Pro/Club Soccer

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Let’s see if it actually happens or they work out a deal

There is no deal to work out. FFP is a joke that only the country club/cartel care about and now the hammer will be dropped on it. Let’s go City!

PS – The best side effect of this will be Pep extending his contract even further.

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https://www.espn.com/soccer/german-bundesliga/story/4087391/bundesliga-could-restart-in-early-may-after-positive-regional-government-call

Bundesliga could be back as early as May 9th!

https://twitter.com/Bundesliga_EN/status/1258435981746806787

Bundesliga officially coming back!

Ausgezeichnet!

Auf gehts Bayern!

Seeing some soccer highlights and even though the stadium is empty there are enough people to make some noise so it’s nice. Much better than watching eSports…

There really might be something to the fact the Gophers are used to playing in front of mostly empty arenas…

Well the Loons looked like trash for 60 minutes but somehow stole 3 points from SKC tonight. SKC lost their keeper to a red card and that was a huge help.

It seems like all these games are being played on the same field in Orlando. Won’t the field be extremely beat up shortly?

It looks like the whole complex has 8+ fields, from the “aerial” shots I’ve seen. Like, last night RSL and Colorado were warming up on the field next to us as our game was finishing up.

Or, do they then come over to the field where we just played our game, and the other field is only used for warmups? You’d think they’d rig up several fields with cameras so they don’t have to use just one.

The Looooooooooooooooooooon advance to the Quarter Finals!!! The Loons play the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday at 7 pm (central time).

Look out for the Loon!!!!! :dance:

Nice to see us advance! But I still wish we wouldn’t sit back after we score a goal, and just let the other team control the game.

It’ll be interesting to see us play SJ, a real clash of styles. Although we did already beat them 5-2 this year, in the before times. Seems like an eternity ago.

I’d also prefer to see less egregious fouls in the box that allow the tying goal to happen.

Nice to see us advance! But I still wish we wouldn’t sit back after we score a goal, and just let the other team control the game.

It’ll be interesting to see us play SJ, a real clash of styles. Although we did already beat them 5-2 this year, in the before times. Seems like an eternity ago.

I’d also prefer to see less egregious fouls in the box that allow the tying goal to happen.

Do you mean you want the fouls to be less egregious, or do you want to see fewer of the fouls?

Well I’d prefer none in the penalty area. That was a bad foul in a lot of ways and was pretty unnecessary.

Well – Arsenal have won another FA Cup (14th time) so they’re getting back into the Europa League.

Not excited about the Europa League but Arteta seems to be making his mark on the team since they’ve beaten Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea all in the past month. Now we will see if this is enough to keep Aubameyang in North London…he’s an absolute stud

They deserved to win today, but damn that was ugly. The three injuries for Chelsea hurt a lot.. Kovacic never should have been sent off. Taylor was brutal, but he wasn’t the reason that Chelsea lost.

So the goal is to win the tournament and qualify for the champions league or whatever it’s called here. But I’m having a hard time seeing how the 2021 champions league can happen with so few leagues playing that should be generating the qualifiers.

Damn, Nani is good.

He’s giving Dotson a lesson he likely won’t forget

I saw an amazing stat yesterday. Manchester United hasn’t lost a Premier League game that they’ve lead at halftime since 1984. The streak has crossed 291 games and I think only about 20 of them even ended in a draw

I saw an amazing stat yesterday. Manchester United hasn’t lost a Premier League game that they’ve lead at halftime since 1984. The streak has crossed 291 games and I think only about 20 of them even ended in a draw

“Fergie time” helped with that streak.

Kind of important to mention the streak is only for home matches. Just for some reference here is all EPL clubs’ home record after leading at halftime:

2018-19: 106 wins, 16 draws, 4 losses

2017-18: 103 wins, 12 draws, 9 losses

2016-17: 117 wins, 13 draws, 5 losses

So clubs from the very top of the league to the very bottom had a 95.3% no-loss rate after leading at halftime at home.

