@caoimhaoin out of interest, what will be done by Croatia to combat fatigue going into Sunday? They were probably battered and sore up to yesterday… Diet wise also ??
All about anti inflammatory food, therapy and sleep. Getting the right amount of sleep will be critical.
They will need a serious De briefing meeting too where they come down from high of getting to final.
See family and escape too.
A real bio-psycho-social approach
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The nutrition expert advising meringue for post match meals?
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and a ride
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Proven to be at worst no side effects or fatigue from sex night before. Psychological hard to evaluate but seen as positive
Proven but psychologically hard to evaluate.
How is it proven then? How many studies have been done of players who had sex or stayed celibate?
Quite a few I believe.
The sex thing being fatiguing has been debunked for a long time now
I think the data is inconclusive.
Diego Madonna told his players to shag away in 2010 and they lost 4-0
Marv Levy banned sex before four Superbowls and lost all of them
Ali abstained for two months before all his fights
Hard to know, probably makes no difference.
They are not studies
They are cherry picked reason out of 100’s as to why an event unfolded the way it did.
Most likely if sex was other way around in all cases results would have been the same
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Team of the tournament?
Pickford
Trippier-Varane-Godin-Marcelo
Modric-Kante-Pogba
Hazard-Griezman-Mbappe
Lovren, Croatian right back and keeper, Maguire and Gravquist, all deserve honourable mentions. Not too many midfielder or attackers spring to mind
A lad at work told me he’s not going to the hurling because he’s afraid he wouldn’t get to see the world cup final in Thurles afterwards
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Handicap.
Strikers have been very poor. Would probably have Lukaku ahead of Griezmann even with his poor performance against France as Griezmann hasn’t done much. Mandzukic maybe either or big Artem Dzyuba
I honestly don’t think Griezmann deserves a spot. He’s had 3 goals, a penalty, a free kick and the one the Uruguayan keeper threw into the net. He is also incredibly selfish, choosing to shoot from poor positions when a colleague is better placed. He must either hate or is jealous of Mbappe as he had numerous opportunities to play him in against Belgium and turned the other direction.
Mandzukic for me at 9, an absolute warrior and got his team to a world cup final. Lukaku was poor against France.
Id have the Croat left winger and Diego Costa
A Brazilian manager was once asked about his view on players have sex . He said there was no problem with the sex the problem was what the did before they got the sex .
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Sidney and Geoffrey boycott the same poster. Kind of sad really.
Cavani for Uruguay was very good against Portugal in the one game I watched Uruguay.
Not me bud, dont have time for 2 usernames.