Jump to content

GabrielsHorn

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    1632
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by GabrielsHorn

  1. It wasn’t perfectly constructed, but saying Sane is a magic cure is flawed as he’s never shown he’s good against a compact defense and it is highly unlikely that he would have space against any of the three opponents due to their strategies. Criticize Low’s decision to bring back Khedira, or his placement of Werner, or starting Goretzka when he hasn’t really played, but not bringing Sane is nowhere near why they went out early.
  2. Ozil was playing direct in this game. and for someone who has watched every Germany game, I’d love for you to point me to a time where Sane did a good job for the national team against a compact defense. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, but I’m willing to change my mind.
  3. No idea for Ginter, or 5 CB, but the rest of those players have proven that they can be good players for Germany. Sane hasn’t. For saying that he can break down tight defenses, you should watch how poor he was against Austria trying to do that role.
  4. He had chances against Austria and Brazil, both at towards the end of the season, and he was still disappointing for the national team.
  5. Ozil was definitely disappointing, but that's a ridiculous claim. Ozil had 1 goal and 4 assists in qualifying, and was dramatically better than Sane after he was pulled against Austria. Draxler has had a few goals and an assist in qualifying and was decent last year in the confederations cup. Sane has one assist, against Azerbaijan, his entire German career with no goals. He's definitely a tad overrated. He's going to be a good player, but he wasn't the savior that Germany needed for this World Cup, particularly against teams that sat back deep and defended like all three teams in the group did against Germany. e: Here's a better article from Honigstein that explains why Low didn't bring him: http://www.espn.com/soccer/club/germany/481/blog/post/3517585/why-leroy-sane-omission-by-germany-makes-sense-for-joachim-low
  6. Form at a club definitely doesn't always translate over to national teams. Watch his games against Brazil and Austria, both of which were pretty lackluster.
  7. Sane is definitely overrated from the EPL crowd. He's going to be a great future player for Germany, but he's way too inconsistent to reliably be called on. Brandt is also really, really damn good. Ozil and Khedira were woeful again. I'd be surprised if the next manager of Germany relies on them as heavily as Low did.
  8. Why would fox put a Spanish announcer that’s rooting against Mexico on the broadcast?
  9. I believe the 2-1/2-1 square is assuming that Mexico doesn't out-foul Germany as it'd go to Fair Play, which Germany is significantly affected by the Red Card against Sweden. Right now, Mexico has 2 points and Germany has 4 according to this (https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/weltmeisterschaft-2018/fairnesstabelle/pokalwettbewerb/WM18).
  10. These are the scenarios for Mexico's group: For a more detailed one:
  11. France also has actually won their games. Argentina needed a hail mary against Nigeria to make it out of the group. It won't be pretty, even if Deschamp is a fucking moron.
  12. It's borderline to me and slightly different to yesterday as he was the one that actually headed it down. I'm okay with it not being called
  13. That's going to be a very very costly miss.
  14. Mascherano is showing his age. He's nowhere near quick enough to defend any of Nigeria's forwards on the wings.
  15. Hopefully this ends the era of hugging on corners, but that's pretty weak for a penalty.
  16. Yikes, I'm surprised they didn't call that on Rojo.
  17. Looks like it's more first game Nigeria than second game Nigeria.
  18. It's fascinating reading the decisions in both this case and the California FAST Act case. Sotomayor's and Breyer's interpretation of the First Amendment is really fascinating to analyze in two very, very different cases. e: I'd also highly recommend reading Breyer's dissent, starting at page 57.
  19. Peru finally decided to aim on target two games too late.
  20. I definitely agree. It's one of the big limitations of VAR as the referee will tend to want to correct the mistake if it is referred back. It's still not a foolproof system, even if it is better than what we originally had.
×
×
  • Create New...