Football thread

I follow the -other-team in Barcelona when it comes to La liga, so yea haha. But congrats to FCB anyway lolz

Anyways, Brondby play Panathinakos in like 45 minutes in leg 1 of the Europa league playoffs :D.

Pep, yeah. RCD Espanyol fan here. Speaking of La Liga; season starts tomorrow actually, but we play Sevilla on Sunday (my time, Saturday euro time). Ironically enough, Barca play Betis in their season opener, making it 3 games in a row v teams from Seville lol. 

Also, it's still a continental competition and as Lux said, these are United's potential opponents for ya lmao.

Smh, this is disappointing to say the least. Panathinaikos 2-0 Brondby 54 minutes in. Would like an away goal to take back to Denmark for the 2nd leg but eh, they've been the better team I guess

Lol, can't be bothered editing my post tbh haha.

Also, I see. I usually just watch them online tbh haha, it's easier that way, as they don't show them much on Tv here.

Pogba looked decent in his return to United, but Zlatan's just being zlatan lol (2 goals today).

MUFC 2-0 Southampton

Sooo Man City beat Stoke 4-1 in what looks to have been a solid victory...watched the first 40-ish minutes and got bored tbh, tho i did saw the two goals from Aguero and the other I don't dont know...



There are 5 matches starting in less then half an hour, so I'll give my unneeded predictions, while alos double posting chet welp


Spurs vs Crystal Palace - 2-1 - Yesterday Palace broke they're club record after signing Cristian Benteke from Lolpool, tho I doubt he will start today (Not that i think this would've changed my prediction.). I wouldn't be much surprised if Spurs scores a couple more goals, since i think that after the departure of Bolasie to Everton, Palace will be very weakened. Spurs will definitely want to get a win, after failing to against Everton, so i do see them coming out with the 3 points, even after the little inconsistent play we saw last week.


Swansea City vs Hull City - 0-0 - After an impressive start to the season by Hull who have not sighned anyone and by many were tipped to finish bottom of the table they are taking on a side that has it's problems as well. While it would be very great if they manage to squeeze a win again today, I still think that even with the departure of some players lead by Andre Ayew, Swansea still have enough to hold the trusty for points newcomers.


West Brom vs Everton - 0-2 - With the strengthening to attack in the face of Bolasie, Everton will be a much better side and if Lukaku finds his form again they might have a very fierce attack. The departure of Stones i think will be for the better then the worst, since the player wanted the move and wouldn't have put his heart on the field, witch could've lead to unpredictable mistakes. West Brom are a solid side, tho i think that Everton will get there first 3 points in a solid win. 




Watford vs Chelsea - 1-3 - Chelsea, much to my surprise look solid on the field and the atmosphere and team spirit looks off the charts yet again with the very impulsive and emotional Conte at the helm of the team. Hazard back to form is definitely something very scary to every PL club, and Costa is back, breaking legs, and scoring important goals. Watford as I've discussed before do have problems on there own, with a new manager and some problems to work out. If Ighalo and Deeney could find there deadly partnership from the start of the season this will give Watford a much needed edge to face some of the bigger teams with the same confidence, they did last season. For now tho, I see them scoring a late goal from some bad defending, that will unfortunately be only a consolation.


Burnley vs Loserpool - 2-4 - Well high-score games and Loserpool, still a better love story then Twilight, a . All and all Kloop's boys look fierce in attack with Courtinho and Firminio leading the charts with great performances. Defense will still be a problem, but it think that as long as they can manage to score more then they let in, what is ultimately Kloop's philosophy, they will be ok. With Burnley's strack record over the last 4 seasons I don't think they will do much in the Premier League and will earn another ticket back to there beloved championship, and Liverpool will definitely not make them easy to prove me wrong. 


Leicester vs Arsenal - 1-2 - Well after all those sagas between Arsenal and Leicester's player came to an end after both Vardy and Mahrez snubbed them to stay with the champions, Arsene Wenger will be ken to show everybody that they don't need them (even tho they do). Leicester are definitely struggling atm, and even tho i think that they will have lots of opportunities due to the shaky 4-nal defense and maybe sneak a goal, there lost winning mentality and the obvious miss of the presence of Kante in midfield, will ultimately cost them the game...




And posting this the most of the games have started, so have a nice time watching if you are and will be back with the discussion on the outcomes after the games  

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Well, yo were right on the amount of goals Burnley would score ... just wrong on the amount Liverpool would score. SMH, we're wayyyyy tooo hot and cold at times. Frustrating to be a fan of the squad tbh.

Yeah, our defense is crap. We've got a good attack, but down back: we're lacking. and yepp, it indeed has begun. Espanyol don't play for a few hrs tho, so just waiting for that.

Funny thing is: Last time we had no European competition, we almost won the league . And yea, will be good to see how Quinque Sanchez-Flores does in his return to La Liga management. Watford shouldn't have gotten rid of him tbh, but hey: their loss is Espanyol's gain haha

Yea haha.


Also, this game is entertaining as heck. 2-2 and just over 30 minutes in (Espanyol v Sevilla). Barca won 6-2 v Betis earlier as well. Sanchez-Flores came back to Spain in May. True about Watford though haha.

3-3 at Half time. Such an entertaining game tbh, good to see both teams going right at one another.

Sevilla completely running us over now, smh. It's like we ran outta energy at 1/2 time tbh lol. 6-3 Sevilla now.

Wow, what a great weekend for football...haven't come off the TV/Computer all day basically welp...obviously wasn't able to watch every game, but tryed to watch highlights of as much of them as posible, cuz i have nothing else to do really...


