Omnibus World Football Thread 2020-2022 (edited)

Messi scored his 100th goal for Argentina a couple minutes ago. Against Curacao… Their FIFA ranking is higher than I would have guessed, but this team is terrible. Why would Argentina schedule this game? Trying to get Messi to catch up to Ronaldo?

As I’m typing he scored his 3rd tonight to make it 5-0 in the 37th minute.

Curaçao is surprisingly decent. They beat Honduras in Nations League a bit ago. I guess maybe there weren’t many options available for Argentina to schedule, with all the qualifying matches and nations league games going on now.

I wonder if I’ll ever get used to Canada actually being legitimately pretty good. We beat Honduras 4-1 today; it wasn’t that long ago they knocked us out of WC qualifying 8-1.

Ronaldo plays the likes of Gibraltar, San Marino and Estonia in world cup qualifiers, Argentina only meets that kind of easy meat in friendlies.

Oh, definitely. There was one qualifier where he scored 15 goals against teams that were like 130+ in the ELO rankings. Doesn’t mean Argentina should schedule them though.

Why not? In a way is part of the celebrations for the World Cup win, the sparring partner should not be able to opaque the festivities :slightly_smiling_face:

Yes! It’s important to celebrate once in a century wins! :wink:

The century is young … :slightly_smiling_face:

Potter and Rodgers both sacked today.

Has any Premier League winner ever been relegated?

Blackburn went down 3 years after they won the PL…

After watching him recently against Southhampton (especially in the first half), I’m wondring if Kevin De Bruyne might be the best playmaker on the planet. Not to mention this game - he became the fifth Premier Leaguer to reach 100 assists, doing so more quickly than anyone else. I’m sure Haaland thinks the world of him.

Oh, absolutely he is, and has been for a while. While it’s certainly easier to look good at Man City than most other places, he’d stand out anywhere.

Kinda wish Haaland was on a more fast paced team though. He was more exciting at Dortmund on the break. Gets to work on his heading game a lot more now though. Gotta get that Ronaldo snap header going and he’ll score more next year than this one.

Today is really going to be exciting.

Abrrrsenal!

Men vs Boys

Chelsea have scored one goal in 7 games since Lampard took over.

And I cant be bothered to look up the combined record of Chelsea-Bayern-Tottenham since their managers got sacked, but its dire AF.

Barcelona currently losing at half just after Real Madrid lost over the weekend. Think there’s a good chance they earn points in the second half, but Barca really not trying to win the league.

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Frankie’s never had much luck managing, it seems.

Napoli wins the Scudetto after 33 years, first Argentina wins the World Cup and now this, el Diego is making some changes there in Heaven now that He his back on his throne.

I try to avoid posting videos, but this was one of the funniest goals I’ve seen.

actually - nm - Ligue Un lets this video be viewable only on youtube, where you can see Mbappe hilariously scoring on a re-start against Lorient.