Stan

Saturday
Mexico 3-1 Bolivia
Costa Rica 0-2 Uruguay
Borussia Dortmund 0-2 Real Madrid
Brazil Women 5-0 Jamaica Women

Sunday
Philadelphia Union 2-1 Montreal
LA FC 3-2 Dallas
Gent 0-1 Genk
Metz 1-2 St Etienne
Atalanta 3-1 Fiorentina
Vasco 0-2 Flamengo

Tag colours need changing 

Final squad announced 

Protecting the big clubs once again. 

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Everton are interested in signing midfielder Kalvin Phillips on a season-long loan deal from Premier League champions Manchester City.

Phillips joined City from Leeds for £45m in 2022 but has struggled to make an impression and spent the second half of last season on-loan at West Ham.

The 28-year-old was part of the England team that reached 2020 European Championship final, but is now out of favour under manager Gareth Southgate and has failed to make the cut for this summer's tournament.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c9een8l88xko

34 minutes ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Where did I say it would?Have to say googled Greenwood and saw the accusations were mentioned in his German wiki entry. Saw a sentence there you apparently ignored, though: "Die Anklage wurde Anfang Februar 2023 fallen gelassen, nachdem Hauptbelastungszeugen ihre Aussagen zurückgezogen hatten und neue Beweismittel bekannt geworden waren.^"   

The intersting parts are bolded and translate to: " The charges were dropped after new evidence emerged."  Not sure whether I'm willing to brush aside that and the doctrine "innocent until proven guilty" as  easily as you seem to do.

 

I didn't need to read the Wiki entry, so no I didn't ignore anything. 

You haven't seen the videos. 

No-one knows what the new evidence was. I don't think it's ever been publicised. But what was publicised was Greenwood beating the shit out of his then girlfriend. Clear evidence, not a Wikipedia line. 

Charges being dropped doesn't equate to not being an abuser. 

7 hours ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

To be honest, don't think that would tarnish their reputation since I guess the least Germans know about his domestic abuse history. I didn't because not even football magazines reported about it let alone other media outlets. And as long as Brits don't spent much money on Dortmund merch the reputation Dortmund has in the UK is of no significance for them, to be frank.

Sorry but that doesn't absolve who he is or what his behaviour is like towards women. 

Whether fans know about it or not shouldn't be the decision-maker for Dortmund, and Dortmund themselves would fully know his history (if not, they must be living under a rock). 

It's not about Dortmund's reputation in the UK, either. 

There's probably a reason football magazines or media outlets didn't report it. It may be that they didn't want to be open to all kinds of legal minefields on what they can/can't report. 

Have you seen the videos of when the abuse surfaced? They're not pleasant. He's a vile man and Dortmund would do well to steer clear of signing someone like this, whether his reputation is bad/not known in Germany or not. 

Kick-off 20.00 (BST)

Venue - Stade de France, Paris

Live on BT Sport

        VS     

REFEREE - Slavko Vincic
VAR - Nejc Kajtazovic
 

Borussia Dortmund - Road to Wembley
Group Stage - 1st
Round of 16 (1st Leg) - PSV 1-1 Borussia Dortmund
Round of 16 (2nd Leg) - Borussia Dortmund 2-0 PSV
Quarter-Finals (1st Leg) - Atletico Madrid 1-2 Borussia Dortmund
Quarter-Finals (2nd Leg) - Borussia Dortmund 4-2 Atletico Madrid
Semi-Finals (1st Leg) - Borussia Dortmund 1-0 PSG
Semi-Finals (2nd Leg) - PSG 0-1 Borussia Dortmund

Top Scorer - Niclas Fullkrug - 3
 

Real Madrid - Road to Wembley
Group Stage - 1st
Round of 16 (1st Leg) - RB Leipzig 0-1 Real Madrid
Round of 16 (2nd Leg) - Real Madrid 1-1 RB Leipzig
Quarter-Finals (1st Leg) - Real Madrid 3-3 Man City
Quarter-Finals (2nd Leg) - Man City 1-1 (aet) Real Madrid
Semi-Finals (1st Leg) - Bayern Munich 2-2 Real Madrid
Semi-Finals (2nd Leg) - Real Madrid 2-1 Bayern Munich

Top Scorer - Joselu / Vinicius / Rodrygo - 5

Team History in Champions League

Borussia Dortmund
Last Champions League Final - 2013 - Bayern Munich 2-1 Borussia Dortmund
Times Won - 1
Runners-Up - 1

Real Madrid
Last Champions League Final - 2022 - Real Madrid 1-0 Liverpool
Times Won - 14
Runners-Up - 3

Kick-off 20.00 (BST)

Venue - Agia Sophia Stadium, Athens

Live on BT Sport

       VS      

REFEREE - Artur Soares Dias
VAR - Tiago Martins
 

Olympiacos - Road to Athens
Group Stage - 3rd (Europa League)
Knockout Round Play-offs (1st Leg) - Olympiacos 1-0 Ferencvaros
Knockout Round Play-offs (2nd Leg) - Ferencvaros 0-1 Olympiacos
Round of 16 (1st Leg) - Olympiacos 1-4 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Round of 16 (2nd Leg) - Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-6 (aet) Olympiacos
Quarter-Finals (1st Leg) - Olympiacos 3-2 Fenerbahce
Quarter-Finals (2nd Leg) - Fenerbahce 1-0p Olympiacos
Semi-Finals (1st Leg) - Aston Villa 2-4 Olympiacos
Semi-Finals (2nd Leg) - Olympiacos 2-0 Fenerbahce

Top Scorer - Ayoub El Kaabi - 10
 

FIORENTINA - Road to Athens
Group Stage - 1st
Round of 16 (1st Leg) - Maccabi Haifa 4-3 Fiorentina
Round of 16 (2nd Leg) - Fiorentina (aet) 1-1 Maccabi Haifa
Quarter-Finals (1st Leg) - Viktoria Plzen 0-0 Fiorentina
Quarter-Finals (2nd Leg) - Fiorentina (aet) 2-0 Viktoria Plzen
Semi-Finals (1st Leg) - Fiorentina 3-2 Club Brugge
Semi-Finals (2nd Leg) - Club Brugge 1-1 Fiorentina

Top Scorer - Lucas Beltran / Nicolas Gonzalez - 4

1 hour ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Is he that bad or are Leicester interested in him as well? Genuine question since not following Premier League.

