Has Courtois been that good? Granted he's the best keeper left and starting in the competition, but don't think he has made that much of an impression.How would you line up? I think my team would look like this:
CourtoisGK: no one left in the tournament comes close to Courtois imo, honourable mention for Bounou.
Hakimi Upamecano Saliba Cucurella
Rodri Rice
Bellingham
Messi Kane Mbappe
DEF: feels like you have to stick with the France CB pairing, perhaps someone like Cubarsi has a shout to be in. RB is a lock imo, feels like De Cuyper would be good for LB as well, potentially O'Reilly too, but went with Cucurella, have to have a Spanish player in defense given they've not conceded a goal yet.
MID: perhaps harsh on Pedri and definitely harsh on Olise not to include them, maybe a Rodri-Pedri pivot in the center of the field would make more sense than Rice who has looked tired at times.
ATT: impossible to only include three so Haaland the big omission here, but the other three have done as much for their country this tournament as he has.
This, with the swap of Upamecano for Cubarsi.Based on the teams that are left and performances to date.
Bonnou
Hakimi Upamecano Saliba Cucurella
Rodri Bellingham
Messi
Olise Haaland Mbappe
We would've been out in the group stage if it wasn't for him, kept us in the game with key saves against both Egypt and Iran in the first two games.Has Courtois been that good? Granted he's the best keeper left and starting in the competition, but don't think he has made that much of an impression.
Checked the stats and his save percentage is a middling 66% which puts him 26th out of the keepers in the tournament; while his goals prevented is -1.2 which puts him down at 34th overall.
Fair enough. It's been chaotic at times in the centre half partnership in front of him and I can't really fault him for any of the goals Belgium have conceded.We would've been out in the group stage if it wasn't for him, kept us in the game with key saves against both Egypt and Iran in the first two games.
Otherwise he's just been his consistent self, I think he's in for a monster performance tomorrow if needed on the biggest stage against the country he considers his second home, although Spain don't look all that threatening on goal so far so it might not even be a true siege.
Yeah baffling. Had a few people disagree with me last night before kick off when I said it was the right call to drop him.Pedri has been really really bad, dunno want many here have been watching. He even lost his place in the starting line against Belgium.
Yeah baffling. Had a few people disagree with me last night before kick off when I said it was the right call to drop him.
He's maybe the best midfielder in the tournament, he's up there anyway, but you wouldn't think it with how bad he's been this cup. Even off the bench last night he was poor again.
Has a chance but I think it's more likely they just keep him on the bench next game.For worse he is making an habit of not being his best self in quite a number by now of important instances in his Club too.
The main thing it's that we can see that Lamine is struggling to be his best self, but we see him really trying. Pedri is a player that basicly disappears, not only at times playing badly.
He has a chance now to be great and in such a huge match, fair or not, no one will remember if he played badly before.
