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Originally Posted by demonrail666

That's obviously a risk but if you were England or Belgium manager, who would you rather face, from:

Japan Uruguay Portugal France Argentina Mexico Brazil?

or

Colombia Switzerland Sweden Denmark Croatia Russia Spain?

i’d rather face japan first than colombia and live to fight another day— potentially it could be a 2nd rest day.

but you’re right that later could get easier. IF you live (big if).

before this the talk was “let’s place 2nd to avoid colombia”

now it’s “let’s place 2nd to avoid ... someone”. not sure it’s such a solid plan due to the big dependency upfont.

im soooooo looking forward to saturday!

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eta: one big thing i learned today was what a deep solid bench the belgians have

e.g. sure batshuayi is no lukaku but it’s a very viable substitution.

same w/ others. nobody really “indispensable” in that team i think. except courtois maybe? hmmmm