obviously got talent but is also horrendously inconsistent: he scored five and assisted three last season but he hasn’t got an assist since December and hasn’t scored since November. Seems a bit risky.