32 games played. 32 games to go.
Officially halfway through the 2022 World Cup
Qatar have become the 1st host nation to lose all of their Group Stage matches at the #FIFAWorldCup
Kalidou Koulibaly Ecuador:
100% Ground Duels Won (7/7)
10 Clearances
10 Duels Won
5 Ball Recoveries
4 Tackles
2 Interceptions
2 Shots
1 Goal
Sending his country into the knockout rounds.
In 2016, when Messi had announced his retirement from playing for Argentina, the 15 yr old Fernández penned an emotional letter to his hero, pleading with him to reconsider his decision.
When the 21-year old Enzo Fernandez scored a gorgeous second goal to ensure Argentina won the game against Mexico, Leonel Messi would say, “I’m not surprised by Enzo, I know him and I see him train every day. He deserves it, because he’s a spectacular player”.
In 2016, after the Copa America tournament, when Messi had announced his retirement from playing for Argentina -a decision he would retract after two months, the teenaged Fernández penned an emotional letter to his hero, pleading with him to reconsider his decision.
Enzo The letter went thus:
“How are we going to convince you? If we are disastrous. How are we going to convince you? We never had 1% of the pressure that you have on your shoulders. You wake up in the morning, you look in the mirror and you know that a crowd of over 40 million people wants you to do the perfect thing and it has been ridiculously imposed that they can demand it.”
How are we going to convince you? If we fail to understand that you are a human being, a person with incomparable talent, the best player on the planet, but a person after all.”
How are we going to convince you? If we don’t stop for a moment to realize that you are not responsible for the anger that losing causes us, which often has more to do with our own frustrations that are reflected there. Let’s look in the mirror and ask ourselves if we demand from ourselves 1% of what we demand from this guy we don’t even know.”
Do what you want, Lionel, but please think about staying. Stay and have fun… in a world of ridiculous pressures, they manage to get the most noble thing out of the game, the fun.”
Seeing you play with the light blue and white is the greatest pride in the world. Play for fun, because when you’re having fun, you have no idea how much fun we have. Thank you and forgive us.”
That was round 2
Cody Gakpo for Club & Country this season:
32 appearances
18 goals
18 assists
36 goal contributions
3 goals in 3 World Cup games
Unreal.
Frenkie de jong Qatar:
86 minutes played
1 goal
1 chances created
102 touches
85/92 accurate passes (92%)
6 passes into final third
5 recoveries
3/4 ground duel won
8.3 match ratings
2 goal contributions in 3 games.
Ferran Torres - 2 goals
Pablo Gavi - 1 goal & 1 assist
Robert Lewanowski - 1 goal & 1 assist
Jordi Alba - 2 assists
Andreas Christensen - 1 goal
Frenkie De Jong - 1 goal & 1 assist
Ousmane Dembele - 1 assist
Memphis Depay - 1 assist
It’s FC Barcelona’s World Cup.
Highest rated players at the World Cup so far by FotMob:
Bruno Fernandez - 8.99
Kylian Mbappe - 8.89
Mehdi Taremi - 8.57
Antonie Griezmann - 8.48
Ramin Rezaeian - 8.44
Jordi Alba - 8.43
Theo Hernandez - 8.33
Leo Messi - 8.20
Alex Sandro - 8.17
Enner Valencia - 8.14
Iran eliminated the United States in the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
24 years later, the U.S. returned the favor.
Marcus Rashford and Phil Foden score in their first starts for England this World Cup ✅
Goals made in Manchester