Football data analysts: shooting from outside the box is wasteful and sacrifices possession for low xG, so it is better to simply retain possession and build so you can create better chances

Liverpool’s players, collectively: shut the fuck up nerds

I like how Leverkusen apparently belong to Alonso while Bayern belong to Kane. Tuchel, more like who-chel amiright?

The table’s funny but it’s also not entirely fair. All of the teams that went through qualifying played several games against absolute minnows (Portugal’s qualifying group in particular consisted of nothing but fodder), while Germany have generally been playing friendlies against mediocre-to-good sides. Belgium, Ukraine, Poland, Colombia, Japan, France, USA, Mexico, Turkey, and Austria is a much more demanding set of games than playing Iceland, Liechtenstein, Bosnia, Slovakia, and Luxembourg twice each.

Estonia making the playoffs after coming bottom of their group with 1 point is fucking stupid. Death to the Nations League.

If Bellingham’s just going to hang out with the group and do some very light training, then fine, but I don’t see any merit to playing him while he’s injured/recovering, even if he personally wants to play - England are already qualified and virtually certain to top the group, and there’s no sense risking exacerbating an injury given how important he’s going to be in the summer.

Far too many of the players are miles below top club standards and their collective attitude stinks.

There, I summarised it.

It’s a bit strange but professional sport is extremely meritocratic at the player level (coaching and staffing is another matter) so it’s very unlikely that there’s any ill intent here.

It costs £740 annually to subscribe to all the services currently showing PL matches, so about €900. That’s not an insurmountable expenditure for someone with a decent job in any European country, although it certainly stings a bit.

Should be noted that these are domestic broadcast deals only.

The players might not be up to the standards of some recent Ajax squads but they can’t be that bad. I’m amazed the club’s board hasn’t booted the coach yet.

Starting to think that Man U might not be title contenders this year.