LiveFromLondon
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you prolly weren't even alive when he played so how could you make that assertion.Club futbol has the best teams, tactics etc and could argue Messi faces better teams in CL than in WC and yet he has shown consistently.
**The World Cup 2018 Official Thread**
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you prolly weren't even alive when he played so how could you make that assertion.
Grand Conde
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Brehs, imagine if we ever produced a talent like Mbappe. Our best ever player is actually Landon Donovan who probably wouldn't even make this French team.
'Probably'?
He might sneak in ahead of Thauvin or something. Dude was actually talented but had terrible mentality & no ambition.'Probably'?
sportscribe
Superstar
Love them or hate them, Uruguay play with passion. They tend to optimize the talent-level of the players at their disposal. They seem to have some fierce national pride that translates to how they perform on the pitch.
A country of 3m people should not be producing this type of quality talent or playing at this level. They've produced players like Suarez, Cavani, Forlan, Recoba etc over the years. We haven't produced another player on the level of Okocha and we are 200m strong. You can also see that our players don't play with as much passion.
Even the Uruguayan fans are well travelled. They make their presence felt in the stadium for such a tiny country. What I saw yesterday was crazy. They are hard to beat because they defend from the front. Suarez and Cavani were trying to put in TACKLES. Cavani was tracking back into midfield time and time again.
France may have more top level talent, but they need to go out and play a complete and energetic 90 min game if they are going to beat this Uruguay team.
A country of 3m people should not be producing this type of quality talent or playing at this level. They've produced players like Suarez, Cavani, Forlan, Recoba etc over the years. We haven't produced another player on the level of Okocha and we are 200m strong. You can also see that our players don't play with as much passion.
Even the Uruguayan fans are well travelled. They make their presence felt in the stadium for such a tiny country. What I saw yesterday was crazy. They are hard to beat because they defend from the front. Suarez and Cavani were trying to put in TACKLES. Cavani was tracking back into midfield time and time again.
France may have more top level talent, but they need to go out and play a complete and energetic 90 min game if they are going to beat this Uruguay team.
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Black Nate Grey
The God Emperor of Mankind
Thauvin went ahead of the likes of Martial and Lacazette.
Ribery would be called up for France before Donovan. That dude has nowhere near the quality to even be a reserve for France.
In his prime. Not now lmao. He had a good run with Everton at his peak & generally played well at the World Cup.
Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Hope y'all France riders ain't forget about y'all shining boy pulling a :fukkdrake:
It depends a LOT on coaching and player buy-in.
I've seen too many "golden generations" flop out because they were never able to put it together. While collections of players who no one thought were special suddenly blitz through the thing.
It really, really is going to come down to who is coaching the team, whether he gets the specific players he needs for the system he wants to run (or finds the right system to fit the players he can get) and how he develops them as a unit.
sportscribe
Superstar
Guys like Bafetimbi Gomis would be called up before they even think about calling up Landon Donovan.
Grand Conde
Superstar
Landon Donovan struggled to make starting teams in the Premiership breh. Come on now.
I expect a deep run from the US at that world cup Considering the talents we have coming uñ
African_brehda
Superstar
Nah breh don't do that
Donovan will certainly make it over Gomis
That nikka is fukking poor, I'll even make the French team as a striker before him
African_brehda
Superstar
If Uruguay lets France have the ball
Uruguay doesn't even want the ball
It's almost like they were passing to Portugese players yesterday
African_brehda
Superstar
Naah, James isn't a good example. He was very good for Madrid. Zidane just didn't want a proper number 10 anymore. He's been shining at Bayern