The European Competitions Thread

[Vesper 30,175]

40 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

the bat's bone worked.

lol, explain please

[cosmicway 1,333]

6 minutes ago, Vesper said:

lol, explain please

the bat's bone is a potent talisman

[Vesper 30,175]

31 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

the bat's bone is a potent talisman

who used it?

[cosmicway 1,333]

5 minutes ago, Vesper said:

who used it?

Panathinaikos is said to be the team with the bat's bone.
Look what happened yesterday.

[Vesper 30,175]

1 hour ago, cosmicway said:

Panathinaikos is said to be the team with the bat's bone.
Look what happened yesterday.

lol, shamrocks and bat bones

[cosmicway 1,333]

Aube scored twice against Panathinaikos.
There were two more Marseille goals in which he had direct involvement, fractionally offside disallowed by VAR.
A small difference in pace compared to premier makes all that difference in a player !

In Zagreb Dinamo lost also because of lack of pace.
Whereas they pressed and dominated in the first half, in the second half the Dinamos were ... searching for water !
So AEK found ways to play their game and they could have won by more.

[NikkiCFC 8,319]

Sevilla average age of that lineup must be close to 30. 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

I was worried that half of sevillas lineup would die of old age while that cross was in the air but Ey nesiri outjumped Ake and Gvardiol with ease to plant that one 

[NikkiCFC 8,319]

Looking at City bench they can only bring Alvarez for attack. They lack depth. 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

En nesyri missing the easy ones. That one should have been it. Don’t see city coming back from 2 against such a disciplined side 

[Fulham Broadway 17,312]

Citeh to win this now  

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

Ofc palmer again. En nesyri should have had a Hattrick by now. Sevilla only got themselves to blame for losing this one now 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

And another squandered 100% chance by en nesyri 

city really are not the juggernaut everybody thinks they are. They concede so many chances.a proper clinical team could put them to the sword 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

ofc last pen taker loses his shit. The system is so fkin rigged. First to take has so much of an advantage.

[NikkiCFC 8,319]

Bono is supposed to be good at pens 😡

[Vesper 30,175]

6 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Bono is supposed to be good at pens 😡

he should have stopped that last one

totally sussed it out but it went under him

 

Edited August 17, 2023 by Vesper

[Vesper 30,175]

Citeh looked fucked without de Bruyne, Dias, and Stones, plus Foden in MF is a liability defensively, as is an ageing Walker and an out of position Gvardiol at the fullbacks

also, Håland was anonymous for far too much of the game

it's illustrative of why I have Mbappe in front of him as the world's best player

[Vesper 30,175]

On 25/06/2023 at 01:44, NikkiCFC said:

Juventus suggesting UEFA should ban them from Conference league lol that's how much they want to play it. 

if they had just not blown ONE of these two finals

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup:
Runners-up: 1964–65, 1970–71

they would (or should) REALLY care

as IF they had an Inter Cities Trophy they would (if they won the Conference League and then, down the road, won the FWCC) be the ONLY Club on the planet to win every single possible domestic, Euro and global post WWII trophy

no other club has a chance either

Real never won the Inter-Cities or the Cup Winners Cup or the Intertoto  Cup

Barca never won the Intercontinental Cup (they lost in 1992 to the great Cafu-led São Paulo side, who won it back to back in 1993 when they beat a monster AC Milan side), nor the Intertoto  Cup (they did win a  a lot of Inter Cities (3) and Cup Winners Cups (4) the most of any club in both competitions)

Bayern never won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup nor the Intertoto Cup

AC Milan never won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup nor the Intertoto Cup

Manure never won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup nor the Intertoto Cup

Same for Dortmund, plus they never (but still could) won the FWCC and the UEFA Cup

Inter Milan and Pool never won a lot of them as well

 

in South America

São Paulo has won everything possible nationally, continental, and global

except two 'hibernated' continental trophies that CONMEBOL is talking about bringing back

firstly:

The Copa Master de Supercopa (for clubs that had previously won the Supercopa Libertadores, it ended before São Paulo finally won the Supercopa Libertadores (which is winners playing other winners of the Copa Libertadores) so they never had the chance

The Copa Master de Supercopa is two levels above anything UEFA does

to get to the level, you would have to have the previous 4 to 8 CL winners all play against each other for the Super CL,

AND THEN

have the previous Super CL winners all play against each other

madness

and finally another (lesser but still major) trophy has not been played in decades (but is being discussed about bringing it back as well)

The Copa de Oro (previous winners of all the major CONMEBOL competitions (including lower level ones), it is the only post WWII South American major trophy that São Paulo blew their chances to win once or more, they lost the last two times in the last 2 finals played, back in the mid 1990s)

None of the other huge SA teams (all the giant Brasilian sides, all the giant Argie sides, plus the Uruguayan big 2 (Peñarol and Nacional) and Olimpia of Paraguay have a chance atm, as all of them have failed in other competitions (mostly global) Same for Colombia's Atlético Nacional and Once Caldas, plus Ecuador's LDU Quito and finally, Colo-Colo of Peru.

Edited August 17, 2023 by Vesper

[NikkiCFC 8,319]

3 hours ago, Vesper said:

also, Håland was anonymous for far too much of the game

His record in games for trophies goes significantly down. 

CS: 2 games 0 goals 0 assists

CL semi final and final 3g 0g 0a

Fa Cup semi final and final 0g 0a 

Super Cup again nothing 

 

[LAM09 7,051]

Osimhen doing what he does best. I really hope a move will materialise over the next 12 months.