felt sad for that russian player yesterday...
scoring a late extra-time goal to get your team back on the edge and that too just squander away a penalty so badly...
the emotions the guy must be going through would be the extremes...
croatia deserved to win... still have no idea how russia did whatever they did till now...
ofcourse its not undeserved like the greece or portugal euro wins... russia seemed more composed...
russian coach ooh! adhehathinte adayil joli cheyyendi vanne vella kadumkayum cheythenem njan... real bulldog of an intimidating personality...
france, croatia and belgium go into semis having won all their matches... respect!
The 20 fastest players at the FIFA World Cup in Russia so far
https://talksport.com/football/39684...ifa-world-cup/
Paul Scholes Names Brilliant Reason Why Pep Guardiola Is To Thank For England Success
http://www.sportbible.com/football/n...ccess-20180708
Paul Scholes praises Pep Guardiola for influence on England’s World Cup run
https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/08/paul-scholes-praises-pep-guardiola-influence-englands-world-cup-run-7692723/
Sorry to disagree with scholes(if he feels like pep has influence more than anyone-havent seen the full interview)
8/11 goals from set pieces and one assisted by Jesse Lingard 'lumping ball into box' n 'headed in' by Alli (which is Vintage England) n one brilliant Jesse Lingard screamer and a deflected Kane goal vs Panama!
Never knew these were pep's way!!
Some pep fans says that this England team is still 'boring' , 'not better' , 'lucky'..
Hmm when we reach Semis ,it's coz of pep's way
Three at the back was made success by Conte in EPL in 2016-17!
In short,
Pep's players has an influence to this team just like the rest of the players from other clubs with core of England team being Pochetino's players more than anyone and Southgate has done well get the best out of players from all different clubs in different systems be it Kane,Trippier, Lingard, Young,Stones,Walker, Henderson,Maguire, Pickford and others
Basically the credit has to go to Southgate n his players and the others hav a share of credits in a long list which features club coaches, academy coaches, former clubs , etcetera!!!
Last edited by perumal; 07-08-2018 at 09:46 PM.
Eng played well against sweden....russia in semi's could have been a cakewalk for them
Croatia is tricky now for england since they have got some top quality midfielders
England hasn't faced a good technical team yet, the closest was Belgium's B team though they played with their own B team as well....Anyway this can go either way
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