The way some players go down it's honestly difficult to say. I remember watching some Serie A on channel 4 back in the daywhen del piero went down late in the game and Big Ron called him a cheat for faking injury and launched a tirade on modern players as he was carted off. Turned out he seriously injured his knee and was never the same again.
Kante out for Leicester, hammy not ready, pleeeeeaaaaassse no Jorg, their speed and attackers' skills will tear us up on counters. perhaps a 5-2-3, with Mount, and Billy or Kov Still would start Tammy, we are getting twice the League points in matches he starts, he is good in the high press. Think I'd go with Timo/Pul (niether showing the form to have an edge) on left and CHO on right for a speedy front as we will get some counters against them.
——————Tammy Pulisic———-Ziyech———-Cho ————Mount——Kova Chill——Tiago—-Zouma—-James ——————Mendy go for broke
It would be extremely entertaining and maddeningly frustrating at the same time. ——————Tammy Pulisic———-Ziyech———-Timo ——Mount——Kante—-Kai Chill———-—Tiago—-—-James ——————Mendy something like this if fully healthy
No silva or pulisic (picked up a calf niggle yesterday). On the latter: 'We are not concerned or worried but the medical department is on that. Now we have some little issues in the calf and he stopped training yesterday before it became an injury so I would not say that it is an injury at the moment. It’s risk management that relates to his history of having injuries so we do not want to enter in the same cycle. ‘It’s sometimes like this and the main thing for Christian is to stay positive, keep his head up and be ready because he can have a big impact when he starts and he can have a big impact when he comes from the bench with his intensity. ‘Chelsea bought Christian for a reason, for his quality and his potential so it’s our job to bring out the best in him. He proved in many weeks that he has the level to be a Chelsea regular player, to have a big impact at this club and it’s a challenge now to maintain the level and to keep improving.’
I never played the game outside on youth crap here in the US. So I don't know how hard it was to play and the rigors of it. It absolutely grates at me how older players wax poetic about their day and how tough they were and shit like that. It's always the same etc. Every generations players are lambasted by the generations before. NBA players past would call Lebron soft yet he could break them in half with two fingers. It's weird.
Bill Laimbeer was probably the only 80s NBA player who said LeBron would still excel in the 80s and 90s. And Laimbeer is the epitome of curmudgeon (I'm being generous). On the rigors of pro sports, Steve Nash once got flack for messing around when recovering from injury. Think he was juggling a soccer ball, but he commented that there's a difference between chasing Steph Curry and messing around. I also worked for the Pistons and interacted with a lot of the older players, some of them being Bad Boys from the late 80s. You can see the physical toll the game took on them.
Eh, I don't buy the argument about today's NBA players not being successful in the old era. Athletes today have much better training facilities, better equipment, smarter physios and coaches, nutritionists, and overall more savvy support staff. Just b/c the refs used to call a lot less stuff doesn't mean today's players would not been able to adapt.
Based on the history of this particular event, I'd say thats pretty wishful thinking Hope youre right
Kante is crucial. As the midfield maestro said when he was playing against Chelsea: "I got the ball in the middle and went past Kante, beat another player and then got tackled by N'golo".
https://www.skysports.com/football/...p-qualifier-after-missing-training-on-tuesday Mount didn't train with squad today.
Pure pain. Between that, FIFA being exposed for its blatant corruption and the World Cup being given to ********ing Qatar, I'm over it.