GunmaN1905

Since bug thread is locked for comments, I'll just inform you that I've successfully loaded my save with beta build.

No, it's just a regular save from the last patch, played with Schalke, left it off before the start of fourth season.

How common is the issue with saves not being able to load? I see some complaints on twitter and a topic in bug forum. One of my saves which I was really looking forward to continuing after the ME update can't be loaded. Didn't have any similar issues before. Tried clearing the game's cache in local files and verifying files on steam, doesn't help. Other saves work just fine.

Great tournament for the Spurs, everyone got something. Richarlison got the best goal, Son made the knockout round which is great for Korea as is qualifying for Ben Davies with Wales. Perišić got the bronze, Lloris silver, Romero gold and Kane fair play trophy.

What if...*drumroll*...Stones played as the left CB, with someone who has pace at right CB, so he can cover for James or TAA better?

I know you're doing the usual bait, but it's funny how a bunch of Serie A deadwood is currently dominating in EPL.

Why am I not surprised you're the guy who likes Roberto Martinez?

^ Half the French bench was in the pitch before Muani even took the shot.

These people are just mad about football and regardless of if you like some of the players or not, they deserve this after 36 years of disappointment. This doesn't happen anywhere in Europe anymore, sadly. Kind of ridiculous Milan has only 9 winners and Roma has 18.

You must be fun at parties after a few pints. I have to go now, but if you've got something left to say about the final, start a discussion, I'll join in when I'm back in a couple of hours. This all started with penalty shootout talk and tiktoker ruining it by making it all about Liverpool.

Noone wants to talk about Fernando Santos, Deschamps or Dalić and their anti-football. Southgate is the easiest target on UK forum.

Sorry, I forgot it as the penalty situation was similar, outplayed Upamecano both times. Making you wonder, why isn't one of the best strikers utilized better instead of having to be some kind of secondary playmaker in midfielder?

I was just referring to knockout matches. Group stage is completely irrelevant when as long as you qualify. If Argentina relied on their defense, they would've been at home for two weeks now. You can't rely on defense if your defenders aren't good enough. Stacked teams like Portugal on France won by relying on defense because their defense was good enough not to crumble under pressure, unlike England's. Morocco also had all those. What's the common ground? Both teams most of the match chasing result. France opened the game way better and England didn't do anything until that first goal. I already mentioned all the chances you created. There were a couple more shabmles in the box after set-pieces and that save Pickford had on Giroud's header. Then there was that Dembele situation where he completely missed the ball. Both those were better than anything England created. Yeah, it wasn't the same old Southgate, I'll give you that. But still it wasn't the Southgate you needed. You can say that Mount got that penalty, but it came from absurd situation where Theo committed a foul for no reason, it's not like Mount even got the ball. Southgate was too late with subs, alongside taking out your best player. Fwiw, Scaloni was also too late with subs for the first time last night, but it didn't backfire like it did for England. You can go back to that topic and check all of my comments. I had multiple posts saying that the game is there for the taking and that England is a better team. And then the subs were late. We also talked about how a lot of coaches get better with time at preparing the games against certain teams, but are just incapable of making decisions and adjustments during the game itself, probably afraid they will make the wrong decision. Again we come back to the same thing, I think France's defense was really shaky this tournament, especially the Theo-Upamecano duo on their left side and I also think England has ridiculous attacking potential. Another fact is that you created absolutely zero clear chances against them, compared to you even Morocco had better situations. Saka falling over the ball in a really difficult situation and two penalties, one coming from a situation that was harmless. A few set-piece shambles and one shot from Maguire. If you're going to tell me that team with such attacking force isn't good enough to create a single clear goalscoring opportunity against a injury-ridden France, then fine. I think otherwise. But yet again, somehow it's third tournament in a row where England fan has every reason to be upset about losing in a match that was there for the taking. And we've come full circle again with repeating everything we said for tenth time.

You scored from first chance (or was it second?) against Senegal who was no match and missed their two best midfielders. Other than the penalty which should've been given if it was inside early on, against France I don't remember any chances you had other than Saka and Theo falling over eachother for that low-cross in the second half. There was Maguire's header from set-piece, probably withing Lloris' reach. Look, all I'm trying to say is that I believe England's attacking potential is ridiculous and that you should've been playing way more progressive football against top teams. We can go back and forth for like a dozenth time, we have difference in opinions. I believe Portugal will play way better now that Santos is gone, we'll see if Southgate will grow a pair come EURO.

