Today’s Football - 2024/25 Season

Toffeeslam · Monday at 9:40 PM

Rashford’s end product and decision making is so poor, he gets into good positions and then passes back to the keeper.

That was poor from an awful Latvia team who came to just parked the bus and offered nothing upfront

Rita_Poon · Monday at 9:42 PM

Toffeeslam said:
Rashford’s end product and decision making is so poor, he gets into good positions and then passes back to the keeper.

That was poor from an awful Latvia team who came to just parked the bus and offered nothing upfront

And should have taken the lead.

Toffeeslam · Monday at 9:46 PM

Rita_Poon said:
And should have taken the lead.

Yeah that was a screw up rather than anything they produced.

At one point they had 9 (NINE) players in their own penalty box, I don’t mind the low block but you have got to carry a threat upfront.

This lot did nothing, having said that England were poor moving the mall at pace and quality into the box.

Dreadful game around

Rita_Poon · Monday at 10:46 PM

Tunisia with a late one...

Neiler · Monday at 10:48 PM

Rita_Poon · Monday at 10:52 PM

Late penalty 2-0 Tunisia. Malawi gone to paste.

DualityNSNO · 2025-03-25T07:12:05+0000

duncs pigeon said:
This isnt the nations league, its the World Cup qualifiers, done on seeding.

Yup, realised that like half an hour after I wrote it as I was watching the game :lol:

JelavicBrate2 said:
I'd prefer if it was random and anyone could get anyone. RS got to final in 07, only because they played a bunch of pub sides and got favourable draws. RS played a load of crap in this year's champions league got knocked out by PSG, England are no different play against a load of crap, then lose when they play somebody decent. Be much more interesting in England were playing France, rather than Latvia tonight. UEFA competitions are just biased and corrupt.

As @duncs pigeon said though, this was for the WC, not Nationals League, my bad. I unironically think the current CL format that replaced the groups will be better for WC/Euro qualifiers - in the current seeding/groups thing you have a clear and obvious favourite and 4-5 other teams just as fodder. Spain, France, England, Belgium have piss groups, Norway have Italy in theirs but 2 teams qualify anyway I think... It does feel very meh but also leaves the possibility for this hilarious outcome from the 2010 qualifications, when the star aligned in that group and gave us both Slovakia and Slovenia :lol: