2022 World Cup Discussion

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Uruguay v Ghana in that last group game.....revenge for 2010?

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

At this stage it’s looking like it’s the cheese eating surrenderers pot to ..erm surrender.

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

Our players aren’t having that good a tournament
De Bruyne very poor
Silva looks tired
Foden can’t get on
Gundogan subtituted twice but scored a penalty
Ederson can’t get on
Cancelo and Dias were poor against Ghana, better tonight

So much for no one being able to compete with this star studded squad

Now compare this to Uniteds players, this the United squad who aren’t good enough to mount a challenge
Fernandes been excellent, Casemeiro too, even Maguire and Shaw have been among Englands best performers, Rashford scored

Maybe as some of us have always said, Pep Guardiola is the difference maker, not the squad or the finances that our owners have.
Perhaps someone in the media will point this out sometime

 

[kun]

Our players aren’t having that good a tournament
De Bruyne very poor
Silva looks tired
Foden can’t get on
Gundogan subtituted twice but scored a penalty
Ederson can’t get on
Cancelo and Dias were poor against Ghana, better tonight

So much for no one being able to compete with this star studded squad

Now compare this to Uniteds players, this the United squad who aren’t good enough to mount a challenge
Fernandes been excellent, Casemeiro too, even Maguire and Shaw have been among Englands best performers, Rashford scored

Maybe as some of us have always said, Pep Guardiola is the difference maker, not the squad or the finances that our owners have.
Perhaps someone in the media will point this out sometime

Bernardo and Gündogan have both been excellent. Akanji looks great. Stones been brilliant as well. Álvarez has had promising cameos. Grealish the same + a goal.

We all know Foden should be playing.
We all knew Ederson wouldn’t be.

KDB is being misused in a sub par team. Cancelo looks suspect defensively and Dias and Aké have been below their standards.

It’s natural for a few players not to play well moving to a new team with no prep straight into a high pressure tournament, but on the other hand some players have.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Uruguay v Ghana in that last group game.....revenge for 2010?

Hopefully.

 

[we are the east stand]

Cant ever remember watching a World Cup where pretty much all the top teams look pretty average.

The French and Spain are probably the pick of the bunch so far but both of them are miles off some of the great teams of previous world cups.

 

[Stephen230]

Interesting that for years now all the TV stations have had a policy of not giving any publicity to anyone who invades the pitch during a game. They won’t show them, won’t talk about them and certainly won’t advertise whatever it is they are protesting about. If anything.

Yet, despite Qatar TV seemingly adopting the same policy, ITV thought it important that we should all see an image of the protester and a detailed description of everything he had written on his clothing.

 

[kunaguero10]

Think the tournament’s been decent but waiting for some more really entertaining, high drama, high scoring end to end games where you don’t know who’s gonna win. (Think S Korea-Ghana was but I missed that.)

Suppose that’s normal for the group stage at this point.

 

[chesterbells]

Our players aren’t having that good a tournament
De Bruyne very poor
Silva looks tired
Foden can’t get on
Gundogan subtituted twice but scored a penalty
Ederson can’t get on
Cancelo and Dias were poor against Ghana, better tonight

So much for no one being able to compete with this star studded squad

Now compare this to Uniteds players, this the United squad who aren’t good enough to mount a challenge
Fernandes been excellent, Casemeiro too, even Maguire and Shaw have been among Englands best performers, Rashford scored

Maybe as some of us have always said, Pep Guardiola is the difference maker, not the squad or the finances that our owners have.
Perhaps someone in the media will point this out sometime

They all know it mate. There were so so many absolutely desperate for the day he leaves us, and ‘normal service is resumed’.

I’d rather look at your list another way, and say 1) look at the amount of rest some of our players are getting, and 2) of course they are underperforming as they’ve been at it full tilt beforehand (which I guess is kinda the point you were making).

 

[RACHACE]

Not really been that impressed with any nation so far. Some nice football played by Spain, France, Portugal, Brazil and Croatia.

Mbappe could be the main difference in my opinion. Bloke is lethal.

Utd will most definitely be back when he signs........