So you're telling me that Rodri has won a Ballon d'Or, a treble after scoring the winner in the Champions League final, 4 Premier Leagues in a row, a Euros where he was Player of the Tournament, holds the record for the longest unbeaten run in club football history and now captains his country in the World Cup final.
Ridiculous footballer. He's an all-timer.
Marc Cucurella has said that he will 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 from Spain's national team if they win the World Cup 👋🏆
🗣️"If Spain win the World Cup, I'll call Luis de la Fuente the next day and retire from the national team. With the Euro and World Cup trophies, you can't ask for more”
Cucurella could be set to complete international football ⌛️
🇫🇷 Check out French football pundit Julien Laurens' criticism of Thomas Tuchel after England's World Cup exit and you can't disagree with a single word he says:
🗣️ "For me, everything he did during that game was an embarrassment.
But this is Thomas Tuchel for you. It's never his fault. It's never on me. It's never me. I will never say I could've done better but it's them. It's the players. Well, the players invited the pressure, the players could not stop the momentum. The players this, and the players that and the players were tired.
We were all lied to. Because he said 'We're going to play with intensity, we're going to do this, now that I'm in charge of England, it's going to be great. We're going to see movement.'
And I've seen NOTHING in this World Cup. Nothing at all. For me, I would not even keep him. What I saw in the last 30 minutes of the game was SCANDALOUS.
The worst bit was the hydration break. He had 3/4 minutes to change the momentum of the game as a coach and he didn't. He said he didn't tell his players to drop that deep. Well, change it then. Change it in the hydration break. That's the most damning thing."
At just 22-years-old, Jhon Durán has already played for these clubs:
- Envigado
- Chicago Fire
- Aston Villa
- Al-Nassr
- Fenerbahçe
- Zenit Saint Petersburg
And is reportedly set to join Benfica on loan 🤯
🇳🇴 Patrick Berg came on for the final 20 minutes for Bodø/Glimt yesterday in their Eliteserien match - just 6 days after playing the full 120 minutes for Norway against England in their World Cup quarter-final.
With his team 1-0 up, he came on, assumed the captain's armband and sured up the midfield to see out the 3 points.
👏 Exceptional commitment.
🚨 Jurgen Klopp on Sørloth’s wasted chance:
“This is exactly why it’s not always advisable to play with two strikers. Yes, it can work, and when it works it looks brilliant — but there are moments like this that show the risk.
Strikers, by nature, think about goals first. It’s instinct. When you have two of them, there is always that small competition in their minds — ‘I want to score, I want to be the one.’ It’s completely normal, I understand it, I was around strikers my whole life.
But in that situation, 2 against 1, it has to be a goal. This is something every team in the world trains every single day. If that’s a winger in that position, the first thought is usually the pass. That’s the difference.
And look, I also understand the other side — when you have someone like Haaland in your team, of course you want to work for him, you want to score yourself, you want to be part of it. That’s football, that’s emotion.
But chances like this, in a knockout game, you don’t joke with them. You simply cannot.
Imagine Norway go 2–0 up in that moment — the whole game changes. The confidence, the belief, the energy… it explodes. And suddenly England are in real trouble, maybe even questioning everything they planned.
These are the moments that decide big matches. Not tactics on the board — decisions in seconds on the pitch.”
"So far, this is the best tournament performance by an English player in a very long time. Whenever this team has needed a moment, Jude Bellingham has delivered.
"That was his best goal of the tournament. It was a piece of outrageous class at a time when Norway were really starting to build momentum." - @SebSB
Norway vs England live blog: bit.ly/4ynZtfR
🚨 England are World Cup semi-finalists once again!
The Three Lions have now reached at least the quarter-finals in five consecutive major tournaments 🦁 ⚽
🚨🇫🇷 Daniel Riolo:
🗣️ “If Mbappé wins the World Cup, he will become the greatest French player in history.
We used to have a table of three with Platini, Zidane and Griezmann... now there's a fourth chair for Kylian.
Mbappé has become a true leader.” 😍🇫🇷
Mikel Merino has scored three goals at a major international tournament:
119' winner vs Germany (Euros quarter-final)
90+1' winner vs Portugal (World Cup RO16)
88' winner vs Belgium (World Cup quarter-final)
The definition of clutch.
𝐉𝐔𝐃𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐇𝐀𝐌 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐈-𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 ⚽⚽
𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗣 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 👀⏳
Norway reach the quarter-finals at their first World Cup since 1998, but after extra time, England prove too strong 💔