I keep forgetting about deceleration. I forgot to count the number of Spanish players in the Argentinian and French defensive halves. Turkey and USA often had 8-9 players in the Aus defensive half as they Full Pressed and Squeezed intensively! It seemed to me, Spain didn't Squeeze as...

I feel optimistic reading this post! A few players going to new clubs don't go into starting line ups immediately though.

Depressing to read this, JS.

His performances at the WC should supersede Serie A - whose 50% of Italian domestic players cannot even qualify for the last 3 WCs, despite winning a Euro Champs in between. Colombia, USA, Japan, Turkey, Canada, USA, Paraguay and Egypt have been tougher competition than the mid- ranked and...

There are also 30 - 40 big clubs outside the Big Five in UEFA, who play a fair bit of Champ League and Europa League match comp intra-continental football. Bos's Feyenoorde is one of them.

Would he receive as many aerial crosses in Italy? Sounds like a goo dmove. Essentially he was as good as Circati at the WC, who plays Serie A. He also led the Roos. How Souttar's life has changed as a Roo! Overlooked by Scotland, to captain Aus at WCs and Asian Cups. Next a Serie A move...

Just wish the women's WC and Wimbledon weren't on when the men's Football WC was on.

It will be T20 though - I think?

Good cricketer.

I suppose they feel the need to work.

Incredible isn't he?

The Test team is out for Bangladesh. I think we need more young players to be blooded. Conversely, with the Socceroos, the coach, Popovic, has tried heaps of young players. What does Corey Roccicioli have to do to get into a squad? He has taken most Shield wickets for a spinner for the last 2...

I couldn't get over how big - tall and bulky, most English players were in Tuchel's squad. On the pitch sometimes most English players were 1.85 or 1.88m tall, or 6 feet 2. I looked up their heights. Conversely, the Spanish were quite puny, with a greater number of shorter nimble players. Ditto...

Excellent post!

In Football Aus National Conferences distance stats were posted and discussed from World Cups. It was generally found that teams with less possession in a game, ran more than the team with more possession in the same game.