The Wordle and its bastard offspring thread

[Ian]

Really screwed today by memory in general but specifically not remembering where players for other teams get signed from. Score of 402 due to not filling 3 and one really obvious answer.

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Anelka - Diao - Sinama-Pongolle
Nope - Nope - Cantona
Lacazette - Nope - Coupet

[SincereTheRebel]

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Benayoun-El Hadji Diouf Pongoglle
Lass Diarra - No - Ribery
Wiltord -No - Benzema

I found those french boys easy enough.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Absolutely seething.

I picked a player for the bottom right (French, Lyon) only to see it was wrong. Checked Wiki and he changed his fucking nationality to Algerian a few months ago.

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Benayoun, Mane, Pongolle
Flamini, Nope, Payet
Lacazette, Nope, Cherki (was originally Aouar).

[Waffdon]

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The Senegalese ones were tough. Papa Cheick Diop getting 32% proves that. Must be fuck all that have played for Lyon

The arsenal/Marseille one was just a matter of picking what I thought was least obvious. They two love a player swap. Maitland-Niles going for 6% is hilarious, presumed he’d be massive but the lesser of two evils between him and Lacazette as couldn’t think of any others

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The Senegalese ones were tough. Papa Cheick Diop getting 32% proves that. Must be fuck all that have played for Lyon

The arsenal/Marseille one was just a matter of picking what I thought was least obvious. They two love a player swap. Maitland-Niles going for 6% is hilarious, presumed he’d be massive but the lesser of two evils between him and Lacazette as couldn’t think of any others

9 in total, if you scroll down on the results screen it tells you how many answers there are. It also gives a link to see who those players are.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Unless there are any hiding behind French flags, I can only find 2 Senegalese to have played any amount of games for Lyon this century.

[Ben]

Yeah, utterly bizarre that there have been so few Senegalese at Lyon.

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Couldn't remember whether Diop played for Lyon or Marseille and picked the wrong one. Got a 0.07%er.

[SincereTheRebel]

Yeah, utterly bizarre that there have been so few Senegalese at Lyon.

Stolen Africans

[Ian]

Unless there are any hiding behind French flags, I can only find 2 Senegalese to have played any amount of games for Lyon this century.

When you're done you can click through and see valid options.

Although for today's it linked to the wrong club in one case.

[SincereTheRebel]

I see they have women players in the database too. That would have helped the senegal picks if i would have known

[Shindig]

7/9 but a weak rarity score of 290.

[SincereTheRebel]

Got all todays correct with a score of 89. Early as it refreshes at 2pm UK time

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Big gamble with the 10+ goals for Barca. I went with Giuly who I know, wasn't prolific but he snuck in with 11 goals in his first season.

Giuly - Maxi Lopez - Sylvinho
Delvecchio - Pastore - Maicon
Rossi - Riquelme - Paulista Gabriel

I thought Delvecchio would be more rare over Monetella.

[SvN]

155 and only got 8. Annoying one.

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Romario - Saviola - Sonny Anderson
Montella - Samuel - Aldair
Rossi - Riquelme - blank

I lost a guess because I thought 10+ goals a season meant any season - not necessarily for the team highlighted, which was stupid of me. So I just picked a random player that had played for Villareal (Jon Dahl Tomasson) that had scored 10 in a season at some point.

[Spikey M]

I've never even heard of half of Sincey's list.

Offy, did you ever find a special needs edition and if so can you like me?

[Waffdon]

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That was nearly perfect. I can’t believe Nilmar for the Villarreal Brazilian was such a high score. I assumed Pato/Paulista would have huge scores but not him.

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FIFA really does come in clutch.

[wullie]

143

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Pretend Spaniard Marcos Senna screwed me over

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was trying to remember the pretend Spaniard, and I went one step further wrong by conflating him in my mind with a pretend Turk of a similar vintage, hence 8/9.

[Ben]

This one was right in my sweet spot. Lots of years wasted playing CM97/98 through to 01/02 with every big European club imaginable has come to fruition with this game.

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Sonny Anderson - Bonano - Rochemback
Balbo - Cufré - Antonio Carlos
Riquelme - Gonzalo - Nilmar

[Ian]

Absolutely fucked the Villareal row (other than the obvious Argentine) because it turns out I conflate about five different Spanish mid-table teams.

[Shindig]

156 8/9 because I couldn't connect Brazilians to Villareal.

I reckon if I switched a couple of these around, my rarity score would've been better, too.

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Rivaldo - Javier Saviola - Sonny Anderson
Abel Balbo - Walter Samuel - Aldair
Diego Forlan - Juan Roman Riquelme - NOWT

[Pen]

I'm glad I used the obvious Villarreal Argentine for Barca. I was planning to use as few players as possible at the start as I knew I should get all nine this time. Was annoyed when I learned that you couldn't use the same name more than once. Didn't match the best scores here, but 54 is still very good.

[Ian]

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I wish I'd used Sonny Anderson for my Brazilian because I definitely could have done better with a 10+ goal scorer other than him than I did for the Brazilian I took in his stead (Rivaldo.)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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I went Neymar (only 5% because I guess people went for Brazilian square), Mascherano, Neto, Dybala, Pastore, Maicon, Nope, Foyth, Nope.

I had two crazy guesses at the Villarreal 10+ scorer with Samuel Chukwueze (6 was his best apparently and Yeremy Pino (4). My FM wonderkid memory fucked me.

