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Sportsweb:
A40 take over. Rodri bitch slap Busquet again. A second Balon dor' may be coming

drisham:
You don dey shift goalpost o😂

Na useless goal for this tourney we dey argue

Why you dey tackle your metric 😂

andrewbaba44:
Oya show me mbappe euros

I said he has nothing over yamal and you can’t prove me wrong 😁

A40:
Abi God Wan punish Busquets? Show me him Golden Ball

Unlimited22:
I like as una just leave Andrew make he dey fight with him keyboard 😂

drisham:
I don ask you to show me yamal world cup final goal at 19 you keep mute since
Celebrate your players world cup eje

Tackle Pedri and Bellingham talks with WC


Keep mbappe out your banter

E no get where you fit hook am 😂

drisham:
I don ask you to show me yamal world cup final goal at 19 you keep mute since
Celebrate your players world cup eje

Tackle Pedri and Bellingham talks with WC


Keep mbappe out your banter

E no get where you fit hook am 😂

A40:
Your argument will be valid if Rodri is not doing the same thing for Man City. Everywhere he is the common denominator. The only player replicating it in both Man City and Spain. It's not a coincidence

Nobody works alone but there are stars and there are passengers

Potvalor:
Isn't this the same way Rodri won Euro2024 Golden Ball? How many MOTMs Rodri get for Euro then?

Ibime:
Rodri does not work alone. He is just a system player. Stop this mythology

Euro 2024, he came off at HALFTIME and Spain controlled possession even more and won the game that he left at 0-0

It is normal for Argentina to chase the game after going a goal down and when Spain have taken off their ball keepers (Ruiz, Olmo, Baena, Oyarzabal) for goal getters in Merino, Torres and that Ghana boy. There was no loss of control, there was switch of focus from recyclers to box crashers and a small predictable reaction from Argentina which was focused on set pieces. One foolish thing Tuchel did was interpret Argentina few minutes reaction after England goal as Argentina taking control of the midfield and thus giving up on the idea of midfield in favour of defence off wrong interpretation. If Tuchel had played football before at a decent level, he will know it's a normal reaction after going down for Argentina to try harder and for England to drop slightly. This is a phase that only lasts a short time before things settle down.

Rodri did the normal Spanish DM, nothing extraordinarily greater than any other Spanish DM, Spain changed focus to attacking players rather than recyclers and Argentina reacted with few set pieces, no dey draw wrong conclusion.

Theuniverse:
busquets played with iniesta and xavi in midfield, david villa in attack and better quality players all round than what rodri is playing with today.
Imagine if na that spanish team jam argentina today, argentina will not survive to extra time, come add red card, na slaughter iniesta and co for give dem. Na 5.0 dem for see.

akwesenana:
Mbappe has scored more world cup goals than Akpan FIFA despite playing 3 less tournaments and taking 7 less penalty kicks.

andrewbaba44:
Na step by step

From mbappe then we to deal with Ronaldo too ,as time goes on we bring pedri and dani olmo and ask lampard gerard and Paul scholes to comeout

We bring ferran torres and ask drogba rooney and co to comeout

E go reach everybody,make una no rush me from tomorrow

andrewbaba44:
You won’t tell me who to banter or not ,when bellingham time come I go do am

Yamal won the euros and mbappe didn’t and there is nothing you can do 😂

Show me mbappe euros
Show me mbappe Laliga best player award
Show me mbappe domestic treble
Show me mbappe Laliga trophy

akwesenana:
Euros don dey big pass WC.
We're getting there slowly.

Ibime:
Has Man City been struggling with possession footie before Rodri?

If possession is his selling point, then it should pique you to know that both Man City and Spain possession has gone down since his arrival

Let's even use Barcelona as the template since he is building on Barcelona base of teammates

Barcelona average 70+ percent

Add Rodri in Spain and it drops to 55-65%

Spain Vs France possession stats was 50%-50%. Even today it was only 65-35 against farmers.

Spain Vs Portugal was 56-44%

What you are doing is building on the mythology of Spain being possession Kings and crowning Rodri as the face of it when all evidence shows he brings down the possession stats of his Barcelona teammates who come to him with 70% already in the bag from their club team, and the Spain team he inherited from Busquet which was also at that 70% range

Rodri is just fortunate to meet the Yamal/Williams/Merino set of difference makers rather than the blunt Moratas that Busquet was dealing with

I tender Spain Vs Italy (65-35)% possession in Euro 2020 under Busquet against Spain Vs Italy (56-44)% possession under Rodri as evidence

There is no way you sell me Rodri as the fulcrum of possession when possession is going down noticeably under him.

Rodri is no possession King, just a system player

Leyqute:
I like how you no mention Iniesta and his prolific goalscoring record.

A40:
Abi God Wan punish Busquets? Show me him Golden Ball

drisham:
So since none of the contenders won the WC

I guess it goes to rodri

And yamal will be in conversations too

andrewbaba44:
So because I say make dem show me mbappe euros e mean say e big pass wc ,God abeg 😂

You just be like your idolo ogunmepon

akwesenana:
All this tears no go explain why Yamal get 0 WC goals against top 60 football teams.

popizaino:
No matter the amount of finals MVP/NBA ring LBJ wins in his career,he will never be greater than Micheal Jordan.

That's just the rule.

And that applies to Rodri. Give him another balon d'or he will still be trailing Busquet in an all time list.

I don't need award to know this things. I watched them played.

https://www.si.com/soccer/the-best-defensive-midfielders-soccer-history-ranked

andrewbaba44:
Make ibime and a40 no spoil this thread for me tomorrow

2 elders go begin misbehave for Rodri matter

Rubbish

andrewbaba44:
Iniesta completed football ,Wetin you wan use against am 😂

If you put body you go run

Leyqute:
His fantastic goalscoring record se. Eye dey pain you ni?

How will Sergio Ramos, Roberto Carlos, and John Terry, all defenders, have more career goals than Iniesta, an attacking midfielder?

Make it make sense abeg.