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Interesting note: despite the widespread use of Enhanced Football Intelligence — every player in the tournament was GPS tracked and data exists for number, location and success rate of passes, tackles and touch rates, not one of the ratings made reference to it. | Interesting note: despite the widespread use of Enhanced Football Intelligence — every player in the tournament was GPS tracked and data exists for number, location and success rate of passes, tackles and touch rates, not one of the ratings made reference to it. | ||
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|+ The professional sports journalists a striker and a defender | |||
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'''Mbappé''': Zero to hero. Incredible. Was he playing in the first half? Looked like he’d picked the biggest game of his career to have the worst day of his life. Then….remarkable. | '''Mbappé''': Zero to hero. Incredible. Was he playing in the first half? Looked like he’d picked the biggest game of his career to have the worst day of his life. Then….remarkable. | ||
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|'''Otamendi''': Good game, one error, but what a doozy. | |'''Otamendi''': Good game, one error, but what a doozy. | ||
'''Mbappé''': Not sure he was even playing for an hour and a half, but came right at the end. | '''Mbappé''': Not sure he was even playing for an hour and a half, but came right at the end. | ||
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The point here is not to challenge these ratings, but note how much harder it is to be a defender then an attacker. You can shut the brightest star in football’s firmament out of a world bio final for 80 minutes and get 4; you can ''be'' shut out for that time and get a ten. | The point here is not to challenge these ratings, but note how much harder it is to be a defender then an attacker. You can shut the brightest star in football’s firmament out of a world bio final for 80 minutes and get 4; you can ''be'' shut out for that time and get a ten. | ||