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Match Day 3: France v Australia; Argentina v Iceland; Peru v Denmark; Croatia v Nigeria


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6 hours ago, Prince Onyinye W. Ndidi said:

Tolisso was much, much worse than Pogba. He was completely invisible in fact. Kante was the best of the midfielders. France were poor all round though and for all that talent, this team quite often looks less than the sum of its parts. I think N'Zonzi needs to come into the midfield as the specialist DM, Kante play as the box-to-boxer and either Pogba or Tolisso as the AM. I think Deschamps is trying to accommodate all the 'fashionable' names and it's not really working. Giroud should be starting up top with Griezmann in the SS position. 

Yeah, Kante was excellent, despite the referee calling some fouls against him that definitely were not.  I’m not sure there’s a need for both N’Zonzi and Kante unless against Brazil or Germany. 

Based on today, I’d drop Dembele, move Mbappe wide in Dembele’s spot, push Griezmann further forward to #9, bring in Giroud, replace Tolisso with Matuidi, have Pogba play ahead of Kante and Matuidi, and replace Pavard with a more attacking RB.  There’s not much broken there but they need to fix the problem of Mbappe and Griezmann wanting the same space so they’ve pushed Griezmann into Pogba’s space.  That hasn’t worked out.  Better to give Pogba and Griezmann their preferred space and allow Mbappe to attack off the shoulder of the opposing full back. 

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Seemed like the Peru strikers saw CR7 score by blasting it directly at De Gea yesterday and decided to try the same tactic against Kasper Schmeichel. About 7 times.

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