The Official Football/Soccer Thread: 2017-2018 Season
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yes, kind of the same I expected. Goal in the minute 113 instead of minute 116, though.
There were like 7 red cards that were not shown, as expected... so not a great match to watch, only great for the emotion of being the final of the world cup. I've just picked in some web poll my fav XI of the world cup and also is the XI choosen by most of the people of the website, except for Neymar. Neuer Lahm Hummels Thiago Silva Blind Kroos Mascherano James R. Robben Muller Neymar As for the best player, I don't know, the best players of the tournament also did huge mistakes. Lahm, Neuer, Hummels, Kro0s, maybe it was James but I haven't seen him enough to know it. Or maybe Robben. If it's for a great performance without mistakes then it's for David Villa
. He only played 60 minutes but did a fantastic match against Australia.
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...and now the useless and not serious at all Brains, Heart and Ball awards. The Golden Balls is for Neuer. For all his courage in going out of the area to stop the attacks and his usual confidence. The Golden Heart is for Mascherano and all his leadership on his team, he was the real coach, the real captain, etc. The Golden Brain is not easy. I haven't seen much of James Rodriguez but he seemed to do just what he had to do every moment. Maybe Robben for definitely giving up his selfish playing and refraining to dribble causing many goals like that.
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And the final result of our league, Fantasy Football of this world cup. 1 Oliver Sanz (me) 742 2 unclesox 664 3 daniel 629 The rules of this have given extra points to the defenders because of points for stopping shots, recovering balls, etc. At first I didn't know what they were gonna consider a "recovered ball", it wasn't the same as in the Champions League. Then after the group stage I just looked for the defenders with more points, kind of the ones with more points for recovered balls they way they count them. And then choose as much as possible of them. They scored more points that the forwards and they were cheaper, so... And as usual I give a prize to myself for winning our league. hmmmm... I want to hear Paul singing with Led Zeppelin Okey! Whola Lotta Helter Skelter
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21st Century Paul:
Also it would be great for football cause people use to copy winners... so if Argentina wins playing defensive, boring and violent, well... That's how Argentina is supposed to play the final "not risking balls" the coach says, I guess that is defensive and boring. And "with a lot of attitude" in a way that kind of means doing anything to stop the rivals. Good luck to the referee. I guess it's gonna be similar to the final of World Cup 2010 with Germany instead of Spain and Argentina instead of Netherlands.
Argentina, violent? Which World Cup were you watching? 1978? Argentina weren't "violent" in any way, shape or form. Certainly nowhere near the way Holland played the 2010 final nor the way Brazil played in this tournament. Going into the tournament Argentina's defence was suppose to be their biggest weakness. Instead, they were very organized throughout and impressed many. I would argue that their defending is what carried them to the final. Never thought I'd say that with Demichelis playing but even he was solid. Apart from Messi in the group stage their vaunted fire power went missing for most of the tournament. Higuian blew two glorious chances in the final (where they sorely missed Di Maria). Messi being named Player of the Tournament is laughable and I say that wearing rose-colored Barcelona glasses. Just on the Argentina team alone Mascherano and Romero were better. To see Argentina labeled as playing "violent" stuns me more than that 7-1 scoreline in the semis.
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LFC (Liverpool Football Club) @ Yankee Stadium July 30th! Maybe their most famous fan will be attending??? Hope so. Every tour since 64
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thewordispaul:
LFC (Liverpool Football Club) @ Yankee Stadium July 30th! Maybe their most famous fan will be attending??? Hope so. Every tour since 64
I would be shocked - lol jk !!
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I thought he was an Everton fan?
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unclesox:
21st Century Paul:
Also it would be great for football cause people use to copy winners... so if Argentina wins playing defensive, boring and violent, well... That's how Argentina is supposed to play the final "not risking balls" the coach says, I guess that is defensive and boring. And "with a lot of attitude" in a way that kind of means doing anything to stop the rivals. Good luck to the referee. I guess it's gonna be similar to the final of World Cup 2010 with Germany instead of Spain and Argentina instead of Netherlands.
Argentina, violent? Which World Cup were you watching? 1978? Argentina weren't "violent" in any way, shape or form. Certainly nowhere near the way Holland played the 2010 final nor the way Brazil played in this tournament. Going into the tournament Argentina's defence was suppose to be their biggest weakness. Instead, they were very organized throughout and impressed many. I would argue that their defending is what carried them to the final. Never thought I'd say that with Demichelis playing but even he was solid. Apart from Messi in the group stage their vaunted fire power went missing for most of the tournament. Higuian blew two glorious chances in the final (where they sorely missed Di Maria). Messi being named Player of the Tournament is laughable and I say that wearing rose-colored Barcelona glasses. Just on the Argentina team alone Mascherano and Romero were better. To see Argentina labeled as playing "violent" stuns me more than that 7-1 scoreline in the semis.
