Agree Poga played well in Semi's and Final but that's two games, he was invisible in the others. IMO Perisic was quality in every game he played, a real handful, a solid 7-8 out of 10 every game and a 8-9/10 in final.
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Wouldnt put Kane in myself. Goals against Panama and Tunisia and a pen against Colombia?
Name a striker who had a better tournament than the top scorer, who isn’t in those chosen sides.
Mandzukic for one. It aint all about goals.
True it was a beautiful own goal to set France on their way.
Might as well put Giroud in there, no shots on target and still a World Cup winner.
He actually scored 4 goals.
am saying Just cos Kane got 6 doesnt mean he did better than Mandzukic.
This is based on the ratings on the BBC site for players with 4 games or more.
Don't shoot the messenger....
Don't shoot the messenger....
If we dint watch the world cup at all and just saw the number 6 goals, then its very very impressive. But when we see who the goals were against, half being pens and one that touched him rather than him trying to score, not many from second round onwards. It doesnt look that great at all. He was a great captain for England though and wouldnt exchange him for anyone else.
He didn’t have a great World Cup. He had a great opening game, and played well generally in a deeper role, but he’s probably feeling frustrated that he didn’t do more.
Panama - two great penalties and one goal he didn’t know anything about (though given the next top scorer got 4, let’s just discount it).
Colombia - another great penalty under the circumstances.
He also nailed his penalty in the shoot-out.
It was a solid performance from Kane, but not great. Still, nobody did any better so he should still be proud.
From a selfish Spurs fan perspective it couldn’t have worked out better. He gets the accolade of being the top scorer in the World Cup, whilst everyone else thinks he’s overrated.
Can we officially say that we won the world cup now?
No. Which club had most players who played in the french team? That club probably can claim to winning it.
Not enough time to digest video clips etc at half time, best keep it simple with a bit of well-directed advice. Think Poch says something similar in Brave New World. Remember Ferguson liked to keep half time advice simple.
Poch does video at halftime.
There's simple and there's simple though. He's basically said get rid of it asap at the back and lump it up the field. I've had more analytical half-time talks and more motivational one than this when I was at school!!
Fair enough - I take your word for it and you will know better than me! But, personally I'm a little sceptical how much can really be absorbed in a HT talk given adrenaline etc. (point made irrespective of DD's talk in the vid.).
Can't find the link to it, but I was reading something not that long ago where it said that he has a video guy that works on selecting two clips of something that is good and two on something bad. He, Jesus and Miguel agree on the clips and then instruct the fella to have them ready.
The thing is unless you are 3-0 down it's rare that there is more to it than simple a) Changing shape/formation b) Tweaking where the oppo threat is coming from e.g they are targeting the left c) Subbing someone off (this is rare) d) getting them to run about more/improve tempo
But I know if I was in that dressing room listening to Deschamps then meh, doubt it would have had any effect on me. If you look at the body language of the players I guess this was how it effected them too(???)
