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The 2024-2025 Football Thread

PSG edged it. And deserved to go through over the two legs. They were more astute tactically. Conserved their energy and marshalled Salah, Szoboslai, and Macallister for the most part.

Darwin Nunez...hmm...nuff said.

Liverpool just didn't have answers most of the time. Possibly a testament to the fact that they've had a relatively easy life in the EPL.

I expect PSG to beat Villa. They're a much better team without a certain Mbappe, Neymar, Messi. First time i've been impressed by them

And credit to Luis Enrique who caught a lot of flack when the aforementioned 3 were still there. Showed his nouse as a good coach.
 
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Liverpool are out (by four goals to one) on penalties as PSG (having been calm, collected, and composed while taking their penalties - they scored all four that they took, whereas Liverpool only managed to score one, and had two saved) go through to the quarter finals of the Champions League.
 
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Big come from behind win for THE MASSIVE

We needed that win coming into this weekend... a Steel City derby ...


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MBAir2010 said:
since I support Los Albiceltse, I was heavily rooting for for Athelti, with Alverez, De Paul etc.
how can someone kick the ball while slipping twice anyways?
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I'd imagine that one of those two "kicks" was an inadvertent, or accidental, touch of the ball while attempting to retain your (one's) balance when you felt that you were slipping, or skidding.
 
The BBC pundits did a very good explanation of the 'two kick' penalty. What they said is that when the player went into kick the ball, at the precise moment his other foot came down to kick the ball, the player lost his balance. This loss of balance caused the players body weight to shift which meant he started to slip, this caused his standing foot to slide towards the ball but not touching it. At the precise moment the players kicking foot made contact with the ball, the players standing foot had moved forwards of the ball thus when the ball was kicked it made slight contact with his standing foot, hence the two kick.

Rule of penalty taking: Don't try to be smart with foot placement because if you do the right circumstances can make you look foolish.
 
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laptech said:
The BBC pundits did a very good explanation of the 'two kick' penalty. What they said is that when the player went into kick the ball, at the precise moment his other foot came down to kick the ball, the player lost his balance. This loss of balance caused the players body weight to shift which meant he started to slip, this caused his standing foot to slide towards the ball but not touching it. At the precise moment the players kicking foot made contact with the ball, the players standing foot had moved forwards of the ball thus when the ball was kicked it made slight contact with his standing foot, hence the two kick.

Rule of penalty taking: Don't try to be smart with foot placement because if you do the right circumstances can make you look foolish.
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As I told all the kids that I coached: Hard and low like you live! You can't go under the goal but you sure as heck can go over it!!
 
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I kinda wish I'd paid for the steaming service this season but I'm afraid I'll jinx them if I join now...
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Anyone in the states got MLS season pass? My carrier gives away free trials every new season. You can get a new one every opening week of the season, but y’all have to act fast it’s limited time.
 
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The way the UK media are reporting on Newcastle's EFL cup win you would have thought they had won the equivalent of the World Cup. They are going mad over the win, saying how excellent the win was and that it has taken the club 70 years to win a domestic major trophy, 'major trophy', when did the EFL cup become a major trophy? because premier league clubs have held the EFL cup in distain for many many years. Clubs have constantly complained of fixture build up due to the competition and thus have always put out weakened teams because they never valued the EFL cup as being an important trophy to win, only the league and the champions league mattered. Now all of a sudden the EFL cup has become a 'major trophy'.

One thing people can rely on and that is the UK media over hyping a cup competition that they themselves once said it was a none important cup competition for premier league teams.

I wonder if all this UK media hype is because the manager is English? because the last time any English manager won a domestic trophy was Harry Redknapp when he won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008
 
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The way the UK media are reporting on Newcastle's EFL cup win you would have thought they had won the equivalent of the World Cup. They are going mad over the win, saying how excellent the win was and that it has taken the club 70 years to win a domestic major trophy, 'major trophy', when did the EFL cup become a major trophy? because premier league clubs have held the EFL cup in distain for many many years. Clubs have constantly complained of fixture build up due to the competition and thus have always put out weakened teams because they never valued the EFL cup as being an important trophy to win, only the league and the champions league mattered. Now all of a sudden the EFL cup has become a 'major trophy'.

One thing people can rely on and that is the UK media over hyping a cup competition that they themselves once said it was a none important cup competition for premier league teams.

I wonder if all this UK media hype is because the manager is English? because the last time any English manager won a domestic trophy was Harry Redknapp when he won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008
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I wonder why you read so much of the UK press when you clearly dislike so much of what you read?
I think it’s because 70 years since the club won a trophy.
My club has won 3-4 in that time, so it’s been a drought for a ‘big’ club for sure. Especially for one so well supported.

Anyway it’s always better in my opinion if a number of clubs win trophies rather than one sweeping the board.
 
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