European Cups, Domestic Cups and Internationals Thread

spock.

Kane scores with his 1st touch.

KevIRL

Rambo goal wales

km79

KevIRL wrote: »

Rambo goal wales

and assist now

km79

Ramsey off with what looks like a slight groin strain

KevIRL

Felliani and benteke with first half goals for Belgium

km79

KevIRL wrote: »

Felliani and benteke with first half goals for Belgium

benteke playing and scoring
I like

Copper_pipe

2 FOR Fellaini, 1 for Hazard and 1 for benteke, Alderweireld got an assist too

km79

Copper_pipe wrote: »

2 FOR Fellaini, 1 for Hazard and 1 for benteke, Alderweireld got an assist too

I'd take that next Saturday !

spock.

Naismith and Fletcher(twice) score for Scotland.

Edit: Fletcher hat-trick

FHFC

Ireland line up...

Shay Given; Seamus Coleman, Marc Wilson, John O’Shea, Robbie Brady; Glenn Whelan, Aiden McGeady, James McCarthy, Wes Hoolahan; Robbie Keane, Jon Walters

iroced

Koscielny & Giroud played the whole game for France tonight. Schneiderlin played 80 min.

Schmeichel played the full game for Denmark. Eriksen got 80 min.

FT. 2-0 for France. Giroud got the second goal. He's on fire at the moment. After his howler in the first game of the CL second round, he scored in every single game he started (7 goals in 6 games out of 8 games he took part in).

Swiper the fox

iroced wrote: »

Koscielny & Giroud played the whole game for France tonight. Schneiderlin played 80 min.

Schmeichel played the full game for Denmark. Eriksen got 80 min.

FT. 2-0 for France. Giroud got the second goal. He's on fire at the moment. After his howler in the first game of the CL second round, he scored in every single game he started (7 goals in 6 games out of 8 games he took part in).

But can he finish like Shane Long? I may have stumbled on my replacement for Defoe.

Ziegler1988

Spain XI vs. Netherlands: De Gea; Carvajal, Piqué, Albiol, Bernat; Mario Suarez, Fàbregas, Cazorla; Pedro, Juanmi, Isco. #ESP

England team to face Italy: Hart, Clyne, Smalling, Jagielka, Gibbs, Jones, Henderson, Delph, Walcott, Kane, Rooney.

Italy XI vs. England: Buffon; Chiellini, Ranoccia, Bonucci; Florenzi, Parolo, Valdifiori, Soriano, Darmian; Eder, BUIB #ITA

Belgium XI vs. Israel: Courtois; Alderweireld, Kompany, Lombaerts, Vertonghen; Nainggolan, Witsel, Fellaini, De Bruyne; Hazard, Benteke #BEL

KevIRL

Felliani goal Belgium

callaway92

Pellé goal for Italy. Chiellini assist for the cleverly headed goal.

spock.

callaway92 wrote: »

Pellé goal for Italy. Chiellini assist for the cleverly headed goal.

:eek:

callaway92

spock. wrote: »

:eek:

I'm as shocked as you are. To be fair to him, he has played so much this season that a burnout at Southampton was inevitable. Perhaps the rest over the last few games did him good.

Not that there's much relevance there but the lads he won the header against were Jagielka and Smalling, two decent CBs.

Costa out, Pellé in?

Ziegler1988

Spacecraft Experience (Mason)

Ziegler1988

BUIB goal and Kane blank is about two months late and in the wrong format

jimmii

Thats over a whole game with no goal for Kane best sell.

That Pelle goal was dam jammy.

spock.

Kane-->Pelle done for -4.

Lemlin

callaway92 wrote: »

I'm as shocked as you are. To be fair to him, he has played so much this season that a burnout at Southampton was inevitable. Perhaps the rest over the last few games did him good.

Not that there's much relevance there but the lads he won the header against were Jagielka and Smalling, two decent CBs.

Costa out, Pellé in?

Smalling is not a decent CB.

Markx

Lemlin wrote: »

Smalling is not a decent CB.

CIES Football Observatory has ranked him 4th best performing defender in Europe in 2015. He's been in my team this year and been pretty handy for a few FPL points too.

For the record the three ahead of him are Spahic, Demichelis and Hummels.

callaway92

Lemlin wrote: »

Smalling is not a decent CB.

lol

extra gravy

Aguero scores against Ecuador. Hopefully a sign of things to come at the weekend.

Lemlin

Markx wrote: »

CIES Football Observatory has ranked him 4th best performing defender in Europe in 2015. He's been in my team this year and been pretty handy for a few FPL points too.

For the record the three ahead of him are Spahic, Demichelis and Hummels.

He's had decent returns from GWs 25 to 30 where he has returned 40 of his 70 points. Fair play to you if you had him during that period. He's not first choice at United but for injury so I didn't take a punt on him. I also wouldn't expect him to continue those returns. Prior to GW25, he had 30 points in 25 GWs. Terrible for a defender who started the season at 5.5. In terms of defenders 5.6 and under, he's number 20.

callaway92

Lemlin wrote: »

He's had decent returns from GWs 25 to 30 where he has returned 40 of his 70 points. Fair play to you if you had him during that period. He's not first choice at United but for injury so I didn't take a punt on him. I also wouldn't expect him to continue those returns. Prior to GW25, he had 30 points in 25 GWs. Terrible for a defender who started the season at 5.5. In terms of defenders 5.6 and under, he's number 20.

Do you think Fantasy Football points constitute a good player?

He's a good CB as I said. I don't even know why you're discussing it.

zarquon

callaway92 wrote: »

Do you think Fantasy Football points constitute a good player?

He's a good CB as I said. I don't even know why you're discussing it.

