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  1. Jimy Hendrix

    2024 FA Cup

    Been a big year for gutting cup competitions, wonder what the next one to fall is. EFL have a fat target on their backs I am sure, but I wonder if this will hit any of the other top 5 Euro nations as well?
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    Matchweek 33 - In which I can’t come up with anything

    Whoof. Spurs seemed completely shocked by Newcastle doing a back 5 bunker and counter at home and could not solve it on either end. Should probably not be shocked, all teams except the ones with too much pride in their front foot football will do that until it stops working. Spurs are good...
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    Spurs 23/24: I'm Loving Big Ange Instead

    When it comes to Udogie and Sarr, I give them both a lot of leeway because I had zero expectation that they would be as good as they have been this season at age 21 in their first full PL campaigns. Locked in iron consistency isn't there for either of them yet, but the highs are very high. Sarr...
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    Spurs 23/24: I'm Loving Big Ange Instead

    Dragusin to me clicked in the second half when he really started eliminating people off the dribble in the buildup. He's still not a natural LCB, but that helped clarify what his deal is for me.
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    2024 CONMEBOL Copa America tournament

    Fun/sad fact for those in here who don’t follow CONCACAF federation shenanigans in detail. Canada Soccer signed such a bad (or crooked?) sponsorship & media rights deal in 2018 with the guys behind the Canadian Premier League that they are going broke, and apparently bagging a few wins at the...
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    USMNT Fall 2023 - Spring 2024: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

    Honestly, I think Mexico already have internalized that they can’t play how they want to play against this US team. They were going so direct and bypassing the midfield so much, not their traditional style at all.
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    USMNT Fall 2023 - Spring 2024: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

    They would have come out more than they did, but I don't know how much more. Coming out with 3 at the back and a 4th CB in your advanced midfield spot is a pretty extreme commitment to bunkering.
  8. Jimy Hendrix

    NWSL 2024

    Gonna be a fascinating season for you, with the midseason import of Barcelona's manager and presumably a drastic shift of play style from Mark Parsons' type of ball.
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    USMNT Fall 2023 - Spring 2024: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

    Having seen some of those minutes, that feels more like a "in case of emergency break glass" capability during a tournament (or long injury hit PL season) than a strategy we want to spend too much time employing intentionally. Cool that we have it, but especially with Adams coming back to...
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    USMNT Fall 2023 - Spring 2024: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

    If we play Miles, just play him on the right side of the defense please. Berhalter has a weird habit of taking the right footed poor passing MLS CB and playing him at LCB to exacerbate his weaknesses and really screw with buildout on the left. He did to with Aaron Long in those pre WC friendlies...
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    Spurs 23/24: I'm Loving Big Ange Instead

    The defense was incredibly encouraging, very few dangerous shots on target and it looked to me like the team was getting the hang of, frankly, the annoying tactical fouling that's needed to make possession football work these days.
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    MW28 - Too early for a clever title

    The Neal Maupay Effect. I remembered he’s out on loan after making this joke, but I am now playing it like he leave a trail of xG underperformance in his wake.
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    The Big Come Back? USWNT post-WC ‘23

    The one thing you could really learn was about mentality and game intelligence. CBs (Girma especially) immediately switched on to “don’t try to play soccer, just boot it up or clear it every time” while Canada was slower on that and it cost them. Shaw got her goal by just being extremely...
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    The Big Come Back? USWNT post-WC ‘23

    She’s such a good player I can’t imagine we won’t make it work, but she is not made the national team impact you want yet.
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    The Big Come Back? USWNT post-WC ‘23

    This is a deeply stupid soccer match.
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    The Big Come Back? USWNT post-WC ‘23

    Paramount+ has CONCACAF rights, Max just gets any friendlies/She Believes cups/etc. that nobody else has the rights to.
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    MLS 2024: It’s Leo’s league, we’re all just playing in it

    Vrioni screwed 'em over very badly taking that red.
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    The Big Come Back? USWNT post-WC ‘23

    It might happen quickly if Hayes wants to play more possession out of the back, because she simply does not have that club in her bag like at all. Very nice saves last night though, no argument there.
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    Americans Abroad 2022-23

    It’s hard to do racism against Pulisic, he’s quite white so you maybe get some Croatia stuff that doesn’t hit. I’m sure they were in fine awful shit form for Leao though.
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    Match Week 27 - These Charming Mancs

    Pre-Chelsea Leipzig Werner rips that from outside the box into the net, it’s wild what happened to that man.
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