[World Cup 2018] Your Team of the Tournament

Some formations in case you want to use them:

4-3-3
GK:

RB:
CB:
CB:
LB:

DM:
CM:
CM:

RW:
LW:
CF:

4-2-3-1
GK:

RB:
CB:
CB:
LB:

CM:
CM:

RW:
AM:
LW:

CF:

'The England'
GK:

CB:
CB:
CB:

RWB:
LWB:

DM:
CM:
CM:

CF:
CF:

GK: Pickford

RB: Meunier
CB: Varane
CB: Godin
LB: Hernandez

DM: Kante
CM: Modric
CM: Coutinho

RW: Hazard
LW: Perisic
CF: Mbappe

Modric vs Rakitic is a toss-up though.

4-3-3
GK: Pickford

RB: Pavard
CB: Varane
CB: Vida
LB: Hernandez with an honourable mention for Nagatomo

DM: Brozovic
CM: Modric
CM: De Bruyne

RW: Mbappé
LW: Hazard
CF: Cavani, with the heaviest of hearts

Courtois

Hernandez
Varane
Nilsson-Lindelöf
Trippier

Kante
Modric

Hazard
De Bruyne
Perisic

Mbpappe

GK: Pickford

RB: Pavard
CB: Godin
CB: Varane
LB: Hernandez

CM: Pogba
CM: Kante
CM: Modric

RW: Mbappe
LW: Perisic
CF: Kane (lol)

GK: Pickford

RB: Pavard
CB: Vida
CB: Maguire
LB: Trippier

DM: Kante
CM: Rebic
CM: Modric

RW: Inui
LW: Hazard
CF: Mbappe

Rebic as CM, Trippier LB, are you high?

Got to fit them in somehow.

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Originally Posted by Shindig

Got to fit them in somehow.

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Ah the old FM technique

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Originally Posted by Dark Soldier

Rebic as CM, Trippier LB, are you high?

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Fuck it, if Garth Crooks can then so can I.

What about a worst team of the tournament

That would just be the Germany XI, with whoever was in goal for Panama.

Managed by the Argentina bloke.

Pavard has been France’s weakest link (maybe minus Giroud), he’d never been in a world cup XI for me. Vrsaljko/Trippier for me

Ochoa

Trippier
Godin
Varane

Hazard
Kante
Modric
Mbappe

Griezmann
Ronaldo

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Originally Posted by mugbull

Pavard has been France’s weakest link (maybe minus Giroud), he’d never been in a world cup XI for me. Vrsaljko/Trippier for me

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Mugball is maybe the biggest retard on this entire forum, in that his only purpose is to take the contrarian option in every debate and argue it to the death.

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Originally Posted by Spikey M

Mugball is maybe the biggest retard on this entire forum, in that his only purpose is to take the contrarian option in every debate and argue it to the death.

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Mate, he loves tennis though.

I thought that Pavard looked like a total bombscare but in the end he did alright.

GK: Pickford

RB: Trippier
CB: Miranda
CB: Maguire
LB: Hernandez

RM: Mbappe
CM: Kante
CM: Coutinho
LM: Perisic

CF: Ronaldo
CF: Cavani

Courtois

Trippier
Varane
Maguire
Hernandez

Modric
Kante

Perisic
Hazard
Mbappe

Lukaku

4-3-3
GK: Courtois

RB: Trippier (Meunier was vital for Belgium but not as good as Trippier)
CB: Stones
CB: Varane
LB: Hernandez

DM: Kante
CM: Rakitic
CM: Modric

RW: Mbappe
LW: Hazard
CF: Griezman

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Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry

Mate, he loves tennis though.

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So do you. Never abandon your roots.

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Originally Posted by mugbull

So do you. Never abandon your roots.

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I have a minor interest in it.

Only because Andy is injured.

We'll go with the England formation because we're the best:

Courtois

Varane
Godin
Lawrenson

Meunier
Cheryshev

Keane
Modric
P. Ogba

Hazard
Cavani

On the bench Mbappe, 'KDB', Evra, and the other Uruguay centre-half

Pickford

Trippier
Godin
Varane
Hernandez

Modric
Kante
De Bruyne

Mbappe
Lukaku
Hazard

Rakitic, Perisic, Pogba, Meunier, Vida, Cavani & Courtois on the bench

Pickford

Meunier
Varane
Maguire
Hernandez

Modric
De Bruyne
Coutinho

Perisic
Mbappe
Hazard

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Originally Posted by Dan

Pickford

Trippier
Godin
Varane
Hernandez

Modric
Kante
De Bruyne

Mbappe
Lukaku
Hazard

Rakitic, Perisic, Pogba, Meunier, Vida, Cavani & Courtois on the bench

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Lukaku? His complete inability to control the ball is what knocked Belgium out.

Let's use this for the EURO 2021 tournament.

This has reminded me of the [FOOTBALL] tags we had to use at some point because someone (Toby? dela?) was sick of all the football chat on here.

Jordan Pickford was good at the last world cup according to this thread, I have no memory of that at all.

He saved a penalty didn't he? There you go.

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Originally Posted by -james-

Jordan Pickford was good at the last world cup according to this thread, I have no memory of that at all.

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Made a belting save in the last minute against Colombia from a long range shot that was heading ‘top bins’.

Yep. No clangers, which is a bonus.

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Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd

This has reminded me of the [FOOTBALL] tags we had to use at some point because someone (Toby? dela?) was sick of all the football chat on here.

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It was actually the old board we had it (dunno why) but we carried it over because banter.

Always annoys me when a thread like this gets dug up and I never replied first time round.

Like my predict the England squads thread was actually a really good idea but I never even joined in. Not many did, sadly.

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Originally Posted by CJay

Made a belting save in the last minute against Colombia from a long range shot that was heading ‘top bins’.

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Was it though? Colombia scored from that corner and I'm fairly confident he could have left it.

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Originally Posted by Kikó

It was actually the old board we had it (dunno why) but we carried it over because banter.

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It was because Mark wanted to attract new users and thought obviously separating [FOOTBALL] threads from bantz ones would encourage that. We discussed it in the office and as I was board one evening I volunteered to announce it. T'was quite fun devil's advocating the shit out of all the pretty valid responses.

Wasn't it more so FMers could separate [FOOTBALL] discussion from the 'cliquey' TTH shit that scared them away? The new members boat was well sunk by that point.