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@_Zeets @AdamJoseph It’s the tucked in shirt of immunity

Rodri plays like a corrupt politician. He does things with the confidence of a man who has the cops on his payroll.

@TheDevilsDNA @fc_mossman @FootballEcon_ @OptaAnalyst Whew, we haven’t had a guy doing this for Bruno since the early Eriksen days. I like it!

@fc_mossman @FootballEcon_ @OptaAnalyst .

I like Andrey Santos. His Chelsea displays went under the radar coz of Caicedo Enzo. Crisp progressor, balances safety & threat, smart mover, intense ball winner. Only issue is lack of span/height. IMO this is Mateus/Scott alternative. AS + a coverage DM (like Tchou) is ideal.

@RyanRosenblatt He’s giving me Rivaldo vibes with that bicycle kick and all the assists to the modern-day R9

France have scored 12 goals this World Cup and two players have combined for nine of them, but you could make the argument that Michael Olise, who has scored zero, has been their best player. Just obscenely good.

@tosinmm_ Mbappe and Olise are giving serious Ronaldo and Rivaldo vibes

When France are in full flow, ain’t none better. They’re spooky. What a ridiculous squad.

@nqatpod Btw, I agree with the main thrust of your post and I will be devastated when they raze Old Trafford.

@nqatpod Did you go to a match in Kansas City? It’s a bit ironic you’d slander it as it’s the oldest active stadium in the NFL. The World Cup matches are a bummer because they prohibit the one thing that makes Arrowhead awesome: the tailgating. It’s a real shame.

Exactly the kind of utter nonsense thinking that led BlueCo to waste a £1bn at Chelsea. 'Europoors are too thick to understand how to build stadiums and make money' It's common thinking among US investors coming into European football. They're almost always wrong. There's history, tradition, community assets that are far more important than corporate profits. Which is what these NFL stadiums are there to create. When United leave Old Trafford there'll be something on par with US facilities. Will the club be better for it? Debatable. Gimme Craven Cottage over that horror show in Kansas City every time. And for every SoFi there are plenty of roofless concrete meat factories paid for by taxpayers in some dystopian reverse socialism. The best stadium at this World Cup isn't Atlanta or Houston or LA. It’s the Azteca, with all its flaws. None of the US sports franchise owners care about the social place our clubs have. What they do understand is how to exploit the very Americans who are making posts about Europoors and big stadiums. Getting bent over by billionaire owners who charge watering sums for live event tickets. And then congratulating them on the values of their franchises as if that's a trophy.

@TYAC_Jon @MLSist Haha were you also at that Recife match against Germany? The monsoon certainly didn’t help. That was insane.

@MLSist I'm so sorry Pablo. From a USMNT perspective this is Recife level shit show-ery... in a major American city

Absolute s**tshow here in KC. I myself sat in a shuttle on a service road before just getting out in the middle of the road and walking a mile and a half to the stadium. Left my hotel downtown around 345, arrived at Arrowhead around 7. Bet it’s never like this for an NFL game.

@ExtraBeissHit I walked >1.5 miles in order to enter the stadium and waited in needlessly long lines because FIFA insists (for some reason) on reducing available gates. They say it’s for security - I barely even got checked at any of the venues!

@ExtraBeissHit Poor from the kc World Cup team, but… FIFA forces this. Arrowhead stadium staff gave FIFA a huge list of parking suggestions and FIFA refused all of it. I’ve been to three matches in LA, Dallas and now KC. The KC transit situation was the worst, but in all cases (1/2)

Were headed for a transit debacle ahead of the Argentina v Algeria match in KC. The plan by ConnectKC2026 to bus people from downtown to Arrowhead is poorly conceived. There’s 20,000+ fans expecting busing and they’re not loading fast enough. Thousands are going to miss kickoff.

Came back to x.com for this and this alone. Still hits so good

@AdamJoseph @xGPhilosophy Not to mention two fewer appearances for Lammens so a cumulative stat doesn’t really tell whole story

@xGPhilosophy Nope.

@Ankaman616 COME TO DEATHROW* *bluesky :)

Right ok. Seems like I can tweet again. My account got dinged by the new Posting Limits yesterday afternoon so I could only do RTs. All of my in-match analysis of United v Forest has been lost.

Testing...

@colinmufc2 @carptz_emid @nqatpod I can absolutely buy that United’s underlyings w/ Ruben were decent in 2025/26. But i do not buy that, as a whole (both attack and defense) that he had them at a ~top 3 level. If you have a basis for that belief, I’d truly like to hear it.

@colinmufc2 @carptz_emid @nqatpod I don’t think one can make that argument credibly. The defensive numbers were bad, both the xg and the actual goals conceded. They were never without multiple key defenders for a long stretch. Do you disagree with this? Do you think they were a good defensive team under Ruben?

Blah blah fuckety blah blah. Amorim truthers are so unbelievably boring. I don't show my wife the underlying metrics in bed. Did she get the result or not? Amorim couldn't dream of Carrick's 10 wins in 13.

@colinmufc2 @carptz_emid @nqatpod Given that, I feel fine relying on a 20-game sample size for defensive data, and United’s under Amorim was, unequivocally, quite bad. Bad enough to meaningfully undermine the Mostly Quite Good attack

@colinmufc2 @carptz_emid @nqatpod Of course i think players matter. The player availability this season under Amorim was normal. At no point was it a “crisis” (like it was for Carrick against Chelsea) - particularly in the defense.

@colinmufc2 @carptz_emid @nqatpod “For everything”. Dude, I’m not an Amorim hater. It was top 3 or 4 for many offensive measures. It was not top 3 or 4 on the defensive side at any point. Players do of course matter. Amorim had de ligt, Maguire, Shaw, yoro, heaven all fit for large spells to begin the season

@pj_thomp @carptz_emid @nqatpod Gonna have to agree to disagree Last season was a disaster, no excuses. But if you go back and look at any stat you want and analyse any game you want this season you will see the performances were there and we were up there at the top3 or 4 teams in the league for everything

@colinmufc2 @carptz_emid @nqatpod Tbh, if it were me right now, I’d go for naegelsmann or Enrique over Carrick, regardless of where we finish. Carrick has done an admirable job but I wouldn’t back him to keep winning 70% of his matches once the fixtures pile up and the luck turns a bit

@colinmufc2 @carptz_emid @nqatpod Both Ruben and ETH generally had teams that both generated and gave up a high volume of chances. That leads to a high-variance set of results. If Carrick has done one thing well, it’s to settle down the game model a bit & funnel the chances his team creates to its best finishers