Another week, another Pre-Match Poser…
Who’s the next player in the sequence and why? Lothar Matthaus, Hristo Stoichkov, Michael Owen, Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric…
We'll reveal the answer this time next week in the next edition of The Pre-Match Poser – stay tuned for that – but for now, here's the answer to last week's conundrum…
Q. What connects Breel Embolo, Lukas Podolski and, technically, Achraf Hakimi?
A. They’ve all scored against the country they were born in at a major tournament. Yaounde-born Embolo netted against Cameroon for Switzerland at the 2022 World Cup, refusing to celebrate; at the same tournament, Getafe-born Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi dispatched the winning penalty against Spain to knock them out of the competition. At Euro 2008, meanwhile, Lukas Podolski scored for Germany against Poland, having been born in Gliwice.
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