Man, that English defense was horrible today.
Indeed. Not sure what the problem was with not playing English players who were in the CL final. That game was crying out for AAT and Henderson driving forward. Delph is way past it and Stones looked like a man who hadn't played for over a month. Odd.
Agree Netherlands deserved the result but really England did sort of end up giving it to you by default.
Yeah, those 2 last goals were pretty much England saying "yeah, nah, yeah, you take it, please".
Ah well. Sessegnon wants out, ideally to Tottenham (with PSG and Manchester United interested as well), and I don't blame him. All I'd like is for the club to get a solid transfer fee out of it.
Wish we could've done well enough to keep him.
Ah well. Sessegnon wants out, ideally to Tottenham (with PSG and Manchester United interested as well), and I don't blame him. All I'd like is for the club to get a solid transfer fee out of it.
Wish we could've done well enough to keep him.
I clearly didn't watch much of Fulham because I thought he played a lot fewer than the 30 games he did this season.
To be fair, most places don't separate separate appearances into Starts and Substitutions. WhoScored says he made 26 starts and 9 substitute appearances this season (and was in the bottom half of ratings for players on the team).
Meanwhile, the Neymar case has definitely reached clusterf*ck status.
In other news, Hazard to RM is finally confirmed.
I'd say this opens the door for Griezmann to Barca, but apparently no-one from Barca has contacted Griezmann's people and the rumors are Messi wants Neymar back.
Meanwhile, ManU released Antonio Valencia, Anders Herrera and a bunch of other players you've never heard of unless you're a FM degenerate like myself (and even then it's iffy).
In other news, Hazard to RM is finally confirmed.
I'd say this opens the door for Griezmann to Barca, but apparently no-one from Barca has contacted Griezmann's people and the rumors are Messi wants Neymar back.
Meanwhile, ManU released Antonio Valencia, Anders Herrera and a bunch of other players you've never heard of unless you're a FM degenerate like myself (and even then it's iffy).
Arsenal also released a bunch (Cech, Ramsey) which then reminded me of the players who didn't get a UEFA League win swan song with the club.
I'm still pretty bummed out about that fiasco.
Real Madrid used to be pretty smart, replacing departing Galacticos with young big names just entering their prime years. Signing 28 year-old Hazard is not that.
But I don't really rate Hazard as highly as most.
Really? I mean, it's been said, but he quite genuinely dragged Chelsea to CL qualification and basically won the Europa League Final by himself! They'll get at least 2-3 more top-level years out of him.
Nations League is done. Portugal improved significantly and I think it's because of that that the Netherlands weren't as good. Deserved win, imo.
Now onwards toward Euro 2020. (France lost yesterday against Turkey!)
Nations League is done. Portugal improved significantly and I think it's because of that that the Netherlands weren't as good. Deserved win, imo.
Now onwards toward Euro 2020. (France lost yesterday against Turkey!)
I just saw the second half, but I thought the Netherlands looked good as well. They need a finisher though.
So how much longer until we start the 19/20 soccer thread? When the Premier League's new season schedule gets released on the 13th sounds good.
Let's start the new thread when Arsenal makes a strong summer signing...bahahahahahahahaha
edit: I laugh so I don't cry
slazev wrote:Nations League is done. Portugal improved significantly and I think it's because of that that the Netherlands weren't as good. Deserved win, imo.
Now onwards toward Euro 2020. (France lost yesterday against Turkey!)I just saw the second half, but I thought the Netherlands looked good as well. They need a finisher though.
Yes, Netherlands improved from the first half, but they still weren't as good as when they played against England.
Anyone else watching Colombia - Argentina? Tasty match for the opening rounds of Copa America! On ESPN+ in the US, or streams of dubious legitimacy!
2 good goals from Colombia.
This tournament is not making me a fan of VAR.
Really? We're going to put real significance on whether a goalies feet are an inch off the line on a penalty? A penalty that was only given because of VAR -- with an added yellow/red that I wouldn't have given even on replay (letter vs. spirit: that was not a "professional foul" and not what DOGSO is for).
At this point we might as well do away with the ARs. That is their job, and I don't remember the last time I saw it called. They obviously don't want to call offsides anymore either, which is their primary job.
For every time I've seen it do well I've seen two or three bits of ridiculous tediousness. This is headed to NFL five-minute "was his knee down in the one inch before he crossed the line?" territory.
Oh oh. We are crossing the streams!
Sorry, but I was more interested in this thread's take. WWC is full of Americans who think the only problem with life is that there isn't enough instant replay. 
VAR is likely coming to all the big leagues. In the manner they were talking about -- I was on board. Now that I'm seeing it? Oh god would that suck a lot of air out of the room. Could you imagine a relegation on the back of such minutia on the final day?
EDIT: Also -- I missed that we started the 2019 thread. 
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