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Pre Tournament Friendlies

By CosbehFox, in General Football and Sport

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MC Prussian

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Benalouane rustling some Portuguese defenders' feathers. lol

 

Clearly not directly offside, as he wasn't interfering with the flow of the game.

 

Just jogging. Benalouane things.

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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Ricardo Pereira came across as impressive in the first half apart from being caught out of position for Tunisia's first, other than that pretty anonymous in the second up until the substitution in the 71st minute.

 

Adrien Silva with a great showing in the first half, then faded quickly before he was taken off.

 

Surprised to see Benalouane starting and then playing through. Surprise nomination for Tunisia, came a bit out of the blue, with all that lack of match practice. But good on him!

 

But all in all, a great and entertaining game. Most important things are that the players don't get injured and can get some much-needed match practice (Adrien Silva, Benalouane).

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What a horrible performance from us today! By no means are we World Cup ready! (Keep in mind our group consists of Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. The later 2 being World Cup title contenders.)

Vardinio'sCat

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4 hours ago, Iran said:

What a horrible performance from us today! By no means are we World Cup ready! (Keep in mind our group consists of Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. The later 2 being World Cup title contenders.)

 

You won't be the only country thinking that. England look good for 2022, not so much for 2018.

 

Could be a tricky group that, as Spain and Portugal are both experienced in the later stages of big tournaments. Good luck.

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CosbehFox

CosbehFox

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The first games in Group B are so important. 

 

Spain play Portugal; either team lose than they need to make sure no hiccups.

 

Iran and Morocco, The winner will fancy themselves to nick a point somewhere and qualify. If they draw or lose however, as good as gone. 

 

Interesting how the dynamics of games changes scenarios. England are hugely beneficial in facing Belgium last. 

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Jaspa

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Mexico were awful last night - couldn't strike the ball properly anywhere near the box, no urgency in play, manager kept subbing players off every five minutes second half which took all of the flow out of their game despite Wales(no Bale) losing their captain early on and having to play a Bristol City CB for 70mins

 

Thomas ran around abit, King looked comfortable in possession again but no real forays forward of note

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Dan

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3 hours ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

The first games in Group B are so important. 

 

Spain play Portugal; either team lose than they need to make sure no hiccups.

 

Iran and Morocco, if the winner will fancy themselves to nick a point somewhere and qualify. If they draw or lose however, as good as gone. 

 

Interesting how the dynamics of games changes scenarios. England are hugely beneficial in facing Belgium last. 

England couldn't have had a much better draw. There's a good chance the Belgium game is almost a dead rubber - in that I don't see any obvious opponent in Group H to face or avoid.

 

The likelihood if we come runner-up is we run into Germany in the quarters, and Brazil if we win the group.

 

That obviously goes off the assumption we win our round of 16 game before everyone jumps on that - which is far from a given.

 

I think he's got to play Vardy against Belgium. The game is made for him.

MC Prussian

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Dragovic played the full match for Austria in a 1-0 win against Russia tonight.

 

The WC 2018 host nation is facing some serious troubles ahead of the group stages - they look like they're fouling out early on. Not good enough.

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