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2 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Jobbie Williams putting in his russian citizenship application there....

So the best they can do is a has-been 90s pop star from Stoke on Trent.

I wonder who turned them down before they approached Robbie.  Can't have been first choice!

Bizarre.

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2 minutes ago, McLovin said:

All rounder. Can play every role in midfield but is best as a link man between the midfield and front 3. Shame the rest of the Russian team is rubbish. Smolov is ok and so is dzagoev but is past it but the rest are meh.

Itv setting him out as the left of the 3 behind Smolov

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3 minutes ago, McLovin said:

I did wonder that. Brazil opened up against Scotland in 98 too if I remember correctly. 

Just guessing... they may have changed it when they changed so that the last World Cup winners had to go through qualifying, instead of qualifying automatically.  That was a stupid change IMO.

That change came in for 2006 WC.

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1 minute ago, Carnero said:

Itv setting him out as the left of the 3 behind Smolov

 

1 minute ago, Carnero said:

Itv setting him out as the left of the 3 behind Smolov

He plays as a midfielder for his club side. Russia probably have no choice but to play him higher up the pitch because the rest of the team are rubbish.

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Just now, McLovin said:

Might be best for us all for Russia to win. Don’t want Big Vlad to get angry and press the button

All joking aside, any World Cup is better when the hosts do reasonably well so hopefully Russia will at least get out of this group.

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Saudi's defense's passing is woeful, but their persistence in attempting to play out from the back is endearing. 

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3 minutes ago, Andicis said:

Saudi's defending has looked really awful so far.

They're actually pretty good in the realms of in-the-box tackling and shot blocking, but they're shocking at playing with the ball. 

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4 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

They're actually pretty good in the realms of in-the-box tackling and shot blocking, but they're shocking at playing with the ball. 

They seemed to be getting cut open by Russia, and their marking from crossing seemed really shocking! 

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