It's his domestic abuse history - I wouldn't want him anywhere near us!

1 hour ago, The Palace Fan said:

A lot of very repetitive winners. 

I could never understand when I was younger why American sports had draft systems. Obviously it would never work over here as you'd eliminate the concept of relegation, but seeing graphs like that make me realise why they do it and why it works for them.

Scotland is the worst.

Closely followed by Bulgaria, Croatia, Russia.

Other leagues may be repetitive but at least there's at least 1 different winner in the past 5 seasons.

Don't do it, Dortmund

Built like a brick shithouse fucking hell  

1 hour ago, Beelzebub said:

Austria Like Slovenia but have one very famous player who I believe won't be playing

 

Alaba, Sabitzer, Arnautovic, Weimann, Kalajdzic? They're more than just one very famous player.

They're by no means the best country and probably won't be in top 2 based on Netherlands/France being streets ahead. But they're better than Slovenia and I fancy them to finish ahead of Poland.

1 hour ago, Beelzebub said:

Belgium Wasted golden generation now back to being mediocre like they were from 2000s to early 2010s

Slovakia meh

Romania Eww

Ukraine Expect them to top their group but meh after that

Belgium are beyond their golden generation but even so, I cannot see them finishing behind Ukraine. 

Confirmed squad 

For anyone that has joined so far, don't forget to do your Bonus Questions before the first match of the tournament starts!

https://talkfootball365.com/topic/22076-stans-euro-2024-prediction-league-bonus-questions/

Amazed he lasted this long as a Man Utd player. 

Gutted for you @Tommy. 

Whirlwind of a game. Shame Düsseldorf couldn't see the game out and just get one goal despite Bochum's 3, but for the neutral it's been exactly what was wanted. 

Düsseldorf need to show some real belief and desire now and not let the previous 90 affect them! 

Week 41 Results
Central Coast Mariners (aet)3-1 Melbourne Victory
Celtic 1-0 Rangers
Man City 1-2 Man Utd
Real Sociedad 0-2 Atletico Madrid
Barcelona Women 2-0 Lyon Women
Kaiserslautern 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen
St Louis City 1-2 Seattle Sounders
Frosinone 0-1 Udinese
Leeds 0-1 Southampton
Club Brugge 0-0 Cercle Brugge

Round-up
The penultimate summary for the 23/24 seasons as finals and last domestic games were contested, some of which were local derbies/rivalries. Only 1 game had more than 3 or more goals which goes to show tightly contested these games can be to predict for.

In the table, there was no movement again but @Bluebird Hewitt closed down on @CaaC (John) to just two points to be in with a chance to finish 2nd after next weekend's games. Highest score came from @Rucksackfranzose with 15 points, who could also jump up to 2nd with a similarly good week next week; he also got Prediction of the Week for being the only one to predict a goalless draw in the Brugge derby. @Tommy did well to score 14 points and he was the only other player to score 2 perfect scores.

@Pyfish @Rucksackfranzose @Bluebird Hewitt @Viva la FCB @Tommy @nawoo @CaaC (John)

Final round of fixtures

all kick-offs 15.00 (BST) unless stated

Saturday 1st June 2024
Mexico vs Bolivia, 01.00
Costa Rica vs Uruguay, 03.00
Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid, 20.00
Brazil Women vs Jamaica Women, 21.00

Sunday 2nd June, 2024
Philadelphia Union vs CF Montreal, 00.30
LA FC vs FC Dallas, 03.00
Gent vs Genk, 12.30
Metz vs St Etienne, 16.00
Atalanta vs Fiorentina, 17.00
Vasco vs Flamengo, 20.00

Please get ALL predictions in by SATURDAY 1st JUNE - Topic will be LOCKED at 01.00am (BST)!!

7 minutes ago, Bluebird Hewitt said:

Wha?

This is as weird an appointment as Rooney going to Plymouth. 

Maresca won the Championship, but Leicester were more or less favourites to win it regardless. Pretty much @Stan and @Dan questioned his tactics a few times during the season as well.

Yep, he's very stubborn. Basically played the whole season in the same base tactic and significantly suffered when teams chose to opt a low-block tactic.

Seems like Chelsea fans aren't too enamoured about it, either.

Have set up a league is anyone wants to join... 

https://gaming.uefa.com/en/eurofantasy/leagues/Aiso4r/005000610072006D006100720020004500750072006F0073/Sunil

1 hour ago, Rick said:

Makes sense for him, makes no sense for Chelsea. 

Pretty much this.

Foolish for him to reject it given the copious extra resources and circumstance at each club. 

Bizarre from Chelsea considering the previous managers they've gone for and that they rarely give managers an actual chance. Wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work out for him but Enzo's stock not being impacted. 

Shame he's leaving us as I think he was building something decent here and deserved a shot to see how he does with us in the PL, but I just hope we get our next appointment right. Plenty of options out there.