3rd place is coming home.
We could score 10 and I still wouldnāt give a shit.
There is not a lot of defensive intensity with the French today.
Iām starting to be entertained
Probably. Semenyo might have the worst first touch in the league. Canāt play #10 (which Pep tried), isnāt a touchline winger. Wouldnāt surprise me if Maresca makes him a backup to Haaland and starts him about 8-10 league games + Cup and some UCL starts.
xG confirmed fraudulent with it being 0.29 to 1.29 thus far.
The Rice shot is generally a very low xG chance but he took it well and I think wrong-footed Maignan as well. Headers from corners arenāt usually super high xG either.
Officially entertained
Check the French keeperās betting history.
Can someone explain to me like Iām 5yrs old why teams like France and England have players are too washed to play in Europe, so they play in Saudi Arabia (Toney, Hernandez), but they are good enough for the national team. This isnāt a CR7 situation. They could drop these guys and no one would give a fuck.
I assumed Saka wasnāt available vs. Argentina, but he started here so obviously couldāve (and shouldāve) came on as a sub vs. Argentina. Same with Eze.
Saudi Arabia was paying these players way, way more than European clubs. Toney was on ~50k a week at Brentford. Maybe an English club would have paid him upwards of 200k. Saudi gave him 500k. That would make him a top 2 or 3 paid player in the EPL.
He is loafing out there lol.
Toney isnāt washed, just got ridiculous sheikh money and went for it
When Saka is playing at this level, heās a top 10 player in world football. The problem has been the last 15 months of injuries since he tore his hamstring. But as you say, to not get on the pitch for Argentina but be able to play this well (vs a very disinterested France) shows it was certainly a mistake.
Easiest goalie pull ever if this was hockey.
Iād trade Gyokeres for Toney in an instant, and I was against Arsenal going for him ~3 years ago or whenever he was trying to move to a bigger club.
Une, deux, trois, quatre!
And Toney is the best they could do at 500K/month?