Super cup on Tuesday!
Super cup on Tuesday!
Nice will feel a bit sore. Great season last year and draw Ajax and Napoli in the qualifiers.
It'd be quite cool if a Gylfi Sigurđsson-led Everton were to play FH (his boyhood club) here in Iceland.
With that being said, they'll probably end up getting Salzburg (and subsequently trounced).
The system massively works against them and the Hoff as they have no coefficient to fall back on. Leicester would have suffered the same fate except for the 'champions as top seeds' rule, which propelled them to the last 8.Originally Posted by Max Power
Didn't they change the way that works now so only certain leagues can draw each other and the baltics fight it out amongst themselves?
It was a little bizarre. The 8 league winners were are one side of the draw (drawing each other), and the other 8 teams were on the other side of the draw - I guess with the idea of getting more (at least 4) league winners in the group stage. It just meant that basically the 8 usual top seeds (Liverpool, Hoffenheim, Sevilla etc.) were all going to draw each other.
I swear that was made specifically to thwart us, we used to just beat the shit out of Finland Park XI every year and then it changed and we got Udinese, PSV and friends.
Ugh. Braga.
They made the change to a champions path and a non-champions path years ago. At least 5 years ago.
Celtic doing their absolute best to cock this up.
Motherfuckers.
Twumasi looks like a bit of a menace.
Astana paying the price for one of the worst goalkeeping performances I've ever seen last week.
Speaking on worst performances. Last week i watched in full, the brazil vs germany game at the last world cup. David luiz was a trainwreck that game. He should have been shot after that game.
Celtic away in Europe are a reliable mess. It's been that way under about eight different managers, so it must just be a characteristic of the club at this point.
Err, Rangers lost to a bunch of farmers.
To be fair to Celtic, Astana haven't lost to many at home. They're even worse away than Celtic though.
You're right. The fact that we were shite does mean no other club can be shite. Good point.
Sassy as fuck
Dante has just pinged the sort of eighty yard pass he was playing four or five times a game for Bayern during that eighteen months where he looked like the best centre back around.
With Balotelli and Sneijder in their team too they're like a rehab centre.
Thats where he's from! Was trying to remember why I recognize that player.
I've never seen a defender so hesitant.
Ahmed Musa turning in some sub-Ali Dia performance in the Carabao Cup right now.
I lol'd, and I've only just realised I'm watching the fucking game.
Since when did these fuckers play for Nice?!
This game is really weird. It's maybe both teams most important game before Christmas, yet both teams look quite lacklustre. Especially Nice who just look completely off. Napoli is a lot better, granted - but Nice look like they aren't even willing to put in the work.
Then again, Sneijder and Balotelli etc, I guess.
Very impressed by Saint-Maximin. If he can learn to release his pass about three steps earlier he'll be a cracking player.
Napoli have spaffed about eight chances, probably seven of which were provided by Dante taking a fortnight to make his mind up any time he has to do anything.
No wonder you thought Lacazette was an eight foot tall lumberer.I lol'd, and I've only just realised I'm watching the fucking game.
Since when did these fuckers play for Nice?!
Sneijder just signed but the other two were there last season.
Was thinking that as well, he's the only one in Nice that makes anything happen and seems quite good at it as well.
Kinda looks like the typical player that needs space to run on mind you. The kind that'll look great for a mid-table team in the PL but turn clueless when a top club eventually signs him and he has to face 8 man defences all season.
Istanbul Basaksehir have opened their own rehab clinic in the other game, with Clichy, Adebayor, and Belozoglu Emre playing.
Marek Hamsik looks like such a guy who beats women to compensate for having a tiny cock.
Jealous of his hair clearly.
Yeah a bit. He has it in all the places I don't.
I'd missed Sevilla getting Ever Banega back for this season. What a signing that is, he ran their side.
Very close to some proper scenes in Seville there. Emre has smashed a free kick off the post which would have put Sevilla out.
Inler on the park now too to add to the rehab crew.
Moreno back in for Liverpool. There's no chance he manages two games in a row without a colossal balls up, so there's goals in it for Hoffenheim.
Is firminho's teeth always been this white. Probably the first time ive seen them on a 4K TV. They look like piano keys
That Liverpool midfield definitely needs signings. It's top 8 material.
It's better if you stick the two best midfielders they have in it (Lallana and Coutinho).
I still think a proper striker is needed. At least one who isn't on the physio table half the season.
Two brilliant through balls by Firmino already.
I thought Wijnaldum was class whenever I saw them last season. The Liverpool midfield mainly just needs to run a lot anyway, right?
Lovely goal.
This could be a bucket load.
Nagelsmann looks like such a fucking dweeb.
Salah donning it as per my prediction.
Tactical sub after twenty five minutes.
This is a proper pasting.
Lol Moreno still first choice?
Despite being 3-0 up, that Hoffenheim goal was coming. We still like so crap at the back.
Not really. He's playing because we have a pretty defensive 3 midfielders. When Lallana or Coutinho return - Milner will be back there, I suspect.
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