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Post by **Shirley** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:35 am

Didn’t see it he game, but I see Chelsea squeaked one out. They score 2 goals on 41 shots. 41!!!

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:53 pm

Do they seed the teams for the FA Cup tournament, or are the brackets set randomly? I alway wonder when you see two Premier sides, or two lower level teams playing each other early on.

serrano · Post by **serrano** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:18 pm

57th minute in the Milan Derby (I won’t even attempt the Italian name for it) but this has everything you want in a serie a rivalry. 1-0 inter at the moment.

serrano · Post by **serrano** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:25 pm

serrano wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:18 pm 57th minute in the Milan Derby (I won’t even attempt the Italian name for it) but this has everything you want in a serie a rivalry. 1-0 inter at the moment.

I mean a lot of 🤌

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:36 pm

serrano wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:18 pm 57th minute in the Milan Derby (I won’t even attempt the Italian name for it) but this has everything you want in a serie a rivalry. 1-0 inter at the moment.

And now its 1-1

serrano · Post by **serrano** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:40 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:36 pm
serrano wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:18 pm 57th minute in the Milan Derby (I won’t even attempt the Italian name for it) but this has everything you want in a serie a rivalry. 1-0 inter at the moment.
And now its 1-1

1-2 French Adam Levine and his meaty French forehead* have put AC up. What a match!

* in that his forehead is attached to his left foot

pruitt2 · Post by **pruitt2** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 5:16 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:53 pm Do they seed the teams for the FA Cup tournament, or are the brackets set randomly? I alway wonder when you see two Premier sides, or two lower level teams playing each other early on.

The Premier League sides only join for the 3rd round (and there are a number of preliminary rounds for the really low level teams). After that it's a random draw. No one is seeded which is why you got three all Premier League matchups today while Luton/Cambridge, QPR/Peterborough etc.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 8:42 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:53 pm Do they seed the teams for the FA Cup tournament, or are the brackets set randomly? I alway wonder when you see two Premier sides, or two lower level teams playing each other early on.

Soccer is almost always drawing ping pong balls. Any team can play any other team in a draw. Exception is Champions League, where you can’t play a team from your league until late rounds.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:19 pm

Mentioned this here before over the years, after two close calls the Vietnamese Women's team has finally qualified for a World Cup.

https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/womens ... nt-vietnam

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:06 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:53 pm Do they seed the teams for the FA Cup tournament, or are the brackets set randomly? I alway wonder when you see two Premier sides, or two lower level teams playing each other early on.

No seeds. Teams just enter at different stages.

And Boreham Wood won today! Non-league team into the last 16. But they next go to Everton.

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:48 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:06 pm And Boreham Wood won today! Non-league team into the last 16. But they next go to Everton.

And West Ham were 2 minutes away from going out to 6th tier Kidderminster Harriers

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:13 pm

Baloney wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:48 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:06 pm And Boreham Wood won today! Non-league team into the last 16. But they next go to Everton.
And West Ham were 2 minutes away from going out to 6th tier Kidderminster Harriers

Yeah it's pretty crazy. According to wikipedia. 637 non-league teams play in the preliminary rounds (entering at different stages) and only 32 of them make it to the FA Cup First Round where League One and League Two teams join in. Then they play two more rounds down to 20 where in the Third Round, Championship and Premier League teams join in.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:34 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:13 pm
Baloney wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:48 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:06 pm And Boreham Wood won today! Non-league team into the last 16. But they next go to Everton.
And West Ham were 2 minutes away from going out to 6th tier Kidderminster Harriers
Yeah it's pretty crazy. According to wikipedia. 637 non-league teams play in the preliminary rounds (entering at different stages) and only 32 of them make it to the FA Cup First Round where League One and League Two teams join in. Then they play two more rounds down to 20 where in the Third Round, Championship and Premier League teams join in.

If you go deep into the US Open Cup you can get the joy when a team that does not practice and sponsored by a liquor store near BWI Airport makes a run in that tournament. While the tournament is 103 teams proper, you really get another 150ish in a separate qualification knockout tournaments.

I always chuckle when I see The Villages has a team. Just makes me think of a bunch of retired guys out for a kickaround..but realize it is probably folks who have jobs in the community to let them keep chasing a soccer dream.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:38 pm

Nancy Lopez and arnold palmer did a lot of kicking in their days.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:57 pm

Bilbao's pregame involves some sort of goat-horn blowing ceremony?

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:25 pm

And it 50 years ago this weekend the mighty Hereford Utd, from the Southern League, beat Newcastle.

Unfortunately they don't have pitches like that anymore.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:34 pm

Speaking of lower-tier teams upsetting Premiership sides, the Leicester fans did not take kindly to losing to Nottingham...

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:35 pm

Baloney wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:25 pm And it 50 years ago this weekend the mighty Hereford Utd, from the Southern League, beat Newcastle.

Unfortunately they don't have pitches like that anymore.