First, let's start by giving Scottsy the official award for best game commentator, witch he gets for that op chet triple post welp  


But now it's review time ^^
First up - The Premier League:


Spurs vs Crystal Palace - 1-0 - Overall, seems to have been a pretty uneventful game, with a late winner comming from an unexpected new signing Wanyama in the dying stages of the game. The highlight showed balanced chances from both sides, tho Spurs probably were the better team looking at stats, and should've in my opinion won more comfortably. 


Burnley vs Lolpool - 2-0 - was really wondering wether to watch this games or the Chelsea game, and in the end ended watching the first half of the Chelsea game and the second half of the Lolpool one, and let's just say I deeply regret this decision looking at the scores and when the goals were scored. Burnley had come with 2 good early first half goals witch just stunned Kloops players till the final wistle. This really needs to be a reality check for Kloop if he has any ambitions to finish in a top 4 place, since he cannot allow defeats like that. Liverpool looked lame and exhausted in the second half in my opinion, and seemed to be relatively ok with the score witch is absolutely unexeptable from a team that kicked the buts of last years runners up in the first round...


Watford vs Chelsea - 1-2 - Welp here is another game i wished i watched till the end...after a first half goal by Mazzerati's side had seemed enough a tight finish from new sighning Batshuayi in the 80th minute got the game back on there feats. The substitutions that Conta had done seemed to have made a big impact on the whole game in the final acts of the game, turning it into Chelsea's show. And ten once again for the second week running, Costa gives Conte the 3 points in yet another 80-ish minute goal. As i said in my preview, Chelsea's spirit looks to be a very important part in them getting anywhere near to any european spot, and if they keep getting results (maybe even more comfortably as the season progresses and the team bonds more) i might be proven wrong and see them sneak in a top 4 finish.


West Brom vs Everton - 1-2 - Welp seemed to have been a balanced game with some pretty decent cuances, and a much more threatening Everton side. Bolasie played only the last couple of minutes, comming on as a sub, but the displays of Kevin Mirallas have been quite impresive and he might be just as good of an option on either side of the field.


Swansea vs Hull City - 0-2 - Surprised yet again by Hull City...many people were putting them rock bottom in there predictions, as they have lost there manager, have a new ownewship and haven't really done anything in the transfer window, but after following an impresive win against PL champions Leicester and today's comfortable win against Swansea, we might be looking at the surprise team this season. Abel Hernandes (who is always been a solid striker, mind you) looked very sharp in the highlights, and registered a goal as well. Kept Swansea at bay and kept a clean sweet, witch just proves good things about there determination.


Leicester vs Arsenal - 0-0  - Arguably the most boring game of the day (maybe because it was the only one that didn't have goals in it welp), I actually regret watching it. Both teams for me didn't look interested in winning and just tryed to keep there nets clean, and even tho there were chances there weren't followed by mass extent of pressure. Looking at possession and shots, Arsenal were the better team, bu as we have seen many times, during the ladt few seasons with Wenger's team they do not always know what to do with all this domination of the game. Leicester off course know how to play without the ball constantly being in there possession, but again didn't show the hustle to win, that we so adored last season.


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Moving on now we have - the Seria A ^^


Roma vs Udinese - 4-0 - This seems to have been a total domination by Roma, both possession wise, shots spwise, and obviously, score wise. The goals were mostly scored during the later stages of the second half, tho from what i see, I think Roma could well be ready to yet again try and give as much competition to Juventus for there title. 


Juventus vs Fiorentina - 2-1 - Now that was an interesting game. I did watch some of it, and well Juventus while winning relatively comfortably, even tho the score doesn't say so, they could've and should've won by quite some more. The Fiorentina defence was letting Juve play around there box too easily, witch ultimately lead to a great cross by Bonnuci and a solid header by sami Khedira. I didn't watch the Fiorentina equalizer but it seems to have been a rare chance by Fiorentina from a corner that should've probably been dealt by Alex Sandro. The winner was scored by Gonzalo Higuain, who played around 15 minutes and has already opened his goal tally, from a pretty sneaky tap-in. I do have to comment that he definetely seems to have been hiting the jym since he does look quite a lot batter now (don't really see that belly fat lel). Overall finishing from Juve should've been better today, and maybe that is something Max Allegri will be working on the training ground in the next couple of weeks.


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And finally we have the goals galore that was the opening daynof the la liga...


Barcelona vs Betis - 6-2 - Barca just bruised though this opening fixture. Suarez has just been mind-blowing, yet again getting a hat-trick and like making it something like 7 games, 16 goals in la liga and 4 hat-tricks witch is exceeding Messi and Ronaldo levels even. Talking bout Messi he did sneek in with 2 goals and some assists as always, and Arda showed that he is not a flop, by yet again scoring. Also In not match related news - Barca have confirmed, that a deal for Bravo has been agreed witch is probably sad for you Catalan fans.


Sevilla vs Espaniol - 6-4 - wasn't planning on watching this game, but after i saw all the fuss that Scottsy was making about it I desided to find myself a stream for that too and watch the final 20 minutes of the game. Haven't found any highlight videos of the game yet, to catch on the other goals and chances in the first half, witch looks like were alot welp, tho i will do it, mostly out of interest. What i saw tho, was just a Sevilla team that wanted the game to finish and a Espaniol team that was crying how could they be loosing after all the effort. A last consolation goal did game, tho for me, it just made the defeat for the fans and the players even more sad. Looks like overall it was a terrific game of football, and maybe Scottsy could tell us a bit more about it...


This took way to long, but i just like writing long posts so yeah...

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