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Looking at the answers I can't believe I forgot about Bakambu and I for some reason thought Jackson was at a different Spanish club.

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Should have done better today. Not sure who is scottish, welsh or top/bottom ireland. All pne of the same.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Emerson, Lukaku, Terry, Collins, Southall , NONE, Snodgrass, Duncan Ferguson, McGinn

Some big answers there as my mind went blank, annoyingly I remembered Snodgrass played for Villa too and probably would have scored less on that side.

Also, I honestly can't remember Eto'o ever playing for Everton.

[wullie]

149

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Carlton Cole - Lukaku - Townsend

Hartson - Speed - Saunders

Dailly - Naismith - Hutton

Lukaku the unsurprising big scorer but was drawing a blank otherwise. Andy Townsend the best

[Shindig]

Not even going to bother with this one. Drawing a blank on too much of it.

[Pen]

Managed to get all nine, but it took me forever to remember the name of the Scotsman who I had in mind for West Ham (incidentally I went for the same as Wullie). After checking the possible answers I feel it shouldn't have been so hard as it was to get all nine. Welsh and Scottish players seem to be pretty uninspiring in my memories.

[Ben]

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Minto - Barkley - Bosnich
Fletcher - Pembridge - Delaney
Hutchison - Gemmill - Maloney

Barkley was the high scorer but couldn't think of anyone else bizarrely.

[Pen]

One short today with a decent score of 140. The bottom row was very difficult. Lucked it with one current player, but then made the mistake with the next. I quite like it that this makes you go back to try to remember stuff from the time football was as it's best for you.

[Shindig]

6/9. 364. I was also stumped by Sporting. I had one name in mind to connect me to Real and Valencia but it took me 15 minutes to remember his name.

[SincereTheRebel]

Rolled back those Valencia days. Reaching european finals and all that

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Ramos, Morientes, Isco
Oliver Torres, Canizares, Ayoze Perez
NONE, Nani, William Carvalho

Not as hard as when I first looked at the grid but I struggled to think of more than 1 name for each.

[Dave.]

Zing.

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[wullie]

30, right up my street today

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Ravanelli - Torricelli - Tacchinardi
Di Canio - Behrami - Caccia
Marchegiani - Cois - Doni

[mo]

Rarity 149. Pavel Nedved pushed me right up.

[Dave.]

30, right up my street today

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Ravanelli - Torricelli - Tacchinardi
Di Canio - Behrami - Caccia
Marchegiani - Cois - Doni

Great work. I relied on watching Football Italia on Sunday at my grans in the mid-90s and early 2000 CM versions.

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Lombardo - Chiellini - Zenoni
Di Canio - Callejon - Carrera
Casiraghi - Pioli - Gallo

Now I've gone back into it to add the names on here, it shows a different score. Weird.

[Shindig]

Full house. 67

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Pierluigi Casiraghi - Roberto Baggio - Nicola Amoruso
Pepe Reina - Pierluigi Gollini - Angelo Carbone
Roberto Di Matteo - Alberto Gilardino - Davide Zappacosta

Plenty of Juve/Lazio connections to pick from but Atalanta had me struggling.

[Pen]

That Napoli row was a struggle for me. Took me ages to get two and they were pretty straightforward. Then missed the Fiorentina one in the middle as I was still thinking of players who played for both Lazio and Fiorentina. Not that there were that many players I would've remembered anyway.

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Immobile, Cuadrado, Demiral
Hysaj, Callejon, Gollini
None, Baggio, Scamacca

Lot of high scorers in there for me as I struggled to remember past players and I had problems with Lazio (ended up guessing Giuseppe Rossi)

[wullie]

219

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Dembele - Alderweireld - De Bruyne
Vorm - Monkou - Weghorst
Thatcher - Bridge - Dzeko

Belgium and Germany screwing me over there

[Ian]

I already muffed up today by thinking a Frenchman was Belgian, the answers I have are the most obvious ones going and I now can't think of any Southampton players who meet the criteria.

This game is brutally teaching me day by day how much little football trivia I've retained these days.

[Ben]

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The Southampton/Belgium one was massively helped by an article I read a few weeks ago. Other than that I didn't have too much trouble as my addiction to 90's and 00's CM/FM continues to bear fruit. Surprised by the very low scores on some of my choices.

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Chadli - Van Damme(!) - Origi
Davids - Clasie - Hofland
Thatcher - Bridge - Petrov

Origi was only 8% as I guess everyone went De Bruyne. Davids only 5% and Hofland and Petrov less than 1%!

[wullie]

I got very lucky with the Belgium/Wolfsburg one as I thought it was Werder Bremen's badge at first, luckily he's played for them too

[Dave.]

I got very lucky with the Belgium/Wolfsburg one as I thought it was Werder Bremen's badge at first, luckily he's played for them too

I had the opposite. I knew the badge was

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Wolfsburg

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Davy Klaasen left Everton for Wolfsburg when he signed for Werder Bremen instead

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[Dave.]

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Blondel - Van Damme - Casteels
Korsten - Clasie - blank (Klaasen)
Michael Brown - Ronnie Ekelund - De Bruyne (couldn't think of anyone else)

[Jimmy Floyd]

An easy way to remember it is that Werder Bremen were once managed by Werdgang Werd.

[Waffdon]

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Is the score based on that days results? Because i over 10% on the whole Spurs column.

Southampton saved me. Eljero Elia