The Official Football/Soccer Thread: 2017-2018 Season
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End of The Spanish "Supercopa". The tournament between the League and Cup champions. Valencia won 3-2 the first match but Real Madrid has won 4-2 this one. One of the strangest match ever. Silva makes the first goal in minute 30. 0-1 Real Madrid playing very bad then. Van der Vaart, red card in minute 35- Van Nistelrooy scores a penalty in minute 50, playing with 10. Red card for Van Nistelrooy in minute 55. Real Madrid plays with 9 against 11 and scores 3 goals to 4-1. Morientes scores at the end for Valencia and 4-2. Football is so complicated that taking some players out of your team can be good sometimes. Even two, I don't know of any other sport like this. Robinho was with the substitutes but didn't play.
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Why do I get the feeling Liverpool will now go on and lift the trophy? : Mixed feelings about the Atletico-Schalke result. My two favorite clubs are FC Cologne and FC Barcelona, so the Bundesliga and La Liga are the leagues I tend to follow the most. I like to see them represented well in Europe, and realistically Atletico v Schalke could have been a Round of 16 matchup. Now the Bundesliga is down to only two clubs in the Champions League. On the other hand, I love the prospects of La Liga sides doing well in the CL this season. Villarreal and Atletico have had a great summer spending spree getting good value for money spent. The Fantasy Football game for the Champions League should be up in a couple of weeks. I'll post the link for anyone interested. Daniel and I have played alone for a while and I think he needs some better challengers. I tend to do well in the UEFA Cup version though.
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Draw live now at uefa.com
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Group Stage will be from Sep 16th to Dec 12th. After the end of the league there will be a new draw. 2008/09 UEFA Champions League group stage Group A ...................................Group B Chelsea FC (ENG) ......................FC Internazionale Milano (ITA) AS Roma (ITA) ..........................Werder Bremen (GER) FC Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA) Panathinaikos FC (GRE) CFR 1907 Cluj (ROU) ................Anorthosis Famagusta FC (CYP) Group C.................................... Group D FC Barcelona (ESP).................... Liverpool FC (ENG) Sporting Clube de Portugal (POR) PSV Eindhoven (NED) FC Basel 1893 (SUI) ................... Olympique de Marseille (FRA) FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)........ Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP) Group E ....................................Group F Manchester United FC (ENG) ...... Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) Villarreal CF (ESP) ..................... FC Bayern München (GER) Celtic FC (SCO) ......................... FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU) Aalborg BK (DEN)...................... ACF Fiorentina (ITA) Group G.................................... Group H Arsenal FC (ENG) ...................... Real Madrid CF (ESP) FC Porto (POR) .......................... Juventus (ITA) Fenerbahçe SK (TUR) ................. FC Zenit St. Petersburg (RUS) FC Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) .............. FC BATE Borisov (BLR)
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Beckham caught offside.
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well... Victoria is crazy... so insecure that she can't stand he even looks at other women... she actually said that her marriage is only suffering for her, thinking Beckham's gonna go away with some... it's only a Spice Girl. 16 days to the start of the Champions League. They should put the Fantasy Football soon. Who joins? I join.
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The time has come, Spanish League begins.
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No players from Villarreal in those pics. And I'm calling it now: Villarreal will win the league.
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21st Century Paul:
The time has come, Spanish League begins.
He plays in Villarreal. Well, I don't think Barça is a fav to be league and there's a lot of his players above. For me the main fav is Real Madrid, then Villarreal, and then Valencia and Atletico de Madrid.
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21st Century Paul:
He plays in Villarreal.
Ah, I can't believe I missed Senna. ops: Torres out of Spain's squad because of injury, replaced by Raúl. Er, I mean Bojan, Raúl's lookalike.
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unclesox:
21st Century Paul:
He plays in Villarreal.
Ah, I can't believe I missed Senna. ops: Torres out of Spain's squad because of injury, replaced by Raúl. Er, I mean Bojan, Raúl's lookalike.
and the Barça hope to score goals when a defence goes back, he's the most similar player to Raul in the team(Probably you would say "fortunately" about this...)
