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If The Netherlands don't manage to comeback against France tonight, then that would leave us in control of getting at least pot 2 no matter what. We'd have to win against both Georgia and Norway. I haven't double checked this, but scanning through the groups I'm pretty certain this is true

Feel like having Frankfurt last at home when they have have an unassailable lead in the group would be our best chance at getting something out of that game. I realise it remains unlikely, but if they're playing a second string we should certainly have a chance.

The pots for reference Feels like some kind draws there, and some absolute stinkers

It's 4

I think we probably have just as much chance as progressing from the Europa as the Conference just with the 3 places compared to 2. Wanting to be in the lower tier competition for slight (hypothetical) increases in money is pathetic.

Looks like his contract runs out in December this year, so makes sense why we might be able to afford him despite his value rocketing in the last season. stats look very similar to Pollock. Although looks like he likes to dribble a bit more, and is more likely to slide tackle. Looking at some actual footage, he's decent at duels, but in 1v1 situations he was getting beaten time and time again. in the sample of about 10 that I watched.

Haaland went from Molde to Salzburg for 8m euros. I'm not too sure how were going to manage to get the value of one of our players up to £20M

5 set slog between Tsitsipas and Thiem is good... but who are we supporting? Who does Murray have a better chance against?

A formation is a broad way of speaking about tactics, and whilst there is obviously a difference between having an extra defender, you can still play the same "formation" in games against Spain and Cyprus, but the instruction and roles of each player within that is going to be different. How does a team set up when attacking and defending can be different under the same formation? Even within that, if your team has the ball, the organisation of the team will be different when you're building from the back compared with when you're creating chances. The players also adjust and adapt as things happen within a match, and sticking to a formation just makes you predictable. It doesn't happen often, but I've seen Robertson close to the far right corner flag (and not just for set pieces). I would say where formations can be valuable is identifying areas where overloads might occur - like a 3v2 or 4v3 in centre of the park, but even then I think this can be looked at simplistically, with people assuming that a 5 at the back or a 1 up front is defensive. It's more complex than that.

I think it's a red card. It's harsh, and I'd like to see another angle to confirm the severity of the hit. But if you're going to enforce this in any way consistently, I think it has to be a red.

Assuming that's for the league (and League Cup) Scottish Cup will be different

Aberdeen 2.08 - 1.41 Hibs. Unfortunately I don't have the values for each shot, but some additional contextual information average shot distance Aberdeen 13m Hibs 20.5m and average xG per shot to save everyone the hassle was Aberdeen 0.3 Hibs 0.09

Is it not a bit overblown that rangers are in poor form. Yes they've been humped in the Champions league. But domestically the only team to beat them is Celtic. And we are much closer to the rest of the league in ability than we are to Celtic. A draw would be a fantastic result for us. But this level of caution is not fun at all. I often squint my eyes in suspicion whenever someone on here says they had a dream about a game, but I had one last night where we were 5-2 up by half time. Miovski, Duk, and Robin Williams were in amongst the goals. Now, I'll be disappointed if that doesn't happen.

40 goals so far this season. that equals (according to Wikipedia) our total for the infamous 09/10 season where our top goal scorer had 5 goals. Not too far from our last few seasons either (56 & 49). Helped a little by participating in those disgusting league cup group stages, but even if you still have doubts about just how good the team are, you have to admit we're certainly entertaining.

Really not sure why you think the defence is the main problem when the issue in qualifying for the Euros and the World cup has been not scoring against teams we are better then. Finland, Portugal and now Ireland were all beatable teams and we never scored against any of them over 5 games. Teams are finding it easy to defend against us, Ukraine was a slog at home relying on a last minute equaliser and we barely squeaked past Hungary. In the game I watched last night, Ireland didn't exploit our defence, they exploited our midfield, constantly winning the ball off all of our players who were taking too many touches (especially Erin Cuthbert), giving Ireland dangerous counter attacking opportunities that the defence had to clean up. The defence aren't without their faults, It was after all Sophie Howards error that led to the goal who didn't play as well as she did on Thursday but after seeing a sequence of easy to defend crosses and persistently conceding possession in midfield, I think it's a poor take to highlight the defence when it is clearly the collective that are not functioning as well as they could. I'd say it's the worst take on this forum, but I've seen someone in here suggest that women should play 7-a-side or futsal because they can't play on a full size pitch with 11-a-side goals which is a bit of a head scratcher to put is a politely as I can.