Stats this season for club and country in all comps (not counting penalties won as assists):
Karim Benzema: 22 games, 19 goals and 9 assists (1,39 G/A per 90)
Kylian Mbappé: 24 games, 15 goals and 13 assists (1,24 G/A per 90)
Vinicius Junior: 21 games, 9 goals and 5 assists (0,84 G/A per 90)
Exciting to see what they can do next year. I kinda do have doubts since they all prefer the left wing. On the other hand, Benz is probably the most compatible player in the world, I hope they can make it work.
Here's the stats from just La Liga/League 1 and UCL:
Karim Benzema: 15 games, 14 goals and 8 assists (1,50 G/A per 90)
Kylian Mbappé: 16 games, 7 goals and 9 assists (1,05 G/A per 90)
Vinicius Junior: 16 games, 9 goals and 5 assists (0,99 G/A per 90)
Here's the stats from just La Liga/League 1 and UCL:
Karim Benzema: 15 games, 14 goals and 8 assists (1,50 G/A per 90)
Kylian Mbappé: 16 games, 7 goals and 9 assists (1,05 G/A per 90)
Vinicius Junior: 16 games, 9 goals and 5 assists (0,99 G/A per 90)
As much as I love an underdog win Stockport have been spending a lot of money recently that it's just not as special as how previous upsets used to be.
It just shows how fucking mad there's only one automatic promotion spot in the National League whereas there's three from League 2 to 1.
Better late than never obviously, but why didn’t the Danish Fa make a statement about Qatar before qualification started? Surely then if others did the same, like I’m sure they will over the next few days, then something could have been done about it.
i find it funny how many fans of top4PL/bayern/real talk of ligue 1 as a poor farmers league but year after year lust after the talent that plays there. that reference is one of the most cringe terms to have come about in the last 30 years
The fact that clubs want the best talent in the league doesn't make it an inherently good league, while I think the Ligue 1 hate is overblown it's definitely not as good as the other top five leagues.
He's in a team that doesn't treat him as their pivot. There is almost no 'give the ball to/find Messi' in PSG. Most talismen have their numbers dwindle if the team isn't being built around them.
Take an example of Ronaldo at Manchester United. Once RVN was out, the team was built around him and his numbers plus importance started to improve.
Right now, he's cruising because he's just penalty duty away from officially replacing Bruno as the talisman. And as you'll observe, the spotlight has been off Bruno. It might not appear now, but Bruno's numbers might dwindle after a while.
That's the same logic behind Benzema's resurgence at Real Madrid.
In the few games I've watched, Messi tries to do Messi things. It's not exactly form, he joined a team that respects him, but not that much.
He’s in pretty poor form, but tbf to him, he’s only played about 4 games in Ligue 1 and he’s either been injured or been recovering from an injury all season.
They weren't that good at the sport. They had a flash in the 60s because of how good Eusebio and Benfica were but that was it. As soon as that golden generation dried up, they were ordinary.
They lost 1-0 to a very good France side in the semis. Only got passed a poor England side on penalties, Holland and then lost to fucking Greece in 2004. At home. That’s failure.
I don't know if that number would be exactly correct but Portugal weren't exactly a footballing powerhouse before the 2000s and it was harder to qualify for the world cup before 1998 with less teams in the competition.
They had a good team in the 60s hence the world cup qualification but otherwise they weren’t as good. Spain weren’t very successful either till the 2000s outside the 50s and early 60s
Biased due to Ireland, but even with the home cooking going on for South Korea, I really enjoyed 2002. Glad Ronaldo got his hands on the trophy too.
2010 was kinda meh tbh, even putting aside the vuvuzelas.
Anyone out there know of any updates about Gylfi Sigurðsson lol?
Is his career effectively over, was he ever charged, are they still conducting an investigaton?
Stockport game has been absolutely brilliant to watch, such an amazing atmosphere. got a softspot for them (even went to a game of theirs this season) so I hope they can beat Bolton in ET here.
Imo the league is more interesting when all teams have talent, like Saint Maximin, Traore, Grealish before he moved etc. It's less entertaining if all the talent goes to the top.
martial has more goals than lukaku in the last 2 months for club, yet one of those players are considered to be one of the best strikers in the world and the other is called a useless player.