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NEWS: Robinho just sold, in the last minute to Chelsea 42 milions. I don't think Robinho is a big big player but Real Madrid hasn't got many wings, now only Robben. And Real Madrid has sold this year for much more money than they have bought
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Big mistake, Robinho to Manchester CITY not Chelsea. And Quaresma to Inter are the 2 biggest names now the market is closed. Robinho said clearly he didn't want to play in Real Madrid so he was sold. That's the difference with another clubs like Manchester United, for instance. I feel this year is not gonna be too good there with Cristiano not so happy. Other signings: Spanish player Riera (another one) to Liverpool from Espanyol and Finnan to Espanyol Diego Milito to Genoa. Corluka to Tottenham. Well and Pele to porto. Not the best Pele though.
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Hey do you think Fantasy Football is gonna happen this year? Only 10 days left to the start, and there's nothing. People should have to form teams and leagues very quickly. Today the World Cup starts. England plays against Andorra in Barcelona!, not the Camp Nou but the Olympic Stadium, used all these years for Espanyol. And USA in Cuba!.
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21st Century Paul:
Hey do you think Fantasy Football is gonna happen this year? Only 10 days left to the start, and there's nothing. People should have to form teams and leagues very quickly.
It should be up sometime midweek. Here's the link it should eventually appear on. http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/M/home.mc They still have last season's game still up even though it now says "Play the official 2008/09 UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football game".
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Well, a famous teacher of the Business Faculty of Barcelona (one of my ex-teachers) has revealed that the spanish league clubs are in economic disaster. They owe such a big quantity of money that's close to what they have. Bordering bankrupcty. All disguised in the accounts, as usual, so it's not so easy to see. Schuster summer signing plans revealed too. Over Cristiano Ronaldo... -One forward: Villa or Luis Fabiano -One creative midfielder: Cesc or Diego -One defensive midfielder: De Rossi well Schuster is not silly... : -Alves to play as right back or right midfielder -One left back: Lahm They said to him that if Cristiano was signed there would be no money to sign anyone more. No Cristiano, and then no signings. Schuster didn't ask for Van der Vaart, now he may seem a good signing being Sneijer injured, but in the long run... Schuster thinks Marcelo can't defend and Heinze can't attack (bingo!) so he wanted Lahm : but no money for him for being focused then on Ronaldo. Roma wanted 40 milions for De Rossi. (for me it's allright!) Alves went to Barça and Madrid not even tried. Villa was tried in the last moment. A 60 milion offer they say, but Valencia should sell the player and then not have time to sign any forward. Wenger didn't want Cesc to go. Nothing to do, so Schuster doesn't complains of this. And Diego didn't liked to the "club". So, same old thing. Balls to the forwards, Diarra stops the attacks but never begins one. And "pray" to the 2 saints. Saint Iker and Saint Raúl.
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unclesox:
21st Century Paul:
Hey do you think Fantasy Football is gonna happen this year? Only 10 days left to the start, and there's nothing. People should have to form teams and leagues very quickly.
It should be up sometime midweek. Here's the link it should eventually appear on. http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/M/home.mc They still have last season's game still up even though it now says "Play the official 2008/09 UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football game".
I checked the link this morning... nothing. Just checked it now, and... "UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football The game is currently being updated. Please try again later when the updated scores will be available." WOO HOO! It should be up and running on Friday.
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Ok- didn't see this one a few weeks ago when I started mine. I hope it has been merged...
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Feel free to merge this one with the already existing one...
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unclesox:
unclesox:
21st Century Paul:
Hey do you think Fantasy Football is gonna happen this year? Only 10 days left to the start, and there's nothing. People should have to form teams and leagues very quickly.
It should be up sometime midweek. Here's the link it should eventually appear on. http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/M/home.mc They still have last season's game still up even though it now says "Play the official 2008/09 UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football game".
I checked the link this morning... nothing. Just checked it now, and... "UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football The game is currently being updated. Please try again later when the updated scores will be available." WOO HOO! It should be up and running on Friday.
it already works, mate. Something runs in this world... oh my, I don't know if we will end the league after checking the news, but let's start...