2019/20 Soccer Thread

I love Pirlo so much. I hope it works out.

We'd said Barca were a one-man team before, but are they ever right now. Sheesh.

That said this is literally sinful.

Meanwhile...

Bayern Munich's last 7 results v London teams:

4-1 v Chelsea
3-0 v Chelsea
3-1 v Tottenham
7-2 v Tottenham
5-1 v Arsenal
5-1 v Arsenal
5-1 v Arsenal

Prederick wrote:

We'd said Barca were a one-man team before, but are they ever right now. Sheesh.

That said this is literally sinful.

That man has some sort of agreement with a deity/devil/supernatural force. There is no other explanation.

LilCodger wrote:
Prederick wrote:

We'd said Barca were a one-man team before, but are they ever right now. Sheesh.

That said this is literally sinful.

That man has some sort of agreement with a deity/devil/supernatural force. There is no other explanation.

Saw that live and yep, that's why you watch Messi.

Aw man. Poor Atalanta.

Oh, Atalanta. So close...
5 minutes before the 90, I was wishing there was no extra time. If there's a god, he/she/it is an arsehole.

St. Louis is finally an official soccer town again! The reveal video starts at :32. Speaking is Carolyn Kindle Betz, who leads the ownership group.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/sports/...

Carolyn shares ownership of the team with 9 other people including her mom, uncle, aunt, and all the other grandchildren of Jack Taylor. All the grandchildren are girls, making the team the first female-majority-owned franchise in history.

Personally, I love the name, but its going to cause some issues in our city. St. louis exists as a separate entity from the county, not residing in a county at all. In St. L:ouis, discussion of city and county is the same as city and suburbs elsewhere, but it is even more bitter because of the politics. There has been attempts to unite the City and County, but it is fraught with class and race divisions that get in the way every time. So the name City carries a lot of baggage.

At least their inaugural season is far enough away that we should avoid it hurting the marketing of the team. I hope.

Well, fans in Germany are NOT going to be happy about RB Leipzig getting to the semi-finals!

But hey, young USMNT player Tyler Adams scored the winner (after a colossal deflection that'll likely be ruled as an own goal)!

U S A! U S A!

Barca are NOT GOOD.

Forgot to tune in until 30 minutes had gone, and it was 3-1!

This has the potential to make Tottenham's results against Bayern this tournament look acceptable!

Nelson Semedo is having a howler.

From what I've seen he's been partly at fault for 3/4 goals.

Alphonso Davies IS GOOD.

Okay, there's cruel, and then there's "subbing on one of your own players to assist on the sixth goal".

EDIT: LOL, COUTINHO MAKES IT 7

Stop! Stop! They're already dead.

The Ref added only two minutes to try to spare Barca any more of this.

Just checked the BBC website and had to double check. Holy crap!

Coutinho went to Barca to win the Champions League and I guess that's going to work out for him.

Got 2 confirmations.
Bayern are the favourites.
Barcelona are a laughing stock.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Forgot to tune in until 30 minutes had gone, and it was 3-1!

This has the potential to make Tottenham's results against Bayern this tournament look acceptable! :lol:

It's official, Spurs > Barcelona.

Also, even Brazil stopped at 7. Sheesh.

EDIT: Oh, and this amazing tidbit - Barcelona have signed 3 £100mil+ players in their history. Tonight, all three started on the bench and one of them scored, twice, for their opponents.

Prederick wrote:

Alphonso Davies IS GOOD.

Pretty cool to have seen him as a, what, 16 year-old playing in MLS and for the Canadian MNT and now see him embarrassing players at the highest levels en route to creating a goal.

Also: I was on a work call during the second half, and had to constantly be referring to my computer screen. When I had literally two seconds free, I'd glance at my iPad (streaming the game) to check the score. Every time I looked down, Bayern had scored again! It was bizarre; it seemed like a mistake.

He's real, real good. Like real good. North America's starting to put out some real gems (assuming they get the majority of their training in Europe, of course ).

Meanwhile....

Did Davies get training in Europe before being a full-fledged professional in MLS? Genuinely asking.

I wasn't sure how I felt about the Tottenham documentary until I watched the trailer today; now I can't wait.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Did Davies get training in Europe before being a full-fledged professional in MLS? Genuinely asking.

Nope. Came up through the Whitecaps residency.

Starting to watch the match now. So looking forward to it.

Barca's been so badly managed (at the board level, not necessarily coaching) that they deserve a result like that.

jowner wrote:

Nelson Semedo is having a howler.

From what I've seen he's been partly at fault for 3/4 goals.

Watched the second half and goals 5, 6, 7 and 8 all came from Semedos side with the most egregious being Davies skinning him alive.

I'm not sure if it's the players fault at that point. Manager should of hauled him off.

Other news Arsenal say they are investigating the Pepe transfer.

Club part ways with Raul Sanllehi.

Ozil interview in the athletic where he accuses people of trying to destroy his image and force him out. He has alot of fair points especially about the wage reduction stuff.

Oh ya and we signed Willian for 3 years at 32. At first when the wages were supposedly 100k that was already bad but passable, kinda. Supposedly with bonuses and incentives the average could be closer to 200k~ and or costing close to 35m over the length of the deal.

Besides having Arteta as the manager Arsenal are in full blown collapse mode. Crazy how quickly the glow of winning the FA Cup can be extinguished.

What does it mean to investigate the Pepe transfer? I've seen people memeing about it, but what is the substance? I mean, if you paid more than you should have, what is there to investigate? Isn't that just an "oops"?

Oh Raheem. Wooooooof.

EDIT: LOL. LYON, KINGS OF EUROPE

Fedaykin98 wrote:

What does it mean to investigate the Pepe transfer? I've seen people memeing about it, but what is the substance? I mean, if you paid more than you should have, what is there to investigate? Isn't that just an "oops"?

Maybe someone else can chime in with a better resource but: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...

Essentially taking a kick back to make a deal happen. So most likely looking into if someone at Arsenal made the deal happen probably at an inflated fee and getting some €£€£¥ on the side. So with Sanllehí leaving at the same time it's kinda suspect.

Andddddd. Que all the Sterling doubters. What an awful miss though.

Alright, now I'm pulling for a Leipzig-Lyon final. Let's just get silly with it.

Also, that's three QF exits in a row for Pep at City now, and he hasn't made a CL final since 2011.

Prederick wrote:

Alright, now I'm pulling for a Leipzig-Lyon final. Let's just get silly with it.

It's going to be Bayern this year. Sorry.

Well played Lyon, someone needs to tell Pep to stop overthinking the Champions League.