Lol. Newcastle loses to lower-division teams in the FA Cup all the time.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:57 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:34 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:13 pm
Baloney wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:48 pm
degenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:06 pm And Boreham Wood won today! Non-league team into the last 16. But they next go to Everton.
And West Ham were 2 minutes away from going out to 6th tier Kidderminster Harriers
Yeah it's pretty crazy. According to wikipedia. 637 non-league teams play in the preliminary rounds (entering at different stages) and only 32 of them make it to the FA Cup First Round where League One and League Two teams join in. Then they play two more rounds down to 20 where in the Third Round, Championship and Premier League teams join in.
If you go deep into the US Open Cup you can get the joy when a team that does not practice and sponsored by a liquor store near BWI Airport makes a run in that tournament. While the tournament is 103 teams proper, you really get another 150ish in a separate qualification knockout tournaments.

I always chuckle when I see The Villages has a team. Just makes me think of a bunch of retired guys out for a kickaround..but realize it is probably folks who have jobs in the community to let them keep chasing a soccer dream.

Yeah, I played for a team that made a tiny run in these early stages one year. It's REALLY difficult just to qualify on the amateur side of things. Those teams that make any kind of noise are pretty stacked with former D1 and semi-pro guys.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:59 pm

Pregame - PSG and Madrid in the tunnel
Announcer - "Real Madrid the everlasting sweethearts of our continent, unconditionally adored by all who set eyes on them"

Da Fuq?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 3:02 pm

PSG unis, (including jackets) look very basketball. I don't have any real issue with that, but the cuffs (?) look heavy. I suppose I just remember how heavy my workout clothes that had that thick hemming were.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:57 am

Serie A planning a tournament in the US during the World Cup.

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:17 pm

Carabo Cup is a really good game

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:38 pm

Baloney wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:17 pm Carabo Cup is a really good game

Yeah it is....can't believe Mount didn't put that one away.

serrano2 · Post by **serrano2** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:40 pm

So far it’s a match Mason Mount would love to forget.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:40 pm

Baloney wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:17 pm Carabo Cup is a really good game

Somehow left my CC at the bar/restaurant up the street last night and when I went up there to get it there was a dude in a full adidas Ukraine track suit trying to get one of the waiters to find the game on their weird satellite TV based listing of channels. From how he talked about the game (heavy, what I took to be, Eastern European accent) it sounded like he was a Chelsea fan.

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:05 pm

Hoping for extra time here it's such a good game

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:18 pm

this game is bonkers...

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:52 pm

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:27 pm

The Germans haven't invented a word yet to describe that....

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:29 pm

Wow, just wow

serrano2 · Post by **serrano2** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:49 pm

Baloney wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:29 pmWow, just wow

That always had to be the way Kepa would fuck that up. What a great experience.

Post by **Shirley** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 5:28 pm

Kepa's had a great renaissance this year, but that has to hurt.

And Lukaku was onside.

pruitt2 · Post by **pruitt2** » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:09 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:18 pm this game is bonkers...

Contender for match of the season.

And you got to love seeing Chelsea lose anytime, but especially this week.

And there's something strangely satisfying about seeing a Manager outsmart himself. The penalty kick segment should be part of a coaching video on how to take penalties. But even though the Liverpool keeper didn't save a single one, it was joyous to see the "Penalty Specialist" go 0/11.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:52 pm

Huh. Jesse March to Leeds United?

That's... interesting.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:46 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:52 pm Huh. Jesse March to Leeds United?

That's... interesting.

Guess Leeds' change to a high energy in-shape club based on Bielsa is closer to Marsch's philosophy. Some of the post-mortem on his lack of success was that the German Red Bulls were not built like the Austrian Red Bulls. He wanted to play the high pace/high energy/press/etc but they were not built for that and he could not get players for it (and could not find a philosophy that he liked and worked for his roster).

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:28 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:46 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:52 pm Huh. Jesse March to Leeds United?

That's... interesting.
Guess Leeds' change to a high energy in-shape club based on Bielsa is closer to Marsch's philosophy. Some of the post-mortem on his lack of success was that the German Red Bulls were not built like the Austrian Red Bulls. He wanted to play the high pace/high energy/press/etc but they were not built for that and he could not get players for it (and could not find a philosophy that he liked and worked for his roster).

Yeah, I just watched 15 minutes on breaking him down as a manager and, yeah,... He might be a good fit, but he's very locked in on high press, score off turnover soccer. If you don't have the legs, you're done. We'll see.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:47 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:28 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:46 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:52 pm Huh. Jesse March to Leeds United?

That's... interesting.
Guess Leeds' change to a high energy in-shape club based on Bielsa is closer to Marsch's philosophy. Some of the post-mortem on his lack of success was that the German Red Bulls were not built like the Austrian Red Bulls. He wanted to play the high pace/high energy/press/etc but they were not built for that and he could not get players for it (and could not find a philosophy that he liked and worked for his roster).
Yeah, I just watched 15 minutes on breaking him down as a manager and, yeah,... He might be a good fit, but he's very locked in on high press, score off turnover soccer. If you don't have the legs, you're done. We'll see.

Well the Amazon Leeds TV Show made it clear that this team is all about being in shape..but I think Bielsa was struggling with a team that was beat up, injured, and does not have the depth of other EPL teams.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:36 am

Chelsea fan being salty...

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:25 am

Nice, but they need to step up their game to compete with the vitriol spewed on Arsenal TV.