Fellaini-Naingolan-Witsel is a pretty awful midfield in terms of passing ability and quickness. Why not play De Bruyne centrally and then a player like Ferreira-Carrasco on the wing?
Fellaini-Naingolan-Witsel is a pretty awful midfield in terms of passing ability and quickness. Why not play De Bruyne centrally and then a player like Ferreira-Carrasco on the wing?
1. Lack of better FB optionsJust getting to the game -- why in the fucking fuck wouldn't you start Vertonghen with Alderweireld?
Edit: in their natural spots I mean.
LOL. Or not.Good chance this will be the first 0-0 of the tournament.
No.Well, I'm never pretended I wasn't an idiot. But while I'm at it (and confirming my Spurs stripes), isn't Dembele their best midfielder?
Last 7 Belgian matches (not tournament --> every match) have started with...Belgium vs. Team X 0-1.IIRC in past tournaments Belgium have been really slow starters.
The post foul hoofing of the ball was sublime as well. They wrote the book on defending and how to hang onto a 1-0 lead. Tony Pulis is watching this with his pants off.That foul by Eder was beyond cynical. I know we all appreciate a good "professional foul" here and there but it used to be you more or less tried to hide it
edit: looks like 3 at the back for Belgium as well now
Haha, yeah, knocking it into row Z could not be ignored. It was the most complete stoppage of play possible.The post foul hoofing of the ball was sublime as well. They wrote the book on defending and how to hang onto a 1-0 lead. Tony Pulis is watching this with his pants off.
KDB has put it on a plate twice, as poor as he's been. Origi and Lukaku just didn't finish.Nobody on Belgium able to make the incisive pass because no one is running off one another. It's just station to station passing with perhaps one diagonal to a player who is then isolated, or hoofs in a hopeless cross.