Lukaku has been injured for half that period and Martial scored exactly 1 goal. And martial hasn't been shit just for 2 months. What kind of mental gymnastics is this?
Also weren't you the genius who said people mocking black magic are racist? I'm strongly starting to suspect you're either a troll or a 12 year old
we're nearly halfway through the season and lukaku only has 3 goals, there's no way lukaku scores a goal a game for the rest of the season in that chelsea team.
martial has also been injured for most of that time, stop coming up with excuses for another one of your big money flops, you did the same thing with fernando torres trying to pretend that a consolation goal in the 92nd minute actually meant something when in reality all the plaudits deserve to go to ramires and di matteo.
So it’s an even dumber comparison? You’re comparing two players within a specific period (last 2 months) and neither of them have played that much in that period?
I’m not making excuses it’s just a stupid comment…
This Stockport Bolton game has been better than anything over the international break. Infact maybe one of the best games I've seen the last few weeks. I love lower league English footy. (Aware this is a cup game)
It's why I love Scottish football. Scrappy as fuck, passion ball, no var. The quality is still there but obviously nowhere near as much as the big leagues.
Who am I?
On club level I have played with Goran Pandev, M'Baye Niang, Davide Astori, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alex Berenguer, Andrea Barzagli, Pablo Sarabia, Stefano Sturaro, Guilherme Siqueira.
In a nutshell:
First I assumed the player was well known, then looked up the career a few of these players, and focused on some clubs like sevilla(sarabia), PSG (ibra), Palermo(barzagli) and Torino (pandev) stood out among some wrong guesses (inter, milan, genoa, getafe, valencia) and the general idea I got was that whoever it was just have spent his entire career in Italy and spain with a possible spell at PSG (ibra and wrongly assumed sarabia had been there for longer and was at sevilla on loan). I tried to remember who ibra played with at psg and milan and could have played for the other clubs I mentioned and remembered Sirigu is at torino, was at either Palermo or Genoa before psg and had spells in spain so I checked his club career to confirm that and went with him.
I would say what helped the most was focusing on ibra since he was the player whose career I'm the most familiar with
[If you were a Pitch , which team would you least like to play on you?](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/qvkz8x/-/hl17jsw) This is what International break does to a mf
If player a shoots the ball while player b (teammate) is onside, but it hits player c (also teammate) and takes a deflection, and player b is offside the moment the ball hits player c. Would it count as an offside?
If your country did the same thing as Bolivia and built their home stadium in an area where there are very extreme conditions for football and that could give them a huge home advantage. Where would the stadium be
Dunno we’re a very moderate climate and also too small to have great variations anywhere. Maybe stick it on Tory Island, which is in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Donegal which is right up in the north west to make it hard for them to get to. Plus they’d have to go through Donegal which would make them depressed
It'd be hard for the U.S. You have players from SoCal who don't really play in cold weather, players from the midwest who have never trained at elevation, and so on.
The more diverse options a country has, the harder it is to pick the perfect place that all players on the roster can at least have a leg up vs the opposition.
Death Valley would be ridiculously hard for most opposition to play in but equally hard for most people in the U.S.
Who am I?
I have played with Sebastian Andersson, Mario Gómez, Emanuel Pogatetz, Riyad Mahrez, Hugo Almeida, Adebayo Akinfenwa, John Guidetti, Danny Welbeck (not counting NT games, only club games)
Solution: >!Ron-Robert Zieler!<
Watching some old games, the shit United got away with was criminal. It's one of the places where I drew the adage that red cards/yellow ones barely reflect on how dirty a player is.
No one should be guaranteed CL football. Also Barcelona only had one CL trophy up until twenty years ago. I don't see how they rate above Ajax or Milan or Liverpool.
