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Apr 5 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
📍Lisbon, Portugal

I have arrived at one of tonight’s #UCL venues for @CBSSportsGolazo

Here are some of my thoughts ahead of the game! #BENLIV 👇
Have you ever wondered how I get to my spot pitch side? Well…now you know!😊

Featuring @VigilOscar doing his thing for @CBSSportsGolazo 🎥

#UCL #BENLIV
And now here I am pitch side getting ready for @CBSSportsGolazo 🎬

🎥 @VigilOscar

#UCL #BENLIV
The stadium is filling up behind me ahead of #BENLIV 🏟

🎥 @VigilOscar

@CBSSportsGolazo #UCL
A little chat with @Thiago6 to get his thoughts on the game for @CBSSportsGolazo

#UCL #BENLIV

🎥 @VigilOscar
Signing off with @CBSSportsGolazo and the crew! See you again tomorrow night for more #UCL action!

🎥 @VigilOscar

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Apr 6
Few thoughts about yesterday #ChampionsLeague games

⚽ #LFC were clearly superior for most of the game and only an emotional push after Darwin goal (2-1 to Lpool just after HT) gave fans the impression a draw was possible
⚽ 5 subs have got two clear consequences: big clubs will win more, they have more depth, and role of the manager diminishes. First 3 #LFC (Jota, Firmino, Henderson) were easy choices. There is less inclination to work with what you have on pitch and more to bring good players on
⚽ As Pep said, there is nothing harder than trying to open up a 5-5 defence. No spaces. City were also aware that a mistake in the build up would mean a counter, so they were a touch conservative with possession. Both coaches felt job done
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Apr 5
You might have heard many times that a manager is a bit of a solitary profession. With huge games coming up, this is what they have to do

- feel the opposite than everyone else (if they are tense, they ought to look calm, and so on)

(LITTLE THREAD)
- turn feelings around. Those three in the photo have been trying to convince players that they have to enjoy pressure, when the opposite is the natural way

- they have to trust the process, even when the demand around them is of big changes, specially after defeats
- victories and defeats, taken in isolation, are great impostors. Their analysis have to always look at the bigger picture

- the game is played constantly in their heads hours after it has been played. They need partners that understand they are not always there even they are
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Sep 26, 2021
Bori Fati, Ansu Fati, has got an extraordinary story. He only met his son when the youngster was six.

Bori, former player of quality, moved to Spain and Portugal to earn enough to send money to their family -his wife asked him to take that step (thread)
It was really hard but managed to get few jobs, including driving a mayor around who looked after him (and many other emigrants). His name, Sanchez Gordillo.

Bori settled enough to bring the family over. When they landed from Guinea-Bissau, he could only say hi and go to work!
Soon after, one night Bori arrived late home and there were plenty of people waiting for him. “Are you aware how good your son is playing football!!”. He didn’t know
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Aug 6, 2021
The press conference of Joan Laporta starts. Lots of questions that need answering, but first he will try to put some context to the departure of Leo Messi
“I am here to explain the situation about Messi… I need to say first, sadly we have such a bad financial past that means the wages are 110pc of the income. That means we have no flexibility… Situation is worse that we were told and what we had calculated based on official data”
“The debt is bigger than expected. That is linked to FFP of course. The new contract with Messi could not be approved… On that, we don’t agree with the deal LaLiga has reached because it mortgages us for half a century.

The club is above players, coaches, directors”
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Jul 26, 2021
This is what @Spurs_ES get with @11BryanGil (little thread)

One of the most promising/talented youngsters in the hardest thing in football: 1v1s. He has learnt to choose when to do it, but Nuno will encourage him to do it often. Not only he is good driving with the ball...
he can beat you in small spaces and when stopped. His pace and quick mind helps. Brave he is, but his game doesn't stop there

He has learnt to make calculated runs into the box when the ball comes from the other side and at Eibar he has added goals to his game
But there is more. Coach Mendilibar demanded that he runs even faster and commits even more when he doesn't have the ball. Which he did. In fact, he loves doing it as stealing the ball (one the forwards that do that more often) has created many chances for his team
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Jun 18, 2021
Some think that Rafa Benitez belongs to another time. Really? Let’s see the evidence. A biased but researched thread:

At Chelsea, he left them third and Europa League winners (one of the 13 titles won in his career!!!)
At Napoli he won 2 titles to a Juve that used to win everything. Plus a semis of the Europa League. He signed Albiol, Reina, Koulibaly, Jorginho, Higuaín, Callejón... last season the club called him four time to take over the side again
At Real Madrid, he left the team top of the Champions League and clearly with options in the league. Six months is no time to evaluate anything like others would tell you (Lopetegui, for instance)
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