Colombia - penalty. Sweden - corner and open play. Germany - probably the best game you played under Southgate and only win against a big team, Germany is always Germany, despite being weak for their standards. Ukraine - battering a subpar team. Denmark - own-goal and penalty. Senegal - battering a subpar team. As I said, flat track bullies. Portugal? Won only that Switzerland game since the 2016 EURO which was utter turgid fashion win. Again, full credit, but let's not pretend they played any more positive football than Greece in 2004 just because it says Cristiano and Bruno on the back of their shirts. Argentina had a ton of chances in first two knockout games, Lautaro absolutely bottled it. They created plenty. Now if you want my humble opinion on why isn't England scoring more goals against top teams other than defensive tactics, the answer would be obvious. You don't have a proper playmaker in midfield, someone who creates goals out of nothing. Either play Foden behind Kane or play some kind of 3-4-3 with Foden creating on the left and TAA on the right. That would be the most basic take. Current gameplan was all about getting it to Saka and hoping he can beat his man and then make the right decision. Isolated Saka because Walker got the Mbappe 0 xG trophy.

They didn't let them do anything until Otamendi finally remembered who he actually is and made a final out of it. They made them completely sterile with possession, something England should've done. But then again, they couldn't have done so because you've got immovable object (and not in a good way) in defense and every attempt of trying to push up and pressure would end up with Maguire being exposed like Lovren. Then we go back to why is Maguire being selected? (And Lovren. ) Then someone's going to say he had a great tournament, the usual casual take. Yeah, he had a great tournament with a team set up in the only way Maguire could look decent on a top level. Southgate got the best out of his worst player, instead of trying to get the best out of his best player.

Well, I respect your opinion that it's a nonsense take. But then, I've had the same take for 2 tournaments in a row if we talk England and three if we talk Portugal. Southgate's eliminations had his team score one free-kick, one penalty and one open play goal, second minute against Italy. Santos, with all the talent at his disposal, had his team score one goal in his last three eliminations. Pepe scoring from a corner against Uruguay in 2018. Belgium's defense is all but stellar and they failed to score. Morocco was a great defensive team, but hardly an obstacle which they shouldn't be able to score against. 2016 when they won, they played about as well as Greece in 2004, but noone ever complains about turgid Portugal, big team lovers will just say how Greece winning was a disgrace to football. And you know me, I'm all for good defensive showing, I just hate hypocrites who can't look past the names on the back of player's shirts. This is now six combined eliminations for England and Portugal with them scoring a grand total of 1 open play goal from 600 minutes combined. And I've said many times that if we talk pure talent and variety of players, England and Portugal are top3 with France right now. Top2 considering the injuries France had. At least Portugal got rid of Santos. In the end, I accept your opinion of my take being nonsense, but I don't your opinion for validation, since somehow for three tournaments in a row, my nonsense take is proven to be right.

Argentina should've had three yellows in each game up to the final for cynical fouls. That sort of criteria change completely throws off everyone because we're used to yellows and those fouls should be yellows. If they really want to improve the game, every foul where the defender clearly has no chance to get the ball, but does it just to stop a play should be a yellow, no matter how harmless the situation is. Well, that's the story of his career. He neither has the final pass and his shot is horrible. If he had either, Real wouldn't have sold him.

Switzerland game is the only game in many years where Portugal looked like they should against good opposition. They barely qualified, ffs. Lost at home against Serbia in the decider, when Santos defended a 1-1 draw because it was enough. We've seen how Serbia fared against serious teams. The typical syndrome of a team being too good to contain when the floodgates open. Ever since Santos took over, they've been by far the worst team in terms of productivity compared to talent they have. The entire population wanted him gone after the last World Cup and horrible performance, but then he managed to stay for EURO and another World Cup. In the end, they barely created anything against Morocco. You can't tell me that a team with Bernardo, Bruno, Joao Felix and Leao can't create anything against Morocco. Other than hoofball. England? Argentina showed everyone how it's done against France. 9 goals against teams that have no place in the World Cup don't mean that much. Zero against USA and three against Senegal without their only two decent midfielders, with goals coming from ridiculous lack of midfield awareness. You surely know how to put a battering on weaker sides, but if you think that Southgate wasn't turgid in every single game you played against good opposition, then I can't help you. Enjoy getting disappointed once more at EURO. It's like me saying Croatia scored 4 against Canada, when the gameplan for every other match was absolutely dreadful. Then suddenly he lets the team play against Morocco and it's the best attacking display we had in the tournament.

