2015/16 Premier League & General Football Discussion
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Liverpool hammered a poor Everton team 4-0 who had Funes Mori sent off for a bad challenge on Origi, it was all Liverpool who had 40-something shots on goal, Everton were a shambles even before they got down to 10 men and the pressure on Martinez increases by the day.
Man United beat Palace 2-0 and West Ham bested Watford 3-1.
Man United beat Palace 2-0 and West Ham bested Watford 3-1.
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If Roma don't want him, I think he should retire as the archetypal one-club man.Talk of him signing for New York Cosmos, no idea how reliable those rumours are but I don't want it to happen.
Supposedly the coach will resign if Totti is offered another contract, rediculous.
IIRC, Totti (39) been in the Roma 1st team since he was 16, and been captain since he was 22. Both of those are amazing stats in themselves.
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I guess "Dodgy Dave" really is a Hammers fan!
He's really devastated his beloved Hammers have been relegated.
Edit: Stoke City to rename their ground
The Britannia is no more. It will now be the bet365 stadium; Stoke's vice-chairman is a CE of the betting company.
So... who's going to still refer to it by its old name? You're telling the Stoke fans that what they've been calling the stadium for 19 years is now inaccurate or wrong. This is what I don't like about sponsorship names; it creates discontinuity. Even the Britannia is a sponsorship name, having been there since day one when the ground opened in 1997 but it has surprisingly lasted 19 years.
Your best bet geographically would be the Stanley Matthews Stadium because the ground is on Stanley Matthews Way; ostensibly because a new road was built to accommodate the new stadium.
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Games this weekend, reduced schedule because its cup semi final weekend
Saturday
Aston Villa v Southampton
Bournemouth v Chelsea
Liverpool v Newcastle
Man City v Stoke (12.45 Sky)
Sunday
Sunderland v Arsenal (2.05 Sky)
Leicester v Swansea (4.15 Sky)
Monday Night
Tottenham v West Brom (8pm Sky)
Saturday
Aston Villa v Southampton
Bournemouth v Chelsea
Liverpool v Newcastle
Man City v Stoke (12.45 Sky)
Sunday
Sunderland v Arsenal (2.05 Sky)
Leicester v Swansea (4.15 Sky)
Monday Night
Tottenham v West Brom (8pm Sky)
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Not being Barcelona/Atletico/Real in La Liga must be quite like not being Celtic in Scotland. I mean... what's the point of it all?
1 - Barcelona - P35, 82pt, +73
2 - Atletico Madrid - P35, 82pt, +43
3 - Real Madrid - P35, 81pt, +72
Only four other teams have a positive goal difference - Villarreal, Bilbao, Sevilla and Valencia. The team in 4th has a goal difference of 11. The team in 6th has a goal difference of -7.
Suarez has scored 4 in back to back games. Ronaldo has 30 La Liga hat tricks since 2009. Messi has 26 La Liga hat tricks since 2004. Players from the three clubs (Ronaldo, Messi, Suarez, Bale, Benzema, Neymar) have scored more hat tricks this season than all players in the Premier League put together.
1 - Barcelona - P35, 82pt, +73
2 - Atletico Madrid - P35, 82pt, +43
3 - Real Madrid - P35, 81pt, +72
Only four other teams have a positive goal difference - Villarreal, Bilbao, Sevilla and Valencia. The team in 4th has a goal difference of 11. The team in 6th has a goal difference of -7.
Suarez has scored 4 in back to back games. Ronaldo has 30 La Liga hat tricks since 2009. Messi has 26 La Liga hat tricks since 2004. Players from the three clubs (Ronaldo, Messi, Suarez, Bale, Benzema, Neymar) have scored more hat tricks this season than all players in the Premier League put together.
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I blame the TV money deal in Spain.
Boggles my mind that Atletico can even compete with the other two.
Edit: After researching, La Liga signed a new deal, and it's a massive step in the right direction for some competition in Spain. Comes into effect next season.
http://www.totalsportek.com/money/spanish-la-liga-new-3-year-tv-deal-worth-e2-65-billion/
Boggles my mind that Atletico can even compete with the other two.
Edit: After researching, La Liga signed a new deal, and it's a massive step in the right direction for some competition in Spain. Comes into effect next season.
http://www.totalsportek.com/money/spanish-la-liga-new-3-year-tv-deal-worth-e2-65-billion/
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Shoving even more money into it won't fix anything - besides which, Barcelona got €61 million more from the Champions League last season, or as much money in total as the bottom club in La Liga gets next year in total...
I'm not sure why companies keep feeding the football TV rights bubble. Is it a race to see who loses the most when it pops, or a race to see which country can destroy its national side the quickest by buying in talent rather than building it?
For fun I did the coefficient of competitiveness so far this season:
England (Championship) - 1.091
England (PL) - 1.284
Scotland (PL) - 1.333
Spain (PL) - 1.429
Scotland (Championship) - 1.529
France (L1) - 1.529
Italy (SA) - 1.529
Germany (BL) - 1.613
Netherlands (ED) - 1.625
Portugal (PL) - 1.710
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[(Points of League Winning Team)-(Points of leading team in relegation zone)]/average of number of games played by the two.
As previously seen in this thread hither.
Essentially the number it gives you is the number of points more each game that the team that wins the league gets than the highest-ranked relegated (or relegation play-off team, in some cases). This season, per game played, Middlesbrough have scored 1.09 points more than MK Dons - but Barcelona have scored 1.43 points more than Sporting Gijon.
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It's a lot fairer than what it used to be, where Real Madrid and Barcelona were getting a huge majority of the money no matter how good they did.
I don't expect the running order to change one bit next season but I do expect there to be a few more shocks, similar to how there are few easy games in the Premier League now.(unless you're playing Aston Villa)
Honestly it's the French league is the worst at the moment if your not PSG. They are 27 points ahead of Lyon in second, who are 26 in front of Toulouse, in 19th. I can't see that closing up next season if PSG continue to buy all of Europe while the rest of the French league sells any player with a bit of promise. Then only team that could challenge PSG in terms of funding is Monaco, and they don't have an interest in spending 50 or 60 million on players anymore.
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Monaco offloaded their best talent this season especially with Martial, Carrasco, Kondogbia, Ocampos, Kurzawa and Abdennour. I can see no one challenging PSG anymore but maybe with Lyon. But No other club in Ligue 1 has the same near the financial power which PSG has and Marseille which I would of chosen to be in top 4 have fallen to 15th after a shambles season and watching them against Nantes today it seems they were picked off the street to play with each other.
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A trend which will continue in my opinion, but not only Monaco.
Looking at Spurs rumours alone, there are massive races to sign Lacazette, Batshuayi and Ousmane Dembele(think Dortmund may have that move sealed though) and I'd imagine that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to players departing France. It's a one-team league and that won't change for a long time.
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Feel really angry and ashamed at Swansea, yes we have hit the 40 point mark but to lose 3-0 and 4-0 in the last two weeks is shocking, no passion or desire, I'm not even sure we are mathematically safe either, Newcastle's recent good form has got me worried, we still should be fighting for every point and trying to finish as high as we can, we are not there mentally right now. 
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No need to worry about Newcastle. they have 3 games left, and are 10 points behind Swansea. Sunderland and Norwich are the ones to worry about.Feel really angry and ashamed at Swansea, yes we have hit the 40 point mark but to lose 3-0 and 4-0 in the last two weeks is shocking, no passion or desire, I'm not even sure we are mathematically safe either, Newcastle's recent good form has got me worried, we still should be fighting for every point and trying to finish as high as we can, we are not there mentally right now.
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