Pretty sure Chelsea just done Liverpool with the exact tactical decision they got success from in the last game: drop the #8 s wide (Palmer) to drag the Liverpool midfield out of position - create space - exploit

Couldn't quite understand De Zerbi's hype of Balerdi at first, but the more you watch him, the more you get it. A really nice ball-playing CB that I think went under my radar prevously

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De Cuyper thread coming today - please prepare yourself for some quite scathing criticism

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It's matches like this where you realise the benefits of trying to be a smartass tweeting mid-game, are completely outweighed by the costs of looking like a moron 5 minutes after you post

I cannot wait for someone high up at Manchester United to watch the highlights of this game and decide to drop £40m on Denzel Dumfries

Bumping this piece again, including such beautiful diagrams as this, which I call “two straight lines of dots with some vague arrows” (I do genuinely think this is a good fun piece fwiw, less sicko-coded than usual)

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Convinced Luis Enrique killed the real Donnarumma some time after the Atletico Madrid error and this is a cyborg in his place

It's ironic that the French game is probably at its highest standing in terms of respect in years, at a time when its very existence has never been under more threat

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I've been watching Ligue 1 on a weekly basis since January 2020, and think this feels true. Only thing I'll say is that: Ligue 1's rise has a lot to do with better managers - the player talent has kinda always been there (but the recent development has been crazy in that regard