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Michael Carrick as good as Busquets, Xabi Alonso etc. unquestionably ticked off because Pep said it? Hmm. No. He doesn’t have the defensive awareness of Busquets and certainly doesn’t even begin to approach the range of passing of Alonso.
Let’s not forget Cymru is one of the smallest nations at this World Cup, Cymru is a nation without a professional football league, the FAW budget is tiny, the player base is tiny, and football is not our national sport . Hopefully the success of recent years will drive Cymru onto further success in the future. Hopefully we won’t have to wait another 64 years to go to a World Cup, and if we do, hopefully it won’t be in Qatar.
I wrote in after the Iran game saying that who would have thought going to LA for 6 months before a World Cup to keep ticking over was not the best preparation. Portugal tend to walk through games, relying mostly on individual talents. There’s little fluidity, and they don’t look up when in possession. Runs by forwards into empty spaces are largely ignored. There are no patterns, and not much telepathy. They get away with it because they have a bunch of players – Silva, Fernandes, Cancelo, and others, who can make things happen on the pitch. But surely, you would expect this team to thrill, which they rarely do.
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