Other Sports: Soccer/Football Thread Part Six

[Striiker]

It works.

Hopefully at least once more but they're really pushin it

 

[Jack Straw]

Hopefully at least once more but they're really pushin it

Need that extra drama to stay on-brand.

 

[Striiker]

Damn... but those were some pretty goals.

Kinda feel bad for Leverkusen but I guess they've already cemented this as a great year. Just unfortunate that it couldn't be perfect.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Serie A >>>

 

[Starat327]

City's odds to get relegated are absolutely hilarious.

 

[Striiker]

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Serie A >>>

I dunno... Dortmund seems to only struggle against other German teams and has had a pretty easy time in the "Group of Death" and beyond...

 

[FLYguy3911]

I dunno... Dortmund seems to only struggle against other German teams and has had a pretty easy time in the "Group of Death" and beyond...

I saw this coming…

 

[Striiker]

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I saw this coming…

Yuck

 

[trostol]

football will miss Jurgen more than he will miss football

 

[BritainStix]

God, I'm so f***ing bored of the Jurgen/Liverpool love fest.

The bloke one a single premier league. He has one more trophy that United in the same time frame and we have been absolute dogshit for 10 years.

I f***ing hate scousers.

 

[Starat327]

God, I'm so f***ing bored of the Jurgen/Liverpool love fest.

The bloke one a single premier league. He has one more trophy that United in the same time frame and we have been absolute dogshit for 10 years.

I f***ing hate scousers.

Prefacing this by the obvious statement that I'm not in the UK so geographical rivalries mean little to me --

This was basically the worst title run in conundrum from a non city, arsenal or liverpool supporter perspective in quite some time.

City cheating their way to a league title isn't ideal for obvious reasons.

Liverpool winning and the associated "look at how klopp inspired them" would have been the most tired narrative ever. I actually really like Klopp as a manager, but the media love affair got old quick.

Arsenal winning would've been awful because their supporters are absolutely insufferable (except @BigToe - <3 u bb). That team and Arteta are treated like the greatest team of all time and they've achieved diddly.

In the end, I think I was OK with City winning because you can asterisk it, and at the end of the day, I only "know" one Man City supporter and I only have to deal with him on this board .

 

[Curufinwe]

He did also win the Champions League, something United last did 16 years ago when John Terry slipped.

One PL title isn't great, but it will look better when the hammer drops on City for their financial doping.

 

[TCTC]

It really looks like Bayern are going to appoint Vincent Kompany as their new coach.

The guy that got Burnley relegated is about to fail upwards big-time.

 

[trostol]

What does anyone know about Slot?

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Messi, Suarez and Busquets are all staying in Miami while the team heads to Vancouver this weekend.

The Whitecaps sold over 54,000 tickets for this match, some costing several hundred dollars per ticket.

I had contemplated going, but I backed out, worried for this exact reason.

Brutal for those poor souls who were hoping to watch Messi live.

 

[FLYguy3911]

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

What does anyone know about Slot?

He plays a 4-2-3-1 with the right back bombing forward and the left back hanging back more. He presses from the front, but is more possession-based than Klopp with a more measured build-up. We are looking at something like this, with new signings peppered in:

Ali

Trent/Bradley - Konate - Virg - Robbo

New DM - Macca

Mo - (one of the other 8s) - Szobo/Gakpo

Darwin


Unless he inverts Trent next to the DM and plays Bradley at RB. If we get a beast DM, it could work. We are definitely buying at least one winger, too, so they may move Mo central and put Darwin out left.

 

[Striiker]

Looks very old fashioned

Their recent ones have been a little more modern/creative, I think.

 

[trostol]

He plays a 4-2-3-1 with the right back bombing forward and the left back hanging back more. He presses from the front, but is more possession-based than Klopp with a more measured build-up. We are looking at something like this, with new signings peppered in:

Ali

Trent/Bradley - Konate - Virg - Robbo

New DM - Macca

Mo - (one of the other 8s) - Szobo/Gakpo

Darwin


Unless he inverts Trent next to the DM and plays Bradley at RB. If we get a beast DM, it could work. We are definitely buying at least one winger, too, so they may move Mo central and put Darwin out left.

where's Quansah playing in this?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

where's Quansah playing in this?

We're almost surely buying a CB who can start. I wouldn't be surprised if Quansah went out on loan, but he could also start ahead of Konate if the latter's fitness doesn't improve. He wasn't in great form when he played anyway in the last couple of months.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Looks very old fashioned

Their recent ones have been a little more modern/creative, I think.

They seem to alternate every other year between modern and old school. The old school kits are classics though.

 

[Starat327]

This game is city's 116th charge.

 

[Jack Straw]

This game is city's 116th charge.

And Chelsea will get punished for it.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Doku trying to win it by himself.

 

[Starat327]

And Chelsea will get punished for it.

Pretty standard.