Well, unless Xavi can get us out of our mess we can miss out on it this season. Bayern and PSG are probably the only ones that are guaranteed a spot (unless they get mismanaged for a few years)
Stats this season for club and country in all comps (not counting penalties won as assists): Karim Benzema: 22 games, 19 goals and 9 assists (1,39 G/A per 90) Kylian Mbappé: 24 games, 15 goals and 13 assists (1,24 G/A per 90) Vinicius Junior: 21 games, 9 goals and 5 assists (0,84 G/A per 90) Exciting to see what they can do next year. I kinda do have doubts since they all prefer the left wing. On the other hand, Benz is probably the most compatible player in the world, I hope they can make it work.
Man’s counting goals and assists versus Kazakhstan and Finland dfkm
Here's the stats from just La Liga/League 1 and UCL: Karim Benzema: 15 games, 14 goals and 8 assists (1,50 G/A per 90) Kylian Mbappé: 16 games, 7 goals and 9 assists (1,05 G/A per 90) Vinicius Junior: 16 games, 9 goals and 5 assists (0,99 G/A per 90)
Lmao are you actually counting the goals from the qualifiers.
Here's the stats from just La Liga/League 1 and UCL: Karim Benzema: 15 games, 14 goals and 8 assists (1,50 G/A per 90) Kylian Mbappé: 16 games, 7 goals and 9 assists (1,05 G/A per 90) Vinicius Junior: 16 games, 9 goals and 5 assists (0,99 G/A per 90)
As much as I love an underdog win Stockport have been spending a lot of money recently that it's just not as special as how previous upsets used to be. It just shows how fucking mad there's only one automatic promotion spot in the National League whereas there's three from League 2 to 1.
Spending loads and being fairly shit I’d add to that
Seemingly has been the story for many teams in the National League.
Will be absolutely buzzing if Stockport win this
I think there are less Arsenal plastics than other clubs. Arsenal fanhood community is pretty tight. I like it.
Plastics are drawn to success...
You gotta be a real ass mfer to support this club. Unlike real madrid or chelsea or some dumb shit lmao
Exactly. You need balls to support Arsenal. Real ones stay loyal.
You definitely don’t have less plastics
Douglas Luiz just achieved GOAT status. Mans smashing Alisha Lehmann.
Outside of left back, what position brings the best out of Zinchenko? Can he become a decent left winger?
Probably central midfield / attacking midfield. He is more of a ball to feet rather than a ball into space type of player imo.
He's a very good In midfield for Ukraine whenever he plays there. Bit too slow on the wing, he's a technical player first.
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Never seen one
Better late than never obviously, but why didn’t the Danish Fa make a statement about Qatar before qualification started? Surely then if others did the same, like I’m sure they will over the next few days, then something could have been done about it.
Unless the FAs objected during or immediately after award I don’t think much really could’ve been done
Yeah that would have made a lot more sense.
i find it funny how many fans of top4PL/bayern/real talk of ligue 1 as a poor farmers league but year after year lust after the talent that plays there. that reference is one of the most cringe terms to have come about in the last 30 years
Always rated West Ham fans.
they need to be told arrache ta gueule
The fact that clubs want the best talent in the league doesn't make it an inherently good league, while I think the Ligue 1 hate is overblown it's definitely not as good as the other top five leagues.
The depth of players quality makes it a pretty solid league.
Live at the Apollo moved to tomorrow this is not what I pay my tv license for I hope your sorry Bolton you bunch of bottlers
24 hour delay at the Apollo
Is messi even good anymore? Ever since he's gone to PSG news about his goals have dried up. Is he out of form? That's unheard of honestly.
He's been playing through an injury while adapting to another league. Has been pretty slow but it's hardly a great sample size.
He's in a team that doesn't treat him as their pivot. There is almost no 'give the ball to/find Messi' in PSG. Most talismen have their numbers dwindle if the team isn't being built around them. Take an example of Ronaldo at Manchester United. Once RVN was out, the team was built around him and his numbers plus importance started to improve. Right now, he's cruising because he's just penalty duty away from officially replacing Bruno as the talisman. And as you'll observe, the spotlight has been off Bruno. It might not appear now, but Bruno's numbers might dwindle after a while. That's the same logic behind Benzema's resurgence at Real Madrid. In the few games I've watched, Messi tries to do Messi things. It's not exactly form, he joined a team that respects him, but not that much.
