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The keeper dives to the left and right more often than he stays in the middle. It's the % play if you aren't confident on hammering it in.

The Club World Cup and group stage of the Champions League are doing some heavy lifting there.

4 in a row is better than another CL title. Nobody has ever done it. Let's make sure we're the first.

I doubt it. If you're taking a pen, you have three choices: left, middle, right. He picked the wrong one. End.

Is it any wonder when we don't pass the ball through to him? Our entire approach is getting up the field, slowing the game down, and penning in the opposition. By that time, he's surrounded by at least 2 defenders. He is becoming completely unsuited to how we play and I'd imagine he's...

Where did you get that from?

Prick

Bullshit. It's 0.57, or 0.55 excluding penalties, in the Premier League. https://fbref.com/en/players/15ab5a2b/Julian-Alvarez

Apart from a few decent performances in the Messi World Cup, he hasn't done anything to suggest he's good enough for this level.

Lol But for his defensive cover they'd probably have scored in the last few minutes Clueless

Alvarez, I'm afraid, isn't good enough for this level.

Nevermind the pen; anyone can miss one, but his performance in the game itself was poor. I lost count of the number of misplaced crosses and passes from good positions. He is toothless in possession

Getting a lot of stick but we had virtually nothing when he came off. Even when he isn't on form he occupies 2 defenders.

Well, the current set of regulations have almost unarguably made things worse?

But this is all ideological and the ticket revenue sharing point, whilst well thought out, won't make a material difference. This brings us to the crux of the matter: it is almost impossible to design financial controls that aren't ultimately damaging to the vast majority of clubs, and very...