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The Chile game plan seems to be get the ball on the right and cross/cut back to Brereton.

There was a point there when he tracked back to dispossess Di Maria only for the ball to break to Messi. They were the three players in frame. I've not seen something like that without the make a wish Foundation being involved.

Christ he actually looks, you know... good

We need to workshop nicknames - I suggest the Chilean seabass

Playing centrally as a main striker, in response Argentina throw on Sergio Aguero presumably feeling a little out gunned

It's 1:1, Argentina have brought on Angel Di Maria in a very competitive game and I kid you not Ben Brereton looks to be coming on for Chile Edit: we have ourselves a bone fide south American international footballer on the books

Assistant manager at the worst club in the A-League is way too good for him. They've got four players I've sort of heard of (and Rudy Gestede, who doesn't deserve Kean).

I got £38m from Newcastle for Brereton in fm20. They immediately got relegated on about 16 points. So yeah, pretty realistic game all told.

We have the players but somehow we are so much worse than the sum of our parts

Awful.

That was Armstrongs chance

Ben gets shoulder barged ref having none of it, ten seconds later one of their players gets shoulder barged and free kick given. Whether or not it's in the box shouldn't be relevant, a foul is a foul

When Harvey Elliott becomes an England international experience of playing in this sort of team should stand him in good stead

Elliott threatening straight away

Twice in 30 seconds the midfielders in defence run forwards too far to try to make a challenge and then get caught out of position - first Johnson and then Buckley...

For the goal they worked the ball right through our team until it was about six of their players running at our back four, completely bypassed the midfield. When I saw their player shaping to shoot I was relieved, I thought it was a mistake as he was miles out and they had the overload. I thought we had got away with one. Don't really think our centre backs could have done anything else. Shocking keeping.

that was... not good goalkeeping

Buckley looks good on the ball going forwards, but he isn't a fullback. Trybull looks tidy as a defensive player but doesn't offer that much else. Bell is awful but I can kind of see why we play him - he is stretching their defence simply by being there and being fast. Dack is neat but not up to speed yet. Dolan and Brereton running at their defenders look the biggest threat.

Bell is playing very far up the pitch so far, with Downing tucking in behind him to cover when he gets forward- it's an interesting set up.

I'm logged into the player and have the stream 'playing', at the moment it's just a title card with the game info and kick off time. I assume coverage will start nearer to kick off.

https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/comments/jh5dyh/phil_jones_paris_saintgermain/

In the autumn of last year a lot of us (me included) were slating Armstrong, Brereton and Gallagher. Then Armstrong started scoring and the problem became Brereton and Gally. Then Brereton started this season in good form but Gally was a waste of space... Got to hold my had up and say it's looking increasingly like I was very wrong, and I'm pretty happy about it!

Secondary school C team when they had an injury crisis. Centre half. The first XI took me along to an inter-schools tournament - I came third in the chess tournament that was happening on the same day, I think I was some kind of mascot.

Thanks, that was bugging me. Must have imagined Portuguese because we bought Benni from Porto.

Didn't we have a strike partnership that spoke portuguese to each other on the pitch (I want to say Benni McCarthy was one of them) on the grounds that the opposition wouldn't understand what they were saying to each other? Would having a German double pivot in Trybull and Holtby have the same effect?