Player Watch Player Watch: Yves Bissouma
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thebenjamin
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You couldn't make it up. Presumably his tournament is over now?
luRRka
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Bissouma played defensive mid. Kamory doumbia played as the 10. Bissouma was the closest midfielder to the defence, he definitely wasn't playing attacking mid.
Edit - unless you mean he was literally wearing the 10 shirt. Cos that's the only link he had to playing the 10.
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theShiznit
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What's this shenanigans...
Next thing you'll be telling me our great new number 13 signing is not a super sub and actually a goal keeper.
theShiznit
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Obviously like women who live/work in close proximity whose cycles sync up, Yves has got so close to his Spurs brothers that he is ill when they are ill (it's next level sympathy pains!)
Or it's pure one-upmanship
Yves "I see your flu and raise you malaria!"
Or it's pure one-upmanship
Yves "I see your flu and raise you malaria!"
This isn't even remotely correct. He definitely wore the #10 jersey but he was the deepest of a midfield three and essentially tasked with recycling the ball. Mali are stacked in midfield tbf and have midfielders who are naturally more attacking.
Was he great? Nope. He was fairly indifferent tbf and that somewhat stemmed as much from South Africa not pressing high when Malian CB's had the ball but their two forwards sitting on Bissouma, which actually opened up passes to players further forward or the wide midfielders, so they'd pretty much bypass Bissouma.
Malaria may have had an effect but who knows. When he came off, he def looked lifeless and expressionless.
I just made a similar comment not realizing you had ha
taidgh
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Aaargh, didn't realize it was that bad!!
Tractorspur
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Still no word other than this morning Mali press tweet
There is no highly effective vaccine for malaria and most proven antimalarials come with side effects that could impact an elite athlete, so it's a bit of a medical conundrum.Surely he would have had a vaccine
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mil1lion
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So what's happened is they've watched the game thinking Mali are kicking left to right and Bissouma is attacking midfield and keeps playing it backwards. In fact they were playing right to left and he was playing defensive midfield while kicking the ball forwards.
Well played.......well played
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Zokora.
SpursSince1980
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All a lot of fuss and muss over one report. Confirmed by anyone else?
luRRka
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A few Africans on reddit talking about the malaria thing say that it's a casual thing. Similar to when we have colds in England and say we have the flu. So potentially he was run down and the journalist has just referred to it as malaria
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