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5 hours ago, Rorschach - 2 said:

I was watching, and found it sad to see that Saka was booked after Cucurella fouled him first without even a free kick. 

Was the third or so foul, so should have been a free kick and a Cucurella yellow - bad refereeing on that occasion.

Salah has been experiencing this for years now.  He gets kicked and wrestled throughout every match and rarely even gets a free kick in his favor.

The big push to let the game flow was just license to clog the skillful players. This is what all the years of diving (Kane, Rashford, Sterling, et al) brought us.

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52 minutes ago, Winterfell is Burning said:

Crap. One of the many, many problems of this WC is that due to much less time between club football stopping and it starting, a lot more players will lose the tournament due to injury 

 

Plus the players already have a higher volume of club games in September-October after a shorter pre-season.  More players are at risk of injury because of the compressed club schedule, and then they have no recovery break prior to the tournament.

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17 hours ago, Rorschach - 2 said:

I was watching, and found it sad to see that Saka was booked after Cucurella fouled him first without even a free kick. 

Was the third or so foul, so should have been a free kick and a Cucurella yellow - bad refereeing on that occasion.

Yeah, the edict of 'letting it flow' has been not great. We're 'letting it flow' for the benefit of players kicking the shit out of other players with no consequences

 

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7 hours ago, Iskaral Pust said:

Plus the players already have a higher volume of club games in September-October after a shorter pre-season.  More players are at risk of injury because of the compressed club schedule, and then they have no recovery break prior to the tournament.

Speaking of that:

Add Giovani Lo Celso to the list

There's a good chance that whoever ends up winning the WC is the team that has fewer key players injured before or during the tournament.

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Arsenal had the chances to win that game, but they failed to take them, especially as they fell to people that were having an off night anyway ( Lokonga & Viera)

Reiss Nelson looked very very good again, he set up the goal and was the most dangerous player all night. The confidence of a couple of goals has really done him good and hopefully he can take this into the latter half of the season, the break is probably coming at the wrong time for him.

I feel like Lokonga has really not taken his chance in any of these games, including the EL games. Bit of a worry.

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Germany squad for the event I won't watch.

Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (FC Bayern München), Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona), Kevin Trapp (Eintracht Frankfurt)

Defenders: Armel Bella Kotchap (FC Southampton), Matthias Ginter, Christian Günter (both SC Freiburg), Thilo Kehrer (West Ham United), Lukas Klostermann, David Raum (both RB Leipzig), Antonio Rüdiger (Real Madrid), Niklas Süle, Nico Schlotterbeck (both Borussia Dortmund)

Midfielders and Attackers: Julian Brandt, Karim Adeyemi (both Borussia Dortmund), Leon Goretzka, Joshua Kimmich, Jamal Musiala, Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sané, Thomas Müller (all of them FC Bayern), Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City), Jonas Hofmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Mario Götze (Eintracht Frankfurt), Kai Havertz (FC Chelsea), Niclas Füllkrug (Werder Bremen), Youssoufa Moukoko (Borussia Dortmund)

 

Roughly what could be expected. Suprise omission: Gosens (Günter got his spot). Hummels had hoped for a spot, but that was a 50-50 thing for him at best imho.

Surprise inclusions Bella Kotchap, Götze and Moukoko (sorta).

Injuries have excluded a few players. Reus (as is tradition) will miss out on yet another world cup, Werner has been mentioned before, Lukas Nmecha picked up an injury yesterday (thus Moukoko was called up). 

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