Internationals June (Euro Qualifiers + Nations League Finals)

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Crazy seeing Croatia play so well in these last few tournaments. They are really overachieving by a lot.
Strange post. When you're 2nd and 3rd in 2 world cups and in nations league final that's not overachieving anymore. We're there, near the top.
 

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Does the Dutch NT just cycle between Koeman and LVG ever so often?
 

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Malacia and Weghorst made an impact.... for Croatia
When I saw Weghorst coming on, I've said to myself, boy, they must be as desperate as we are in terms of attacking options.
Hard to believe that, for a team with their history, to not have any world class attacking player for so long. Since Robben and RVP they had nothing.
 

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Strange post. When you're 2nd and 3rd in 2 world cups and in nations league final that's not overachieving anymore. We're there, near the top.
Agree with this. You still have an extremely good midfield despite Rakitic stepping down, but you don’t have the Mandzukic & Perisic (the 2018 version of him) anymore. So we were expecting you to stop winning big games.

You have had the 2nd most consistent side in Europe since maybe 2017. But so far in this period, France has won 2 trophies, Portugal and Itlay won 1 each (Portugal gets 2 if we stretch back to 2016)… You certainly deserve one.


I believe many felt Belgium deserved one as well for their consistency, and they looked like winning the NL back in 2021, but France somehow chocked them in that semifinal…
 

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Agree with this. You still have an extremely good midfield despite Rakitic stepping down, but you don’t have the Mandzukic & Perisic (the 2018 version of him) anymore. So we were expecting you to stop winning big games.

You have had the 2nd most consistent side in Europe since maybe 2017. But so far in this period, France has won 2 trophies, Portugal and Itlay won 1 each (Portugal gets 2 if we stretch back to 2016)… You certainly deserve one.


I believe many felt Belgium deserved one as well for their consistency, and they looked like winning the NL back in 2021, but France somehow chocked them in that semifinal…
Agree, we really deserve it. Mentality of this team is monstrous. They never let go, never concede to defeat, always believe in themselves.
Bring on Italy, we never lost to them. :D
 

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I'm taking 4 kids to the England game on Monday evening at OT. My two kids have been to OT loads to watch United, but my missus two kids have never been to a live game before (and they're technically Welsh as they were born in Wrexham, although have English parents) and have about a 5 minute attention span, so it's going to be a long night for me (and potentally everyone sat around us)
 

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always nice to see when this playing from the back bullshit backfires. literally gifted goal.
 

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always nice to see when this playing from the back bullshit backfires. literally gifted goal.
It backfired because it takes Bonucci hours to turn around, he is becoming a Maguire... Don't know why Mancini is still playing him, he lost his place at Juventus to Gatti (bricklayer and part-time footballer until 4 years ago..).

Spain is the better side and should be winning this, but they are taking too many risks with their high line. They got bailed by a 2 inches offside on that Frattesi goal.
 

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terrible, like any game involving Spain. I'm not going to bother with extra time.
 

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it's actually incredible how shit this is. almost like a fixed game.
 

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What a boring game. Spain deserved to reach the final more than Italy.
 

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One more week and Italian teams would even not win Coppa Italia :wenger:
 

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It hurts to see we lost 4 finals + 1 semifinal at:

- minute 88 vs Spain
- minute 86 vs Uruguay
- minute 88 vs City, Lukaku open goal miss
- minute 90 vs West Ham
- penalties vs Sevilla

But yeah, at least we were there, in the final stage, all the times while every other european countries but England, Spain, Croatia didn't even reach one single final..
 

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If TAA is so suited to a midfield role how come it’s taken till the latter half of this season & multiple seasons being exposed at right back for him to play there?
 

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England teaching Malta a lesson here. Trent just pinging it all over tonight.
 

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If TAA is so suited to a midfield role how come it’s taken till the latter half of this season & multiple seasons being exposed at right back for him to play there?
Weird isn't it? Most have said he would be suited further ahead of rb position where he was always exposed.

Different way but sorta like bale who started lb but it was obvious lb wasn't what would get the best out of him