Football (Soccer) Thread

[Sheilbh]

You could see that at the end of last season already, also with the congested fixture calendar that resulted. In a way that's why the 5 substitutions rule has been carried on.

Not in the Premier League which, needless to say the richest clubs with the deepest squads are moaning about endlessly

[celedhring]

In amusing news of the week, the lawyer that counseled Messi during his attempt to leave Barça has been kicked out from his firm 

[Josquius]

An excellent little clip about Scotlands goalkeeping options

https://youtu.be/tvreCDC61Zw

[Liep]

So the Danish team with the most boring name, FC Midtjylland (FC Middle of Jutland) has won entry to the Champions League. It's a huge surprise and it doesn't happen very often that a Danish team gets to play in the CL.

[Sheilbh]

I cannot explain enough how much I love Ancelotti and how great it is when he's in charge of your club

[The Larch]

So the Danish team with the most boring name, FC Midtjylland (FC Middle of Jutland) has won entry to the Champions League. It's a huge surprise and it doesn't happen very often that a Danish team gets to play in the CL.

Sisto's influence already showing? 

[Admiral Yi]

When do they go to a shoot out and when do they just call it a tie?  Just watched Chelsea Spurs highlights.

[Syt]

When do they go to a shoot out and when do they just call it a tie?  Just watched Chelsea Spurs highlights.

Depends on the tournament format. In league play, there's no penalty shootouts. In knock out rounds usually if there's a  tie after full play time and overtime.

If a knock out round has teams playing each other twice (home and away), the cumulative score decides; in some contests away goals are used as tie breaker before overtime or penalty shootouts. I.e. if your team wins 3-2 at home, but loses 1-0 away, then the score is 3-3, but the other team scored 2 away goals vs your 0, and advances to next round.

[Liep]

So the Danish team with the most boring name, FC Midtjylland (FC Middle of Jutland) has won entry to the Champions League. It's a huge surprise and it doesn't happen very often that a Danish team gets to play in the CL.

Sisto's influence already showing? 

They were trailing 0-1 until he was subbed out :p

[Sheilbh]

So the Danish team with the most boring name, FC Midtjylland (FC Middle of Jutland) has won entry to the Champions League. It's a huge surprise and it doesn't happen very often that a Danish team gets to play in the CL.

Poor Midtjylland ended up with a challenging group

[Duque de Bragança]

So it's Porto, Manchester City, Olympiakos and Marseille.

Usually, a French club would be good since for some unexplainable reason Portuguese clubs, even Porto, are not taken seriously, despite the gap in European titles between A Liga and the Ligue des Tas Lents. However, with a great Portuguese coach such as Villas-Boas I am afraid this won't be the case this time.
Plus one Portuguese coach for Olympiakos, for good measure.



A priori City first. They only mess up from 1/4 finals.

[Admiral Yi]

Depends on the tournament format. In league play, there's no penalty shootouts. In knock out rounds usually if there's a  tie after full play time and overtime.

If a knock out round has teams playing each other twice (home and away), the cumulative score decides; in some contests away goals are used as tie breaker before overtime or penalty shootouts. I.e. if your team wins 3-2 at home, but loses 1-0 away, then the score is 3-3, but the other team scored 2 away goals vs your 0, and advances to next round.

So does that mean Chelsea and Tottenham were playing in some tournament?

[Liep]

So the Danish team with the most boring name, FC Midtjylland (FC Middle of Jutland) has won entry to the Champions League. It's a huge surprise and it doesn't happen very often that a Danish team gets to play in the CL.

Poor Midtjylland ended up with a challenging group

Reaction from a Liverpool journalist: "A couple of brilliant cities and a three-hour road trip from Copenhagen to somewhere which sounds like a planet."

[Liep]

FC Copenhagen is out of Europe League after losing 0-1.

The goal was the most insane and defensively incompetent looking goal I've seen in a long time. 1 attacker, 4 defenders:

https://twitter.com/axelmoeen/status/1311735130151620608?s=20

[Sheilbh]

Depends on the tournament format. In league play, there's no penalty shootouts. In knock out rounds usually if there's a  tie after full play time and overtime.

If a knock out round has teams playing each other twice (home and away), the cumulative score decides; in some contests away goals are used as tie breaker before overtime or penalty shootouts. I.e. if your team wins 3-2 at home, but loses 1-0 away, then the score is 3-3, but the other team scored 2 away goals vs your 0, and advances to next round.

So does that mean Chelsea and Tottenham were playing in some tournament?

Yeah - the League Cup (well, the Carabao Cup - named for it's sponsor). It's a cup tournament of all the clubs in the Football League so all the professional clubs (though I think there's a gorwing number of clubs that are non-league but professional).