Francisco Conceição

He then had a private or a solo workout at the hotel, at the team hotel.

Also not training today was Francisco Conceição, who picked up a pretty bad knock.

It looked like it was like a knee-to-knee right before the first half.

And he had been playing pretty well on the wing there.

So very, very excited.

Obviously, where you look at our nigerian performance is the afghan we beat iran by two goals to one yes we drew against jordan which was annoying but then we slapped up zimbabwe by three and two goes to zero slapped up jamaica three goes to zero with the very heavily rotated side we of course were this close to beating poland and warsaw today scored a last-minute equalizer and the only blemish on our record so far this year is of course losing to portugal by two goals to one in a pre-World Cup friendly where we conceded a goal, I think, in the final 20 minutes by Conceição, if I'm not mistaken.

So very excited about what Eric Schell is building.

Look, we're not going to talk about the NFF today.

And forwards and wingers, Captain Cristiano Ronaldo, João Felix, Rafael Leão, Pedro Neto, Gonçalo Ramos, who made his move to AC Milan.

Francisco Conceição, Francisco Trincão and Fabio Silva, who has one cap, but off to a good start at Borussia Dortmund.

So, you know, yeah, you mentioned that we we shouldn't have expected any kind of big changes.

from the summer.

McKinney, Luiz.

Chico Conceição, Alaj Begovic, Kolo Mouani.

You could look at this thing and figure out three formations, Omer.

What did you think when we finally got that? And what were your thoughts going into this game?

which was interesting to me to see how it works out with Douglas.

Yeah, I mean, I look at that lineup and it's just, it's apparent, it's evident that Spalletti, has his guys that he has trust and he has belief and faith in, and he wants to find a way to get all that in.

When I'm seeing Chico out there and Nico Gonzalez, McKinney, all these guys, Chelek, Kalulu, it's just these are the guys he wants to bank on, he wants to go with and trust and has faith in, and I wholeheartedly can see why and agree with it.

So the biggest question was for me, like McKinney for me does his best work on the flanks.

And they need to because we've spoken about the lack of goals offensively in the team, which is just a fact.

There's not many goals in the midfield and even some of the attacking players at Juventus, players like Conceição and others.

So they need... like Inter have done for years.

They need that threat from corners, from crosses, and Bremer gives them that.

So if there's a blueprint that has been landed, which I believe there is coming out of this game for Spalletti, It might be that the guys that are the driving force of this team need to be out there.

Nico Gonzalez might be sitting Chico Conceição right now.

That's what I was just going to say.

How does Chico break into this lineup?

Yes.

It shows me that we are finally adapting and opening up things and just not being set in stone with these stubborn asshole Italian men that we can actually think outside the box and prepare a game plan, manage a game plan against who we're playing.

So this might not be the game coming up for you, Chico Conceição, but guess what? When we're back at it in Europa League and we expect space and stuff, you're going to rip them to shreds.

Yes, 100% agree.

Nico Gonzalez just ahead of them.

Conceicao on the right.

Alai Begovic on the left and Randal Kolo Muani up front.

Four to six months, man, they're saying.