2013-14 Club Soccer/Football Discussion Thread

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

If Lyon pulls off the upset, France will also have three teams in the tournament.

Wut??

Let's count, Marseille, and, and, and, that's all!

[Keystone Phil]

If Lyon pulls off the upset, France will also have three teams in the tournament.

Wut??

Let's count, Marseille, and, and, and, that's all!

...is this a joke about PSG not being French?

[Tender Branson]

On Friday, the UEFA SuperCup takes place in Prag.

Bayern (CL winners) vs. Chelsea (EL winners).

[Tender Branson]

Ipsos has done a poll on German football players/coaches:

On the right side is the name recognition, on the left side the favorable ratings.

[Lief 🗽]

Why do people not like Podolski and (especially) Schweinsteiger?? God, Germans are horrible.

[minionofmidas]

This is the poll that showed far more people (like, up twenty points or something) now knew of Mario Götze than before the switch-to-absolute-evil brouhaha but overall fewer people now knew and thought well of him.

Podolski and Schweinsteiger have a - not exactly undeserved, but, you know. Certainly overstated compared to less known footballers - reputation for being not exactly the brighter type of white working class youth. I assume that's reflected there.

I'm rather more surprised how anyone besides his immediate family can fiind anything remotely nondetestable (except maybe sheer footballing skill) about Thomas Müller. The thing's existence is just adding insult to injury.

[Lief 🗽]

Ah, the working class thing makes sense. I've read that Podolski especially has a very hickish accent. Also the "football is like chess without the dice" fake quote.

How can you not like Müller though? He's adorable! And probably the best player on the national team.

[Keystone Phil]

It's nice to see Klopp rated highly amongst a group of people with whom I rarely agree.

[minionofmidas]

Thinking about it: Podolski and Schweinsteiger are so ubiquitously known the name registers even with people who don't care one jot about football and would rather not hear about it willy-nilly so much. That should affect the data here.

[minionofmidas]

Milan take the lead. (So has Plzen, but, like, no one doubts they'll go through vs Maribor.)

[Keystone Phil]

Celtic tie it up on aggregate.

[Keystone Phil]

Milan now up 2-0. 

[Keystone Phil]

Milan now safely through. Up 3-0 with ten minutes to go.

Real Sociedad are through, winning 1-0 at the moment. Celtic still tied on aggregate.

I guess we can start talking about ideal group draws for tomorrow. My only wishes: don't get too difficult of a team from Pot 1 (maybe Porto or Benfica) and face Manchester City. If we can't get City then I'll take Arsenal from Pot 1 since I want to face them at some point (to battle with some of my pals here and elsewhere).

[minionofmidas]

Celtic 3-0, 90th minute. I guess that's that.

[afleitch]

Ya beauty.

[Tender Branson]

So, who do I want as opponents for Austria Vienna ?

Dortmund

One of the big 3: Bayern, Barcelona or Real

And an Italian one: maybe Napoli or Milan ?

[Tender Branson]

Here are the 4 pots and the UEFA coefficients of the teams:

POT 1

1. FC Bayern München (146,922) - Champion 2012/13
2. FC Barcelona (157,605)
3. FC Chelsea (137,592)
4. Real Madrid (136,605)
5. Manchester United (130,592)
6. FC Arsenal (113,592)
7. FC Porto (104,833)
8. Benfica Lissabon (102,833)

POT 2

  9. Atletico Madrid (99,605)
10. Schachtjor Donezk (94,951)
11. AC Mailand (93,829)
12. FC Schalke 04 (84,922)
13. Olympique Marseille (78,800)
14. ZSKA Moskau (77,766)
15. Paris Saint-Germain (71,800)
16. Juventus Turin (70,829)

POT 3

17. Zenit St. Petersburg (70,766)
18. Manchester City (70,592)
19. Ajax Amsterdam (64,945)
20. Borussia Dortmund (61,922)
21. FC Basel (59,785)
22. Olympiakos Piräus (57,800)
23. Galatasaray Istanbul (54,400)
24. Bayer Leverkusen (53,922)

POT 4

25. FC Kopenhagen (47,140)
26. SSC Neapel (46,829)
27. RSC Anderlecht (44,880)
28. Celtic Glasgow (37,538)
29. Steaua Bukarest (35,604)
30. Viktoria Pilsen (28,785)
31. Real Sociedad San Sebastian (17,605)
32. Austria Wien (16,575)

...

The draw is at 6pm today.

[Tender Branson]

Teams by country:



The UK has actually 5 teams, but in football Scotland is a "country" on its own.

[Keystone Phil]

You can't have us as an opponent since we're in the same Pot, Tender. 

Hilarious Group of Death that I'd enjoy: Barcelona, PSG, Manchester City and Napoli. I saw that predicted on Yahoo Sports UK earlier.

[Tender Branson]

You can't have us as an opponent since we're in the same Pot, Tender. 

Thx. Good to know ...

So, then just switch Napoli with either Milan or Juve.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

If Lyon pulls off the upset, France will also have three teams in the tournament.

Wut??

Let's count, Marseille, and, and, and, that's all!

...is this a joke about PSG not being French?

Well I'm sorry to announce it to you but the club you're speaking about doesn't exist anymore.

Disappeared 2 years ago.

As if we hadn't enough of 1 little made up club from a $$$ foreign monarchy in the French championship with Monaco, now we have to deal with 2!

It's been replaced by what's drying your club every seasons:

RED STAR FOR PARIS!

And well:



Needs to be completed though, anti Q$G and anti...hmm...RFM maybe, Russian Funds of Monaco.

Marseille's the last hope!

The roughest French city which gave its name to the national republican anthem against foreign $$$$$$$ monarchies!

[Keystone Phil]

As if we hadn't enough of 1 little made up club from a $$$ foreign monarchy in the French championship with Monaco, now we have to deal with 2!

It's been replaced by what's drying your club every seasons:

Haha, I hear you, dude. I agree, it's ridiculous. I hope Napoli can eliminate them in the knockout stage.

[Keystone Phil]

There is a live stream on UEFA's website if anything was wondering - http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2014/draws/round=2000479/index.html

[Keystone Phil]

Milan and Barcelona all the time...

[Lief 🗽]

United once again has the easiest possible draw.