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The 2024-2025 Football Thread
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Worth to mention……Barça took all the first 3 places.
To me Barça are a team-machine more then anything else.
……and I think Bonmati still have a long way to go before she beats the best female player ever, which she probably never do!
Marta have played in many teams, and has been way better then I've seen Bonmati ever been.
Unfortunately we will most likely never see Bonmati in another team - to see what she could do more personally without Barça.
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That’s why I’m hoping they appeal and the points deduction goes into next season.
It is remarkable how their form has disappeared. Yes they are missing key players, but those that remain can’t even get the basics right.
Their decision making and defensive errors are shocking at times.
The blatant way Walker tried to get a player sent off at the weekend was disgusting.
Barça - MCity 3 - 0. With Miedema still on recovery after ACL, and Bunny out for visa-problem.
A different, not exiting, match comparing with last meeting - which MCity won.
Rolfö got the last 20ich minutes only. Hope she goes to another team soon so she gets more quality time - don't think she've played in England. But I bet she likes the spanish weather more 😂
Hammarby won against St. Pölten 2 - 1. But more important secured something about future Swedish WCL participation, that I heard something about. That's good.
Arsenal - Bayern München, 3 - 2, and I am going to sleep soon. Swedes in both teams, but hoped for Bayern to win, our captain are there. But Arsenal got a penalty late, so...good for them.
A different, not exiting, match comparing with last meeting - which MCity won.
Rolfö got the last 20ich minutes only. Hope she goes to another team soon so she gets more quality time - don't think she've played in England. But I bet she likes the spanish weather more 😂
Hammarby won against St. Pölten 2 - 1. But more important secured something about future Swedish WCL participation, that I heard something about. That's good.
Arsenal - Bayern München, 3 - 2, and I am going to sleep soon. Swedes in both teams, but hoped for Bayern to win, our captain are there. But Arsenal got a penalty late, so...good for them.
Putellas and Bonmati on the score sheet but both teams tied on points anyway.
EDIT: Rashford excluded from squad again tonight which all but signals his exit
EDIT: Rashford excluded from squad again tonight which all but signals his exit
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Time for a fresh start to relaunch his career. Perhaps in Germany or Spain.
Agree completely.
I think that the pressure (of those 130 charges - this is not a negligible number) is - or may be - finally getting to them.
Agreed.
Outrageous.
What is funny - to my mind, at least - is the fact that all of those little things - a bounce of a ball, a completed pass, a decision by a referee, timing, positioning, - accidents, mistakes, errors, all going your way - all that stuff, all those things - lady Luck, or, the fates, if you like - that used to just almost always "fall right" for Manchester City over the past half decade or so, are now tripping them up and turning against them, as their season spectacularly unspools.
Yes, a very telling omission.
And, that second half was hilarious: I found myself asking which of those two almost comically error-prone teams could contrive to lose this fixture?
Looking forward to see Sam Kerr back in Chelsea, in hopefully early February, after her ACL injury.
It will sharpen up Chelsea a great deal.
Rytting-Karneryd have taken some big steps forward lately too - she even got the Swedish price for best female footballer of the year.
But with Kerr back in the game again💥 and it will give Chelsea great odds in WCL.
It will sharpen up Chelsea a great deal.
Rytting-Karneryd have taken some big steps forward lately too - she even got the Swedish price for best female footballer of the year.
But with Kerr back in the game again💥 and it will give Chelsea great odds in WCL.
I can’t remember the last time we had a 3pm Saturday game. Been a while.
I’m expecting a tight game against Brighton. Hopefully we can build on our win against Wolves and our draw with Bournemouth.
I’m expecting a tight game against Brighton. Hopefully we can build on our win against Wolves and our draw with Bournemouth.
You always worry with ACL, some players dont return to their usual form and some do
But know that this level of football players, have the absolutely very best of elit and sport-surgeons.
They are like God's.
But still ACL injuries are the worst of the knee sh-it for footballers.
oh yeah.
Proper rehabbing is the first step.
You mess that up and there's no telling what kind of player you'll be.
At Selhurst Park Stadium, Arsenal now lead Crystal Palace by five goals to one as the game enters its dying and final minutes.
A good victory, which means that I can relax a little.
A good victory, which means that I can relax a little.
Indeed.
One struggles to stifle an unseemly snigger.
@Lord Blackadder has observed - on a number of occasions - that Pep Guardiola has never really been tested in that - despite his undoubted gifts as a manager - his successes had usually only occurred under advantageous (and amply resourced) and otherwise exceedingly positive conditions; adversity had never threatened him, and it was not clear how he (and his team) would perform under the challenge of adverse conditions.
Moreover, it is clear that Haaland - powerful and threatening presence though he may have been in recent seasons - only performs well when every other cog and component and element of the team is functioning flawlessly, which is clearly not the case this season.
For that matter, I do wonder whether, given their current dismal form - whether, ever so surreptitiously, and perhaps even improperly or entirely inappropriately - City may have received private sotto voce word - or wind - or, even hints, of how the findings to the 130 odd charges they face may turn out, and that the outcome may not have taken the form of positive news.
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Every Man City loss is a dopamine hit for everyone apart from Man City fans. I will never tire of it.
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Haaland's stats.
Probably an effect of enjoying too much early success in a City shirt, started believing his own hype, and now lost hunger and maybe confidence
Probably an effect of enjoying too much early success in a City shirt, started believing his own hype, and now lost hunger and maybe confidence
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I think the jury may still be out on whether he made Man City better or worse. Individually a great player, but a black sheep in that team. A team that was, perhaps, nearing the end of its cycle when he arrived anyway? And then again, perhaps all this shilling for his Saudi bosses is finally wearing Pep down emotionally, however fabulously richly he’s being remunerated for it. I’m not sympathetic, but that’s the nature of Faustian bargains.
I blush to admit that my reactions are exactly the same.
I admonish myself - really, this celebration of the cycle of hubris and nemesis is something I should have long outgrown, but, no, there is a savage satisfaction of that dopamine hit, there is the (slightly unedifying) spectacle of having to stifle unseemly sniggers at their troubles and travails....
You are right; I will never tire of it.
Agreed.
But, I would argue, a great player in certain, specific circumstances, namely, only when the team was fully functional and firing on all cylinders to support him.
Perhaps.
No sympathy from me on this one.
However, as you rightly remark, that is the nature of Faustian bargains - for, the devil does call to collect his (or her) due, and we are back to that old question - what price for one's soul?
Nevertheless, the sight of Pep this evening, invariably immaculately attired, but yet crouched in clear - and mute - agony, spoke volumes.
Again, hubris and nemesis, but it does have some of that bleak compelling - almost mordant - appeal of a morality tale.
And that will never get old.
Well, Saturday didn't exactly go very well! Silly goal to give away very early and then we're up against it. Missing Delap was a huge miss, but Newcastle are easily the best side going forward to visit Portman Road this season. Bruno & Tonali in the middle ran the show and we couldn't get near them.
Arguably our worst performance of the season, which almost at the halfway mark I'll take. Although it doesn't get any easier... Arsenal away & Chelsea home in between Christmas & New Year!!
Arguably our worst performance of the season, which almost at the halfway mark I'll take. Although it doesn't get any easier... Arsenal away & Chelsea home in between Christmas & New Year!!