France for sure. Spain have always struggled against physically bigger and stronger teams and I don’t expect that to change. Yes, they managed a WC and a Euros, but that team had an unbelievable roster with arguably some of the best players of all time at their positions.
There is definitely recency bias among modern day fans who seem to think football only started in the 1990s. When Ashley Cole was inducted into the Premier League Hall Of Fame the other day, so many noobs were posting in the comments that he is the best left back of all-time. If their knowledge of football history went back further than the 90s they would be aware of legends like Paul Breitner, Ruud Krol, Giacinto Facchetti, and Antonio Cabrini, who were all better players than Cole, and had more successful careers.
ESPN pundits acknowledged that they didn’t watch the full game between England and Belgium because TV wasn’t working. Yet they are here giving post match analysis. ESPN standards - joke.
OMG so true bestie the journalistic standards of coverage of this international friendly during the low-key Q+A part of this free-on-youtube web show are DISGRACEFUL. This is definitely in my top three worst things to happen this year.
You work at a network? You have no idea how these shows work and come together. Did you watch the 50 matches today? I watched 4 at a time and don't all the time for all of them. I can split my screen 9 ways too and have another 4 on my PC. We don't have the time like you.
About the 80s. I was born in 1995 and I consider myself a huge football fan. I read a lot, watch a lot... but I only learned about Aston Villa's European championship a few years ago in my mid 20s. You would expect that to be the sort of fact everyone would know about
@@JackSmith.9966 With almost winning the friendly against a top Brazil team and just drew it because of a silly unai Simon mistake? Nah...Spain is obviously one of favourites 😊
@@Supermomo2007 joke? What the fifa rulebook says? If any without the ball infringement happens to the attackers inside the box, then that's a pen...and obviously yamal and Carvajal both got obstructed by brazilian defenders without the ball, rule is rule
I preferred the away goals rule apart from when the game went into extra time as that is an extra 30 minutes to score an away goal that the home side never had.
I don’t mind away goals, but they’re a bit gimmicky for this level imo. I think it’s better to favor the team that can score more regardless of where the games are.
Players are not forgotten from before the 90's. Interestingly, gaming does quite a good job of continuing a lot of legendary players legacies and keeping them relevant. You play with icons from every era, each with skill sets and attributes unique to those players styles. Sounds goofy, but I think more players are remembered now than ever before.
Are France and England doing good in friendlies at all? Spain got a draw against top South American side Brazil, France got defeated by Germany, England somehow drew with average belgium
@@debajyotiroy8726France performances weren’t convincing at all, even their win against chili wasn’t. This still doesn’t mean anything of course cuz they lost to Colombia in a friendly in 2018 and drew to Luxembourg and they went on to win the World Cup.
I would like to add my take on thr 90s legends who playing the football game. I do recognize Platini, Cruyff, Baggio, Romario and the likes did the spectacular and unbelievable performances on thr world stage. Such plaudits were very visible and tangible in those eras and onlh now we seem to have not equate the same kind of pedigree in their games and styles. Consequently, the football is ever changing and everyday revolving around nations and clubs in order to build up characters and personalities that will overtake the next generation. As we can see with the likes of Haaland, Mbappe, Bellingham, Endrick, Wirtz and many other upcoming marquee talents across the world.
What we can take from this is that European teams massively underestimated Brazil which is insane, remember even the players that play in the Brazilian Serie A a playing in a Top 10 League in the world which used to be much higher ranked than what it is now, along with the Argentine League which has slipped in recent times. I've seen the 2000's Milan, 90s early 2000's United Squad as well as Madrid and Barcelona fall to South American sides. Never underestimate them just because they don't play in Europe. Even Pele's Santos had a winning record Vs European clubs
what we can take is these are meaningless friendlies and the results mean nothing and or not an indication of anything other than individual player performance and even that doesn't mean much since it's a meaningless friendly, why would a player risk injuring themselves for nothing?
Computer games are the only reason a lot of under 40s , under 30s know who most the of legends are. Its not because they have ever seen them play unfortunately.
Group B and D are interesting. Surely Ronaldo is laughing. Can England bring it home or Italy takes it, once again, to Rome. Germany after a horrible world cup campaign can they repeat '64, '08 and '12 of Spain. Belgium certainly will rely on KBD to bring the magic when playing for City.
Burley Leboeuf Zola *Gullit* Desailly vs Garcia Nicol Barnes Gerard Rush and Luis Garcia thinks Chelsea have no chance. Even with Burley, Garcia and co have no chance vs Gullit.
This is silly. The likelihood of Arsenal winning the UCL is way higher than England winning the World Cup. Arsenal is 6 to 1 for this year's UCL alone versus England's 7 to 1 in 2026 and the UCL happens every year versus every 4 years for the WC. If one extrapolates all the way to 2030 (2 WCs and 7 UCLs) and assume 6 to 1 for Arsenal this year and 20 to 1 every subsequent year until 2030 as well as 7 to 1 for England in both 2026 and 2030, that gives us: England: 7 to 1 twice is 26% chance. Arsenal: 6 to 1 and 6 times 20 to 1: 6/1 is 0.17 so 83% chance NOT to win. 20 to 1 is 0.05 so 95% chance NOT to win. 0.83 * 0.95 * 0.95 * 0.95 * 0.95 * 0.95 * 0.95 * 0.95 = 0.58 58% chance NOT to win is a 42% chance to win. So England has a 26% chance to win the world cup from now to 2030 and Arsenal has a 42% chance of winning the UCL in the same period.
Italy will win the Euros. Also those old great teams, you forgot Juventus, who beat Liverpool in a European Cup final and a European Super Cup final. in 1984 and 1985.
France are so predictable they play a 4 3 3 their line up is the same their midfield cant control the game mbappe only plays up the field he never plays behind the ball(defend) the middle is getting penetrated easily if they dont get gusto and olisé to the euros they will get embarrassed
Craig, in naming some of those top Ipswich players....why did you leave out your uncle, George? He was an integral part of that team even though he was very young....
VAR is garbage, the point of VAR was to overturn "clear and obvious" errors by the ref, not to stop play for 5 minutes while they check every single goal for a millimeter offside.
I tell u what frank Italy, Spain and Brazil are not what they used to be. They’re not scary anymore They’re just normal teams now you can easily beat them nowadays
