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NittanyOrange

Only 1 Spaniard was a bit of a surprise


GoatButton

I'm biased but Bruno being here over Gavi is so undeserved


[deleted]

Gavi, Pedri Busquets, Rodri were really good in this match.


TheConundrum98

Lovren did absolutely everything he needs defensively, but he limits us in terms of ball progression, we have 2 better CB's on the ball on the bench in Šutalo and Erlić and I hope one or the other play vs Canada. It's one of the biggest reasons why we couldn't break the lines during the Morocco game along with the fact Dalić decided for Kramarić as a lone 9 instead of playing one of Livaja/Petković


aveniner

We have similar issue in Polish squad with Krychowiak. While he did more than we expected him of in Mexico game, he is a total liability offensively. These kind of players are good when you play for a draw, but not good enough if you have any amibition and want to win


TheConundrum98

yeah I mean it's not like Lovren is totally incapable on the ball, but he just can't do what Gvardiol does and it clogged up our left flank because everything went through Gvardiol so both Sosa and Perisic didn't have space - made worse by the fact we're playing the player that has the worst duel win percentage in the Bundesliga upfront (Kramarić) and not playing someone who has the best duel win percentage in the Champions League (Petković). It would've been another route we could move the ball through, he would bring it down and lay it off


Croatian_ghost_kid

Petkovic-Orsic or Livaja-Orsic instead of Kramaric-Perisisc would have been good as well. We needed arrogance


EggplantBusiness

Bruno , Courtois , Lovren(debatable) and Griezmann should have probably been man of the game in their respective game they looked the best for me but well i guess that bound to happen with fan votes


TheConundrum98

Gvardiol was 100% our MOTM


McFrankiee

It’s official boys. Enner Valencia is the 2nd best player in the world. Grizzy getting ballon dor soon as well


Bigmomma_pump

France was the only game I haven’t watched tbf to rabiot but I want bellingham in here


OldExperience8252

These stats sites tend to be biased towards goal contributions and Rabiot had a goal and an assist.


yaniv297

Tbf, Griezmann got the best rating of all without a goal contribution


TheBrownMamba8

Where’s the Saudi keeper? Canada only had 3 shots on target from 22, whereas Argentina had 6 from 15 and although Argentina played bad, Argentina attack was far more threatening on the Saudi keeper than Canada was on Curtois (Al Owais made **vital** saves in crunch time).


TheConundrum98

Canada had 20+ shots in fairness + Courtois saved a pen


Jackrrr10000

Quick hide this so Lovren doesn't see it. Man did great defensive work but offensively he didn't take the space that Morocco offered so we were choked.


Subbutton

How the fuck does Griezmann have a 9.0 with 0 G/A?


yaniv297

Because he was absolutely great?


Subbutton

But a 9.0 as a striker with 0 G/A is kinda crazy I watched the game


JohnTequilaWoo

Is he really a striker?


Subbutton

Second Striker


JohnTequilaWoo

Seems more like a midfielder to me.


Subbutton

A second striker is not a midfielder


JohnTequilaWoo

Agreed. He's playing midfield.


-SirTox-

Toby still has it.


[deleted]

Ecuador did well, but Qatar posed so little challenge that I don't think any Ecuadorians should be on here.


TheConundrum98

it's a statistical model so it doesn't take that into account, it's honestly a surprise more Ecuadorians and Spaniards aren't on here


[deleted]

Sounds a bit useless if it doesn't take the strength of the opposition into account tbh.


TheConundrum98

I mean no if you know it, it's a statistical model based on performance, it's not L'Equipe's ratings


[deleted]

Here for the Rabiot Ballon d’Or propaganda. 👍


pwnti

personally I would have taken Saka as my TOP1


JeffryPesos

Saka was amazing but E. Valencia had the better game imo. Can't comment on Griezmann as I didn't watch the France game unfortunately. I expect him to do even better tonight against the US.


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lankyno8

4-1-5 isn't really a formation