What’s up with the Loons so far?

What’s up with the Loons so far?

They haven’t found a striker still that can put the ball in the net. Also having Opara out all year and Alonso missing a large part of it hasn’t helped them defensively

First choice keeper having season ending surgery after 3 matches hasn’t helped either.

What’s up with the Loons so far?

They haven’t found a striker still that can put the ball in the net. Also having Opara out all year and Alonso missing a large part of it hasn’t helped them defensively

First choice keeper having season ending surgery after 3 matches hasn’t helped either.

Yes – that was #3 on my list of what ails them

Opara being out sucks, he’s so good back there. And Ozzie being out really hurts, too. But to be honest I don’t think Ozzie has much tread on the tire left, so we need to learn to not be so reliant on him. It has been nice to give Dotson an extended run in that #6 role. I think he is going to be the guy there going forward, and he needs minutes.

I think Boxall has been brilliant this year. He’s a great CB. Might even go so far as to say that when Opara is back, those two might be the best CB tandem in the league. If not the top, they’re one of the best.

Reynoso definitely has the quality. We just need to get him playing with Amarilla, and the rest of that front 3 consistently, and I think the chemistry will develop. He got absolutely robbed a couple times of what should have been his first MLS goal.

With YouTube TV dropping FSN, I gotta find a new way to watch the Loons. Might do ESPN+, with a VPN.

Best player in MLS history and he was 36. What a legend both of the game and for his quotes.

“The virus has challenged me and I won. But you are not Zlatan, do not challenge the virus.”

https://www.si.com/soccer/2020/10/29/zlatan-ibrahimovic-coronavirus-psa-mask-italy

Loons playoff game tonight at 6:30! Sounds like most of our guys on International duty will be back, hopefully they’re not too burned out.

I didn’t realize he had surgery for a blood clot in his brain earlier this month. Yikes. Sounds like he was in rough shape.

There’s probably not a footballer loved more by his country anywhere in the world like Argentina loved Maradona.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVho3I0NtU&ab_channel=forfunny59

https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1331648447242354693?s=20

Beating England so shortly after the war; poor kid from the slums; no wonder the loved him so.

What a f*** goal from Molino, WOW!

20 minute blitzkrieg!

What a f*** goal from Molino, WOW!

He’s been extremely good this year.

Reynoso is exactly the type of player they’ve missed in that #10 role…every pass just seems to be in a dangerous or perfect spot. Molino and him just click but Lod and Finlay have both been pretty good with him directing the attack as well.

Yeah, Reynoso was so badly needed on a team like this. He can beat people and create things on his own. Peak Darwin had a bit of that to him, but Reynoso is better.

Those DSC saves are SO huge now. Could have been a completely different game if SKC would have gone up 1-0

What a win, on top the semis!

Seattle will be a really tough match, but this game has gotta give them confidence.

McKennie, Reyna, and Pulisic all scored today.

Imagine someone telling you 5 years ago that American players would score for Dortmund, Chelsea, and Juventus on the same day. :lol:

It certainly is nice to be riding a “Fútbol high” for the first time in a while.

McKennie, Reyna, and Pulisic all scored today.

Imagine someone telling you 5 years ago that American players would score for Dortmund, Chelsea, and Juventus on the same day. :lol:

I saw an overhead view of Pulisic’s goal at the end of Chelsea’s game. The pure acceleration at the end of a 60-70 yard sprint to get by his defender is just simply world class.

What a goal from Son in the NLD!!

He is so good

https://streamja.com/LMzmL

What a fucking goal, Reynoso!!!

https://twitter.com/territoriomls/status/1336154329779228694

Good first half.

Nice to see replay work better than it does in the Premier League haha

Nice to see replay work better than it does in the Premier League haha

Don’t jinx it. It can hear you.

Equalizer is starting to feel inevitable…

You mean the counter…if not then shush

woooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Wow, goals going against the run of play