Paul Watson
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and apparently that's one of the biggest issues they've got as a team is they have to get over this psychological hurdle that they've never gone further than that and it's been really interesting because their coach has been genuinely saying this is a team that should be aiming to win the World Cup and you know the instinct is to scoff at that but it's a very very good team until these string of injuries that have come in and I think probably taken away any chance of them going seriously seriously deep but yeah I think psychologically it's a big one for them
Yeah, I mean, Tunisia is a really tricky one, isn't it?
Because you can look at them in various different ways.
I mean, there's this stat, again, they didn't concede a single goal in qualification.
And that sounds great until you look at the fact they're in a group with Namibia, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Malawi and Sao Tome and Principe.
So they just weren't really tested.
And I think as Wilson alluded to, this change of managers has been interesting.
They were...
They had Sami Trabelsi in there.
They didn't do well at AFCON.
And then they've brought in Sabri Lamouchi, who was Ivory Coast coach in 2014.
He got them to 2014 World Cup and then got knocked out of the group.
So again, not a coach you can massively say...
either way is a good or bad choice.
But really the big thing that stands out to me is the lack of any real forward options, like striking options.
There was talk that Louis-Ben Farhat, this 19-year-old sort of rising star, was going to be the big hope.
And he, well, he's not been selected, but apparently his dad turned down selection for him.
I don't know if that's true, but basically he said, don't pick him.
He's not ready.
I don't know.