Bono or Livaković. I'd say that Bono is clearly a better keeper, but Livaković had that Brazil game. Still, I'd give it to Bono. Hakimi didn't do much on offense, the part of the game he's known for. Molina definitely deserves the RB spot, scored against Netherlands and was good in every match. Gvardiol is the obvious pick for CB and one Moroccan simply has to be there, they were ridiculously good. Either Saiss or Aguerd, probably Saiss. Theo for LB. In midfield, Amrabat and Griezmann should be locks. Third one is difficult, MacAllister, De Paul or Kovačić being the main candidates. I'd give it to MacAllister just because he wasn't supposed to start and then he turned out to be amazing in every match. Attack is a no-brainer with Messi, Alvarez and Mbappe. Bono Molina-Saiss-Gvardiol-Theo Griezmann-Amrabat-MacAllister Messi-Alvarez-Mbappe Agreed with the rest, but there's a long list of players who should've been booked many times and didn't get a card.

My take wasn't even spicy, I just listed how all the losers of recent shootouts either had young players or players who don't take penalties missing. Then out of that entire post where I had a nice discussion with Rob, tiktoker comes with Mickey Mouse cup penalty shootout and VvD scoring one and how that disputes my take of him not taking a single one in his career. Which he didn't, during regular time. If I didn't mention VvD, nothing would've happened, but as per usual, bloodthirsty mob of Liverpool fans comes to defend the one who is yet to be dribbled past.

No, I just really dislike that guy, stereotypical representative of current generation that's just fully sucked into social media and terrible memes with no real knowledge of the thing he's following. Like which? Not my fault Liverpool fans can't read. Once again, here are my predictions for the tournament. Argentina - completey spot on except for Lautaro playing the worst month of football in his life, but Alvarez more than made up for it. France - Better than my prediction, but only because noone except Argentina had the courage to attack them. And injuries obviously did a number on them. Brazil - missed half a dozen sitters against Croatia, which cost them the semi-final. Portugal and England both got eliminated because of turgid coaches who were afraid to take initiative until they went a goal down. Obviously not perfect, but I think I got the state of things pretty well. Everyone has bad takes, even terrible ones here and there, but whenever I actually post something in serious tone, I try to back it up. You see football legends be completely clueless on TV with horrible takes all the time, so I'd say I'm doing pretty well. And yeah, sometimes my refusal to admit I was wrong goes over the top, but it's just hillarious how a mob of Liverpool fans came in and out of the entire discussion and several shootouts I mentioned clinged onto the point of VvD being a poor penalty taker, when he has a couple of Mickey Mouse shootouts behind him at the age of 32. They didn't bother replying anything else, just how VvD took a penalty in a cup shootout. And then the first important one he took in his career ends up being dreadful, what a surprise. My only regret is for removing that annoying kid VamPook from the ignore list, I give people too many chances. Just a spambot of horrible memes and zero football takes, regardless if they're good or bad. No wonder half the forum has him on ignore. Whatever, the tournament is over, I'm done here.

Show me three posts of yours that have anything which resembles football knowledge and has accurate predictions based on that knowledge and I'll never post here again. You're the definition of a clueless tiktoker that half the forum has on ignore. And you also have 0 sense of humor or irony.

Read the entire discussion, I was literally talking about how Argentina had first three takers who regularly took penalties for their clubs and then mentioned how losers either sent kids or players who never took penalties regularly. Mostly defenders. Yeah, Mickey Mouse Cup penalties are irrelevant. Every professional at top level will score most of them in training, it's about taking penalties under pressure. If you go with all those useless cups and charity shield English clubs play, every player took a penalty at some point. What's it with Liverpool to have the by far the biggest set of clowns? If I didn't mention VvD, none of you would've said anything. But god forbid anyone speaks the name of that who hasn't been dribbled past. Actually, why am I even replying to you? I've said my takes before the tournament, most were correct. I've predicted the shootouts before they happened, correct again. Idk about specialist, but he's a class above Lloris and was one of the best goalkeepers in the world last season. Lloris elevated his game for the tournament, which was a bit unexpected, but Maignan is a class above and would've been first choice if healthy.

I don't think either was close, maybe some people did. When Marquinhos stepped up to take the shot, both him and Neymar (assuming he was 5th) had to score, with Perišić missing the final one for Croatia. Chances of Brazil getting out of that were really low. Yesterday after 3 series France needed to score two and Argentina to miss two, which was never happening.