Using that same sort of logic would mean that Downing is a better footballer than Sterling, Fabregas, Di Maria, Mata, Yaya Toure, etc.

Also not forgetting that Fabianski and Mignolet are better goalkeepers than Courtois

Lemlin

callaway92 wrote: »

Do you think Fantasy Football points constitute a good player?

He's a good CB as I said. I don't even know why you're discussing it.

This forum relates to Fantasy Football. The discussion you want to have is one for the soccer forum IMO. That's why I posted in relation to his FF points when another posted stated "been in my team this year and been pretty handy for a few FPL points too".

I would put it this way from an FF perspective though - when I see Smalling named in United's team sheet, I wouldn't be upset having a player from the attacking team. For me, his presence weakens their defence and that is why he isn't first choice.

8-10

Lemlin wrote: »

This forum relates to Fantasy Football.

No! It relates to all fantasy sports not just football. This thread is for football though I'll give you that...

Lemlin

8-10 wrote: »

No! It relates to all fantasy sports not just football. This thread is for football though I'll give you that...

As are about 99% of the threads on here.

sneachtafear

Typical international week gibberish. Man up and Move on.

8-10

Lemlin wrote: »

As are about 99% of the threads on here.

Which is why fantasy games for other sports stay away. Pet peeve of mine. This forum just creates loads and loads of threads all to do with various small things about FPL. Bojan even had his own thread at the start of this year despite being an awful player.

/off-topic

wonski

8-10 wrote: »

Which is why fantasy games for other sports stay away. Pet peeve of mine. This forum just creates loads and loads of threads all to do with various small things about FPL. Bojan even had his own thread at the start of this year despite being an awful player.

/off-topic

What sports

If there was a need there would be threads. There are none.

People do not stay away. There are no people.
And Bojan's thread was closed before he hit the ball anyway.

iroced

wonski wrote: »

What sports

If there was a need there would be threads. There are none.

People do not stay away. There are no people.
And Bojan's thread was closed before he hit the ball anyway.

Rugby for example.

As I already stated, when we first asked for this forum to be opened we've been "denied" an exclusive FPL sub-forum (originally supposed to be in the soccer forum). The compromise we found and agreed with was a Fantasy sports sub-forum in the games forum.

Of course, FPL is the biggest and most popular one. But the way it is currently working in here doesn't encourage other fantasy sports to develop. For the 6 Nations a thread was actually opened in the rugby forum... (in addition to Mr P's one). A couple of suggestions were made in the feedback thread (which is now closed for over 2 months) and I assume the lack of returns from the mods since means no action was seen necessary. I think it won't help other fantasy sports to really develop here but I accept to be either in minority or wrong about it (or both) .

8-10

I've tried fantasy baseball threads on here multiple times and they got lost off the first page very quickly. Didn't even try this year despite 1 of the boards leagues being really stuck for players, another one wasn't renewed at all, and the keeper league needed to get a new manager in. There's good participation in fantasy sports on Boards outside the FSA forum (American football another), to me it's just rename this FPL and be done with it, it's like the Soccer Manager forum really. (PM me if you want to play Fantasy Baseball)

Also I probably deserve a card here for dragging off topic, sorry

spock.

Confirmed #LFC team v @OneRovers: Mignolet, Johnson, Lovren, Sakho, Lucas, Allen, Henderson, Moreno, Sterling, Coutinho, Sturridge

Confirmed #LFC subs v @OneRovers: Jones, Toure, Lambert, Manquillo, Borini, Brannagan, Markovic

FHFC

Sterling playing off Sturridge rather than wing back I take it?

amber69

FHFC wrote: »

Sterling playing off Sturridge rather than wing back I take it?

Yes more wide left than off Sturridge but ahead of Moreno

spock.

FHFC wrote:

Sterling playing off Sturridge rather than wing back I take it?

Yep.
Lallana hasn't recovered from a groin strain.

iroced

Liverpool are through. 1-0 win. Coutinho (Henderson).

Sakho off injured (harmstring) after 28 min.

Apparently Mignolet made a couple of decisive saves. But with Skrtel & Sakho out injured the decision to bring him in is not as straightforward as it was a couple of weeks ago...

Lemlin

iroced wrote: »

Liverpool are through. 1-0 win. Coutinho (Henderson).

Sakho off injured (harmstring) after 28 min.

Apparently Mignolet made a couple of decisive saves. But with Skrtel & Sakho out injured the decision to bring him in is not as straightforward as it was a couple of weeks ago...

He made a few cracking saves. Blackburn really went at Liverpool with two up top in the second half.

I'm the first half, Liverpool had 19 shots and 71% possession! Sturridge hit the bar in the second half but looked rusty.

spock.

Arsenal team to play Reading: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Ramsey, Cazorla, Ozil, Alexis, Welbeck

wonski

spock. wrote: »

Arsenal team to play Reading: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Ramsey, Cazorla, Ozil, Alexis, Welbeck

Good to se Giroud rested. Need him fit and relaxed for his return.

KevIRL

Sanchez (ozil)

Ziegler1988

#AVFC (v @LFC): Given, Bacuna, Baker, Vlaar, Richardson, Westwood, Delph (c), Cleverley, Grealish, N’Zogbia, Benteke. #AVFCLIVE #FACup

Liverpool XI vs. Aston Villa: Mignolet; Can, Skrtel, Lovren, Moreno; Allen, Henderson, Gerrard; Markovic, Coutinho, Sterling. #LFC

Ziegler1988

Coutinho (Sterling)

spock.

1-1 Benteke(Grealish)

spock.

2-1 Delph

Ace2007

Liverpool need a goal but they leave Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini on the bench, Rodgers must have no confidence in them, be interesting to see if he gets rid of them next season, Borini wouldn't leave last season, and Lambert obv moved for the money.