Liam Tharme
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1,662 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Liam Tharme’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think, if anything, it was probably more of a challenge against Haiti where they had to dominate the game.
It looked kind of shaky.
They got outshot in the game.
I know they were leading for most of it, but it didn't look kind of completely comfortable.
They can revert to that back three, back five, and they might cause Brazil some problems.
Yeah, I mean, they tried to be, I think, as aggressive as you can be in a mid-block so you don't have the defensive line kind of too deep, but there wasn't probably enough pressure on the ball at times.
There were a few moments where Rafinha got in behind in the first half, just offside very marginally.
So I guess you can argue that's a perfectly executed offside trap, only just.
So they were definitely bold with that, but I thought that did play into the kind of hands of Brazil with how quick some of their forwards are.
Yeah, I think the standards are pretty high, right, for what is a good or a top-level Brazilian player and especially kind of a forward one.
It's tricky with Igor Thiago because he's probably quite atypical as a Brazilian kind of striker goes.
But he's, I mean, he's pound for pound, I think, the best Brazilian striker they've had in terms of their kind of league season this year.
Obviously, a very physical profile, you know, great at running into kind of open space in transitions.
And that's probably suited to a team against, playing against a team like Morocco, who are physical, bigger centre-backs.
Sure, they're playing a back five here, but you probably want someone that's technical and can get on the ball, can rotate wide.
and works well with someone like Vinicius or Rafinha running in behind which we saw loads kind of similar to England really in terms of the Kane and Gordon slash Maduike kind of profiles so there's lots of different ways they can kind of coordinate it and I think it's always kind of been Ancelotti's thing is that he'll try to base his systems around kind of the star players rather than the other way around and that's for better or for worse.
And I think the real test of that will really come once we get to the knockouts and we see how they fare against kind of real kind of top level teams.
But there are holes you can pick in that team.
We saw it with Morocco kind of when they won the ball back in counterattacks on match day one.
So yeah, interesting to see how this progresses really.
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