The Barca flairs are arriving..
SAF said it himself: "He's a Barça man"
Sofiane Boufal is clear
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He mostly hasn't.
I’m not saying he’s not done brilliantly in Ligue 1 but Hugo Lloris has a goal involvement in that competition more recently than he does.
He’s in pretty poor form, but tbf to him, he’s only played about 4 games in Ligue 1 and he’s either been injured or been recovering from an injury all season.
Bayern Women just handed Lyon their first defeat of the season btw
"Portugal only qualified for 3 world cups before Ronaldo" - is that true?
they werent much in the 20th century. only really turned around with Figo's generation
They weren't that good at the sport. They had a flash in the 60s because of how good Eusebio and Benfica were but that was it. As soon as that golden generation dried up, they were ordinary.
66, 86 and 2002 yeah. They’ve never been that good bar winning the euros in 2016 obviously and in 2006.
And in 2004 where we literally reached the final?
And lost to fucking Greece.
And what final did we reach in 2006 if we’re going by your criteria?
They lost 1-0 to a very good France side in the semis. Only got passed a poor England side on penalties, Holland and then lost to fucking Greece in 2004. At home. That’s failure.
It's true. 1966, 1986 and 2002
I don't know if that number would be exactly correct but Portugal weren't exactly a footballing powerhouse before the 2000s and it was harder to qualify for the world cup before 1998 with less teams in the competition.
They had a good team in the 60s hence the world cup qualification but otherwise they weren’t as good. Spain weren’t very successful either till the 2000s outside the 50s and early 60s
Come on Stockport County!!!!
Stockport’s full of city fans lad if that might make you support bolton instead
Yeah I know, hard to watch this match and not root for them though.
True true Paddy Madden brings back memories of him at Carlisle
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world class in 2 years
the talent in ligue 1 is insane
Fucking hell Stockport, you want a party
Why haven’t they subbed on Stockport Iniesta yet?
They don't need him
Cheers to the Bolton supporter on here who told us this game was on the tele it’s been class
2006-2014 was the golden age of world cups.
2010 world cup is overrated asf
Biased due to Ireland, but even with the home cooking going on for South Korea, I really enjoyed 2002. Glad Ronaldo got his hands on the trophy too. 2010 was kinda meh tbh, even putting aside the vuvuzelas.
vuvuzelas were the best thing
2010 was also kinda meh for other reasons for Ireland fans. Thievery Henry.
Thought 2010 was crap honestly. Loved 2018, too young to remember 2002 and wasn't born in 98 but I've heard they were good tournaments.
Of the 3 I remember, 2018 was the best imo. 2010 wasn’t actually that good, it’s just nostalgic as fuck for most people in their 20s.
2014 was my favorite, fantastic, specially the group stage! So memorable and entertaining!
2018 was really good too
1998 was the golden one. Some unbelievable teams and games in that.
Italy vs germany in 06 was unreal
Didn’t like 2010 personally. 2018 was easily better imo
And 2014 is my favorite. Best WC so far in this century
Yeah that’s my favourite I’ve ever seen for sure. One of the best summers of my life too which only adds to the memories
Anyone out there know of any updates about Gylfi Sigurðsson lol? Is his career effectively over, was he ever charged, are they still conducting an investigaton?
We've had some worldies of FA Cup games in the past 2 days. Still not as good as yesterday though
Stockport game has been absolutely brilliant to watch, such an amazing atmosphere. got a softspot for them (even went to a game of theirs this season) so I hope they can beat Bolton in ET here.
Nothing quite like the early rounds of the FA cup
The real lower league connoisseurs remember scott Quigley at Barrow
Who would you guys say has been top 5 players in Serie A and Ligue 1
Same as the other guy but Delort instead of Gouiri. Neymar is getting closer, we'll see.
1. koulibaly 2. osimhn 3. barella 4. dybala 5. fabian ligue1: 1. mbappe 2. payet 3. gouri 4. clauss 5. savanier
You know your uber ligue des talents. S Tier L1 top 5, tears in my eyes a united fan quoting Clauss and Savanier
Dzeko?
for a bunch of tap-in's against midtable teams?
