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not sure who he'd start over tbh

I've prayed for Umbro for years, but I'm also quite keen on Mizuno as I love their running shoes and their Lazio kits have been tidy.

Find it very hard to see anybody except France winning right now, although the beauty of the cup is it only takes one off day and they're out. Quite a run of dominance from them though, that's semi-finals three world cups in a row at worst.

One of two things: a) he has a good football brain but as he was so good probably struggles to explain to players what he wants from them. or b) as someone who has never played football at 1/1000th the quality of someone like Rooney, I'm easily impressed by little tactical insights but actually they're fairly asinine for the level they're talking about.

which team does he play for?

who for?

I'd guess that had a lot more to do with a very underwhelming showing by them vs Iran and Egypt and then barely squeaking past Senegal than it had to do with the US being good.

****ing hell

Come on big soutts

Good idea, execution reminds me of something my grandma would have got me from the market. No gold, at least

I think they beat both the US and Bosnia, but no chance they get through the other european team in the quarters.

heartbreaker for senegal, they were 3 minutes away from a win and now this

that could have been it

Do you keep Mane on in this situation? He's looking kind of gassed but has those moments of class and I'd want him if it goes to penalties.

They scored in the last minute in the AFCON final, can they do it again though? Really hope so

Just so much less interesting to see them a bunch of european teams (and possibly the US) rather than Senegal.

If I were Senegalese I'd be raging at the player who had the ball on the right wing with 4 or 5 teammates running forward who then took a shit shot into Row Z and turned the ball over when they could have spent 2 or 3 minutes passing and putting pressure on at 2-1 up.

what a collapse wow

Oooh, squeaky bum time

tielemans and trossard having it out on the pitch - think Belgium suffers from what England did for the longest time (players can't stand each other)

uhh, they've already got Castagne at the back, surely that's enough?

what a finish, so deserved

i am hating that every single match is playing the same songs at the same point in the game

i can understand not wanting to start him but surely you bring him over Quansah or Chalobah - neither will get more than a handful of minutes so surely you'd rather have Trent for games like Ghana where you just need a spark.

sounds like you've got insider information there