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  1. Maradona37

    U20 World Cup 2025

    I agree on Brazil, but they're Brazil, so you can never fully write them off. However, it does seem their days as a major football superpower are waning. Now 24 years since they won the World Cup and other than Neymar they haven't really produced a player of all-time great level ability since...
  2. Maradona37

    8 - Pedri

    Agree. People think double pivot is more defensive but it isn't if it's played the way PSG play it, because their anchormen are very good on the ball and can dribble to beat the press and set the team on the attack. As with everything, the same formation can be played in wildly different ways...
  3. Maradona37

    Real Madrid

    @FinBarcelonafan (as you reacted to my post) and @Messi983 I stopped drinking coke zero months ago (though I do still like pepsi max here and there, which doesn't seem as bad). I heard an anecdote of two guys in their 30s having strokes after drinking pints of coke zero most days. There...
  4. Maradona37

    Pedri vs Yamal

    IniestaGOAT nailed it. As for this, I think you have described (without fully realising perhaps) the difference between a winger and a midfielder. A midfielder has to run the game and make perfect decisions throughout the 90, whereas a winger or attacker flits in and out and put the individual...
  5. Maradona37

    Real Madrid

    A stroke at 38, that's five years younger than me. Scary stuff. He seems healthy too, shows it can happen to anyone.
  6. Maradona37

    Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi V2

    At this point Ronaldo has been dominated as much as the gimp in Pulp Fiction.
  7. Maradona37

    La Liga Round 9: Barca - Girona 2-1

    Watched this game. Barca played well in spells, but good work gets undone by that very high line. It isn't working like it did at this point last season. Girona got in so often and their finishing was awful (commentator said they were near bottom of the league for shot conversion). The thing is...
  8. Maradona37

    U20 World Cup 2025

    Morocco definitely are, and I don't follow those countries either, that's why it will be interesting to see if they can hold their own at the tournament. Hmmm. Hard to say. Probably Spain, Argentina (with the big advantage of it being in the Americas) and France. Think they're the main three...
  9. Maradona37

    U20 World Cup 2025

    Like I say, I am interested to see Cape Verde. I also wanna see other unknowns/potential debutants, like Uzbekistan, Jordan and maybe the likes of Curacao from CONCACAF if they can get there.
  10. Maradona37

    U20 World Cup 2025

    I am looking forward to seeing what the African nations might do next summer, Morocco most of all. You'd imagine the heat will suit a lot of them too. I am especially interested in if Cape Verde will be a whipping boy or actually be a surprise package and bloody some noses.
  11. Maradona37

    Liverpool

    They're really not a great team - even last season they weren't, they just had no competition other than an always bottling it Arsenal. They constantly play long balls too, it's awful to watch. They might still win the league, but if they do, it will because City and Arsenal fucked it up. Also...
  12. Maradona37

    Premier League 25/26

    United were very lucky - Liverpool missed a lot of golden chances. United are such a bipolar club, by the way - from fans to media. Every single time they win a semi-big game -EVERY TIME A- it's all 'is this a turning point, is this the launch moment?' I mean teams beat better teams fairly...
  13. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    I know I said I wouldn't post again, but stupidity like this is too irresistible not to take apart. Probably because the World Cup has been 32 teams for the last 7 iterations, and is now 48 - whereas in the 70, 80s and 90s it was 16/24 :lol: Seriously, comments like that are so dense and...
  14. Maradona37

    Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi V2

    I am finished posting on here, but just wanted to say a couple of things about Messi re Ronaldo. Messi is actually much more confident, grounded (in football terms) than Ronaldo. Messi never goes on about how good he is like Ronaldo does, even though he has far more reason to talk up his own...
  15. Maradona37

    Erling Haaland

    Also, nice little twist of stats there 'he had 7 goals from r16 to final' - even though five of them came in one game against Leipzig. To be fair the other two came home and away to Bayern, but I watched both those games and he was generally invisible other than the goal. Anyway, cannot be...
  16. Maradona37

    Erling Haaland

    What I mean by that is this: Neymar is way more talented than Lewandowski will ever be. But Neymar is seen as a prick and Lewa is really well liked off the pitch (I don't know why, he seems a dickhead) so people protect Lewa from criticism and cover up his flaws. Whereas with Neymar they go well...
  17. Maradona37

    Erling Haaland

    It's funny how people say 'Courtois made saves so he wasn't horrible' but when Courtois makes saves from Salah in CL Finals, Salah is castigated as bottling it. It's just more evidence of something I think - some players (Haaland, Lewandowski, Ronaldo with his fanboys) are more popular with...
  18. Maradona37

    Steven Gerrard

    Everything I hate in a midfielder. No ability to intelligently control a game, just constant chaos, like a better Bruno Fernandes. Typical British brute midfielder. The fact he thinks he would get into the current PSG midfield is funny too, shows he's dumb (he really does come across as someone...
  19. Maradona37

    Erling Haaland

    He scores goals in earlier rounds. In the knockout phase of the treble season his performances were awful and he hardly scored to boot. He was one of their worst players in the semi and final. And you're still going on about stats. I have seen him improve his all-round game but it is still...
  20. Maradona37

    Erling Haaland

    Yes, his three knockout goals came in the Euros, and I think at least two of those were headers, maybe all three. None with his feet. How pitiful for a man who has had more chances than anyone. All the excuses about Portugal being a weak team too are nonsense, and even if they weren't, guys like...

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