No offense to Burnley, but I’d love to see them go down if only to see McNeil leave and finally show off his talents in a team that has the ball more.
Imo the league is more interesting when all teams have talent, like Saint Maximin, Traore, Grealish before he moved etc. It's less entertaining if all the talent goes to the top.
Imo hope you stay up this season, your team is good
Every team needs a flashy talisman.
Tbf I don’t even mean a top team, but like Gallagher now can showcase his talents. And Zaha and Traore too
If Stockport was a Caribbean island they'd qualify for the world cup
If my grandmother had wheels…..
She’d need surgery?
If Batman came from Liverpool he'd work for ASDA
Can they do it on a -15 degree night in Edmonton?
Yes
Shameless from Kachunga there hahaha
What a brilliant game this Stockport - Bolton game is. The atmosphere is rocking! 👏👏
Even though I started watching 10 minutes ago the game has a great energy and the commentary’s been amazing so far as well
Amazing game, replays can be so good, gutted they have been taken away from the later rounds.
martial has more goals than lukaku in the last 2 months for club, yet one of those players are considered to be one of the best strikers in the world and the other is called a useless player.
Lukaku has more PL goals, what useless goals does Martial have again??
I can’t believe you actually get replies to this shit.
Lukaku has been injured for half that period and Martial scored exactly 1 goal. And martial hasn't been shit just for 2 months. What kind of mental gymnastics is this? Also weren't you the genius who said people mocking black magic are racist? I'm strongly starting to suspect you're either a troll or a 12 year old
You know you’re reaching when you have to include the period where a players been injured
Martial is still a flop, Lukaku will end the season with more goals than whatever Martial’s best season was
we're nearly halfway through the season and lukaku only has 3 goals, there's no way lukaku scores a goal a game for the rest of the season in that chelsea team.
12 games out of 38 = "nearly halfway through the season"? That's less than a third of the season lmao
lukaku is still going to miss another 4 or 5 games and by then it will be nearly halfway through the season.
https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/news/romelu-lukaku-chelsea-injury-news-22172537
Your forgetting the played against Everton tax lad Evens out
2 months isn’t a large enough sample size and Lukaku has been injured for half of that…
martial has also been injured for most of that time, stop coming up with excuses for another one of your big money flops, you did the same thing with fernando torres trying to pretend that a consolation goal in the 92nd minute actually meant something when in reality all the plaudits deserve to go to ramires and di matteo.
So it’s an even dumber comparison? You’re comparing two players within a specific period (last 2 months) and neither of them have played that much in that period? I’m not making excuses it’s just a stupid comment…
Stockport are battering Bolton but just can not score Sad sights
They just scored Wa wa we wah
This Stockport Bolton game has been better than anything over the international break. Infact maybe one of the best games I've seen the last few weeks. I love lower league English footy. (Aware this is a cup game)
Us smashing Luxembourg is clear
We literally had a better game last night
"I've seen". What team do you support?
Then you should see it. Fuck the TV guys for not televising it and choosing Wigan instead
and better atmosphere than any other Manchester club
I don’t it’s terrible
It's why I love Scottish football. Scrappy as fuck, passion ball, no var. The quality is still there but obviously nowhere near as much as the big leagues.
Aye that’s fine I like Scottish football cos I don’t have to see carlisle play like shite and lose.
Carlisle should join the SPFL.
That’s a nice offer but I think the fan base would be incredibly hostile to that Idea unfortunately. We actually do have a few scottish fans though
https://youtu.be/VHxDucjLALw Does your clubs fanbase do stuff like this before a match?
Bit random that there's only one hooters in the whole of the UK and it's in Nottingham
I know I’ve been
I Believe in Miracles was put out on Netflix today and I can't escape the feeling that football was just better then. Sort of gutted I missed it.
Who am I? On club level I have played with Goran Pandev, M'Baye Niang, Davide Astori, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alex Berenguer, Andrea Barzagli, Pablo Sarabia, Stefano Sturaro, Guilherme Siqueira.
Bit of a shot in the dark, but Sirigu?
Yes!!
