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A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020
That goodness Gareth Southgate is a complete loving moron

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A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

sticksy posted:

Rate the jerseys in order of wearability/Phwoarness, the two red ones on the right are mint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv4SpjMinlQ

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

He shattered his balls

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

Nystral posted:

I'm trying to learn more about the game, is there anything I can watch that will better explain how Robinson's actions impeded the attacks?

You want your first touch receiving the ball to be:

1. A pass back to another player that is successfully received and safely moved on

2. A very careful touch that lets you immediately and safely control the ball and give you time to think about your next move

3. A purposeful touch (either hard or soft) that directs the ball into open space away from defenders so you can do the above from that space

4. I guess a final option would be a shot on goal

You can ignore 4 because Robinson’s job isn’t to shoot and he wasn’t trying to.

You can ignore 1 because that isn’t what he was generally trying to do and failing, although that’s because this generally takes the most technical ability on a team-wide level to do (as it requires having gelled enough to let multiple players know where the next pass should be going prior to the previous one being recovers). International teams aren’t generally doing this all the time, that’s something for top tier club teams who have more time to drill and get cohesive. But Spain is the best example of this at the tourney. See also the suqit triangle post lol

He was being bad at 2 and 3. Instead of safely receiving the ball he would mess up technically so a defender would be up on him closing him down before he had time to see where he could dribble or pass. This made it so he either lost the ball outright or couldn’t make passes to teammates (either because the pressing defender blocked all passes, or other defenders used the time to block the passing lanes to his teammates, putting them in new cover shadows).

He also either was screwing up or didn’t have the wherewithal to control the ballproperly with his first touch. Especially for the position he plays, attacking fullback who is nominally a defender but needs to move the ball up the pitch quickly down the side of the field, he should be better at reviving the ball and directing it with that first touch in a progressive direction away from defenders that lets him immediately get up to speed on the ball to dribble or make a pass from that area (which will force defenders to try and close down his dribbling and passing options at that new point and hopefully stretch them out of position / make them move their cover shadows so his teammates they were previously blocking can receive passes).

A lot of the above sounds simple and that’s because it is, but the speed of the game means it’s necessary to be technically sound to accomplish the simple stuff and do the more complicated stuff, so you often want to try and defend in a way that prevents the simple stuff.

If you’re interested in a basic level on what a fullback should be doing with those technical skills, here’s a basic vid by a nice Canadian sounding guy. It might help understand why his poor technique was getting in the way of him doing things.

https://youtu.be/nA40uiiZRU8

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020
Jordan Morris is out with a missing neck

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020
USA needs to just wait out Pep winning the CL at City

I’m not joking, he’ll do it (he’s hinted at it)

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

Vegetable posted:

Lol at the idea of these cloggers playing Pepball

The midfield in 4 years can do it

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A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

habeasdorkus posted:

Well, that sure explains why we didn't see Gio much on the pitch.

Little poo poo.

Seems like there might be more to this

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

t a s t e posted:

That guy’s right in the second one

First guy is also right lol

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

t a s t e posted:

If you believe the dubious rumors he’s got a clique that’s cool with him led by Lockdown Ignorer Wes

Seems like maybe the good players like him because he’s good and maybe the bad ones don’t??? Unprecedented on a sports team.

A Buffer Gay Dude fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Dec 12, 2022

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020
Unrelated

https://twitter.com/BVBBuzz/status/1601549111748366337

A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

sticksy posted:

I'm pretty sure there are no other recent examples of a high profile and talented player who hasn't played or trained well in the past year or so having an awful attitude being a prima donna about their place in the team being benched by a manager

Ronaldo loving sucks now dude if he could bang in goals like that still and also press the manager would be playing him

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A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020
Hrm so bald mod Greggg alienated our most talented guy and then couldn’t keep the situation under control and in house. I’m sure the lads love Greggg.

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A Buffer Gay Dude
Oct 25, 2020

fast cars loose anus posted:

hopefully someone in Gio Reyna's life can get it through his head that sometimes you have to just shut the gently caress up and take the heat

one of those times is when you slack your way out of playing in a World Cup. In four years if you train hard and play well no one will care at all but you're just prolonging it now by bitching that people found out.

Lol bruh

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