PSV Eindhoven demolished Italian Champions Napoli yesterday.
USMNT’s Dest sat until the 84th minute, arrived late.
Three more matches off for LIV.
EPL have their SIX teams in the Top 12. All the even spots.
Such an actuarial observation! 
TIL: there is a Canadian Premier League.
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A lot of planning goes into “El Clasico”!
Canadian men play Venezuela in a friendly in Fort Lauderdale tomorrow night. A bit surprised that is happening in the US given US-Venezuela relations.
You have any non-frozen grass fields?
Let’s just hope that the VEN team doesn’t try to arrive by boat.
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So there appear to be a few hundred fans in the stands. The Venezuela fans are staying away because of ICE and the Canadian fans are boycotting the US.
Would have been better to play it in Vancouver where they would have had a big crowd.
I love the FA Cup competition.
Macclesfield upset Crystal Palace in FA Cup third round
Macclesfield recorded one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history on Saturday as they eliminated holders Crystal Palace. Macclesfield, who play in the National League North, the sixth tier of English football, are the lowest-ranked team remaining in the competition but secured a 2-1 win against the Premier League side at Moss Rose.
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Wrexham win in the FA Cup over NF.
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Happy for Wrexham. The club is pretty popular here because of the ownership connection.
Xabi Alonso out at Madrid. Curious what’s next.
Coaching RM is probably the most stressful manager role on the planet right now. Anything short of winning and you get the boot.
I think they went overboard a bit here. They should have given him another season but it looks like he just wasn’t able to gel with some of the players.
This article misses the important aspects:
- Amorim was the coach, the Team was created by the owners. If the Team didn’t look/play/feel like Man U, who’s fault is this?
- When fans complain that a Team is looking/playing/feeling like their Team, it is likely that they slow down their buying of scarves and jerseys and shit. THIS is the real reason why these coaches were dismissed. “Are You Not Entertained?” “No, we are not.”
Three fewer matches for Real Madrid.
FCB losing a kid with tons of potential?
One of the perks, for players, in this type of system is that the player can initiate this, not just the teams.
Guessing he and his agent think that FCB will not be able to pay him what he thinks he’s worth.
What a crazy final.
OK, so UCL down to one match left.
Two are through to Round of 16, 13 others moving on and vying for the other six top spots, 17 others still not yet eliminated.
Current Top Eight has three non-English clubs. How quaint. MCI is way down in… 11th. They need to win and three of eight other teams to lose or three of six teams to tie. They could tie, but then they’d need three of five teams to lose. Lastly, they could jump ahead of three of four teams above them on GD, should they all win.
Seven teams are basically “win and they’re resting.” CHE need to win and watch out behind them. Squeaky one-goal win might not preserve 8th place. CHE play Napoli, who need a win and some help – one of eight teams immediately above them need to lose or one of six teams immediately above them need to tie.
While ENG is tops of the UEFA Coefficient ranking, POL is second! Four teams in UEFA Conference, three advancing. Their raw point total is divided only by 4, oh, AND their Conference placement has been added in. Not sure if that is also divided by 4 or not.
Let’s do Poland:
13.625 points as of now. Reverse-Engineering this:
Qualifying Round results are halved before being further quartered.
Lech Poznan:
Champions League qualifiers, won 2, tied 1. 5 points.
Europa League Playoff Round: won 1. 2 points.
To the Conference League Group Stage.
Legia Warsaw:
Europa League qualifiers: won 4, tied 1. 9 points.
Conference League Playoff: won 1, tied 1. 3 points.
To the Conference League Group Stage.
Rakow Czestochowa:
Conference League qualifiers and Playoff: won 5. 10 points
To the Conference League Group Stage.
Jagiellonia Bialystok
Conference League qualifiers and Playoff: Won 4, tied 2. 10 points.
To the Conference League Group Stage.
Total = 39 points. Divided by 2 = 19.5. Divided by 4 = 4.875
Conference League Group Stage:
Lech Poznan: 3 wins, 1 draw. 7 points. 11th place
Legia Warsaw: 2 wins 0 draws. 4 points. 28th place.
Rakow Czestochowa: 4 wins, 2 draws 10 points. 2nd place.
Jagiellonia Bialystok 2 wins, 3 draws. 7 points. 17th place.
28 points. Divided by 4 = 7.
OK, that totals to 11.875.
Bonus Points:
2nd Place = 3.75 bonus points
11th Place = 1.875 bonus points
17th Place = 1.125 bonus points.
6.75 bonus points, divided by 4 = 1.6875, truncate to 1.687
11.875 + 1.687 = 13.562
Hmm, something is off. Or, someone transposed numbers on wiki. Off by a draw in qualifying?