Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️

graceonfootball.com

19 July 2026 19:56

otamendi is so old that he's only eight months younger than messi

Martin Rafelt

martinrafelt.bsky.social

19 July 2026 16:54

POSITIONAL PLAY AS A GROUP STRATEGY The secret of Spain's dominance is not only structure and technical quality, but an amazing collective movement that allows them to apply their prefered solutions extremely often. They want to find the free player and he's ALWAYS there.

Lewis

lgambrose.bsky.social

19 July 2026 16:29

It's hard to know where to begin. With all the other all-time greats, either they're done with international football 5-10 years younger than he is now, or it's done with them. Yet here he is, still the most impactful, most dangerous player at the entire tournament.

Martin Rafelt

martinrafelt.bsky.social

19 July 2026 16:18

What's ugly for the opponents is that it is more difficult to read their cues than with usual teams and they do more extreme things (= you need to react more extremely) than normal teams. They catch you off-guard. That's why I feel that in different ways, Argentina and Spain...

Martin Rafelt

martinrafelt.bsky.social

19 July 2026 16:17

They underload depth like crazy and just circulate, then they attack depth with multiple players and play super direct. And then there's Messi floating as a type of counterweight who knows perfectly when to join, when to oppose the flow of the team.