Uruguay's Last Dance, Neymar's 'Favourites' & The Group of Wonder-kids: The Big World Cup Preview Pt. 1
The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast
Ghana, Ghana, Nigeria, Ghana
I think the gaming at Nigeria, the qualifier, the playoff I should say was a great case study. It's a really big dive as well, speaking to Karl Anker about this and you look at some of the numbers from those games. They were outperforming in terms of shots but actually massively,. they had 16 shots, Nigeria had 21 but the XG was 0.72 for Ghana against 2.48 for Nigeria. You have to also think objectively if your first choice goalkeeper is playing in League 1 and is unavailable who will be filling the gloves so to speak? Group E was our next best, strongly fancied this by Liam and Mark, this one's Germany Spain, Japan,
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