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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions
by
Rikafip
on 16/08/2019, 15:19:34 UTC
Modric was a key player for Real winning the CL & Croatia reaching the world cup final. I don’t think you can question his 2018. I don’t get the Pogba hype, I really don’t.

What Modric did on WC? I watched all matches and he did get 2 half times on 7 matches, on CL he did I think 1 goal in 13 matches.
That Prizes was a shame.

That Ballon d'Or was stolen from Ronaldo




Just a perfect example of very shallow look at something so complex as football and tactics.

Regarding him on the WC,  in those 7 games he played  694 minutes (that makes it on average  99 minutes per game, Croatia went 3 times in ET).I don't know what you watched, but certainly you didn't watch Croatia, or simply you didn't pay much attention to Modric. But he was key player.

It is more than just goals , or even assists.In every successful team you need players that will set the pace and control the middle without loosing ball and making mistakes.And Modric is that kind of player.He is not flashy, he doesn't make fancy dribbles, he doesn't score many goals or even make a lot of assists, but his impact is more than sum of his stats, his game is  simple and effective.For me he is successor of other 2  brilliant and often overlooked players, Andrea Pirlo and Paul Scholes.