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Ange is 60?! I don’t know why I thought he was a decade younger than that.

 

Excellent. Serbian fans are pretty racist and currently serving a partial stadium capacity reduction because of it. MLS is young and a bit of a wind up merchant. Glad he will be out of the fire, especially as he played the full 90 on the weekend.

Smart management.

 

Things are going well in Spanish journalism, lmao. Accusing Ancelotti of helping Madrid by letting them rest their Brazilians but calling up the Barca Brazilian.

 

Kinda wish Poch would just declare this group of ~23 and build a little momentum instead of trotting out a bunch of randoms "let's see one more" at this point. Obviously, you can't account for injuries, but we know the pool of players well enough. I don't think anyone is breaking through at this point.




The big questions are: Who is the fourth wingback, the fourth centerback, and the third keeper? Ream is the obvious CB, but he's also old af.

The hardest decision is breaking down the final roster spot between Zendejas, De La Torre, and Aaronson. Diego Luna and Berhalter are also there, but they kinda came back down to earth after the Gold Cup.

 

A will be 38 year-old Tim Ream is not the answer. Imagine if he had to come on? It can happen, look at Everton needing Michael Keane already.

I appreciate the experience argument, but surely there's an alternative? Not a single CB with promise in MLS?

 

I think Ream is the player with the most minutes under Poch.

 

Speaking of the USMNT, tune-up game vs Portugal in March in Atlanta just got leaked/announced.

 

6-0 Portugal imo

 

This is just tragic to me.

 

It's not often you can find reasons to agree with Lalas, but his "I don't think Poch has a plan and we should maybe fire him immediately" holds a pretty big point right now.

 

Already sick of Lee Dixon's voice

 

I see the knuckle draggers from Grobari and Delije aren't allowed in?

 

We started well and immediately faded. Just look really sloppy.

 

Our passing is actually shite

 

England performances should be bottled and sold as a cure for insomnia

 

Probably won't last but Iceland 1-0 France. In France!

 

Rice is a cheat code with his set pieces in particular.

 

Norway are 6-0 up against Moldova with half hour to go. Haaland & Odegaard are tearing them apart.

 

Serbian fans fighting themselves.

 

Milenkovic with the pace and turning ability of an aircraft carrier. Cannot wait to play Forest this weekend lmao.

PL Angeball without defenders that slow is going to be quite something

 

10 for Norway.

 

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I lost it when he started trying to explain how the red card wasn't a red card, because the ball (which was clearly going into a nice space, opening up the goal) wasn't going towards the goal. Absolute toolbox.

Rashford's penalty was filthy. Confident man.