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4 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:
More a reflection on how more **** teams qualify now, rather a plus for Gareth
Not sure the likes of Algeria or Trinidad and Tobago or other sides we really struggled to do anything against were a class above Iran tbh.
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Don't need to worry about VAR if we score six
Second time England have ever scored six in a World Cup, both under the MoSt BoRiNg MaNaGeR eVeR
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17 minutes ago, Orzelek said:
What the hell are the Iranian players so upset about?
There wasn't any foul whatsoever in that situation.
Top bants getting upset about Harry Maguire being in possession of arms after they didn't get penalised for rugby tackling him at an earlier set piece.
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Well we got those in the last World Cup...
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1 minute ago, Darius1998 said:
I feel like Taremi has gone under the radar the last few years. He's been excellent for Porto the last couple of seasons and finished in the top 3 for both goals and assists last season. If he was five years younger, he would be getting linked with some big money moves.
FM keeps signing him for Man Utd
(So he can't be that good
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3 minutes ago, Tummyowl said:
Qatar have a shot on target?
Nope. Could be the first tournament hosts to exit without managing one tbh...
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3 hours ago, git2thachoppa said:
The delivery was the worst thing for me. Say all the bollocks you want, but don't dramatically pause as if you're in an Oscar film and not reading your notes and you're reading the smartest most profound thing ever. Can cut the running time to a quarter.
I'm just disappointed he didn't arrange a violin concerto in the background. Maybe the internet can do it for him...
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Thank god for VAR, otherwise there'd be nothing to talk about at all
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Just now, GunmaN1905 said:
That has to be the longest roll in WC history.
He's got competition
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The start the World Cup deserves. Awful play by Qatar's terrible team, and then a decision in their favour which is better explained by corruption than the offside law...
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I expected him to stick rigidly to the "Qatar are great hosts, honest" position, but that line was proper headsgone.
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I'm not sure that hosting the most derided World Cup of all time is actually going to enhance Qatar's prestige
But if they didn't give a **** about minor details like the time of year they'd promised to host it, they're not going to care too much about promises to sponsors.
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On 18/11/2022 at 10:21, forameuss said:
I don't really see what any kind of "I'm not watching" boycott really achieves, other than to let people compete for just how much they're totally not going to watch. At this stage, the people who shouldn't have made the decisions that were made have already pocketed their money and left. Viewing figures going down (and that's if they even do go down by some noticeable amount) probably doesn't hurt anyone that actually makes a difference. If sponsors were going to rise up and take notice and put some real pressure on, they would have done so by now, not just days before the tournament.
And to pile that on to hospitality venues that are talking about shutting in the New Year because of the struggle is pretty unfair. Showing the World Cup doesn't make them all bigoted homophobes. It doesn't make them a supporter of the Qatari regime. It doesn't mean that, just by showing it, everyone's going to suddenly forget what has gone before. It just means they're denying themselves money that other establishments will happily take instead.
yeah, this
If you want activism, go target the companies that paid good money to FIFA and the Qatari regime to associate themselves with it, not some bar in Britain that's simply showing what punters want
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And people said England had too many right backs
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20 minutes ago, Rafalution said:
i'd rather watch exciting football and go out in the groups than watch boring defensive football and go further
tbh we've always been perfectly capable of boring defensive football and going out in the groups or first knockout round.
Highlight of our World Cup 2014 was a dead rubber 0-0 draw with Costa Rica.
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Refuse to vote in this poll until "It's coming home" is added as an option
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There's a lot of randomness to Youth Intakes, a lot of margin for error in star ratings, and a lot of players with 160 potential will never get near it. So I'm not sure you can judge the whole system from three intakes with one of the best academies in the game.
(And I say that as someone who ran a test save with Man Utd with an editor opened and got a 200PA player, two 160+PA players and half a dozen 140PA+ players in his first intake!)
