Carlos Sanchez

[eamonn]

Oirish.

[Villa in Denmark]

He was doing the work of two yesterday, just like he did for chunks of last season  when he was banjaxed by 65-70 minutes.

From the bits I've seen his stamina hadn't looked like so much of a problem when he's had Gueye playing alongside him to share the load.  Don't know if that's a false perception based on mainly only catching snippets of games so far?

What a great word.
Is it Danish for F*cked? 

I blame Terry Wogan leaving an impression on a young boy in the 70's.  I think he even wrote / released a book with that name around the time.

I'm assuming it's semi-polite Irish for f¤¤ked.

[ozzjim]

I reckon Garde will have a similar player to Sanchez on his January wish list. It is pretty clear without him we just don't have the same control in the midfield, and we need either backup, or someone to help him!

[PeterWithesShin]

Rémi Garde insists that Carlos Sanchez is a vital member of the team - because of his "different profile" in midfield.

Villa have ball players in the central ground, including Ashley Westwood and Jordan Veretout.

But Garde likes Sanchez because of his 'anchor man' mentality - his ability to break up play and spoil opposition attacks.

Sanchez was in the starting line-up against Man City and performed admirably in the draw as he faced up to the likes of Yaya Toure.

He came off the bench at the break at Goodison Park as Villa improved in the final 45 minutes against Everton.

Garde didn't want to risk him from the start after a sapping international break with Colombia.

But he was certainly happy with The Rock's contribution in the second half.

He stresses that, going forward, Sanchez will be a key player.

He told AVTV HD: "Carlos is a different profile to the other guys in midfield.

"He's a bit stronger and heavy-weighted compared to the others.

"When he came on at Everton, he did great.

"Unfortunately he didn't share the two weeks between the Man City and Everton games because he was far away with Colombia. He had a long trip back later in the week.

"I decided not to play him from the start at Goodison Park.

"But when he came on, I was very happy with him."

[Ad@m]

World Cup 2018: Colombia dedicate win to Carlos Sanchez after death threats against midfielder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44601358

[sirlordbaltimore]

Just read something on Twatter indicating we've sold the 1.75m (or 1m and 75k) owed to us by Fiorentina to a bank so we can get it sooner

We cannot carry on scraping by like this month to month 'if true' can we ?

Farcical.

[cdbearsfan]

World Cup 2018: Colombia dedicate win to Carlos Sanchez after death threats against midfielder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44601358

That's pretty scary after what happened with Escobar. Hope Sanchez gets back into the team and does well.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

World Cup 2018: Colombia dedicate win to Carlos Sanchez after death threats against midfielder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44601358

That's pretty scary after what happened with Escobar. Hope Sanchez gets back into the team and does well.

Same here. Good to see the solidarity of the Colombian squad. Hopefully after yesterday all is forgotten and forgiven.

[Hookeysmith]

And didn't they look a decent side as well

[nigel]

They are a decent team, the japan loss was just one of those games.
I think they'll beat Senegal to qualify

[Ad@m]

World Cup 2018: Colombia dedicate win to Carlos Sanchez after death threats against midfielder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44601358

That's pretty scary after what happened with Escobar. Hope Sanchez gets back into the team and does well.

Isn't it?  Football really isn't that important.

[SoccerHQ]

World Cup 2018: Colombia dedicate win to Carlos Sanchez after death threats against midfielder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44601358

That's pretty scary after what happened with Escobar. Hope Sanchez gets back into the team and does well.

Isn't it?  Football really isn't that important.

It's a proper religion in South America. Things have calmed down a bit in Colombia at least since the Escobar drug cartel ended. Not sure if anyone has ever been there off here but pretty nice tourist destination I believe.

Russian TV director yesterday was having a field day picking out the Colombian beauties in the crowd!

[DB]

World Cup 2018: Colombia dedicate win to Carlos Sanchez after death threats against midfielder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44601358

That's pretty scary after what happened with Escobar. Hope Sanchez gets back into the team and does well.

Isn't it?  Football really isn't that important.

It's a proper religion in South America. Things have calmed down a bit in Colombia at least since the Escobar drug cartel ended. Not sure if anyone has ever been there off here but pretty nice tourist destination I believe.

Russian TV director yesterday was having a field day picking out the Colombian beauties in the crowd!

He didn’t do too bad with the Swedes the other night.

[eamonn]

Weird, was just reading an article about the two Escobars yesterday and went looking for the film on Netflix but it wasn't there.
Article: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/zm87j9/the-own-goal-that-led-to-murder

[SoccerHQ]

I saw it a few years back. Very good film on a very sad story. The Colombia squad were actually invited to the Escobar prison to play football in lead up to 94 world cup.

Think a film has just been made and come out on the Brazilian football team plane crash in December 2016.