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Recent content by Uppercut

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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    The strikers are the biggest problem, the no-service excuse for Hojlund is total horseshit. There’s not much you can do to create chances for a striker that’s slow, weak, awful in the air, technically mediocre, and has poor movement. We even created chances for Mainoo and Maguire when they...
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    UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAUGE KNOCKOUT PHASE

    I posted about it during the Euros and the response was like ‘yeah obviously, what rock have you been under’.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I also instantly mute a game where Savage is commentating, it's almost a reflex. Sutton is awful but Savage is in a tier of his own.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    @GIMH as draws at the end of disappointing seasons go that looked like seriously good craic
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    It's unequivocally great for Liverpool. The deal only starts in a few months and at 32 he's still one of the best players in the league. Maybe he falls off the cliff and becomes a passenger during the deal, but at two years the risk is so small relative to the reward.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Maybe I'm in the minority but I thought it was a great decision not to send him off. There's nothing particularly dangerous about the technique he uses - he just plants his left leg and clears the ball cleanly with his right. His right catches MacAllister on the follow through at an awkward...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I think the trend of CBs getting weaker in the air reversed a long time ago too. At Barcelona Pep was converting short DMs to CB, now he's signing massive CBs and converting them to full backs. It really struck me when I was watching Luis Enrique's PSG against Liverpool, how that style has...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I would have said it went out of fashion for a while, but now it's been back for some time. The leading world strikers are Haaland, Kane, Lewandowski, then maybe someone like Isak. They're all excellent in the air. Real Madrid are playing Mbappe there, but now he's the one that feels like an...
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    2026 World Cup Qualifiers

    I kind of wish this was a problem, because it would require the top international teams actually being any good. The European counties in the 33-48 range is countries like Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, and Denmark i.e. the countries that went toe-to-toe with Euro finalists England. From South...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Ha yeah that was the joke. I realised you couldn’t have meant Bruno to Gerrard because Bruno’s goals and assists per game are so much higher.
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    2026 World Cup Qualifiers

    I generally don't mind the expansion of the World Cup finals tournament. I hate the uneven format more than the dilution of quality, so for me 64 teams is an improvement on 48. As a fan of second and third-tier countries where playing in a World Cup game is a rare and special social event, it's...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Maybe when he retires he can knock Gerrard off his "worst manager in Premier League history" perch.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Interesting. I'd have had Gerrard above Maddison, but the numbers don't lie.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I’ve just realised Bruno Fernandes is a Portuguese Gerrard regen. By far our best, most talented, hardest working, most committed player, but tactically chaotic. Great long passer, scores absolute screamers all the time, turns it on in big games. Will never win the league. Can’t wait to share...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I see Pup is taking Liverpool getting dumped out of Europe well.
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