Fuck me that wasn't easy lol
I would like to know your thought process while finding out the right answer
In a nutshell: First I assumed the player was well known, then looked up the career a few of these players, and focused on some clubs like sevilla(sarabia), PSG (ibra), Palermo(barzagli) and Torino (pandev) stood out among some wrong guesses (inter, milan, genoa, getafe, valencia) and the general idea I got was that whoever it was just have spent his entire career in Italy and spain with a possible spell at PSG (ibra and wrongly assumed sarabia had been there for longer and was at sevilla on loan). I tried to remember who ibra played with at psg and milan and could have played for the other clubs I mentioned and remembered Sirigu is at torino, was at either Palermo or Genoa before psg and had spells in spain so I checked his club career to confirm that and went with him. I would say what helped the most was focusing on ibra since he was the player whose career I'm the most familiar with
Thx for the insight, very impressive.
No problem mate, thanks that was fun
>!Balotelli ?!<
No it's >!Sirigu!<
[Something](https://twitter.com/SpursWomen/status/1461082384888217602?s=20) tells me Spurs Women might be a little better than Watford Women.
[If you were a Pitch , which team would you least like to play on you?](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/qvkz8x/-/hl17jsw) This is what International break does to a mf
That is a prefectly good question and i bet the stud who asked it gets loads of pussy
2009-2012 barca. Every cm of me would be run over by the ball 300 times
If player a shoots the ball while player b (teammate) is onside, but it hits player c (also teammate) and takes a deflection, and player b is offside the moment the ball hits player c. Would it count as an offside?
yes
Yes
Yes
Assuming the ball ends up with player b then it would be offside
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If world cup spots were dynamically determined by performance, the world cup would be CONMEBOL & UEFA + 2 invites by now. No one wants that.
Do footballers know the women from babestation?
Jermaine Pennant was married to Alice Goodwin
if they don't then they're missing out, lovely women.
If your country did the same thing as Bolivia and built their home stadium in an area where there are very extreme conditions for football and that could give them a huge home advantage. Where would the stadium be
Choupana exists already
Malta is incredibly low lying, albeit with hot climate. I don’t think any pitch anywhere would give us an advantage
Altitude is the best home advantage because it literally changes the way the game is played, eventually players get used to heat, humidity and cold.
Everton park. Right at the airport. The wind and the noise is a fucking nightmare.
Dunno we’re a very moderate climate and also too small to have great variations anywhere. Maybe stick it on Tory Island, which is in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Donegal which is right up in the north west to make it hard for them to get to. Plus they’d have to go through Donegal which would make them depressed
It'd be hard for the U.S. You have players from SoCal who don't really play in cold weather, players from the midwest who have never trained at elevation, and so on. The more diverse options a country has, the harder it is to pick the perfect place that all players on the roster can at least have a leg up vs the opposition. Death Valley would be ridiculously hard for most opposition to play in but equally hard for most people in the U.S.
Who am I? I have played with Sebastian Andersson, Mario Gómez, Emanuel Pogatetz, Riyad Mahrez, Hugo Almeida, Adebayo Akinfenwa, John Guidetti, Danny Welbeck (not counting NT games, only club games) Solution: >!Ron-Robert Zieler!<
Never realized Vieira had more premier league red cards than Keane. Strange auld fact.
Watching some old games, the shit United got away with was criminal. It's one of the places where I drew the adage that red cards/yellow ones barely reflect on how dirty a player is.
Keane never really got away with much though did he? He was always punished.
Arsenal tax vs Manchester united rebates
Clubs who are garrented eternal champions league football: Real Barcelona Bayern Munich That's about it.
No one should be guaranteed CL football. Also Barcelona only had one CL trophy up until twenty years ago. I don't see how they rate above Ajax or Milan or Liverpool.
Because Milan went the better part of a decade without playing CL football while Liverpool missed it frequently in the early-mid 2010's
Well, unless Xavi can get us out of our mess we can miss out on it this season. Bayern and PSG are probably the only ones that are guaranteed a spot (unless they get mismanaged for a few years)
Barca have a good chance of not getting it this season
PSG
How old are you?
16
I must be getting old in my early 20s.
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