How come, tactical decision or an injury?Yeah, we were lucky with that. Lucky to have LISANDRO MARTINEZ defending. He won't be starting today, that's my biggest fear.
He's a beast, love him to bits.
How come, tactical decision or an injury?Yeah, we were lucky with that. Lucky to have LISANDRO MARTINEZ defending. He won't be starting today, that's my biggest fear.
Literal shit or just something like mcdonalds?I will eat shit if it's not france v argies.
Tatctical decision, if we play a 4 backline with two CBs, those will be Romero - Otamendi. The only chance to have Licha is playing with a back 3How come, tactical decision or an injury?
He's a beast, love him to bits.
Very quotable post thatThink both Argentina and France will barely edge out. Would have been very fun to see a Croatia : Morocco final, but that's just not going to happen.
If this only looks at placement, this is irrelevant. Some of Japan's PKs were awfully weak in power and had no chance to get in as long as the keeper guessed the right side.
I might be missing something, but doesn't this fail to consider the approach taken by the penalty taker. As an example, a lot of penalty takers these days do the stuttered run up, wait for the keeper to move, then simply pass the ball into the opposite side of the goal. In this model, the pen would be flagged as poor quality when in reality, considering the approach taken by the penalty taker, it's a great penalty.
There are other variables at play such as the approach taken by the penalty taker and strength of shot, absolutely. The whole point of that model is to point out that on another day the Japan goalkeeper could have guessed the right way each time and those penalties would have had a higher chance of being saved simply because of placement. Considering that we are now deep in the latter stages and teams that go far in World Cups tend to have very good goalkeepers, if the situation entails Croatia will want to replicate those Brazil shootout penalties instead of their earlier one.Placement is one thing but Japans penalties were weak, they were slow, so much easier to stop. So statistics for someone with eyes are worthless here.
Seriously! It's ridiculous how many matches are getting decided this why and horrible when some sides play from the start looking for a shootout.Placement is one thing but Japans penalties were weak, they were slow, so much easier to stop. So statistics for someone with eyes are worthless here.
Yeah him and the Croatian keeper are the picks of the tournament IMO. Not 100% sure how good either are with their distribution though.How’s that Moroccan keeper with his feet? Seems to be the bees knees, the real iceman!
It’s an other subject you are bringing in.Seriously! It's ridiculous how many matches are getting decided this why and horrible when some sides play from the start looking for a shootout.
I totally forgot abbout the silly bronze final..They will be playing the 3rd/4th playoff either way. Especially Martinez if they lose.
Plus why would anyone want your players to come back after such a terrible heartbreak. It would be great for one of them to win it.
Agreed. Both to keep an eye out for. Very impressive on this showing but I suppose the game plans also help.Yeah him and the Croatian keeper are the picks of the tournament IMO. Not 100% sure how good either are with their distribution though.
Sounds like a Romano tweet. Covering all bases.I'm gonna predict - 70 mins of Croatia defending and keeping out Argentina who are the more attacking
Then the last 20 mins Argentina get the breakthrough and Croatia need to score, which is their toughest task with only 1 player scoring more than 1 goal this tournament. Argentina to win it but if it goes to penalties Croatia could nick it
Winning on penalties doesn't count?Croatia to take the Semis and Final on penalties to become the first World Champions to have only beaten Canada
He ain’t wrong. 4 of their last 6 WC knockout games were won on penalties. 1 win in extra time against England, and the loss in the final to France.On RTE, the Croatian coach straight up said "penalties are our speciality"
Fair play to them for clearly putting so much work into them. I just found it funny that he owned it in publicHe ain’t wrong. 4 of their last 6 WC knockout games were won on penalties. 1 win in extra time against England, and the loss in the final to France.
Feck off Argentina.No Lisandro. Feck off Argentina. Hope you lose to a defensive collapse.