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Well, what to say. As the classics said-the end is somewhat predictable. Though right till the very end I believed that, just a little bit everybody would turn up alive, the wounded come back, all the Ugartes and de Ligts would appear, and the bald ship would rush forward, ramming into everything that comes into its way. Well, it really feels like we should have parted ways at the peak, after the FA Cup final. Alas, rich and influential people sometimes also do lack determination. Yes, I want...
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Fonseca, August 24: "We have an attitude problem, a desire to defend as a team. When the opponent passes our press, we have difficulty coming back, we are not compact. In training, the team is good, then you go to the matches and all this happens. That is not easy to explain. Fonseca, September 17: "We conceded two goals from set pieces, then we lost the confidence, and when a team loses its confidence, it does not do what it has been doing in training. After the second goal, we stopped playi...
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You may say whatever you like, comrades, but I keep on believing Stuttgart is the best team in the world this season. Only in one aspect. This approach is most fully articulated in one line by the great English poet Alexander Pope: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, taken out in the title of one whimsical and slightly overpraised film with Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Actually, I don't find any other merits in Stuttgart's play, if not this shine of the mind. In case...
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Well, what to say. As the classics said-the end is somewhat predictable. Though right till the very end I believed that, just a little bit everybody would turn up alive, the wounded come back, all the Ugartes and de Ligts would appear, and the bald ship would rush forward, ramming into everything that comes into its way. Well, it really feels like we should have parted ways at the peak, after the FA Cup final. Alas, rich and influential people sometimes also do lack determination. Yes, I want...
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Fonseca, August 24: "We have an attitude problem, a desire to defend as a team. When the opponent passes our press, we have difficulty coming back, we are not compact. In training, the team is good, then you go to the matches and all this happens. That is not easy to explain. Fonseca, September 17: "We conceded two goals from set pieces, then we lost the confidence, and when a team loses its confidence, it does not do what it has been doing in training. After the second goal, we stopped playi...
lauraevansStuttgart
You may say whatever you like, comrades, but I keep on believing Stuttgart is the best team in the world this season. Only in one aspect. This approach is most fully articulated in one line by the great English poet Alexander Pope: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, taken out in the title of one whimsical and slightly overpraised film with Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Actually, I don't find any other merits in Stuttgart's play, if not this shine of the mind. In case...
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Salah has scored 10 goals + 10 assists this season. The bar that shows attacking balance. And Salah managed to break it already in November. This is his ninth season in which he has broken 10 + 10.
I got carried away and counted the best players in the world by the number of such club seasons. This shows stability, attacking balance, and how many seasons the player has spent at the highest level.
Messi – 17 seasons with 10 goals + 10 assists (13 seasons: with 15 goals + 15 assists)
Suarez – 14 (9)
Neymar – 12 (7)
Ronaldo – 12 (6)
Muller – 11 (7)
Benzema – 9 (5)
Salah – 9 (4)
Ibrahimovic – 9 (3)
Mertens – 9 (2)
Mbappe – 8 (4)
De Bruyne – 8 (4)
Henry – 8 (2)
Lampard – 7 (3)
Rooney – 7 (2)
Del Piero – 7 (2)
Lewandowski – 7 (0)
• I didn’t include Hulk – 12 (6) and Tadic – 8 (6). After all, most or even almost all of their phenomenal seasons were spent at a different, lower level of the championships. But Hulk can already be called the attacking king outside the top leagues.
• Messi is even better than it seems. He has as many as 9 seasons where he scored 20 + 20. As many as 5 seasons with 25 + 25. And he is the only player in history who scored 30 + 30 – and did it twice!
• Only three players, not counting Messi, scored more than one season with 20 + 20. Suarez did it 5 times, Neymar 3 times and Lampard (a midfielder!) twice.
• Thomas Müller is the most balanced attacking player in the world. He has a close number of goals and assists in almost every season.
• Mbappe is the only player other than Messi to have achieved 25+25 in one season
Salah has scored 10 goals + 10 assists this season. The bar that shows attacking balance. And Salah managed to break it already in November. This is his ninth season in which he has broken 10 + 10.
I got carried away and counted the best players in the world by the number of such club seasons. This shows stability, attacking balance, and how many seasons the player has spent at the highest level.
Messi – 17 seasons with 10 goals + 10 assists (13 seasons: with 15 goals + 15 assists)
Suarez – 14 (9)
Neymar – 12 (7)
Ronaldo – 12 (6)
Muller – 11 (7)
Benzema – 9 (5)
Salah – 9 (4)
Ibrahimovic – 9 (3)
Mertens – 9 (2)
Mbappe – 8 (4)
De Bruyne – 8 (4)
Henry – 8 (2)
Lampard – 7 (3)
Rooney – 7 (2)
Del Piero – 7 (2)
Lewandowski – 7 (0)
• I didn’t include Hulk – 12 (6) and Tadic – 8 (6). After all, most or even almost all of their phenomenal seasons were spent at a different, lower level of the championships. But Hulk can already be called the attacking king outside the top leagues.
• Messi is even better than it seems. He has as many as 9 seasons where he scored 20 + 20. As many as 5 seasons with 25 + 25. And he is the only player in history who scored 30 + 30 – and did it twice!
• Only three players, not counting Messi, scored more than one season with 20 + 20. Suarez did it 5 times, Neymar 3 times and Lampard (a midfielder!) twice.
• Thomas Müller is the most balanced attacking player in the world. He has a close number of goals and assists in almost every season.
• Mbappe is the only player other than Messi to have achieved 25+25 in one season
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