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First half over. The commentators now arguing that João Pedro should come on for Endrick, who seems to be playing based on reputation alone, he's offered nothing. Generally a very scrappy game, Paraguay have controlled Brazil well. Gomez and Enciso both playing well, getting hacked down fairly...

Great goal - Diego Gomez! The Brazilian commentators have spent the whole game so far talking down this Paraguay team. That'll show the biased buggers. Brazil have had lots of the ball but done nothing at all. Enciso playing decently, good counterattacking play mixed in with his usual rolling...

Enciso (and Gomez) both start for Paraguay against Brazil in Asunción. João Pedro again on the bench.

Your haiku construction needs work.

With his attitude, intelligence and skill, he would have certainly made his name somewhere else, maybe still in the Bundesliga. We made our move at the right moment, and he came to us while he was still relatively unknown.

They've gone under the radar, but Villa's academy has been producing some fantastic young players in recent years. Up there with the best of them.

What counts as an academy product? What age do they have to have joined in order to count as one of ours? Hinshelwood has been here since he was a kiddo. White, Sanchez and Ferguson for example since about 16-17. Or someone like Gyokeres who joined at I think 19 but played in our academy to...

Get some good painkillers, use those shoe arches, try to limit your walking and wait it out unfortunately.

Beadle after his first storming season in the PL with us in 2025/26

What, Sam Matterface? Nothing, what Sam Matterface with you? (For best effect use an Italian American accent)

When Ferguson first broke through he was dropping into midfield a lot, and effectively. So much so that people were comparing him to Kane. He can play this role in the PL, and he can score more goals than Welbeck doing it. It's just that he's still young and getting over injuries and illness...

I remember the rumours circling that Man U were interested, then Collyer didn't play at all for a long time, and then the move was confirmed I think in the summer. Perhaps it was the freezing out? But no inside knowledge here.

Estupiñan and Sarmiento both start for Ecuador Vs Brazil. João Pedro on the bench.

São Paulo to London is about 11 hours, so he can get some decent kip theoretically. This may be the issue, I can never sleep properly on planes (but then I'm always in the back with the rest of the livestock). Don't know if the Brazilian football federation would be paying for private flights...

I will say that the jetlag always affects me way more coming back from the Americas than going outbound. A five hour difference from Paraguay to the UK is enough that you feel it for several days. Nothing new though, I suppose as elite sportsmen they must have methods to try to minimise such...

This is the same as last season. BBC are just showing what are effectively the "definite" spots, because there is no guarantee of: - A fifth CL spot thanks to good performance of the English teams - 6th place getting the Europa spot, because it could go to the FA Cup winner - 7th place getting...

Will we do a Leicester? Obviously not. The amount of things that had to fall in place that season to happen will not be repeated for another 50 years or more. Could we get European football? Absolutely, based on what we've seen so far we would be in a group of teams competing for this with...

A lot of Mercadona stores have started to remove stock from shelves during the "flirting hours" because the supermarkets are filling up with Gen Z'ers who just pick up a pineapple and ram their trolleys into each other without buying anything. I get that a lot of the youth are disillusioned...

Perhaps this is particularly harsh on Steele, but it sticks in my memory. I remember when Dunk got done by Lukaku against Roma, Steele was absolutely caught in two minds as to what to do and just sort of dithered in no mans land, making Lukaku's task easy. A lot of similarities to the Havertz...

What is a Post-Shot Expected Goal as opposed to just your bog standard xG? All these obscure x stats go straight over my head.