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I meant by players on the pitch. I know they want/need the win, but when it was 1-1 they were still under lots of pressure, and the keeper is rolling the ball out extremely quickly and giving no time or chance for his players to recover or just have a bit of a break. Yep, you're not wrong there and Croatia do have better depth. All the more reason to try and manage the game situation better and slow things down, slow the momentum of Croatia and take the sting out of the game, as they say.

Albania must be absolutely knackered. The first Croatia goal was coming, then they carried on rushing and rushing. Should have managed the game better.

Seems like only a matter of time before Croatia score now. Vastly improved since HT.

Apparently we were ready to progress with Potter as of last night but he wanted more time. Now sounds like our owners are just getting a bit sick and tired of waiting around so have moved on. The glaring and mostly disappointing problem here is that the next answer isn't to then go for Cooper. It's massively underwhelming in our position, considering he has a different style of play to Maresca and his record in PL with Forest is pretty dire. Something like 12 wins only in 50 odd games, and barely any away wins. The points deduction is bad enough but it just seems like it'll be a season of misery, distinct disappointment and just a constant feeling of underwhelming failure. This, on top of news yesterday that match tickets are increasing by up to 38% in some areas. We are not the once well-respected club off the pitch we used to be. We're so badly run and our owners are hugely out of touch with the fans of the club that were here way before they were. Sad thing is there's a lot of people that will pay the money but your normal, average match-goer and die-hard fan is now being priced out of the game. Which I appreciate is a general problem with the game itself but it would have been nice for the club to not follow that pattern and be the ones to stand out for the right reasons, like before. But now we're just a small cog in the same football machine.

Croatia have been worse than shit.

Lovely goal. Asllani crosses for Laci to glance a header in.

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I believe you should be able to keep the money you have if sold at a higher price than when you bought the player. So if you buy a player at £6m, sell at £7m, you then have the £7m to play with. There's one free transfer (plus any carried over) you can do between each matchday unless using one of the wildcard/limitless boosts. And you get -4 deducted from your matchday total if you make any transfers on top of the free transfer quota. The rules on the site state: You can also make as many free transfers as you like between the group stage and round of 16. Player prices Player prices will stay the same until the Matchday 2 deadline. Once the Matchday 3 deadline has passed, some players' prices will be adjusted based on their performances in the previous games. Prices will keep changing throughout the season depending on how many points players score.

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That's what I meant all along

One from each of us on this forum. Still won't be enough

A goal in every group game. So far so good...

He needs a slap. Such a miserable wanker.

Serves me right for listening to BBC commentators. Idiots.

Wow, Conceicao on his debut scores the winner!

Portugal will be ruing their lack of opportunities in first half after all that dominance.

Keeper has to be holding that.

Love that speed from VAR.

Own goal. Unfortunate.

Well said.

It'll go unnoticed because a lot of focus on Ronaldo, Fernandes, Silva etc but Vitinha is having a quality game on the ball and defensively.

Great to see a ref see it and punish it. And didn't fall for Ronaldo's theatrics early on too.