Rolling international club football 18/19 thread

The post-match song was You’ll Never Walk Alone,sung by a 50,000 strong crowd. This afternoon has been both extremely confusing and extremely disappointing.

Eredivisie week 19

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Top 3 remains unchanged. Nothing else to report.

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Amazing to see a full article on Lisa Fallon in the Guardian!

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Eredivisie week 20

Ajax banish the memories of last week’s debacle with a 6 - 0 thrashing of VVV at home, with Kasper Dolberg flying scissor kick the pick of the bunch.

Feyenoord on the other hand completely flop away at Excelsior, where a late goal hands the relegation candidate those important 3 points.

PSV record a standard 5 - 0 victory against Fortuna Sittard, so, as has been the case since then start of the season, no change at the top.

Eredivisie week 21

PSV draw, Ajax lose, Feyenoord win. No changes at the top.

It’ll be Champions League next: Ajax will entertain Real Madrid at the Johan Cruyff ArenA on Wednesday.

Eredivisie week 22 & 23

Nothing worth reporting happened last week. This weekend however saw the battle between title defenders PSV and third placed Feyenoord, which finished in a 1 - 1 draw, despite a red card for defender Sven Van Beek in the 59th minute. In particular keeper Kenneth Vermeer was outstanding in the Feyenoord goal, earning the visiting team a well deserved draw.

Ajax did what it was supposed to do and recorded a convincing win (5 - 1) at ADO Den Haag. This means the gap at the top has shrunk to 2 points. Assuming that neither club will drop points against the weaker teams, this means that the title may be decided on 31st March, when Ajax host PSV.

In the meantime, all eyes are on the Dutch FA Cup semi-finals this week, where Feyenoord and Ajax meet (again) on Wednesday, and Willem II play AZ on Thursday. In particular Ajax will be out for revenge for what happened at De Kuip last month.

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Cork City lost 2-0 at home to Waterford City in the first League of Ireland game of the season. Though Waterford were the surprise package of last season, it was a bit of a shock to see them beat Cork, one of the two form teams of the past few seasons.

The only saving grace for Cork is that Dundalk, last year’s champions and their biggest rivals, didn’t win their first game. Cork play Sligo at the Showgrounds tonight. Both teams lost their opening games so will want to get a positive result from this.

Cork beat Sligo 2-1 in what was supposed to be a cracking game. RTÉ haven’t agreed on TV rights with the FAI though so I haven’t seen the goals. Here’s the highlight of the Twitter coverage.

https://twitter.com/sligorovers/status/1100122690072035328?s=19

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Goals are up. Absolute screamer from Gearoid Morrissey after 0:40.

https://twitter.com/SoccRepublic/status/1100342190297890817

De Klassieker (redux)

In a replay of last month’s cracker Ajax take their revenge and trash Feyenoord 3 - 0, resulting in a well deserved place in the Dutch FA Cup final.

The treble is still on.

MLS starts up this week. I’m off to my first ever away game, it’s against LA Galaxy. Think we’ll smash them tbh.

The Fire have made a couple of smart purchases and a couple of odd ones, still need depth in almost every defensive position. Can’t be much worse than last year, I’m hoping they can sneak a playoff spot.

Not sure they have enough international spots for these two. Gaitán should fun if he’s still got a bit left in the tank.

Gladbach v Bayern
Lazio v Roma
Real v Barça
Porto v Benfica
Napoli v Juve

Wooooooof.

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Unlikely, but imagine if Getafe finished above Real!

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Yeet. First football match outside the UK. The Ultras area is 75% full; the rest of the stadium is about 2% full. 35 mins to kick off.

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Eredivisie week 24

The Dutch FA did the right thing and gave Ajax a free weekend to optimise their preparations for tonight’s big game. Wouldn’t happen in England, obviously.

Meanwhile, RVP bags a hattrick at the weekend in Feyenoord’s 4 - 0 win over FC Emmen. Club career totals now stand at 33x Feyenoord, 96x Arsenal, 48x Manchester United and 25x Fenerbahçe. Pretty impressive.

No change at the top of the table, nothing else to report.

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A-League:

The glorious Wellington Phoenix win 8 (eight!) - 2 away with three starting defenders out. Mariners sack their coach immediately. Phoenix on course for our best ever season, after finishing 9th out of 10 last year, and looking good for a home playoff spot, which they’ll fight Melbourne [Manchester] City and Adelaide for. Perth should take the title from Sydney. Sadly our genius coach is likely to move back to Australia after just one season, because his children miss him.

St Pauli v Hamburg on the tellybox tomorrow lunchtime…

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aye all over that shit man