Matt. 🇩🇪

In 2015, I got rejected for law and had to do another degree. In 2021, I am now an Attorney-at-Law (in waiting). This is the happiest day of my life.

Well well well 😂

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AUSTRIA ALGERIA GAME OF THE TOURNAMENT

Anyone else’s rush sports no longer works?

THE GREATEST ATHLETE AND HUMAN BEING TO WALK THIS EARTH

France vs France B

Statement made. @DFB_Team_EN 🤞🏽

We’re at the 4 matches a day part of the World Cup. 4 matches a day until the 28th of June.

Jamaican referee, Oshane Nation, will serve as the 4th official for the matchup between Qatar and Switzerland. 👏 🇯🇲 First Jamaican referee in the World Cup since Peter Prendergast who officiated at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

Between TVJ and Rush sports, all the games will be shown live.

There’s 4 World Cup games and game 5 tomorrow

As the World Cup starts tomorrow, I just wanna take a moment and thank God for allowing me to make it thru 4 more years and being able to watch another World Cup. 🇲🇽🙏🏻

This shit means something to me.

please dont try this during the world cup as the consequences will be severe @myJPSonline

Retweet if you’ve ever witnessed your club win the champions league final in your lifetime.

🚨 Manchester City 26/27 Pep Guardiola has left Enzo Maresca with a phenomenal base to improve on. However, Maresca does have a lot of work to do to complete the squad with Bernardo and Stones leaving. I'm unsure if Maresca will persist with Donnarumma. With the Premier League being increasingly man-to-man, it arguably reduces the need for an elite short distributor whilst increasing the need for an accurate and powerful long distributor, but I don't think Donnarumma is either of these things. Bernardo took a lot of the pressure off of him in the build-up by dropping onto the first line and receiving, too. Trafford, however, profiles as a better modern day goalkeeper. He has similar traditional goalkeeping qualities to Donarumma whilst being a much more competent technician. Maresca would use him to lure pressure on before City bounce out to the spare man but he can also kick long and accurately to 1v1's high. Trafford may lack experience, and he did struggle in his early days at City which prompted Guardiola to sign Donnarumma, but he has another year of experience under his belt now whilst profiling like a special goalkeeper. If there was a more experienced elite goalkeeper on the market the City could opt for that route, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It will be a big pre-season for Trafford. Defensively, City need reinforcements at centre half with Stones leaving and Ake likely to leave. As good as Guehi and Khusanov have been together, they lack aerial dominance. Dias is the one who provides that in City's defence but he never seems to start more than 30 PL games, so an aerially dominant centre half is a must. Right back is another area of concern. Will Maresca persist with Nunes? Maybe, but Rico Lewis is the one that I am looking at with caution. As talented as he is, he profiles like Zinchenko. Several years ago, Zinchenko was a key figure in City's countless trophy wins and in propelling Arsenal to the next level. Now? The game has evolved. Fullbacks possess Zinchenko's level of technical quality whilst being physical monsters (Calafiori, Timber, Hato, O'Reilly, etc). With all of City's left back profiles being able to play high (O'Reilly, Ait-Nouri, and Gvardiol), Maresca would be smart to target a centre back-type profile at right back to replace Lewis. City also have some clear issues in midfield now that Bernardo is gone. Not only did Bernardo provide unbelievable control with the ball, but he also led City's press structurally whilst being as intense and as mobile as they come in second ball or open space situations. Maresca's defensive philosophy differs to Guardiola in the sense that he defends man-to-man across the thirds with wingers often being the one's to invert into central areas which leaves the midfield matching up elsewhere with less running to do. However, the Premier League is the most physical league in the world. Cherki and Foden as #10's with Reijnders and Kovacic as #8's is simply not physical enough. Kovacic has been excellent to end the season since recovering from injury, and he is a good squad player because he can play in the #6 or the #8, but City need a more physical box-to-box midfielder. Reports have linked City with Enzo Fernández and although he is a complete midfielder who would be an exceptional Bernardo Silva replacement, I would still worry about City from a physical perspective in midfield with that signing because he is not as attentive to the defensive moment as Bernardo is. Outside of that, City could do with another winger profile, even if the priority lies in improving other areas first. The demands on modern football is to have two top players in each position otherwise you will fall short due to unavailability. That's the reality. As a coach, Maresca is elite when his teams have the ball. Build-up details, positional play, balance, etc, etc. All top, even if it is a little more rigid than Guardiola's idea. Defensively, though, he never made Chelsea elite. Like we said, his philosophy is to defend man-to-man across the thirds. No team in Premier League history has even won the league playing like that. The style has holes in it as it is reactive to the opponent, it doesn't inherently protect key spaces, if you lose one duel huge spaces open up, and sometimes the opposition do good things so you must accept defending low which the style neglects. Kompany's Bayern and Enrique's PSG have shown that it can work at the elite level, though. But they have clear differences that make a huge difference – less games, less intense games, more opportunities to rotate, and they can turn on and off their intensity for the big games. You don't get that luxury in the Premier League. However, the biggest difference between those teams and Maresca's Chelsea was the cultural difference the coaches instilled. Maresca's Chelsea didn't work as hard or respect the game the way Enrique's PSG or Kompany's Bayern do. That combined with his defensive approach has always been my biggest criticism of him as a coach. Sure, the man-to-man style may work IF the culture is right, but that wasn't the case at Chelsea. The players were lax. And that is not something we can attribute to any Guardiola team ever. Interestingly, when Arne Slot came to Liverpool the collective maintained the culture that Klopp instilled at the club in his decade in charge. That positive 'hangover' effect saw the club maintain their intensity and collective attitude. Maresca may benefit from the atmosphere that Pep has created in a winning dressing room at City (even if Bernardo leaving is a monumental blow), but the real test for him is in the long-run. As a pure tactician, he is special, but football is more than just tactics. People let Maresca off the hook too easy for his time at Chelsea because he fell out with the directors and the ownership. Sure, that is true, and he couldn't have done any better in his first season, but Chelsea should have been in and around the top of the league in 25/26. When he left, they were not. And that was not down to a shortage of quality (despite an injury to Colwill which handicapped their season). It was down to the culture at the club being good enough, and that stems from the coach. Overall, it's the first time Manchester City have had uncertainty since Pep arrived. It'll be interesting to see if they get their priorities right in the transfer market and if Maresca has evolved as a coach during his time off… 🛑

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