Having assessed the stand-out Defenders over the last four Gameweeks yesterday evening, we now turn our attentions to the centre of the park. Arsenal, Tottenham and Bournemouth’s playmakers feature in our analysis, whilst we also take a look at some in-form protagonists from Everton, Liverpool, Man City and Newcastle as the search for a Dimitri Payet replacement intensifies.
Touch wasn't up to standard? Cesc absolutely drilled it at him.
Where are the all the FIFSA countries hiding? I hope they haven't taken a detour in Bangkok
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Why have you taken an English name?
😉
Was originally Hartley, plenty of time for fly fishing once they are out though
Tolkien is South African. I learnt that whilst researching for clichéd South African jokes
No more Leicester behaviour please
Hey, you leave us alone!
Leave the thai women alone then, easy as that 😉
Kane__Get used to it.
Good move from England there. Kane shanked it
Where is Gianni Infantino? Come on FIFFSA
Not watching the game
How is Smalldini looking?Very solid.
so carrying his club form over.
Probably the biggest success story of LvG's reignHe looks confident - enough to be marshaling the whole defence by barking out the orders.
*only
Good as always. The amount of improvement he's made over the past year is absolutely huge.
Where did this smalldini thing come from?
no idea where I heard it first tbh, but along with Mike, it's sort of stuck
Where did Mike come from? 🙂
Draw time
Nah - expect a Spanish goal or two.
Well done Ireland - good half.
Wales
The welsh Pirlo
Good half for Ireland
😛
VVD struggled against Tom Lawrence in first half of WAL v NED game!! Apparently he's performed well for Saints this season.
Different team, different circumstances
He's saving it for the important matches with his club.
Could be worse...sort of...
Could be a lot worse
Yeah, but Bosnia have been very poor overall too except for a few half chances. If Ireland were quicker and more direct with their passing they have a chance of even getting an away goal here, but unfortunately, I don't see that coming
Can on for Hector, goes to RB, Ginter moves to LB.
Can at RB
Somewhere Brendan Rodgers is grinningThe fullback situation at Germany is really sad. Wouldn't be surprised to see Lahm come out of retirement. 😆
It's not that bad...
Sure they don't have one with the quality Lahm had, but Jonas Hector is a very solid and consistent LB who plays every game for the national team and a good Köln side. There's also Marcel Schmelzer and Eric Durm, plenty of good LB options.
Julian Korb or Matthias Ginter are maybe the best RBs they could pick.
Baby B is alone doing the draw on the FIFSA article.
Wes isn't getting a look in 🙁
Both Ireland and Bosnia look awful
When have Ireland looked anything but awful, but if your Irish, you'll ignore the awfulness if they win
Basically like England then, except we still moan when we win
+1 except that the English _never_ moan about _their_ team when they win, often even after draw their team is praised.
By who? People are permanently depressed about the state of English football. Unless you listen to ITV
Yeah...am...we get...am...pissed
That's why you should watch France - Germany like all decent people.
Excuse me!? 😉
Joe Ledley's beard - that's all
Magnificent inst it.
I would love to grow a beard like that - just don't have the patience. Plus I look like a hobo with a beard - hobo that is,not.....
Truly a sight to behold
I've modeled my own on his 🙂
Giroud scores, Martial assist.
Martial 😎
Buy Giroud, buy martial, buy Kun, buy lukaku, buy Kane, feck
How do you propane doing that? 😉
*propose
Just a couple of weeks ago everyone wanted to play 7 mids and 1 striker, now it is the opposite. 😀
Giroud is a talent
Giroud is a donkey
Martial is a talentGiroud is not a donkey, but here, certainly, Martial is the talent. God darn it how he outplayed that Germany defence. Reminds me of Ribéry and Cassano.
Pogba Schneiderlin Matuidi
Griezmann Benzema Martial
Fékir, Lacazette, Payet, Giroud, Gameiro, Valbuena, Cabaye, Coquelin, Gonalons, Kondogbia -and so on. My word I love the front 6 options France have at the moment. Probably my current favourite. 🙂
Not to mention the endless amount of younger talent they have. Tolisso, Ferri etc....Too bad for them that Fekir got injured. I think he may be the best out of that lot. Seriously. Amazingly talented player.
Particularly, too bad if Fekir and Amavi don't make it to the Euro. Love to see both of them playing.
Hmm, I'd say it would be majorly unlikely Amavi would make the squad regardless of potential injury. And I think Layvin Kurzawa is infinitely better anyway. Benjamin Mendy is also very very good.
Are you French, and/or a weekly Ligue 1 viewer?
Agree
Holy moly, I can't see my nose!
stop telling lies then Pinocchio
🙁 but, but
I really wasn't lying though!
Wanting to watch the Ireland game but too hard through the fog.
Might be doing us all a favour
What the fog...
Martial assist
https://twitter.com/ManUtdFF/status/665270793924931584Some assist - turning into a serious player
Nice!
Poor Giroud. Even when he scores the assister gets all the plaudits.
Assisters deserve them more often than they get them. In this case, for sure.
Neuer protesting after he sees the ball in net is amusing.
Lol can't see the football or make out the players
Guess we'll have to postpone. Would the game be played from this time or what if that's the case?
rematch
Nah - it'd be postponed I think and replayed in full. Then again I'm guessing so I may be totally wrong!!!!
Shite, don't want them to have to go to all the effort again, could see us getting hammered next time, go away fog!
Like I said, I could be wrong - just basing it on what I think would happen
S Davies scores again
Noooo Hendrick 🙁
What happened?
he had two good chances to score, one miss and one straight at keeper
"cazorla's tackled by the referee, but manages to win it back"
quality commentatingSpain have no clue what to do with the ball the final third
