Crazy to bring on two players cold to take a PK. At least give them 15 minutes to burn off some nervous energy and get a few touches before the shootout. The managers were the difference in this game / tournament. Southgate basically played for 1-nil win in every match except the Ukraine one. Rarely playing guys like Greelish and Sancho. WTH was he thinking all month?
Another 90 minutes for Pedri in Spain's 0-0 draw with Egypt. With any luck, Spain will crash out in the group stage and Pedri can get back to Barca one week sooner than expected. Meanwhile, Dani Alves and Brazil are all over Germany! 3-0 after 35 minutes. Could have been more. Another 7-1?
Thing is, didn’t Pedri kinda do this to himself? He could have declined the call-up for the Olympics couldn’t he? Why does he have such ill advisers surrounding him? Did Koeman even try to talk him out of it? Man, this isn’t good for us at all. Pedri has practically played EVERYTHING and then some this past season for both club and country. The Olympics was just too much, he’s young and his career has developed so quickly in a short span of time that he got caught up in the moment and said yes to everything. Who’s to blame if he has a burn-out for the coming season? Ffs.
Spainish player from Spainish club can not decline, i think. And at 18, he wants to win. It is normal. Hope he wins Gold medal and has at least 3 weeks rest.
You think? I’d rather know that as a fact. Because I honestly find it very doubtful that Pedri can be coerced to take part of yet another tournament after the long season he’s had for both club and country. No one can force him beyond the level of exhaustion “just because they can”. That’s utterly ridiculous. He’s there because he wants to be. This is ehy I said that IMO he has ill-advisers surrounding him. He had to rest up after the Euro’s where they went deep into the tournament and had to go into extra time 3 times and all the way to penalties twice. The guy must be exhausted no matter his age. He needs rest in order to prevent a burn-out. Simple as.
I don’t blame him for making decisions based on the zest of youthfulness, and of course I’d probably do the same, but that’s exactly my point. I would hope that I’d have better advisors surrounding me in order to talk some sense into me. Just because I would have wanted to do the same thing at the same age doesn’t mean that it’s the right thing to do. Imagine justifying every thing you did as a teen when knowing better later on as an adult. Oh well, at the end of the day this is obviously my opinion. Let’s hope he doesn’t have a burn-out. If that’s the case then I’ll quickly forget about all of this. For now though, I’m worried.
Lmao. Seriously though. It’s like they forget he’s even on the pitch when he plays. New word and concept for Pedri; “Un-subbable”.
Tata, the ultimate silver medalist. 2nd place with Paraguay 2011 2nd place with Barca 2014 2nd place with Argentina 2015 2nd place with Argentina 2016 2nd place with Mexico 2021 (Nation league) 2nd place with Mexico 2021
Gold medal game. Brazil 1 x 0 Spain - HT Spectacular save from Dani Alves to keep the play alive for the goal just before HT.
Malcom just scored in ET what may be the gold medal winner. He burned through Spain's defender to score the goal. We should look into that kid.
Great speed, but that was amateurish defending more than anything else. Both Brasil goals were, come to think of it.