The last sip of the bottle is either sugar-free or gasless. Either way, it taste damn terrible. Who of the Premier League players will be as bad as flat cola?
The worst case in football – when you are one of the best in the world but you play football for a country who prefers cricket swings or baseball bats, therefore never making an imprint on international level. This has to be the biggest kick in the gut for any footballer out there.
This set of players will not be performing because they are stuck in a team unhelpful and the players themselves are not the best in the world. Double negative here makes for a 200% failure.
Australia |
Morocco |
Peru |
Iceland |
| Mathew Ryan | Romain Saiss | Andre Carillo | Aron Gunnarsson |
| Aaron Mooy | Johan Berg Gudmundsson | ||
| Gylfi Sigurdsson | |||
Tunisia |
Japan |
South Korea |
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| Yohan Benalouane | Shinji Okazaki | Son Heung-min | |
| Maya Yoshida |
One or two, who could be the wildcard out of these names are the Japanese boys. Their country can succeed in their group, but it will be fully dependent on these players to do well.
Shinji Okazaki and Maya from Japan, and Son Heung-min from South Korea joins them. They could make and the difference. But failure at the tournament is more likely than success.