As for the current academy, Garnacho and probably Mainoo are the superstar potentials since Greenwood. Of course, there's absolutely no guarantee either of them will get regular football in the top division, but potential doesn't have to be fulfilled to be potential.
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49 minutes ago, Lesterfan_Cambiasso said:
Id have to say a common theme on FM games is always that ball over the top scenario. Defenders should be far more able to deal with balls over the top and through balls than they are IMO.
tbh, this is one of the best FMs for that. Even very high lines aren't that risky if you have quick defenders and control the middle of the pitch, and good defences set a bit lower do a decent job even against quick AFs
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I'll point out that overperforming xG isn't all that anyway.
See, I've got Eddie Nketiah obscenely overperforming his xG at the moment. He's quick and has the right PPMs to run in behind, he's a decent enough finisher to put away his one on ones at an above-average rate, and *he never gets on the end of crosses for half chances, or tries to create a goal out of nothing*. Which means if the opposition are good at marking him, he doesn't underperform his xG, he just doesn't take any shots. Generally I'd rather have strikers that have a lot of chances and miss a few to strikers that are extremely clinical but let an entire half go by without doing much. You get goals from rebounds too...
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It's pretty normal for underdog teams to have a harder second half of the season when teams stop treating them like they're easy to beat and adopt tactics that retain possession more and protect against the counter attack better.
Your formation looks particularly likely for that to happen since it's well set up for catching opponents out (three players against two on the break) but not particularly great for breaking down an organised defence because there's only three players likely to threaten the penalty area (and your forwards are probably not better than their defenders)
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4 minutes ago, SergeiG said:
I just conceded the strangest goal in my life and it clearly looks like a clear offside unless there is something about the rule I don't understand:
Mara is passing to Adams who is clearly standing like 7 meters behind the defense and the goal stands. No VAR checks no nothing. Am I missing something here?
Is the ref trolling me?
He can't be offside in his own half...
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20 minutes ago, SergeiG said:
What tactic is that? Specifically.
Why are you asking me what your tactic is? Go troll somewhere else, you're boring.
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1 hour ago, SergeiG said:
What is considered an overpowered attacking tactic? And if there is one like that it's SI responsibility to address it, fix it and balance it.
A tactic in which Ronaldo scores at more than a goal a game. It's very easy for Ronaldo not to score more than a goal a game in the ME, the AI invariably manages it!
30 minutes ago, busngabb said:But for FM23 he should have been setup at a level where he struggled to get a start at United, but still had a bit of quality about him.
He is set up at a level where he struggles to get regular starts at United but still has a bit of quality about him (most obvious criticism of his behaviour in game it's that he's far too happy accepting squad player status). In game he'll win lots of headers, run through on goal but get caught by defenders because he's no quicker than the average Premier League defender and can't dribble any more, do very little in the way of linkup play and just occasionally be really good in front of goal, and of course his physical stats will deteriorate over the course of the season.
But yeah, if you insist on managing him and building a tactic perfectly to his liking, he'll definitely perform better than a real life season where he's spent large parts of it unfit and sulking. I'm getting more than a goal a game out of Eddie Nketiah too, doesn't mean he's actually been rated at Haaland level
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Shock horror! Human managers playing overpowered attacking tactics result in players scoring more goals than the AI. I'm getting that kind of goalscoring rate from Eddie Nketiah at the moment...
Ronaldo scored 13 league goals in a Man Utd side that finished behind Newcastle in the last save I ran with the AI managing him
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Match 5: Argentina vs Saudi Arabia - LIVE on ITV1 (10am GMT) from Lusail Iconic Stadium
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And the greatest footballer ever to have been born in Senegal starting. For France.
On the flip side, I think that Senegal side had much better players than Saudi, and whilst Saudi have qualified a lot by dint of the easiest qualification route they've usually been the worst side in the competition. Argentina were South American champions on a 36 game unbeaten run too, so it's not like they were far behind that France side.