I haven't logged here for some time, I'm answering a thing from 2 months ago but... I said "If...." "if Argentina plays violent", I didn't mean that they played the World Cup like that but that it looked that the could play like that against Germany.
Yes, great Argentina defence on the cup. Especially Mascherano that defences a lot better when in the midfield. And the Messi thing was a joke, even Maradona and Barça supporters agree. You know, I kind of think this "official best player in the world" things are kind of always a joke... kind of like the Oscars or the Grammies... they're just show-biz.
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Hi unclesox... Fantasy?.
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21st Century Paul:
Hi unclesox... Fantasy?.
Oh, is it that time already?
I renewed the league so you and Daniel should automatically be entered. But just in case, here are the details... UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football 2014-15 http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/library/redirect/_fantasy.html code: 950905-610432 Any and all new players are always welcome to join. Don't be afraid. It's all for fun.
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unclesox:
Any and all new players are always welcome to join. Don't be afraid. It's all for fun.
I think we are too intimidating
We three always finish in the top positions... Well, we're only 3 so the worst someone could do if he joined us is finishing in the 4rd place...
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After round 1: 1 me 55 2 daniel 49 3 unclesox 47 You're gonna see something strange in my points in this round cause I thought I had played the wildcard, but I haven't. Though hours ago the game said "you are playing your wildcard"... well now my "wildcard" is avalaible... Anyway I've done 11 transfers, so -20 points for this round. I guess.
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I still don't know if I have played my wildcard or not
. In our league I seem to have 109 points, 54 this matchday. But in my team's page I have scored 34 (-20 due to 11 transfers) So our score now is 1 me? lol 109 points (or maybe 89 points) 2 (or maybe 1st) daniel 92 3 unclesox 86
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Hey Oliver, have seen Paul's twitter chat? Check this one out...
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unclesox:
Hey Oliver, have seen Paul's twitter chat? Check this one out...
How can we can convince him to join our fantasy football league?I guess he means playing football not watching it. (As I only come here sometimes I'm gonna write a lot now like in the old days) I've noticed there's kind of connection between singing and playing soccer. First I heard about Bob Marley liking so much playing soccer that he kind of died because he didn't want to lose his feet or so to end his cancer. Then you can see the 3 tenors playing soccer in their rehearsals, lol. Then John Lennon was said to doubt between playing soccer or forming a rock and roll band. And I guest the list is big... Elton owned a club, etc. I had no idea about Paul. I guess the way to convince Paul would be writing a song about it or so.
If I wrote a song about Meat Free Monday I think I could do it but I'm not gonna, lol. Now if someone joins us with a nickname as Ramon... SergioRamon maybe, then i would think it's him playing with us.
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standings 1 me 231 (62 this round) 2 unclesox (72) and daniel (61) 212 In the end I didn't play my wildcard. Or that's the game says. Btw Messi and CR7 are about to surpass Raul's record of goals in the Champions League. Not even a Raul fan like me understand how he scored so many goals in Europe. He never scored so many goals as Messi or CR7 but he was one of the very best ever in scoring the first goal against difficult teams... and maybe that's why he scored so much in the Champions and not so much in the Spanish league. In the end scoring the 1-0 is way more important than scoring the 6-0
. But goals statitics don't care about that so we have Messi and CR7 in a battle to score goals when their teams alredy are winning the match by 5-0 or so. In basketball that is called "Playing for stats", I think. Well, what can I say, not so long ago assistences were not even a stat and many people now realizes that the guy making the pass can be more important than the one scoring the goal, etc. The Beatles (briging back the topic to Paul) were excellent at being at team and not four egos trying to show off or so. The best teams are about that.
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standings just before the start of the quarterfinals: 1 me 503 2 unclesox 456 3 daniel 431
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standings of the fantasy: me 602 unclesox 532 daniel 501
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we're going to have the best possible semifinals... I don't like Chelsea. I'm one of those who would want Xavi to stay at Barça but he doesn't play much. For me he is still one of the best players.
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i wasn't able to change my lineup before the quarterfinals, first leg. Totally forgot about it and by the time I tried 30 minutes before the deadline the website was experiencing a lot of traffic and wouldn't let anyone through. Made many changes before second leg so I had to use my wild card. Yes, four very strong clubs in the semifinals!
And they all have a great history in the competition. Of course, I'm hoping for a Barcelona v Juventus final. Xavi has been a great Blaugrana player and has really surprised people this season after poor form last season. But he is better as a substitute these days. Rakitic has by far been the club's best summer signing. Brought in to replace Cesc and has probably had the best first season in the Barca midfield since Deco in 2005. Rakitic is a big reason why Xavi is no longer part of the 'Once de Gala'. Barca also got a better return when they brought in Luis Suarez to replace Alexis. Suarez has 22 goals this season despite missing the first two months through his World Cup suspension. Alexis has been much better with Arsenal than he was with Barca so a great move for everyone involved.